In America, even the subs are super. As a Brit committed to the cause of underestimation, deprecation and bullishly blase back-footedness, I baulk at the insidious infiltration of that asinine adjective into the Queen’s E. Once the preserve of consonant-clipped, gym-slipped gals from Hampshire, super has been adopted by gloss-lipped, French-tipped, semi-illiterate US fashionistas and [...]
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Posted in Fashion, Music, tagged Elaine's, New York, New York fashion, super, VICE party on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Posted in Film, Literature, tagged realism, david lean, great expectations, lawrence of arabia, BFI, NFT on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
The best literary and filmic realism stems from meticulously constructed fakery. The English, masters of precise practical craftsmanship and emotional detachment, do it particularly well: we frigid orgasm-feigning voyeurs are brilliant at building sincere pieces of insincerity that hit the heart by tricking the mind. From Thackeray and Hardy to Eliot and Dickens, our great [...]
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Posted in Art, Film, Music, tagged Indiana Jones, film score, film soundtrack, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, shape of song on June 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Brief Encounter has a lot to answer for; the appropriation of much-loved music for a film score can feel intrusive and often belittling. There is an irrevolcable loss of innocence when a tender, treasured tune that has companionably quivered and nibbled at your earlobes for years is suddenly gang-raped into a hard little whorish soundbite [...]
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