I was the shadow of the waxwing whacked/By the downstairs bathroom window out the back | Writing in @TheTLS, @Lit_Review, @Apollo_Magazine, @TelegraphFood etc.
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Ladies, if he:
-Stays up late making complex wireframe drawings of 3-dimensional toric forms
-Leaves little or no extant work apart from damaged Deluge fresco and St George predella
-Has no mistress but this sweet perspective
He's not your man, he's Paolo Uccello (1397-1475).
I love this record but surely it’s a textbook midlife crisis, like throwing in the towel as a stockbroker to live in a campervan and make artisanal cheese
Derek Jarman set design! (and terrible carpet chewing performances by those masters of understatement O. Reed and V. Redgrave but you can't have everything)
I was a kid- And I remember this film- released by WB was “excessive, overbearing” etc and, in my country, Mexico- we were told that the Church explicitly considered it blasphemy. And here we are… I LOVE it more than ever- because it is NOT about possession but what the political narrative does with it. Glad WB takes risks- even now…
‘Better’ has to do a lot of work, de gustibus etc but Cocteau Twins Song to the Siren, Clash I Fought the Law, D Bowie I Can’t Explain (coked up version on Pin Ups), ZZ Top I Gotsta Get Paid, Motörhead Train Kept a’Rollin’ to be going on with
I would mildly point out that Christian from Clueless is an early proponent of shape ‘n’ drape
Now serving: inexpressible longing and exquisite accidie
Yauatcha is going all-out on their new revamp, bringing in acclaimed film director Wong Kar Wai to head up the redesign:
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The Rainbow at school; a dead heat between Roger Scruton's The Philosophy of Architecture and Simon Schama's The Power of Art for work
No quarrel with either of these ppl but this thing of calling podcasts 'The Rest Is X' was getting pretty rebarbative given it only ever worked when it repurposed an already existing saying (the rest is history) - this one evokes Hamlet's dying words wch isn't exactly upbeat
I've just seen the word 'foopball' in Down Wiv Skool and wondered if it inspired K Amis to have the appalling Roy say things like 'tim peaches' in Girl, 20 (I think M Amis does something similar in Lionel Asbo)
Leaving aside questions, legitimate or otherwise, about RC's profundity, bogus or otherwise, and her prose style, leaden or otherwise, the real problem has always seemed to me that she's clearly just a really awful person
FROM THE ARCHIVE: RACHEL CUSK ON THE TROUBLE WITH MEN
I certainly wasn’t going to waste any time feeling sorry for men. They don’t relax, it seems, except when there are things to be done around the house. Also, they have failed to find favour with the hormone fairy who creeps into their rooms while they sleep and silts up their arteries. This is a biological disposition. It’s the same thing that some men talk about when they say, “We’re biologically disposed to be polygamous. We are!”
Read Rachel Cusk, in 1996: newstatesman.com/archive/202…
I’ve got a piece about the new Sebastian Barry #firstnamelastname in the soaraway back-to-school September issue of @Lit_Review - enjoyed it a great deal more than I feared I might literaryreview.co.uk/cry-fre…
Next time they try and tell you Homer couldn’t have been just one guy, send them in this direction
Bit tasteless
Today’s the day—@mymartinamis LIVE at 7 PM @21Soho featuring a Keynote Address by @wself!
Things kick off at 3 PM @BirkbeckUoL for the launch of The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis published by @CambridgeUP.
Also, it’s Martin Amis’s birthday.
Limited tickets still available ⬇️
Some of these cd do with an editor, though there’s something urgent & compelling about that too, but the cocktail of thinking + compelling writing + some sort of genuine attempt to get to grips with the sheer where-we-areness of it all is (a) rare and (b) refreshing (and b bcs a)
