I DID IT

Thoughts?

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What I arrived home in/went out in last night:


Spent the weekend trying to cram read Angela Carter, visiting exhibitions, watching Breaking Bad on the internet (bad I know, but where else could we see series 3?) & searching for vintage shops in Paris. Have a giant list composed of writing them from books at work & TFS.

Do you have any tips? I would ADORE some advice from someone who's been recently. I know my basics like Free P Star, Come on Eileen, Kiliwatch & the markets (Vanves, Ouen & Clignancourt) but have been searching for less 'obvious' but sure ones...

Also can't get this song out of my head. Old but still good:

BOOKS

Reading Now -
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen
By Lawrence Sterne
One of the first postmodern books. It's a challenge
& a half but well worth the effort if you're into this kind
of thing... A Cock & Bull Story was based on it.

Anticipating -
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
by Bill Clegg
Memoir of the notorious literary agent with the monster
of all cocaine addictions. Have you read A Million Tiny
Pieces? If not you should, but I figure this'll be along the
same lines... Although maybe Oprah will stay away this
time. I like books about drugs ok?!

EXHIBITIONS

Seeing Now -
The New Decor at Southbank/the Hayward Gallery
Collection of 30 artists who do interior design inspired
installations. It's more art though. This thing below by
Monica Bonvicini was a highlight but it was all good

Anticipating -
Hussein Chalayan at the Lisson Gallery
He is perhaps by absolute favorite designer and I
pretty much fell madly in love with him after seeing his
exhibition at the design museum. So I CAN'T WAIT to
see what he does here. I will tell all once I've been

Sorry for the disjointed post. Running out the door to buy flowers to fuel my new gardening obsession (will post pics when it's more perfect!) & then too work & I've got too many thoughts now this summer things started & I have been left to entertain myself.

What have you been up too?

POETRYTHURSDAY±4

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


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CRUSHING ON HEL LOOKS


Everyone's jumping on my ginger bandwagon. Thanks Florence.

Love the bag. Keep meaning to print up some bags... One of these days.

Ok this is from the Sartorialist. But GEEZ. I adore everything about this look. I've been leaning more towards shift dresses & shirts & looking...well, like a mum. Interspersed with DMs & straggly hair though, I am still 18. But this women...I mean, god. I love her.


HAIR CUT TIME
Booked in for next Thursday with my sisters hairdresser as apparently she'd 'love to do something more interesting'. I've been pouring over mia farrow/edie sedgewick/jean seberg... But a lot of me thinks I couldn't pull it off. Honestly I just don't know what to do with all this hair!

Or perhaps she'll just shave it... Now wouldn't that be fun?

What do you think?

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This is what I was doing on Friday when it was still (sort of) sunny (& yes that is meant to be a barbecue, but as you can tell by my confused expression I wasn't too sure either):

& this is my cat Holly by the way, who I only tend to see in summer. We call her evil cat because she gets these big pupils sometimes that make her look like she could kill you. She's also kind of arrogant, but extremely beautiful so we forgive her...

It's now all gray & rainy so me & the Jayster are off to watch Whatever Works (the new Woody Allen film) & eat nachos at Watershed. Better posts soon, I promise. I know I keep promising but I've been working/covering people/entertaining long distance boyfriends. Ah tis a hard life...

Love love

POETRYTHURSDAY±3

SHOOTING 'UFO WOMAN'
by Patience Agbabi

Action! Alien with Day-Glo afro
(wig) and eyes (lens) like stained-glass window,
mount silver stairs, float down to eart
(down-escalator Canary Wharf),
make earthling (hardcore dealer) pause en route
to admire strange skin (ogle PVC spacesuit).

Alien would conquer world
from business epicenter, with S-Curl

but the lens regressed to sand, attacked my eye
and blaxploitation sci-fi
turned film noir.
I left the dark glasses,
in a black cab like Metamorphosis,
each streetlight burning in my vision
how fact (I could be blind for life) shot fiction.

Trying to make a conscious decision to choose poems that aren't about sex. Why are all the good poems about sex? Dammit...


Hope you like it!