AUSTRIAN TAXIDERMY

I went to Austria just before Christmas, Austrians have a pretty amazing sense of interior design which seemed to include lots of dead animals stuck to walls. Taxidermy reminds me of a brilliant Roald Dahl story well worth reading called The Landlady about a devious pensioner with a penchant for beautiful young men. 

MODERN MORTICIA?

REALLY?

There is such a big place in the world for silk bombers but it was definitely fifteen years ago, regardless of what pseudo-political shouter M.I.A would have you believe.

RAW LIKE SUSHI

 
Oh NENEH! I definitely bought this record to look at I don't even have a record player. I can't work out if that makes me a wanker or not

TIME TO LEARN

00:56. I find it very difficult to cultivate a sense of urgency in the days approaching a deadline.
I'm at the beginning of one of those horrible nights of coffee and happily sleeping people in all the other bedrooms.

FREE STUFF

The bag! Won one of them in the styling competition, £65 up. I don't think there were many submissions but still, it was making me really happy in the library today.

PRINTS

Great horsey prints in Zara at the moment - I think the top one would be equally great as menswear.

JIL SANDER

Wow! They'd be perfect for a modern day Titania.

SNOOP

I've heard the urban myth that Snoop Dogg makes more money out of his porn business than his music...apparently this was the best selling 'Adult film' of 2002. I wouldn't recommend googling it thoroughly but the strapline "Gin, juice and jizz" is too funny.


The back cover is too grim for display.

STYLING COMPETITION

     

The student paper has done a styling competition to win Peter Pilotto x Kipling bags. This is mine and Vicky's effort. Turns out it's really fun dressing your friends up especially when they're as co-operative as Daisy.

RULE BRITANNIA

Accidental on purpose theme. This isn't even everything and I'm starting to think I might be a bit sick of it, maybe it's time to give the royal memorabilia back over to the grannies of Bridgeport. 

CAGED BOOZE

Shops with cages and barriers protecting the staff are the best, they remind me of Edward Hopper paintings and always look so inviting. This is my favourite one on the corner of All Saints Road where my brother claims to have found a dismembered finger when he was eleven(ish).







Josie (on the left) lives round the corner from a great one in Manchester which has an incredible set of 20p machines. Initially I was loving the gold jewellery but after five identical scratchy rings that rapidly turned my finger green I switched to a new machine, trolls are clearly so much better.

Gas, by Edward Hopper 1940 below.

RUSTY VICKY

For once not looking so smug despite her great outfit. 

GLOBAL SPORTS

has loads of great intentional designer rip offs too if you liked the CHANNEL post in August.

Shepherd's Bush market again and they sell suede vans.

BEDOUINS

CHATTERTON

The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis is one of my favourite paintings, mostly because when I first saw it at about fourteen and read that the subject was a seventeen year old poet so poverty-stricken he tore up all literature to hand and swallowed arsenic I thought it was a perfect representation of a tortured artist. People reclining in front of windows always remind me of it.

3rd YEAR

1979

Real swingers (apparently)

SWINGERS. CALIFORNIA

Have watched Swingers (too great) and American Gigolo (dodgy storyline) for the first time recently and they make Vince Vaughan and California look amazing, such good cars and hair.
Also 'money' as huge compliment definitely needs to make a comeback.

YOUNGER(E)

Richard Gere being sassy on the cover of WET magazine. Quite loved all the colours the mini ecorche statuette he's holding. But Gourmet Bathing?

BASKET SHOES

Went to Berlin recently and there were so many great pairs of shoes, they were all size 37 for some reason which was frustrating. Off the foot small shoes look odd, and make me think of bound feet which are weird, as is the tendency among fat women to be pleased by and proud of their (comparatively) small feet.