Could someone help me please? I’m having a mandolin moment.
Marc Jacobs: The Humbert Humbert Of The Fashion World, Apparently
Is this advertisement for designer Marc Jacobs fragrance ‘Oh Lola’ sexually provocative? The British Advertising Standards Authority have banned the ad after complaints from the public stated that it’s imagery turned the model (actress Dakota Fanning) into a sex object.
One day, the rest of the media will figure out what the fashion industry have known and exploited for years. You can’t buy the kind of publicity a ban gives you for free.
Altogether now… DUH!!
Poppy Wars: This Isn’t Just A Game, Y’Know
If you want to wear a poppy to show your respect for the war dead, wear one. If you don’t, don’t.
Either way, it wouldn’t hurt the majority of people blathering on about how it’s disrespectful to wander around without a cardboard and plastic flower in one’s lapel spent their time more productively. Like perhaps making sure everyone (especially the next generation) know that wars actually occur, and aren’t merely a figment of some random software developer’s fevered imagination.
Image: REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol.
MTV Europe Music Awards: Hoff Off!
A grotesque, overblown mockery of what was once a reasonably credible cultural icon. And an MTV European Music Award.
Image: AFP PHOTO/PETER MUHLY.
‘Top Boy’ – Food For Thought
I wasn’t necessarily looking forward to watching Channel 4’s four part drama ‘Top Boy’ this week for the insight it was likely to give me into South London drug culture. I was rather more intrigued by how the white, middle class TV reviewers for broadsheet British newspapers might handle the show. Would they really have anything useful and/or constructive to offer on a subject matter so far removed from their own comfy cubby holes on Buckingham Palace Road?
I, on the other hand, once stood near someone as they carried out a transaction for a small amount of cannabis in Mitcham, so am far more qualified to comment.
Tune Of The Day: Ladyfingers – Luscious Jackson
So why is it that when I get the bus, it’s full of verbally abusive youths with their trackies stuffed into their socks and the incontinent elderly?
I’m so sick of popular culture lying to me.
Halloween: A Retrospective
This is not, as I first thought, a photo of me and my friends in our local pub (circa 1996, about 11.30am) but a hip n’happening Halloween party in old London town.
I used to think we looked super glamorous and interesting.
Clearly, I was wrong.
Image: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images.
The X-Factor: Hairy, Horny & Horrible
I can proudly say that I have not watched a single episode of this year’s X-Factor. Not even the auditions, which for me lost their cushion-chewing credibility when a crowd was introduced to the proceedings and the Cowell malevolence was forced to tone down a notch.
Since he took his caustic tongue to America, there seemed little point in continuing to donate several hours of my weekend to his cause. But is my life better for it?
Movie Watch: You Need To Go See Kevin
Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller & director Lynne Ramsey arrive at the Cannes premiere of ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ in May. Probably about to be as replete with awards as they are cheekbones.
You know that Kevin is bad, right? We don’t live in the kind of society that spends a great deal of time waffling on about well behaved kids and their achievements in charity work. And people have been going on about Kevin for ages now.
He must be really, really bad.
Kelly Welles 