Sunday, April 08, 2007

Rock musicians just don't give interviews the way they used to.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4zQpFSYCJ0
btw, having seen Iggy live at Big Day Out a year ago, I can attest that Iggy Pop is still that maniacal on stage. He looks like a reptile with pants that look like they're about to fall off any moment.

Karl Lagerfeld presents us with more evidence that he is not entirely human: When asksed how he felt before a show: "I have no human feelings." When asked about how he keeps the weight off: "I eat next to nothing." And finally, when asked about his insatiable thirst for knowledge, he brushes it off, saying it's not for show: "I like to look very superficial."
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/19/070319fa_fact_colapinto

Manolo Blahnik will never ever make a pair of platforms. "The platform is the Frankenstein of footwear."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,,2028301,00.html

And while we're caught up in the latest spasm of Jane Austen fever, Sydney journos pounder, "was Jane Austen a 41 yr old virgin?"
http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2007/03/reassessments_austens_abstinen.html
I personally think there's nothing wrong with being a virgin back in 18th century England. Given that sex was a taboo topic that was rarely discussed at all, the prevalence of 'spinster aunts' and lack of sexual know-how amongst the general populace (or at least amongst polite non-depraved society), not ever having experianced sexual intercourse was no big deal unlike in today's sex-consumed society.Besides, the whole notion of us cringing at the idea of a '40 yr old virgin' is that we envisage someone who's so socially retarded that they 'couldn't get laid'. I think most mature-age virgins, especially female ones, choose not to get laid. That is one very important difference and quite a sensible choice imho when I think about all the disgusting STD and viruses out there. syphilis anyone? Suddenly, abstinence seems very very appealing.

FIRST POST!

I thought I should devote my very first blogger post to discussion of the recent ITV adaptation of Northanger Abbey.

Andrew Davis, the man with the midas touch when it comes to period drama adaptations, has done it again! It was much better than the Billie Piper ITV Mansfield Park adaptation shown a week before, and thoroughly more entertaining than the last BBC adaptation of Northanger Abbey in 1990 which was just strange.

What's more, I had an epiphany similar to that my friend Dee had when she went to watch Marie Antoinette. I realised that I was Catherine Morland, or rather I could have become just like Catherine given the same circumstances. I've never identified this closely with a Jane Austen character. Throughout the film, I was gasping: "she's me!", "that's exactly what I would have done". You see, Catherine and I are both naive, eager to please characters with an overactive imagination. We've both lived a sheltered, relatively comfortable (albeit plain) life. We both like witty sarcastic men with a fine taste in muslin. Of course, the 20th/21st century has rendered me more cynical, more bohemian, more FTW than Catherine . But our spirit and soul are essentially the same.

BTW, I should mention that I've never read Northanger Abbey, only watched the BBC version to which I paid half attention and thought really unsexy. In fact, it put me off from reading the book. So that's why this revelation has come at this late stage in life.

Do you have a literary twin?