Thursday, September 2, 2010

It looks spiky, but it’s not, because it’s like a leaf, see – it just looks jaggedy – but it’s probably really soft, because it’s expensive and quite pretty. And it’s called Eve, because she was the first woman and she lived in a garden (leaves! trees!) and she ate a bad apple. We get it. It won’t hurt you. It’s a shoe. Not a snake.

The Alice Neel retrospective opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London today. If you don’t know her work, read her story - it involves multiple penises and the Communist Party.

We want to live like this.
MMM20

The Grace Jones diet:
*Red wine
*Sushi
*Oysters

…and a room for every princess, like Top Princess Trumps.
Our favourite was Margaret, cigarettes and alcohol, low-rent gangsters and holidays on Mustique. ..Surely that’s what princesses were invented for?
But pity for poor Peter, the feral child kept as a pet…
Saturday, November 14, 2009


i missed out on the bread and jam but still had fun.
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Slightly obsessing over flaking paint in manner of man standing on platform writing down train registration numbers, even when raining.
Thursday, November 12, 2009

One step away from a velvet cloak and plant-worship.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Mary Yaeger makes merit badges about girls growing up.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Ric asked me to sit down at his table. I hadn’t seen him for a while, and i noticed that he was tan. “Where were you?” I asked.
“Oh, I’ve been in Hawaii, shooting for playgirl magazine.”

Growing a wheatfield in Dalston is an excellent idea. A better idea would be to let us run through it, barefoot with daisy chains in our hair.




Three things about Yayoi Kusama:
#1 She sees polka dots
#2 She lives in a psychiatric hospital
#3 She likes pumpkins
www.yayoi-kusama.jp