After all, kitsch is the working class kingdom.
Billy MacKenzie (Record Collector interview)
: “It’s called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world starts becoming less and less probable, things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and there occurs what comes to be called the ‘glitch’—a grave danger of disemprobablization.
I absolutely loved “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” by Terry Gilliam and completely agree with this review, including what it says about Heath Ledger and excluding the bit about Colin Farrell.
Farrell’s improving with age. Have heard good things about his role in Neil Jordan’s Ondine, which isn’t out yet.
If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl
Towa Tei & Kylie Minogue - German Bold Italic (‘98)
Having done time in hospital with depression, I can’t help feeling that anyone with the energy to switch on a computer and even care what’s happening on Facebook is showing a level of engagement with the world well beyond the catatonic. So it may not be quite as healthy as actually chatting to someone, but it’s a vast improvement on staring at the wall. My shrink would certainly have taken it as a positive sign.
Dickie Beau goes Waltzing Matilda
In the hope that you might consider bringing your much-rumoured memoir to The House of Eliot, I am posting this letter on the Faber website. Forlorn as this hope may be, I can only fantasise that at least you might read my letter through and consider the pleasures and prestige of being an author at Faber, the last great family-owned independent publishing house in the western hemisphere.
