Stuff that came my way today
A cool-hunting kid goes to LA and takes some photos. Happy people wearing colours and drawing pictures and having parties involving second-hand goods and teddy bears and the sunlight of Los Angeles. There is nothing not to like here.
The world’s most famous virgin. Not to be missed: the Ex Boyfriends page (HE HAS NEVER SLANDERED HER) and the Her Family section. Also not to be missed: the joy of navigating a website built in frames. It’s the smell of madeleines for those of us old/young enough to remember making our first websites in Geocities. Tumblr kids, you have no idea how wealthy your fingertips are.
M.I.A’s new video. Loving the green lights and the song.
Joss Stone’s old video. So not loving this that I am close to a coronary. The phrase “it beggars belief” just doesn’t even do the experience justice. Just press play and keep watching - it starts bad and then it gets so, so much worse.
This didn’t happen on the internet but I’ve also just read Betjeman’s poem, Indoor Games Near Newbury, for the first time. It’s about children at a party who love each other. Has shades of Pulp’s Babies about it, only these kids are posh and have chauffeurs and choose their partners for a fox-trot, to “dance until it’s tea o’clock!” A sheer delight. My new masterplan for 2010 is to spend much of it dancing until it’s tea o’clock.
