The Philip Glass box set is Michelangelo wrapped up in CD packaging.
I chose a track Facades for the Petra salon presentation in 2007, it was on the set list at his recent night at the Barbican, i was most excited, some reason he didn’t play it?
The genius which is Yasmina Dexter aka Pandora’s Jukebox remixed Facades for the show with a Yma Sumac track Taita Inty and Double’s The Captain of her Heart which i was obsessed with at time. The result was and is spellbinding, listen to it here *
Tavares is right Heaven IS Missing an Angel coz i’ve been to see him in the flesh and he has vowed that i will never suffer Sunday night tristesse again as long as he is running Horse Meat Disco. He is going to help me sweat and shimmy (take note Claire) my way through the dark hours of the Lord’s day oh yes. I’m not claiming any cool style leadership here as it’s well known fact i barely leave W1, have never been much of a Sunday night raver and HMD has been going for Donkeys. Hermes however comes in all sized packages and in between flirting with Disco Angel Jim in the way that only a fag hag can do with a fella who aint interested (he did say he liked my silver paillette hareem pants and got me a vodka, but strangely no vodka, and cranberry) fate or the cobbles had me stumble into the stylish, sometimes a bit intimidating but supposed to be really nice Damien Foxe, who’s formal title is something like Foxy in Charge of Frocks at The Financial Times How to Spend It. The conversation turned to High and Lows of Culture, which not for the first time in the last couple of weeks brought out a certain, as of yet unexplored side of my personality, Disgruntled of New Cavendish Street. I launched into the rant which has become familiar to anyone who mentioned the letters T and V to me of late. He was very polite and didn’t try to shove me in the neatly coiffed ciggie-garden bush as i’m sure he was longing to, though to stop it happening again i have to let rip once and for all.
CLAIRE ‘I USED TO BE IN STEPS IN CASE ANYONE CAN’T RECOGNISE ME UNDER THE BLUBBER’ RICHARDSON BURNT HER PERFECTLY GOOD CLOTHES ON THE BEEB!!!!!!!!
I’m going to have to try refrain from any more easy low down jibes at Claire, she humiliated herself enough by admitting to years of lazy, inconsequential guzzling on national TV, the stigma of which (Fat Lazy and Stupid) no amount of paid for discipline in the form of expensive trainers and bootcamp visits can ever really remove. I am actually very thankful to Claire from Not Enough Steps (oops not trying that hard )as she made me realise that although i am privileged enough to surround myself with beauty and intellect i can still watch this total mindsuck brainbleach and see that there is a moral of the story, unfortunately for the BBC this may not be the outcome they were hoping for, which i’m sure goes soemthing like this “Aw Bless, ooh that Claire lost weight so being fat and lazy must be bad” but i on vewing the final moments where Claire took a match to her almost box fresh looking but now ill-fitting clothes “Ooh this one’s gonna take a bit of burning” i fume on her toxic smoke which was so shockingly unbelievable in a time of financial and environmental meltdown it has finally got me keyboard hammering. Soap Box well and truly outed. Being a some time stylist wouldn’t necessarily make me a paragon of anti consumerism, i have had to make my peace with how to balance doing what i’m good at with the general good of the planet, i’m hoping though the Beeb however have learnt from their noxious fumes as they are to air Mary Queen of Charidee Shops, which even though anyone with an iota of style sense and individuality has been doing for years, is not a bad thing considering the mindless Lead by Celebrity Example of Fatty Burning the Clothes lesson on how to lead your lives they let rip with My Big Fat Wedding. I try not to read the daily newspapers, they sure way of never making up your own mind about anything, but i do know that we are being berated by all things black and white and read all over that we are ruining the planet (Stop the Consuming – The Observer) place nigh on opposite the shopping pages (Dont Stop Consuming – The Observer Woman Magazine) so no wonder poor slebs like Claire and the producers at the Beeb are confused about what message to send out. Its easy – if you consume without consequence you will eventually ruin the perfectly formed thing that the universe has given us be it our finely honed and well balanced bodies or our beautiful and incredible planet.
