Will Self Interview - New Statesman September 2014

Will Self: The awful cult of the talentless hipster has taken over

Our generation is to blame – we’re the ones who took the avant-garde and turned it into a successful rearguard action by the flying columns of capitalism’s blitzkrieg.

Link to original item at New Statesman here

( Massive Attack - Karmacoma (relevant to text) )

50 Day Meme Challenge 2014 - Day 1

1) What was the last book you read? Any current books?

My book pile this year is positively teetering and the truth is, I haven't got the time to read everything that I need to read.  Mostly at the moment, it is variations on the Bluebeard fairy tale for my ILS module; namely Perrault and Grimm, plus Angela Carter and others thrown in.  I have to reread Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson, to see if it truly has any bearing on this and also Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides.  Aside from academic study, I am trying to cram in a book on James Boswell and Kate Mosse's Mistletoe Bride.  Reading is meant to be for leisure, isn't it?

:-/

Enameline 2014

I am reprising my fairy tale from 2012 as I have run out of time re composing a new one for the forum.  I was going to submit it back when I wrote it, but had become side-tracked for a variety of different reasons.  I will not be doing this as part of my IAS work - I just want the satisfaction of entring SOME competition, even if I get a polite "no thanks" or even if it never sees the light of day again.  Funny how you look at things with a more academic eye - I looked at it and automatically thought ::: no, that won't work (plus I have to bunce the figures up from 1,070 to around 1,500).

Tap-tap, tappitty-tap - listening to Vespertine as per 2012.  I can't believe that was 2 years ago.