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06 Mar 2010

Shola Ama - Someday I’ll Find You (ft. Craig Armstrong)

This is one of the highlights of the Pet Shop Boys-curated Noël Coward compilation, Twentieth-Century Blues*. I saw Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen singing bits of it on stage today in Private Lives; their performances were appealing, but suffice to say they’ve not quite got the vocal talent of Ms Ama. I couldn’t wait to get home and play this. And so I have.

* Other bright spots include Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Ferry and Suede featuring Raissa. But you knew that.

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Archie Bronson Outfit - Shark’s Tooth

You want to watch this.

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Pavement: Quarantine The Past: Greatest Hits 1989-1999
I’ve got style for miles and milesSo much style that it’s wasted
People, I want you to give proper consideration to JUST HOW MUCH this mid-priced compilation will improve your life.

Pavement: Quarantine The Past: Greatest Hits 1989-1999

I’ve got style for miles and miles
So much style that it’s wasted

People, I want you to give proper consideration to JUST HOW MUCH this mid-priced compilation will improve your life.

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Would a spare clone each be handy?

Heidi: Amelle would probably fall out with hers.

Amelle: Why isn’t my food on the table, bitch! Mine would leave for sure!

As the ‘Babes turn…

05 Mar 2010
Tracey Thorn versus Ben Watt in the World Series of Love

Tracey Thorn versus Ben Watt in the World Series of Love

04 Mar 2010

Erykah Badu - Window Seat

No question where Badu stands on the ongoing ‘Are tights suitable as trousers?’ debate.

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I have to say that meeting you is rather odd. It’s like interviewing Mr. T. What to call you?

[Laughs] Lady Gaga or Gaga is fine. Everyone calls me one of the two, and it’s very normal. I think it’s mostly about being in my world and understanding what I do. … When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

What does [your spiritual guide] bring to the party?

What I like about him is that he doesn’t speak to me like I am a normal person. He understands that I have an eccentric way of life and personality. And he also understands that I am famous, and I appreciate that.

Don’t you think it’s kind of creepy when you refer to yourself in the third person?

No. Not if you’re an artist, it’s not. I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans. And that way, I have to think about not what is best for my vagina but what is best for my fans and for me artistically.

Saint Gaga has forsaken her vagina for you.

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Alternate London signage
(via crackerfinishingschool: thinkaboutthings)

Alternate London signage

(via crackerfinishingschoolthinkaboutthings)

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teenageart:

Matthew Barney, pre-goo.

How I used to look forward to the arrival of the J. Crew catalogue in my university post box…

teenageart:

Matthew Barney, pre-goo.

How I used to look forward to the arrival of the J. Crew catalogue in my university post box…

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Part III of Slate’s ‘Signs’ series.

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