Rating: ❤❤❤ “A star of the first magnitude, he rose in the night of American slavery, attracted the admiring gaze of the civilized world, and so thrilled the hearts of men that they broke the chains of all his kind in the hope of further enriching the firmament of lofty human endeavor with stars like …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ First this, first that. Sometimes I’m impressed, often I’m not. Too many firsts. Maybe the “who’s first” thing has gone haywire, and the fact of someone being first in something tends to become a sacralized value in itself. (Or maybe I’m more interested in lasts.) After all, along with laudable firsts there are pathetic …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Swindon Wasn’t Peyton Place I discovered INXS before discovering XTC. I delighted in the coolness of the former’s name sounding out “in excess” even more than the derivation of, say, U2, thanks to the sensual, epicurean current in the acronymed phrase. Likewise with the “ecstasy” in XTC, which half-inspired INXS’ name. But, if one …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ There is all a woman in your compass, my poor sister.– Zenobia, The Blithedale Romance Marilyn Monroe appeared to me last night as a kind of fairy godmother.– Sylvia Plath diary entry Take me as I am,take me, baby, in stride.Only you can save me tonight…You let me in, don’t leave me outor leave …
