In a post a while back I explored the curse of artists only making two good albums. I argued that artists who died after their second album have a far better legacy than those who surpass that number and have careers that span decades. In this post I want to explore the work of St […]
David Mitchell and Stephen Fry, just to pick a few names out of a large number, are intelligent people who appear on British television regularly. It is not unfair to suggest that they themselves probably do not watch much television which will account for their higher-than-average intellect. (Their intellect my actually be why they do […]
Can artists only make two albums that can be held up as masterpieces or great works of music? Two classics. If we look at those who are heralded as geniuses within music there is a trend of those who died young. They are those who have had short careers and have released few albums. Their […]
Last week I explored the idea of the victim and the victimiser in relation to the short film La Vita Nuova by Christine and the Queens. I mentioned at the end of that post that there may be a link between love and scapegoating. This for me is linked to victimisation and victimisers, scapegoating is […]
Last week I explored Christine and the Queens short film La Vita Nuova that was released in conjunction with an EP of the same name. I did so in relation to high fashion and the ability of high fashion to evoke fantasy, an ability which Mark Fisher argued had been lost by high art which […]
Earlier this year Christine and the Queens released an EP called La Vita Nuova. In conjunction with the five-song project (six songs if you count the English version of ‘Je disparais dans tes bras’ ‘I disappear in your arms’ which plays over the credits) a film was also released. When I saw the fifteen-minute short […]
Come Back To Earth 