Sinister: There's a portrait in a big room

[Robert Brennan]

Hello...

So I 'did' the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday. 
Julian Opie's minimal prints of The Blur are there in
their full-sized glory.  I studied them closely
looking for any signs of blemish or process.  Nothing.
 Extraordinary.

Perversely, I bought a book of landscape photography
in the bookshop with some beautiful black & white
shots of rural France by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 
Lovely.

Remaining with the Br*tp*p theme of a couple of
paragraphs ago, I bought the new album by The Pulp. 
It's playing right now.  First impressions are good: 
The Walker-enhanced arrangements are very Pulp;
sometimes almost too familiar with shades of I-Spy and
Something Changed 2.0 creeping in here and there. 
Jarvis sounds more political and angrier.  A few years
ago he 'didn't want no trouble', now he wants to
'fight to the death for the right to live your life'. 
Lordy.

Rich wrote:
"I read 'the great gatsby' earlier this week.  a guy I
know insists it is about an escapologist."  Which made
me laugh but it could be worth a thesis too.

Archel no-toast said of semi-colons:
"a tutor once told me that i was the only student she
knew who knew how to use one correctly," which floored
me cos I regard semi-colons as a grammatical offside
rule; ask people to explain it and they start
confidently, then hesitate before backtracking and
starting again.  Did I do that right by the way,
Archel?

Pinefox mentioned me in his last post so I guess it's
ok to mention him now.  There.

Robster


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