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Iron Chef UK
7th May 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Imagine waking suddenly in the night to discover some freakish offspring of the Ghostbusters marshmallow man and Augustus Gloop looming over you. And, like a Ritalin-starved 6 year old, this grotesque apparition is screeching witless non-sequiturs inches from your face, like, “Kevin! I love you hammering that escalope!”, “Rock that crumble!” and, most bizarrely, “Those forearms! It’s like watching an ox cut up an ox.” Over. And over. And over....
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Michelangelo’s Dream
7th May 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
In 1817 French author Stendahl visited Florence. He documented this trip in his wonderful book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio. Whilst at the Uffizi gallery, such was the beauty of the surroundings and the art within, he was overcome with faintness, dizziness, confusion and hallucinations. Subsequently, illness when confronted with immense beauty has become known as Stendahl Syndrome.
This week I strode to The Courtauld on The... -
Tolstoy: The Last Station
7th May 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
So, I finally got around to seeing The Last Station. The Last Station is a film about the Russian writer, intellectual and vegetarian, Leo Tolstoy; or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy to his gran. Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, a gargantuan doorstop of a book of such epic scope and ambition that it has become a byword for highbrow literary endeavour. And showing off to virginal girls in glasses. If you...
