“The Last Supper” started deteriorating before da Vinci had even started it (thanks to his insistence on painting oil directly onto fucking plasterboard). But “Southern Man” will always remain utterly perfect. https://t.co/RIuwt4W9zL
The 1500’s was probably the peak for painting. But the 1900’s was certainly the peak for music (outside of classical).
Looking for an investment for your distant ancestors? Buy any 60s/70s memorabilia. Hendrix’s guitar may be expensive now, but in 2273 it’s going be worth £1B.
I often felt jealous of the bunch of lucky bastards that lived during that beautiful century of Michelangelo, da Vinci, Titian, Caravaggio and Raphael.
Well I get to live during the era of Dylan, Young, Morrison, Clapton and Bowie. I’m fine with that.
In my head the only thing stopping me from learning a second language (very easily and proficiently of course) is that I can’t decide between Italian or French.
It’s nearly 4AM so of course I’m pondering why Eric Clapton doesn’t have more of hard-living rock star image? He drunk more booze than Keith Moon and did more heroin than Keith Richards, yet he still has a fairly clean-cut image. Is it just the power of wearing a Patek Philippe?
Finished reading “The Splendid and the Vile” by @exlarson. A book that spends so much time focusing on Churchill’s Private Secretary and his daughter’s diaries has no right to be so good. But it is. + Blitz London shares some similaries to COVID-19 London. https://t.co/uH316itYhD
I’m beginning to run so low on unread books that I’m starting to consider reading the ones mentally marked as ‘probably won’t get to until I retire’. https://t.co/6VvC1UNwrH
I know Czechoslovakia hasn’t technically existed for over 25 years now. But I don’t think I’ll ever actually say ‘Czech Republic’. Czechoslovakia just trips off the tongue far too nicely. I love saying it. Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia.
It may be made by HBO, but “Succession” is still very much flying under the mainstream cultural radar.
Full of humour, cruelty and drama, it’s one of the best shows out there right now.
(And I hate shows about douches being douches to other douches. But in Succession it works).
Hang on, the UK government is just using Zoom?! Have any of the intelligence or security services not told them that that might not be a great idea? I don’t even trust Zoom enough to install it on my Mac but the bloody government is using it to run the entire country. https://t.co/ZIQKJMrbQH
My Mum never calls it #coronavirus, she just calls it ‘corona’. As a result it always sounds like she’s talking about some woman at work she doesn’t like. “I’m telling you, Corona is starting to drive me mad. I’ve totally had enough.”
Do you guys have any idea how happy I am that I picked up 72 cans of Budweiser at £1.39 per litre from Aldi just before #coronavirus kicked off? That pile of aluminium, barley and hops is what’s going to keep me going through all this! God bless it. https://t.co/fun3MNR0QL
Every young person I know is self-isolating like a champ. Every 60+ person I know I have to convince daily that it might not be the best idea to take the London underground to feed bread to some swans. #coronavirus
Why can’t you get dry skin on the palm of your hands? After so much coronavirus-induced cleaning the top part of my hands are exteremly dry but my palms remain beautifully soft and moist. WTF?
Been using the https://t.co/a82ZY7oN9R website a little bit recently. The trending hashtags are awful and pointless. When you click on them 90% of the content is just meta-tweets talking about how a particular hashtag is trending. And the rest is just low-effort reaction GIFS.
There was 9/11 when I was younger and the #Trump U.S. presidency a while ago (I wonder if/when books published about Trump will outnumber books on Hitler?) but the ripple effects of #coronavirus are going to be analysed and scrutinised for a long, long time.
One of the things I’m finding to be the most strange about #coronavirus is knowing that I’m currently living through something that’s going to be discussed for easily 50-100 years after the event. It’s a feeling I’ve never had before.
I have a lot of questions about the effects coronavirus will have on the world. I’ve listed them all in a blog post. Sadly I have no answers. https://t.co/d3NqBfD1Ts
I feel like the current state of the world grants me permission to make tonight’s Negroni a bit more gin-forward than usual. Forgive me for altering the ratio Count Negroni, but I think you’d understand. https://t.co/xPmqAmCqUa
I like how Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro claims he isn’t a dictator, whilst wearing a Kim Jong-un starter kit. https://t.co/5NJgI9OoCf https://t.co/ZuEOkYZ4Tx