Everyone owns jeans, everyone wears jeans. You’re probably wearing a pair right now in fact, and I bet you have at least three pairs, if not more. Maybe you only wear jeans. Lots of people do. And that’s the thing isn’t it. Jeans are completely ubiquitous now, to such a degree that I don’t thinkContinue reading “Jeans: I have known”
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Beards
I originally composed this as ‘Facial Hair’ but, the more I thought about it, the more I realised what an enormous subject that truly is. So, I’ve started with the big one: Beards. Beards are the oddest of all stylistic accessories. They are theoretically accessible to any man (and some women of course), so areContinue reading “Beards”
Fight Club (film, not book)
>The film indeed. For it is this, and not the book, that has seared itself onto the public consciousness. In a multi-media age even the DVD of Fight Club seems old fashioned now, but the book is a practical irrelevance for too many people, so I’ll park that for now. Even Chuck Palahnuick himself wasContinue reading “Fight Club (film, not book)”
Fighting
One of the most significant films of the 90s, a sleeper hit that people in the know really weren’t sure would gain traction, is Fight Club. The subtext of fighting as an anathema to 20th century consumerism would, they said, go over people’s heads. The brawling in place of meaningful existences would, they said, passContinue reading “Fighting”
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