Pet Texts

I didn’t buy them.

Didn’t buy these either!

We’re taking this to be a “tribute”…(And quite a good one at that.)

Just finished reading this beautiful, fast-moving, tragic novel, “The Post-Office Girl” by Stefan Zweig. It was written in the early 30s but has only just been published in English. I think it will haunt me for a long while. Highly recommended (as are many other works by this under-rated writer).

A new exhibition at the Centre For Fine Arts in Brussels shows “for the first time the other history of rock: the story of born musicians and artist in the world of art” and includes Pet Shop Boys videos made by Martin Parr and Wolfgang Tillmans. Full details can be found at the link below.

West End Girls’ version of “What have I done to deserve this?” featuring Magnus Carlson is now released in Sweden. Go to the links below to hear the track and watch the video.

The Xenomania ducks. (There’s a lot of animals on this site at the moment.)

We’ve been told about a karaoke theatre event took place last week in a Berlin apartment for five days based around “Go West”. Two people had to pick up pieces of a
costume in the rooms of the apartment and then had to sing a karaoke version of “Go West”. Every day there were approximately 30 groups (of two persons each) in the apartment. The performance was sold out. The theatre company is called andcompany &Co. Click on the links for more information and more photographs.

A walk with my dog, Kevin.

ID cards ‘could threaten privacy’, according to the home affairs select committee in the House of Commons. Yes, I still have this particular bee firmly in my bonnet! (Go to the link for the full story.)

Isaac Julien’s film about our friend and collaborator, Derek Jarman, is showing in New York this week at the Museum of Modern Art.

I’ve added a historical curiosity from 1981 to the Exclusive Tracks file in the PRODUCT section here. Neil x