After a summer in Paris we’re back home. So far in Shanghai, it’s still warm and sunny save for the odd rainy day… not that I’m complaining. Summer is my season – I’m a happier, more agreeable person to be around when it’s warm and sunny. That’s just me. Hope our paths don’t cross during…
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Huzzah, The Great‘s third season is out! Hoult and Fanning are terrific together. It’s ever so slapstick-y and absurd, but fantastic eye candy nonetheless. + Just learned how to play Wordle (I’m only 5 years late!) and lordy it’s the only thing that gets me out of bed in the mornings. + I’ve been watching…
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Let’s round-up some news, newsletter-style! Currently listening to:The SmileA Light for Attracting Attention
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Things have changed so fast here in China in a week that it’s given me whiplash. Restrictions are being lifted one at a time, and practically everyday we’re handed back bits of our freedom (“freedom”?) from life pre-Covid. I’m very ecstatic about it. But it leaves everyone, myself included, baffled about everything that happened. What…
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So the first episode of HBOMax’s White Lotus is out and I am chuffed! Although I do miss the douchiness of Jake Lacy from Season 1, the view’s not so bad over here in Season 2. Theo James? Aubrey Plaza? Will Sharpe? The Queen of Awesomeness Jennifer Coolidge? I’m there. + Why aren’t more people…
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You know those days, don’t you – those days when you aren’t motivated at all to get out of bed? I have conducted various experiments over the years and have come to the conclusion that music is extremely helpful in dragging your body out of the warm, comfortable covers and into the cruel world … So here I am, still in…
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The website of My Bloody Valentine crashed last night after they announced that they’d be releasing their new album in the following hours. I was up till 2 am, absolutely freaking out, until I got the copy. And so, 22 years after the release of Loveless, the band of my heart, whose songs have accompanied me to so…
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… where I cross the entirety of Paris to get to La Fleche d’Or. It’s freezing cold, even with my sheepskin gloves and my thickest scarf on. I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m in a skirt and normal, non-thermal tights? (Fucking idiot.) But anyway. I procrastinate as long as I can, meeting friends for…
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