Okay, we’re going through a serious Andy Warhol phase. Here is a tiny clip from a painfully hip early 1980s film called Blank Generation. This is Carole Bouquet asking Mr. Warhol the eternal question (in the sexiest french accent (only bested by Elizabeth)), “I’d like to know what you think about the sentence of Godard [...]

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
(as Mr. Wilde says)
We drift in and out. We sometimes stay up here in our attic for days, only going downstairs for books or food. We get lost in sensation when the snow piles upon the skylights and the light that [...]

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Our father gets angry when people email him while they’re on vacation. He cannot understand why anyone would go away, and yet still be in touch. “Be unavailable for at least two hours every day” is one of his many mottos, “leave an air of mystery.” Keeping that in mind, we are trying to be [...]

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Thunder and lightening, it’s so humid, and so perfect. The perfect summers day. Pride day. We’ve been dancing around our attic studio all day to the new Cure song, The Only One. Honestly, we want to cry, our Mr. Smith has written once again the perfect summer song. Our father has come up more than once wondering [...]

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Alexander McQueen, of course. Sarah said once, whimsy with razorblades. We always like to check in on our Mr. McQueen, though we suspect he wouldn’t be a charming dinner guest, but we could be wrong. He’s not very vegan in his use of fur and feathers though, take note.This is his Fall 2008 collection which [...]

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Tell me an original story. Shakespeare has often been accused of lifting his plots from others, or even that he didn’t write the plays at all. I like to think of  Shakespeare as a state of mind, a celebration of how language can be made to dance. In our house it’s not uncommon to hear [...]

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As we write this it’s raining. Rain, rain, rain. All day Alice has been muttering,
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe…
Now Dame Darcy is one of the original Lolita’s, and we remembered that ages ago the lovely Dame Darcy performed Mr. Carroll’s Jabberwocky on her television show and we thought, we MUST see that again! And so, here [...]

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Alice said once that, ‘love is not blind, it’s just oh, so tolorant.’ That is how I feel about Vivienne Westwood - without her the world would be a much greyer place, however I can’t say I blindly love everything that she’s created. For our first episode of Pomegranate Cinema we present a snippet from a documentary [...]

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