Edwardians, Victorians, England Between the Wars, my dueling ancestors who had to flee to the continent.
The Bright Young Set.
Jarvis, The Libertines, The Kinks, The Fall, Pulp, Syd Barrett, Sloan, Fosca, Spiritualized, Lilys, Gram Parsons, Wedding Present, Love, The Field Mice, The Jam, Ride, Stone Roses, Postcard/Sarah Records, El, Belle and Sebastian, Relaxed Muscle, Subway Sect, Denim, Decemberists, BJM, Television Personalities, Dexys, U.N.P.O.C., Art Brut, Special Needs, Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles, DPT, Voxtrot, Patrick Wolf, Long Blondes, The Lodger, The Indelicates.The greatest band in the world this week is: 1990s
Metropolitan (also, the rest of the Doomed Bourgeois in Love trilogy), 24 Hour Party People, Masculin-Feminin, Shampoo, The Apple, Rushmore, Swoon, Withnail and I, Velvet Goldmine, O Lucky Man!, If...., Preston Sturges' oeuvre, Screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s
Skins, Nathan Barley, America's Next Top Model.
Evelyn Waugh, The Magus by John Fowles, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, Max Beerbohm, The Satyricon by Petronius, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne, Asterix & Obelix, Jonathan Coe, Robertson Davies, B.S. Johnson
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