Sublime

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

we skipped the formalities and instead spoke about scones and swimming and I ate pizza out of my pocket as they proudly told me about the history and heritage of their beloved town.

Le Chelsea était comme une maison de poupées dans les limbes, avec cent chambres qui toutes constituaient un petit univers. J’arpentais les couloirs en quête de ses esprits, morts ou vivants.

It had the opposite effect on Marianne Faithfull. It made her into a star with “As Tears Go By”—the title changed by Andrew Oldham from the Casablanca song “As Time Goes By”—written on a twelve-string guitar. We thought, what a terrible piece of tripe. We came out and played it to Andrew, and he said, “It’s a hit.” We actually sold this stuff, and

paucity

we had just arrived in one of Yorkshire’s most famous seaside towns. Famous for its fish and chips and steam trains, Whitby

En 1995, à l’âge de vingt-six ans, il a créé un magazine alternatif, The Idler (Le Fainéant), qui célébrait l’éthos de la génération X : partir loin des courses de rats et mener une vie de plaisir, de créativité et d’apathie politique.