Hello. Belgianwaffle here. We've just noticed it is 2007 and we haven't yet broken the ice on the New Year's Blog. In addition, we have learned that this Blog has at least two regular readers - two more than we deserve I hear you say - and so maybe (just maybe) it worth posting more often than now and again.
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Jarvis (again).
Sitting at the traffic lights I saw the ubiquitous billboard for Jarvis Cocker's current tour over here in Belgium. It's not exactly the image captioned above - but pretty much the same.
Anyway, I found myself thinking how Jarvis has made spectacles once again 'acceptable' (bit of a mouthful, that) in much the same way as John Lennon some forty years earlier. However, where Lennon's specs carried with them connotations of 60s crypto-Marxist Existential chic, Jarvis' look the standard-issue pair I was forced to wear throughout the 70s. One feels that the bespectacled Belgianwaffle teenager of today could walk down the school corridors or onto the football pitch happy in his heart to know that despite taunts of "speccie" and "gig lamps" and "four eyes" Jarvis - Jarvis of the fine & delicate fingers, Jarvis of the flattened vowels and Sheffield understatement, Jarvis of the journalist's favourite adjective "epicene", Jarvis of the Jane Birkin daring to go to France and make it work, Jarvis of the Mark E. Smith but friendlier, Jarvis of the I-could-do-wicked documentaries for Radio 4 - is there with his sensible frames and making them somehow sexy and uncommon for all the common people (like you and I) out there. Where? Here.
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