I'm the one that posted some promo art for Final Fantasy X, for Jah's sake...

Look out for anything involving Tim Marlow on Channel 5, I find his programmes highly interesting and accessible enough for an ignorant fool such as myself.

What all the cool kids are wearing.

I call it urban melancholy. Really captures perfectly the ordinary sadness of the everyday, the banal. People in bars, a girl on a street corner, isolated pockets of life in the anonymity of the city.

So isolated and distant, yet so alluring and intimate.

I get the same out of Edward Hopper paintings as I do the music of the Blue Nile and early Tom Waits. Especially the Blue Nile. It's a poetry of life. It's a preserve of truly great art that can evoke extraordinary emotion and beauty from the ordinary, the everyday.

To that I can only say: YES!

Thought I'd bring this up again as I've just got back from 6 days in Paris where I saw more art than the rest of my life put together. Great.

As you can see, I only had 45 minutes in the Louvre and spent far too long in The Pompidou for anyone's good, least of all yours...

There were loads of others I loved but which I couldn't find on Google images, like a great Magritte with dead birds. meh. Lucky you I suppose

EDIT: There are far too many things there. Sorry. I won't remove any of them though.

Since it was on telly: