http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/stephanie-de-saint-aignan-un-t.html Good Taste is a Trillion Dollar Industry Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:57:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/stephanie-de-saint-aignan-un-t.html#comment-1487 Nathan Branch Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:18:34 +0000 http://blog.nathanbranch.com/?p=1873#comment-1487 Tell me about it. I'm afraid the Lagerfeld legacy won't be quite what Mr. Karl has in mind. Tell me about it. I’m afraid the Lagerfeld legacy won’t be quite what Mr. Karl has in mind.

]]> http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/stephanie-de-saint-aignan-un-t.html#comment-1486 Marin Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:39:51 +0000 http://blog.nathanbranch.com/?p=1873#comment-1486 Dude. I can't keep a straight face looking at Karl Lagerfeld. Now I'll always add "Woody" mentally and it's gonna be chaos... chaos, I tell you. Dude. I can’t keep a straight face looking at Karl Lagerfeld. Now I’ll always add “Woody” mentally and it’s gonna be chaos… chaos, I tell you.

]]> http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/stephanie-de-saint-aignan-un-t.html#comment-1485 Nathan Branch Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:20:46 +0000 http://blog.nathanbranch.com/?p=1873#comment-1485 Yeah, hated the film version. About twenty shades of horrible. There was a really good biography of Bowles and the literary group that was hanging out in Tangiers at the time -- "The Dream at the End of the World" If you like Bowles, you'll really like this biography. <i>Note: A commenter wrote to correct me on the geography. The book is subtitled "Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier" which should have at least jogged my memory that it was not Algiers, as I had originally stated. Bowles lived the majority of his life in Tangiers, though I'm certain he spent at least two minutes or so in Algiers, so that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it! Well, that and I read the biography, like, twenty years ago and memories from that long ago have started getting hazy . . . where's my anti-aging pill?!!</i> And Tara -- Wikipedia states that Bowles died at the age of 88 from heart failure following respiratory problems, and while that doesn't necessarily preclude AIDS, I haven't found an official mention of Paul Bowles dying of AIDS. Are you remembering the book you read correctly? You know, like how I remembered the Algiers part of "The Dream at the End of the World" . . . :) Yeah, hated the film version. About twenty shades of horrible.
There was a really good biography of Bowles and the literary group that was hanging out in Tangiers at the time — “The Dream at the End of the World”
If you like Bowles, you’ll really like this biography.
Note: A commenter wrote to correct me on the geography. The book is subtitled “Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier” which should have at least jogged my memory that it was not Algiers, as I had originally stated. Bowles lived the majority of his life in Tangiers, though I’m certain he spent at least two minutes or so in Algiers, so that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it! Well, that and I read the biography, like, twenty years ago and memories from that long ago have started getting hazy . . . where’s my anti-aging pill?!!
And Tara — Wikipedia states that Bowles died at the age of 88 from heart failure following respiratory problems, and while that doesn’t necessarily preclude AIDS, I haven’t found an official mention of Paul Bowles dying of AIDS. Are you remembering the book you read correctly? You know, like how I remembered the Algiers part of “The Dream at the End of the World” . . .

]]> http://www.nathanbranch.com/2008/12/stephanie-de-saint-aignan-un-t.html#comment-1484 Tara Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:00:19 +0000 http://blog.nathanbranch.com/?p=1873#comment-1484 ROTFL... Karl Lagerfeld Woody. :-0 As for the Sheltering Sky, loved it (the book). Paul Bowles was such an interesting character. I just finished "No Mercy" by his friend Redmond O'Hanlon, which details his trip into the interior of the Congo, and at the end describes their final hospital stay together when Bowles was dying of AIDS and O'Hanlon had hepatitis. Quite a good composer too, Bowles. ROTFL… Karl Lagerfeld Woody. :-0
As for the Sheltering Sky, loved it (the book). Paul Bowles was such an interesting character. I just finished “No Mercy” by his friend Redmond O’Hanlon, which details his trip into the interior of the Congo, and at the end describes their final hospital stay together when Bowles was dying of AIDS and O’Hanlon had hepatitis. Quite a good composer too, Bowles.

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