MARSEILLE DISPATCH 02
in which i accidentally have a 5am night
This is the first letter typed up from my phone. I’m reporting live from dinner at an undisclosed Marseilles-owned restaurant in Corsica! The owner had me try Corsican chestnut liqueur & I’m sharing the space w a local biker (motorcycle) gang. One of them appears to be a comedian. Today, i cover a chaotic Thursday night and balance it with a wholesome trip to the museum with AM’s mom. Bisous.
Press Play: Somewhere Near Marseilles (マルセイユ辺り) by Hikaru Otada
DJ Cuteboys sent over this j pop/haus song last week. I’ve listened to it a lot since she did that. Don’t ask me why they spelled marseille like that, but the song is worth every second of those 11+ minutes. It’s about a long distance relationship, which you’re all in with me at the moment.
Borrow from ur local public library: Glamorama by Brett Easton Ellis
Brett satirizes 90’s celebrity culture—the fashion, the drugs, the name-dropping—with hot people terrorism. Really, the models are terrorists. New York, LA, and Paris are just places to be seen. This isn’t my first Glamorama read, but it is my first time reading it in French. Did you know he had a French version? I didn’t. Let me tell you about how I found out: When I left the apartment that afternoon, my destination was the cobbler. Yet my curiosity led me to a pile of free books off of Rue d’Alger when a dry air flipped the pages of a book in my periphery. I was responding to a voice memo from DH (my ballet friend in NYC), but that was enough to lure me in. There she was, the best cover I’ve seen for this book to date:
Anti-Algorithm News: “How TikTok changed fashion” by Rachel Tashjian
I follow Rachel on twitter, so this is a gift WaPo link from her. Thank her by supporting her work somehow. She showcases TikTok creators setting the tone on fashion and fashion trends to unpack the impact this godforsaken app has had on how we perceive fashion, make purchases, and synthesize our own sense style. Everyone has their own style, that doesn’t mean it’s good.
What I’m up to: