Haruki Murakami!

I have always wanted to listen to an audiobook. I think it's because I miss having someone read me bedtime stories. 

I remember once when I was about six or so, I read the whole of Disney's Cinderella to my gran, she listened attentively without saying anything and when I was done, all she said was "you got it all wrong". Hahaha, jeez.   

Anyway, childhood bitterness aside, I recently got Haruki Murakami's memoir This Is What I Talk About When I Talk About Running as an audiobook. It is fantastic, really, I love him.

I have read two of his previous books and getting an insight into him as a person is such a treat. Firstly, he started a jazz bar in Tokyo fresh out of university (kill me now) and then he just started writing and ascended to a kind of coolness reserved for the likes of Prince, Grace Jones and Olof Palme.  

Also, he has the golden ticket of being Japanese, which like being Swedish or Cape Verdean, means that you are necessarily cool and interesting.

Smoking Pic of The Day!

Grace baby, Jamaican me crazy. 

Everyone's favourite Jamaican after Bob. 

Grace Jones & Andre Leon Talley!

Of course. 


Of course Andre Leon Talley and Grace Jones are friends. 


And by their huge grins in this snap I'd say they're the best of friends, I mean, why wouldn't they be?


Talley has a masters degree in French and worked as Andy Warhol's assistant. Can he be any better?! I think Tommy summed him up best saying he dresses like a Japanese man from the future. 


Grace Jones a.k.a Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga, is still considered a fashion pioneer and was a Bond girl to boot. 


I love 'em both. In fact a naked snap of Miss Jones is my screensaver.