{"id":113,"date":"2003-01-25T22:20:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-25T22:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyweb.co.uk\/?p=113"},"modified":"2003-01-25T22:20:01","modified_gmt":"2003-01-25T22:20:01","slug":"culture-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/2003\/01\/25\/culture-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Vulture"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Teeth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just finished reading Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth<\/a>‘. I had originally avoided the novel due to the massive amounts of hype it received in the press. It’s been out a while now (I always wait for the paperbacks – hardbacks dig in the my wrist RSI). It’s a big old bugger of a book – weighing in at 542 pages (some debut novel!). I was thoroughly engaged all the way through, though I don’t think I was clever enough to truly understand what Smith was trying to say. The plot revolves around three families: the Iqbals (Indian working class), the Smiths (white\/caribbean working class) and the Chalfens (white middle class). The author dips in and out of the family history of the main two families (Iqbal\/Smith) and ties everything together nicely at the end. Definitely worth a shot. I’m now waiting for her second novel – ‘The Autograph man’ to be released in paperback.<\/p>\n

A Beautiful Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n

Settled down with ‘A Beautiful Mind<\/a>‘ on friday night. A touching film about an extremely clever man who becomes really badly schizophrenic. Apparently it’s a true story. An excellent excellent film, let down only by the twat in the lead role.<\/p>\n

Operator Logos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seamus kindly sent me a new operator logo for my Nokia on friday. Not having received such an item before I opted to ‘save logo’ rather than ‘discard’. It immediately replaced the subtle ‘Orange’ operator logo with a bad line drawing of the ‘Simpsons’ courtesy of this totally free mobile tones and logos site<\/a>. Strangely, Nokia don’t give you the option to have no operator logo. So I spent a couple of hours yesterday attempting to replace the logo with something vaguely better. In the end I went for a retro ‘Iron Maiden’ logo cos it’s so cool and ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White Teeth Just finished reading Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth‘. I had originally avoided the novel due to the massive amounts of hype it received in the press. It’s been out a while now (I always wait for the paperbacks – hardbacks dig in the my wrist RSI). It’s a big old bugger of a book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}