December 2008
3 posts
Bagpuss and Ivor creator dies →
Guardian obituary
gorillavsbear.net: mp3: white as diamonds →
From Alela Diane’s upcoming release on Rough Trade.
Lucian Freud's early obsessions
Freud’s other great love in life, apart from Garman girls, was the animal kingdom and particularly birds. In the years after the war he used to keep a pair of sparrowhawks in the house, which he also drew. I was always excited by birds. If you touch wild birds it’s a marvellous feeling. To feed them, he would go out shooting rats on the canal bank of Regent’s Park with his...