Quarantine Life
It's 2020, a man ate a bat and the world came crashing down. Now we're all stuck at home re-watching two and a half men and friends, waking up every morning hunting for a will to live. While we exist only in our homes, waiting to disinfect every delivery left at the door, what do we wear, what do we watch, what do we read?
What to wear during quarantine:
Look One:
This is possibly my favourite look out of all. It's 12pm, you wake up, bored, ready for a day of binging on television or food. Any and all inhibitions you once had are on vacation in Bora Bora because you can't be, the couch is prepped for your buttprint and to swallow up television remotes. You just want to slip into something soft and comfortable.
Look Two:
So, you've worn every pair of sweats you own and are now motivated to look more presentable to an outside world. Not couch potato nor red carpet ready, just somewhere in the middle, sitting upright instead of lounging horizontally. Maybe even in the mood to put on pants with buttons and not an elastic waist.
Look Three:
Day 19, you have grown sad and empty with stains on your worn out loose clothing. You get up look at your sweats and are sickened. You start a discussion with your family, pets or yourself, to try and get out of the rut that is comfortable clothing. For one night and one night only! It's time to class up your quarantine.
Look Four:
Congratulations! You have been permitted to go down the street and buy a pack of oreos, time to get the drip on.
AMIRI suede MX1 jean - £1090
What to read during quarantine:
As George R.R. Martin once said, "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one."
Take all the spare time made available by the bat-eater to expand your mind and maybe even your vocabulary.
Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
Time Magazine describes the novel as "a screed against models and celebrity." This satire on 1990s consumerism and celebrity culture. This great dissection of the world around us is a sure fired page turner
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
An endless tapestry of Indian life between Independence from the British and the émergé class three decades later. This insight into Indian life in the 1970s follows the untouchable members of society and their highly privileged offspring.
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Poignant, funny, complete utter fiction, heroic and anti-heroic all at the same time. With it's experimental format the playful literature in this movie defined the modern novel.
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
An Italian industrial chemist, eleven months living in Auschwitz. This collection of short stories associates events in the narrators life with 21 elements of the periodic table is not the easiest thing to put down.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
No words necessary. Just read it. And Leo did the movie.
The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
What if Lucifer found himself in an atheist Stalin operated Soviet Union with a freaky feline in tow? The effects are quite mesmerising
The Code Of The Woosters - Sir PG Wodehouse
No one has ever quite had a grasp on comedic literature like Sir Wodehouse. The Code Of The Woosters is the perfect gateway drug to segue yourself into a full blown Wodehouse addiction.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Obscure potions, white rabbits, hookah smoking caterpillars and math jokes. What else do we really need?
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
What's the difference between a serial killer and an investment banker? One is a soul sucking, evil heartless bomb and the other likes to kill people. Why not have both mixed up in one twenty-something, smart talking psychopath?
White Noise - Don Delilo
What claims to be Delilo’s most funny and unorthodox work is a novel following a Hitler studies professor, his crazy family and the fear of death.
What to watch during quarantine:
Kill Bill Volumes one and two
A vengeful bride, trained assassins, murder, Tokyo. No words will ever be enough for me to describe this must watch Tarantino movie.
This is Where I Leave You
A humorous way to deal with your father's death, unearth several buried issues and introduce your older therapist girlfriend to the family. The star studded cast only adds to the supreme script.
The Godfather
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
The Hangover
This movie will go down in history, not for having the best acting or for "re-defining" comedy but for just being the most universally hilarious motion picture to have ever existed... in my not so humble opinion.
The Princess Bride
The movie that spawned the most historic quote to have ever existed, "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
