ants
Alright, I confess: I used to love Adam Ant. I was pubescently trying to make some sense of my stirrings for boys, and he was such a pretty one, so how could I resist? I never put a poster of him in my bedroom (I was just not that kind of teenager) but at some point I did go so far as to buy the Goody Two Shoes single.
It was rather depressing then to watch last night's Channel 4 documentary The Madness of Prince Charming about his life-long and ongoing fight with mental illness, something I only first heard about when he made the news a year ago by throwing a car alternator through a pub window and threatening punters with a starter pistol (in full cowboy gear, it must be added). I picked up a few tips from the documentary:- The Prince Charming choreography actually had a meaning: Pride (one fist up), Courage (second fist crossing the first one), Humour (one arm down, finger pointing sideways) and Flair (other arm up, with grand gesture);
- "Fashion is the last repository of the marvellous" (Malcolm McLaren);
and of course