Saturday, 13 February 2016

The Immigration Officer

The room was cold and hostile in the way that only bureaucratic government offices can be. Nobody wanted to be here, and yet everybody was compelled to stay. There was a faint smell of cleaning alcohol and a palpable sense of tension in the air. Numbers were barked intermittently over a crackling microphone, struggling to be heard over the background buzz of forced small-talk. Some people sat wearily in uneven rows of chairs; others restlessly stood against the wall. The room was finely balanced between administration and chaos, order and anarchy.


Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Fame

"Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow" - David Bowie

"When I grow up I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies" - The Pussycat Dolls