He stocks his office cabinet with cans of peel-top Campbell's chicken soup that he heats up for lunch.
Some context: I had had a rough day at work and decided to buy myself a peel-top wine for the train.
It's also deceptively simple, on the surface, although – like the unsettling glass of peel-top wine that confirms all is not what it seems when Danny visits Alex's parents – every look is imbued with meaning.
The journey to Ziggy Stardust was conceived not in a distant galaxy, nor even in a wardrobe, but on Peel's Top Gear, Peel's In Concert and Peel's Friday Night Is Boogie Night.
He returns to the Bronx and his apartment after dark, where he'll peel the top off a yogurt cup and watch a game on a roach-free television.
A YOUNG WOMAN WITH JITTERY LONG RED HAIR: As soon as I get out of bed and lift the bedclothes, if I peel the top sheet off the bottom sheet and it sort of crackles, then I think, I'm not going to be able to touch my hair today.
It's sometimes forgotten, as guitarist Jimmy Page points out, that back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were a John Peel band: a couple of the sessions on the set were recorded for Peel's Top Gear show, and he was the MC for a 1971 In Concert performance.
Now, to wear your coat properly you have to do the opposite of shoulder robing and zip up your parka only halfway and then peel the top half off your shoulders but somehow hold them in place, perhaps by slightly holding your arms outwards.
