Owen Jones, the Independent columnist and socialist commentator, said: "Weirdly compelling how all the worst elements of our country – fear, prejudice, hate – have been stuffed into paper form, aka the Daily Mail".
It was a scary sight, at one and the same time daft and threatening, not to mention weirdly psychic (how did he know that I would glance over at that moment, or had he been pulling faces for some time, on the off-chance?) The next day, I heard that he had said to our hostess: "Is that who I think it is?" "Yes.
And I love how weirdly robotic the bottom half looks, while the upper half looks so emotional".
Zeitgeist enthusiasts will delight in how weirdly plausible the films feels.
WHEN I met my friend Natalie Green four years ago, we quickly discovered how weirdly synchronized our major life events had been.
"The first movie was about trying to cross the threshold into adulthood, how weirdly tragic that is," says Thomas.
I mention it because I think it is one of the titles that illustrates how weirdly our analogue industries represent their products within a digital world.
I remember how weirdly healthy looking Hopper was at 64, how compact, neatly bearded, fit and genial, as he worked the room, matily grappling with friends, slapping shoulders, exchanging banter with his pal Julian Schnabel.
(Faust points out how weirdly unsettling this rotting must have been in a society in which "race and skin color were of definitive importance". Dying, all men were brothers).
But one realized, too, how weirdly effective a communicator he is; whether the subject is the need for diversity in hiring, the reshaping of public housing or his attitude toward government.
