http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-young-is-better-than-old-pretty-is-better-than-ugly-movies-are-better-than-music-and-anything-is-better-than-politics-1823675.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-young-is-better-than-old-pretty-is-better-than-ugly-movies-are-better-than-music-and-anything-is-better-than-politics-1823675.html <p> If there is one book that sums up the maelstrom of superficiality, white-hot ambition and old-world/new-wave glamour of Andy Warhol's New York years it is former Interview editor Bob Colacello's awesome Holy Terror: </p> Dylan Jones Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-gazza-hijacked-a-london-bus-and-successfully-steered-it-along-the-bayswater-road-albeit-at-a-glacial-pace-1818762.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-gazza-hijacked-a-london-bus-and-successfully-steered-it-along-the-bayswater-road-albeit-at-a-glacial-pace-1818762.html <p>While I understand that – as a thoroughbred media whore – I am rather complicit in this, it has become impossible now to imagine anyone of any celebrity status socialising outside of a private members' club. Indeed these days the very idea of mixing with the proletariat is anathema to the sort of person who uses Heat magazine as a contemporary alternative to the town crier. Me? Caught in a pub? With my reputation? Perish the very thought, my dear boy ... </p> Dylan Jones Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-for-a-period-in-the-sixties-eel-pie-island-became-so-popular-it-even-began-issuing-its-own-passports-1814676.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-for-a-period-in-the-sixties-eel-pie-island-became-so-popular-it-even-began-issuing-its-own-passports-1814676.html <p>If you take a train to Twickenham, to the west of London, and then walk down to the edge of the Thames, you will discover a magical place that feels as though it's from another era. People like to say that the Isle of Wight feels like Britain did in the Fifties, but Eel Pie Island feels like I imagine London did back in the early Sixties, when jazz and R&B were still the pulse beat of the city.</p> Dylan Jones Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-i-love-the-fright-masks-the-scary-sweets-the-useless-plastic-halloween-gifts-in-all-the-supermarkets-1810975.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dylan-jones/dylan-jones-i-love-the-fright-masks-the-scary-sweets-the-useless-plastic-halloween-gifts-in-all-the-supermarkets-1810975.html <p>Halloween has always been big in our house. Not as big as Christmas, obviously – and I probably buy into the whole commercialism of the festive season more than anyone else I know, including my children – but big enough. In fact I've always loved it, in spite of being unceremoniously ignored by our neighbours when my brother and I attempted trick-or-treating in the wilds of Suffolk when we were young, something we had picked up from the nearby US </p> Dylan Jones Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000