Good afternoon everyone,

I’ve recently been enjoying the work of two Phoebes, and you might enjoy them as well.

To start with, I am enjoying Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Killing Eve enormously. I thought it was just a murder thing (which would also have been good) but it’s extremely funny too. And all still on iPlayer! Here’s Waller-Bridge talking about writing and female friendship. Amongst other things. Some great clothes in this link as well:

“I guess I’ve always been fascinated by tits because in some way they are an expression of femininity and they are so important when you’re growing up. Whether you have tits or not, when they’re going to come, the girl who’s got massive ones who doesn’t want them and is trying to cover them up, and the girl who hasn’t got them and is stuffing them with tissue. The stakes are so huge around tits, and I think that remains through life.”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/08/phoebe-waller-bridge-fleabag-killing-eve-transgressive-women

I also enjoyed this investigation of the lipstick that Fleabag wears all the time in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s first television show, Fleabag. I bought Dare You off the back of this article despite the fact that it says, extremely clearly, that Dare You comes off easily. And it does! It’s not as bad as Studded Kiss – what is – but it’s not at all as good as Ruby Woo. Anyway:

Then I realized […] that it might be possible to find the actual perfect red lipstick worn by Phoebe Waller-Bridge herself. I would file a FOIA request if I had to. The people needed to know.

https://www.thehairpin.com/2016/10/the-perfect-lipstick-phoebe-waller-bridge-wears-on-fleabag/

Over the last couple of months I’d been hearing about Phoebe Bridgers, but had thought “oh how sad that Phoebe Waller-Bridges [NB: also not Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s name] has divorced Mr Waller, but cool that she has a music career as well”. As you well know, Phoebe Bridgers is a completely different person. Who is also excellent! Here’s a song of hers that I have been listening to several times a day for the last two weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AWJv0HkT7Y

And an interview lavishly illustrated with pictures of Phoebe cuddling a little dog:

“[M]e writing sad songs doesn’t mean I am a sad person," she says. "It’s all real and true, and I suffer, but I am not going to be moody all the time just for a brand. I just want everyone to know, which is what everyone already knows: everyone is everything all the time.”

https://www.thefader.com/2018/09/06/phoebe-bridgers-cover-story-interview

Have a lovely weekend, everyone. Hope you’re up to something nice tonight,

Alex.