Perfect Pleasure

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"

Just spent a lazy sunday afternoon watching Dorian Gray. What a wonderful idea for a story, the idea of selling one's soul for eternal youth and beauty, living a life of pure hedonism, but having every debauched, immoral and terrible act displayed as a disfigurement of aging in one's portrait.

And what a wonderfully dark film it was. I read the book years ago, but my memory of it is pretty hazy. I think I shall put it next on my reading list.

Here is a list of just a few of my perfect pleasures.

1. Chocolate milk


2. Passion fruit cocktails


3. After Eights


4. CHEESE


5. Brick Lane market


6. Trashy magazines


7. Clothes


8. Spending the entire day in pyjamas


9. ANTM, The Hills, The City (shameful yes. But I don't care)

All perfectly superficial, highly enjoyable and yet leave me unsatisfied, always wanting more...