Day 172: Favourite Halves

Here they are

Jack White is on Jools Holland.  I hope there's an interview. 

There is. 

He's very interesting to watch - a strange combination of elf and lumberjack.  And, as Julian Barratt so memorably pointed out, with 'tiny kitten's teeth'*. 

(*This came from a Mighty Boosh interview with Jonathan Ross, where Noel was twirling and pirouetting, doing the tits n' teeth, and Julian was hanging back, all silent and hating being there.

Then, perfectly timed, he quietly chipped in with the kitten-teeth comment.  Pow!  Brilliant, specific, unforgettable.  (Please note that it was relevant to the conversation - he didn't just crowbar in a pre-prepped Jack White non-sequitur.)  One of the many reasons that Julian Barratt is my favourite half of the Boosh.)

Anyway - back to Jack White.  Enough about his new five-star album.  The real news is that he's re-opened his upholstery shop.  Yes.  His UPHOLSTERY shop ('Your Furniture Is Not Dead').  Imagine just walking in, to get your nan's old armchair re-chintzed - there's Jack White with a mouthful of tacks in a pinny.  If I'd had to come up with a Venn diagram of rock stars and upholstery, I'd never have thought that Jack was the intersection. 

Brilliant.  One of the many reasons that Jack White is my favourite half of The (now defunct) White Stripes.