A list of things to add to

Covet

Shoes, handbags, a nice suit. A season ticket for Manchester United. A Playstation two or three, a Wi, a Nintendo, a Macbook Air. Good food each week, a rib-eye steak, fishing for fresh fish, avacados. Smooth hair, cool hair, any hair. A place to stay, a house, a home. Someone else who has a home. Ownership. A friend, a partner, a community. A car, a bike, a skateboard. Skis to go skiing, a sledge to go sledging, a board to go surfing. Conversation. Laughter. Work. Going to the coolest club, going to the uncoolest club, going to the bowling club. A walk on a windy day, green, grey, breathe. Television, Sky, cable. Internet banking. Fame, fortune, notoriety. Sex of any kind. Dresses, stockings, wigs, restraint. Good looks, slim thighs, flat tummies. A man with a good job, a woman with a good job, someone with a good job that is beneficial to our careers. Class, money, social standing. Family, fun, gardens. Greenhouses filled with grapes. Wine, women, song. Eccies, coke, bong. Auctions, old furniture, punk. Sun, sea, calm, tan. Learning, poetry, bargains, Kant. Religion, science, mythology, plants. Mirrors, Greece, Rome, architecture. Change, children, running, swimming. Open fires. Big boobs, blonde, big lips, tight. Quiet, sensual, touch, care. Winning. Succeeding. Being somebody. A soul. Books, air, sight, sound, taste. Experience. Clean teeth, clean body, bath. Humour. Music, beats, dub, dancing. Tomato ketchup, chips with vinegar, an old pier. Victorian wallpaper, art, culture, old people who can tell a tale. Love (whatever that is). George Clooney, Johnny Depp, films by the Coens, the theatre. Tennis, horses, smells. Intuition. Teaching, enabling, helping. Passports, European life, democracy. Communism, red, black, goulash. A better life. Free milk tokens. Water. Opportunity. Stability. Saturday night telly, Saturday night radio, Saturday night storms. Warmth, sharing, together. Marx, passion, intensity. Dark chocolate. Cardamon pods.

Status.

(working class) bourgeois

In view of past and current debates over the stereotyping of the Fine-Arts into the traditional bourgeoisie (which incidently should be a stereotype of the capitalist intention that manipulates culture, not the students and practitioners working within Fine-Arts) I have felt it necessary to add a post-modern description into the dictionary term for bourgeois.

bourgeois (often disparaging) –n.,

1. a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or capitalistic. 2. a mediocre, unimaginative or materialistic person –adj. 3. characteristic of, related to, or compromising the middle class. 4. conservative or materialistic in outlook. 5. (in Marxist thought) dominated by capitalist or capitalist interests. 6. working-class single parent who studied fine art and owns an ex-council house (see also satire)