Its sad that the server couldn't close the deal.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
She grows quiet, looks at her watch. It’s getting late. She admits that she doesn’t have an important industry meeting, as her publicist told me, but has to baby-sit for a friend.
Before she goes, I ask her where she lives. She’s looking to buy a place, but for now is in Williamsburg. “Staying with my ex-boyfriend,” she says nonchalantly, then bursts into nervous laughter and admits, “I live on his couch.”
I give her a look like, You just told me all that about falling in love and breaking up and you’re on the dude’s couch?
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
i hate the sorts of profile pieces in which a male writer spends time w/a female performer and in his mind they have a cozy evening w/honest conversation but hey we're just friends and i'm playing it cool.
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
no i'm serious, i saw her eating a burrito on haight street yesterday.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Then he asks, “Are you two a couple?” and looks at me and says: “Today is your lucky day. I wish I was lucky like you.”
http://jacobmbrown.com/JacobPortrait.jpg
― J0rdan S., Friday, 10 February 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
wkiw LDR
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
She opened it and said you were suckers.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
LOL @Ned Raggett!!!!
peter g.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Big Pete Grasswich
― buzza, Friday, 10 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
She remembers as a kid asking herself cheesy meaning-of-life questions and thinking she was really special for doing so. Then, in high school, she took a philosophy class and realized she was like everyone else.
Cool story bro
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Maura's takedown: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/02/sexism_women_in_rock_female_musicians.php
― kinder, Friday, 10 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
.gif of orson welles clapping but in a more sincere fashion than that one from citizen kane
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
i mean damn
Wow, that's fab
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC6ilDfH_GM
― piscesx, Friday, 10 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
total bro.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Great Maura piece.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Internet psychology rock
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
- the part where he compares party in the USA and a lana del rey song because you could "gyrate" to both at an "illegal warehouse rave"
lol
― dmr, Friday, 10 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
\m/ Maura's takedown.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Saturday, 11 February 2012 07:17 (twelve years ago) link
I just heard this person's music and holy jesus do I hate her
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
crüt, welcome. here's a menu. you can sit over here; there'll be a bit of a wait, but we'll get you a table as soon as one becomes available. would you like to order a cocktail as you wait?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
are there people here - or do you know people - uh, straight male people - who are really drooling over LDR? like, who think she is the hottest thing in pants?
I will step up and own this opinion. I would like to have coffee with her and stare at her weird lip and I think her vulnerable-glam persona is very conducive to the fantasy that what she really needs is someone like *me* to genuinely listen to her and we can set aside all the haters and the lies of her management and truly connect with each other in the unmediated way that we both so clearly want, at least for a few hours.
(I do not write for the NY Times Magazine.)
― mick signals, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yet.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ha!
― mick signals, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
i keep thinking she's singing "kiss me in the DPRK" on "lolita"
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
one weird thing about LDR is that i cannot predict at all whether any given friend or acquaintance of mine will be pro-lana or anti-lana (or, like, in between).
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Schrodinger's Lana
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
i think lana is v v pretty
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 11 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
i think she would have a good run as a guess model. if they ever wanna revive their early '90s style trashy-americana campaigns.
― textile in thighville (get bent), Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
like this
http://www.hilaryshepherd.com/rantsnraves/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/anna_nicole8.jpg
― textile in thighville (get bent), Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't read the thread in a while, but the fact that the CD is on the rack in the front at Other Music equals backlash^n=lash * (-1) ^n
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol @ that times blog piece. "a skinnier Adele" loooooool
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
cis @ that times blog piece
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
A scene from LDR's in-store at Amoeba SF:
http://tinyurl.com/6rj8su6
― polyphonic, Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of there being a cult of personality around LDR just feels unusually odd, it doesn't square at all
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
like, it makes sense with lady gaga because who "she" is is so crucial - you get a real sense of what she stands for, the issues that mean something to her. even if you wholeheartedly love what LDR is doing, it's just a lot more remote - she's playing a character, you don't get much of a sense of "the real her" (or a version thereof), and she's not even trying to give you that
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
my reading of it is that she resonates with this post-media/Pop/Internet obligation to keep up an idealized image, and the rift between the her and her image, and the arc that her character has made, inspires a certain sympathy in a lot of people.
Video Games really ends up being about that, dressing up as a 'bad girl' to impress a demanding/unimpressed audience... and I think at this point some people, including David Letterman it seemed, kind of just want to hug her and say "you did it, you're beautiful", partly because they all relate to that pressure and judgment
― Chris S, Sunday, 12 February 2012 10:07 (twelve years ago) link
not that it's all pity, I like her, personally, and I think letting larger things shine through you is a part of art, so I think judging her on that is missing the point
― Chris S, Sunday, 12 February 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
The cult of personality around characters is often so much stronger than it is around actors. That bleeds into real life more now than it did in the pre-internet era.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Sunday, 12 February 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
This is why it's so good for her to play the victim role. Her fans will try and make double sure to show the lamestream media they love her, they really love her.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 12 February 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
exactly. i said something about this upthread. it's like starting your career post meltdown, after you shave your head and bare your, er, whatever - at the point where condemnation turns to sympathy and concern. in that sense, the "terrible" SNL performance wasn't a mistake at all, it was exactly the right note to come in on.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
After Schrodinger's Lana, I misread the post above as Skinner Adele.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Sunday, 12 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
leave lana alone!!!!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
The 2007 demos that lead to the first album as Lizzy Grant (2010) have emerged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9SoWh-6kpI#!
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i dunno, i mean, it's obvious that she LIKES all the stuff that she's loading up her music and image with signifiers of, all that retro junk, it's just that playing it cool or acting kind of blank and distant is part and parcel of it. she might be sublimating her personality to some extent but it's in the name of expressing her taste. she's the arty pretentious yin to zooey deschanel's wacky cutesy yang.
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://shes333.tumblr.com/post/17669197675
yiiikes
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
that little kewpie doll voice is like someone imitating Loretta Divine without understanding that there still needs to be core to the sound in order for it to work
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol sweet vid
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
the 8-bit version!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jtEcja0LUI
― Lee626, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link