Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

http://website.lineone.net/~tymaloney/myra.jpg

songs about kiddie killers? ok. fashion about kiddie killers? not ok jesus

http://www.fritzgross.de/schauspiel/delaney/delaney2.JPG

Shelagh Delaney is on the cover of a Smith records, maybe Louder Than Bombs.

I write like a lolcat when I change my mind about a sentence halfway through typing it.

i found that while GIS-ing Myra Hindley

also the "GF in a Coma" single, with that exact picture, actually.

Inspired by the macabre mystery surrounding JonBenet Ramsey and the notorious English murderess Myra Hindley, Patrik Rzepski applies bruising and burial treatments to his spring 04 collection, mimicking the unsightly appearance of unearthed victims. The neo-gothic sensibility of the 20-year-old designer—who's been likened to a still wet-behind-the-ears Alexander McQueen—is a refreshing trip to dark side, far from the cloyingly rose-colored view of other young upstarts. A noble attempt to restore lost innocence? "Yes," he says, "but in the end they still end up six feet under."
no one else thinks this is gross?

I think it's retardedly up its own ass, which isn't quite the same as gross, but....

shrug.

Around the same time that young Shelagh Delaney wrote her first play, Francoise Sagan wrote Bonjour Tristesse.

http://www.eldigoras.com/eom03/2004/2/33/33Bonjour02.jpg

There's a thread on ILM about finding record covers with a photograph of the musician, which is too easy and common a game than literature with the author on the cover, such as Shelagh D.

http://www.queermusicheritage.us/DEC2004/McKuenVHS.jpg

A VHS cassette, but still...

OK last one, and then I'm working for bit.

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/selected-poems.jpg

L Ron Hubbard is wearing an interesting suit on this cover
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n4/n21816.jpg

Except I pretty much only read The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter because I was intrigued by the cover on this edition of it:

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/67/942/474/0679424741.jpg

Amanda, where was that from?

I think its own banality works against it as a fashion "statement" -- death and decay aren't shocking, they aren't about lost innocence anymore than the National Enquirer is, and showing "bruised" models bothers me in so many ways I can't even start. But at the same time...who cares? Not I, said the cat.

xpost I'm guessing new editions of classics don't count, though.

I dunno. I guess I don't care either, except for the bruising-as-beauty thing really sent me into fits of revulsion. That's just not cool.

You have to hand it to L. Ron Hubbard, he came up with some zingy titles.

He is one renegade Earthman.

How come the spacebabe doesn't have a spacesuit?

Because that is her native atmosphere, but Earthman needs a special suit in order to breathe her space air?

Alas, their love is doomed.

I had things to say about Carson McCullers, and I said them on the Defend October thread. I feel like an ass.

Or domed, either way.

MAKES PERFECT SENSE

That's how the spaceapes can survive too, I suppose.

Even though he is renegade Earthman, he still needs special gear to breathe space air.

he can breathe their air just fine, but he cannot get used to the smell of the space apes. Really rank stuff.

He's wearing waders.

the real question: what's he gonna do with that giant syringe?

Blast the shit out of some motherfucking aliens!

keep a giant turkey moist inside while cooking

toby got really obsessed with good tea last year, we brought over like 2 grocery bags of tea when we moved. and he's listening to the twenty 20 cricket online every day at the moment.

just to reinforce stereotypes, you know.

I had to google twenty20 cricket. It's a game. I thought it was maybe a band, like matchbox 20, only there's twice as many matchboxes, and inside each one is a cricket. My mind works in discursive ways.

it's like supershort cricket, i think. like instead of playing for 3 or 5 days, they play for several hours. it's apparently more exciting, and more like baseball... i still don't really understand cricket, though!

I find fetishizing dead, beaten, and murdered women's bodies and portraying them as sexy to be way not okay and beyond disturbing. I care because every few years some dipshit photographer or fashion designer (or TV show, I am looking at you America's Next Top Model) decides that depicting murdered women would be super edgy! And hip! And then we have to have this fucking conversation about how glamorizing violence against women is unacceptable all fucking over again.

It makes me tired, all this having to repeat myself over and over again.

Ms. Sunshine Happypants strikes again!

I love you though, Jenny. Does that make it a little better?

Do any of you know of a song called "To Be Gone" that my very unhip middle-aged boss would be familiar with? He refuses to provide the name of a singer or songwriter. I found a song by some Swedish woman but I can't imagine that he's up on Swedish singer/songwriters.

xp - Yes. Love makes the world go 'round, Laurel.

new record store @ cermak and state is WACK

its a new branch of record breakers and it is v. strange how they pull up right across the street from the projects yet sell maybe the most racist selection of music i have yet seen. its so weird!

I don't think anyone thinks it's ok, just that that thing in particular is so patently-stupid-edging-over-into-parody-and-beyond that I can't even give it the time of day. If I saw that on AMTM I'd balk, because people watch that show, but I shrug I guess because I saw it on the internet, and the clothes are ugly and nobody's ever going to buy or wear them and Laurel is OTM it's TOTALLY up it's own ass.

that was an xpost to jenny, obv

actually, it may BE parody, come to think of it, what site did that come from?

I think Altman ran up against that problem in that "scathing" movie about fashion that he made, because you can't make up things more ridiculous than what these wankers already do in order to satirize them.

Srsly, Jenny, I love that you can't let the subject just blow past because you're RIGHT, and I just don't always have the energy for the whole tirade but it's a cold drink of water when you step up with the goods. And I love that you refuse to "get a sense of humor" about it, or let it go, or whatever people say who think you/I/we/women take the cause too seriously, because it IS a matter of life and death.

But this fashion guy, he's an idiot, and the fashion press is pretending that he's doing ANYthing new, I guess, because they need something to write about, but no one is really fooled. And no one that you or I will ever know will buy his clothes. I gleefully reject his contribution to the zeitgeist or whatever, but ultimately his impact will probably be v small, and there are far more pervasive and less obvious battles to fight against the stupid and short-sighted, which is why LE SIGH OF UGH it's just hard to work up a lot of indignation and not feel incredibly tired.

Fashion is pretty much always up its own ass, but people take it very seriously (even lay people, as evidenced by the discussions here on ILX). And Kenan, just because you think something is stupid or below your notice doesn't mean that it's not important to someone else, that it's not offensive to someone else, or that it's not worthy of my energy or attention.

America's Next Top Model Crime Scene Victims

xp - yes, it is hard not to feel incredibly tired. I'm certainly not going to go out and picket or anything, but typing a couple of paragraphs about why I think it's bogus is pretty easy. Plus getting to hassle Kenan is like the cherry on top.

holy shit that antm

"Miss J: What's great about this is that you can also look beautiful in death."

Which, Laurel, isn't to say that I think you should react in a specific way or that you shouldn't be tired or whatever. Just explaining why I didn't let it slide.

I must run, yet again. Peace, people.

I just thought it was totally vile that to this fashion designer man, it's a "macabre mystery", like we're talking about beautifully gothic (and fictional!) horror novels or something -- but what he's talking about are murdered, buried children -- male and female -- and it's just gross. Corpse fashion is gross regardless of what gender we're talking about.