He's wearing waders.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
the real question: what's he gonna do with that giant syringe?
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Blast the shit out of some motherfucking aliens!
― dan m, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
keep a giant turkey moist inside while cooking
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― colette, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― colette, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Ms. Sunshine Happypants strikes again!
― Jenny, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I love you though, Jenny. Does that make it a little better?
― Laurel, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
new record store @ cermak and state is WACK
― deej, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― deej, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
that was an xpost to jenny, obv
actually, it may BE parody, come to think of it, what site did that come from?
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit that antm
"Miss J: What's great about this is that you can also look beautiful in death."
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
xp No, no problem, I like that we get to take turns being outraged. I'm just too tired today to work up to it, so thanks for stopping by.
xxp Amanda, I agree with that too, but on the scale of real evil...it's not compelling, it's not even CONVINCING, and that guy is either an imbecile or just so far away from the real world of life and Doing Stuff that I don't have the energy to build a bridge to him etc etc or take him too seriously. I'm glad you do, though, because someone should.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Well shit, I wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't spent all day feeling like shit for giving my friend, who just had a baby, a copy of The Little Friend for a, I dunno, birthing gift? It's a book all about a dead child. It was 100% accidental, and it turned out not to be a big deal, but I felt bad about it all day. So maybe I'm just extra sensitive to dead kiddies today.
Overall I don't even notice what people do in the fashion world as I swore off fashion magazines a long time ago because they made me feel bad about myself.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I would not characterize this as outrage. It's more like revulsion.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
What's really good Chinese food in Edgewater, close to me? Not Thai, not Vietnamese, just Chinese. Possibly searing hot Szechuan.
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm singing this to myself as a Morrissey song.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
because you can't make up things more ridiculous than what these wankers already do in order to satirize them
This is why the Sacha Baron Cohen fashion guy (Bruno) is funny, because he just turns the camera on designers/fashionistas and only gives them a little prodding before the most ridiculous shit falls from their mouths.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/12/morrisseyREX2_355x450.jpg I would not characterize this as outrage, it's more like revulsion, because you can't make up things more ridiculous than what these wankers already do in order to satirize them
Overall I don't even notice what people do I swore off fashion magazines a long time ago, this fashion designer man, this macabre mystery, I like that we take turns being outraged I like that we take turns being outraged
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i think you just became my new favorite person
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
oh hey cool do you mind if i borrow those lyrics for $TOP_SECRET band, Eazy? we need a morrissey songs
― river wolf, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Y but you have to credit all of us.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
It's all yours, but you'll owe these folks a drink.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i probably do anyway
― river wolf, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Panda Panda Chinese Restaurant is the spot, I decided. The recent online reviews say that it used to be a scary place with awful Chinese food, but they got new management and now they are THE BEST delivery place in the area and the spicy garlic pork is not to be missed. And if this is all true, awesome, it's a block away.
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
ps i'm gonna call the song DEAD BABY FASHIONSHOW
cool?
― river wolf, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
not morrissey enough
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
"This Fashion Designer Man"
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Svengali of the Runway"
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"Booed in Hampstead Heath"
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
okay
Fashion, You're Revolting
― river wolf, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"Your Trick Wears Your School Tie"
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Spam title today: "Good Evening Mr. Groove"
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"Last Night In Soho"
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"Svengali in Platforms"
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn, I had a feeling there was one already.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"samurai of king's road"?
― colette, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
guys do i see bob log or cococoma??
― river wolf, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
the latter
― dan m, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Chinese food update: Panda Panda's garlic pork = pretty gotdamn good.
― kenan, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link