loooool thank you! i loved the lower half of his face a lot!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 25 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
He had a sassy mouth. And sassy things came out of it. Shame about the butt-chin, though.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, one of the album covers, he was wearing a ponytail, so you could see his whole face!
(I remember this clearly, because my housemate had a photo of me sitting on the sofa, holding up said album cover pretending to be him.)
He was not bad looking. He was just hilariously pretentious. Romantic Gypsy Kin-gah and all.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha, Art Attack!
You can still only see half his face, mind. Just a different half from usual.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vKD7WiDMrVM/TJNusLoeMqI/AAAAAAAABQM/Ultp8_VMPco/s1600/marty.jpg
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha this is the one i was thinking of
http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/c/h/church15491.jpg
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 25 June 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
still no shame in his game even today
http://www.popmusicology.com/images/thechurch1meg0031.jpg
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 25 June 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
that ponytail pic is kinda embarrassing on account of the earringsi don't like super clean looking dudes
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 25 June 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh, I remember that one. I remember this one the best, though...
http://en.smalltownromanceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/gaf-marty.jpg
Do not under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES google what he looks like now. Mountain man! HAHAHAHHAHAHA x-post
(I like the earrings. I like the ponytail, too. I have always loved ponytails on men, it's a ~thing~)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5800000/Nick-Cave-Friends-nick-cave-5885461-450-320.jpg
This picture did a lot for me when I was 19.
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Monday, 25 June 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
Aw Rowland, bless. Such a loss.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 25 June 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/animated-siren-gif.gifhttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/25/article-0-13C797CA000005DC-898_634x695.jpghttp://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/animated-siren-gif.gif
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard rumours they'll be in a movie (non porn!?) together. I CAN'T WAIT.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
Yep. A Bret Easton Ellis flick apparently.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
As soon as I saw the sirens I knew/hoped it was James. I've got to get over this crush, it's silly.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
ok so i watched river's edge again. exceeded my expectations tbh. i had forgotten that keanu (1) was so angry (the scene where he gets interrogated by the police is great, you've got FOOD EATER!)and (2) them moral center of the movie, aided by the stunning Ione Skye, who basically every hip young lady with long hair tries to look like now, amirite?
i had also forgotten the DOUBLE down by the river stories (John's and Feck's) and how they talked about it, and wondered if people recognized this as a classic murder ballad plot back when the movie came out, or?
also the music was great. the end.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
the moral center, not them! oops
theres some real bad acting in that movie
crispin ftw
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
i love it when the mom freaks out at the top of the stairs
keanu is really ott but that's part of what i like about it. the cartoonish behavior of teenagers is cartoonish, right? maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like keanu is one of the best actors in that movie, sadly!
obv dhop and crispin are good
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
i guess all teenagers are acting, so i couldn't really see the difference between acting for the movie and acting because they were real life living breathing teenagers
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like Alex James has slimmed down for this whole Olympics/rooftop show splash. Also I want to go to this 'feastival' he and Jamie are putting on but that's unlikely. ;_;
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/181160_351446408260970_424341239_n.jpghubba hubba
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
college radio station was playing a song off Phantasmagoria earlier, which reminded me of another teen crush:
http://resiman.bravehost.com/myPictures/0023.jpg
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
his last feastival was a huge disaster wasnt it??
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Dunno, never heard of it! Things only enter my radar when Blur are involved. :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Vanian is still not bad looking! But looks strangely like John Cusack these days.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
omg he does look like John Cusack now!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
lol after I posted that pic of deen this morning I kept thinking that I remembered him from somewhere and I remembered where and, yeah, I get it.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
Hah! :)He sneaks up on you.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah alex james had a feastival at his house and no one got paid and a primary school had to fire someone because they went into debt, or something
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2011/sep/15/day-the-festival-dream-died
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
oh ps that kid upthread typecast as every asshole kid ever in the 80s came up last night at trivia!!!!
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
Nice!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
oops wrong link above
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/04/alex-james-festival
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Thursday, 28 June 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure the organisers of the Aus Harvest festival might have had words with him about the name too, perhaps. lol.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 29 June 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
Welp, my parents are still crazy about weight, notably everyone else's, including famous people on tv.
Watching The Pelican Brief, my dad says of Julia Roberts, "By the time she made this movie, she was already not thin anymore." (This is nonsense, her chin was sharp enough to cause bodily harm to the other actors and possibly the furniture.)
My mother told me I could lose weight if I "worked on portion control."
My dad said if I stopped eating doughnuts (I was eating a doughnut at that moment), my work-outs & activities would go further. I told him yes, but my life would also be terribly sad.
To all of which, I say: FFFFF UUUUU!!!
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Thanks. I just needed to get that off my chest.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Blehh.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
oh, man, Laurel. fwiw it took me about three years to wean my mother off making unsolicited remarks about my weight and how I could lose it. but she has stopped, unbelievably. i wish i could stop her from talking about how disgustingly fat she is around me, but i guess that's her business. anyway, i'm sorry, but i found that telling my mother it was inappropriate for her to police my body and that i wouldn't respond to any such comments in the future eventually worked. it took a long time.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
that was two separate thoughts: i'm sorry your parents pulled that on you. and also, this is what i did that eventually worked on my mother.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Would probably have just taken the doughnut and mashed it into his forehead.
But that would have involved the loss of lovely delicious doughnut, so...
Blehh indeed.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
haha i like your way better, WCC
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like my parents. :(
I was eating some froyo last weekend while walking around and realized that I was really self-conscious about doing so and felt like people were judging me for eating yogurt. I know that sounds crazy but this is what happens when you've dealt with parents who say those sort of things and incidents like when I was about 14 and enjoying a cone while walking down the street with friends in Fire Island and some fucking meathead I didn't even know shouted at me "I don't think you need that, sweetheart".
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
It's okay! I quipped back and ate another doughnut! What is probably worse for me than being burdened by them about my weight, is the anger that I carry instead about their small-mindedness. It makes me window-punching, fight-starting mad.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Also neither one of them could bike 5 miles, drink for 5 hours, bike home, and then get up early to highland dance in another state, in the sun, all day.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
I basically trained my mother out of making those kinds of comments by putting the phone down every time she started in on them. This does not work if your parents are there in person.
Reminds me, I did mean to post a copy of Health At Every Size to my Mum, as I have mostly got her to stop fat-shaming me, but talking about herself is another story. :-/
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Parents are so hard to deal with. I worry about having a daughter in the future because I know I'll have to work really hard at not passing along my own issues and even having to acknowledge that makes me sad.
TBH my parents have been better in recent years. I think though that's mostly because my mother realized how completely fucked up I am about this stuff when I started coming home for visits and immediately asking how I looked and if I lost weight. Every single time. She hasn't really said anything to me lately. Actually, she commented on how she didn't understand why I was so obsessed with weight and appearance since she never told me that was the most important thing. To a certain extent she's right that she didn't but I do think she underestimates the toll that certain attitudes and comments can have over time.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Laurel, it used to make me burn with unexpressed anger when my parents said these things to me. as an adult i just started expressing the anger. that wasn't particularly effective in making my mom stop but it did make me feel better. and then after i had gotten mad one million times i did what WCC did--end the conversation if she got on that topic.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
generally i feel bad after i yell at my mom, but i was buoyed by the righteousness of my indignation in this case, tbh.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
It got a lot easier to end the conversation and move on, after doing that thing that you say, Laurel - point out what your body can actually do.
My mum stopped clucking her tongue about me eating chips and ice cream in Cornwall after she saw me walk a 7 mile hike along the coast in an afternoon, then still pop out to buy us takeaway afterwards.
It's often about parents' own fears. For my Mum, perhaps this is legitimate, as she has genuine mobility issues (but I'm not so sure that those are weight related as she believes - or has been told.) But that whole "my body does what I need it to" is a great STFU method.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
I don't feel bad, my mom is the source of fully half this shit. We were talking about a young woman they know who is smart, and pleasant, and successful, and my mom said, "It's so sad, she's obviously built just like her mother." Of my brother's ex-girlfriend, she said, "Oh, she was never thin, and she's going to be huge, she's going to be her mother all over again" so obviously my mom's brain is taken over by a selective insanity about inheriting weight problems.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
"weight" "problems" FUCKING A, THEY'VE GOT MY BRAIN NOW TOO HELLLLLLLLP
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 10:33 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
soooo terrible. similar things happened to me when i was at a super awkward age and it had a lifelong effect.
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link