MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Fashion Fail: France's Freebie Fru-Fru Society
By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 11:39pm |URL:
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/sep/02/academic-exposing-ugly-reality-high-fashion-giulia-mensitieri
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just gotta love the quote from the arrogant prick d/b/a Count Dracula
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 1:51am
As my first inclination when I started reading & in honor of 'let them eat crêpes' Count Chocula,
here it is, the famous & totally awesum "OMG Shoez!!!"
[discovered via Shakesville, who blocked me cuz I ain't quite gender supportive enough for their safe space, oh well, she provided a stream of worthwhile viewpoint while it lasted]
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 2:04am
Ok now that you;ve figured out the aging millennial trans doing the Carrie Bradshaw shoe addiction thing that they probably acquired watching Sex and the City when their parents weren't home, forget it, it's history.(Besides maybe investing in bunion treatments, a market sure to expand.) You mentioned a while back on another thread (about Melania) something along the lines that you like to try to analyze messaging by women, well this here suggests that's it's about to get enormously more complicated for someone like you to deconstruct:
Dissecting the Sleazecore Trend—and Why It Looks Better on Women
By Helen Holmes @ Observer.com • 08/17/18 3:53pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 5:20am
Oh my, they took the sleaze out of sleazy and dirt out of dirtbag, and market this new cleaned up ADHD fashion mashup as "sleazecore". Of course it looks better on women, cuz it doesn't stink of sweat & cum & gland dysfunction, so it's not male. Sex & the City w/o the sex. Deconstruct? I'd rather self-destruct, which this trend seems rather oblivious to, a history of truly bad boy suicidal behavior or anything else edgy - i'd guess they all plan on staying 23 forever, and even be healthy doing it. They give us metro-slobs a bad name. (And my God, can we be over Kirsten Stewart already? anyone noticed her films really suck at this stage, to the point of "here's Kirsten Stewart playing Kirsten Stewart"? see Personal Shopper if you don't believe me (no, don't). yeah, she tried to wring a bit more life out of her dwindling overexposed 1-expression-trick-pony shelf-life by coming out pre-SNL as "gender neutral" or "ambivalent" or something, which even my dog professes to be these days, and isn't quite as fun as a Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet screaming full-lunged "I'll fuck anything that moves!!!" or the old days of drag clubs & glory holes or Eating Raoul or even Rocky Horror. Did I hear you whisper "safe"? thought I did. and let's not even get into "safe words")
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 6:03am
You are really good at this, I'm impressed. You've convinced me that there are definitely all kinds of intriguing links here with #Metoo.
oh and metro-slobs : excellent coinage!
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 2:19pm
aargh again, my slovenly urban-chic rejoinder got shit-canned through some glitch or wormhole in cybertools, can't even coin an expression now, much less tackle the underbelly of urban blight.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 4:33pm
that's okay, we've waited a long time to solve the urban blight thing, we can wait a little longer
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 5:22pm
But this is about *ME*, not blight or Blighty. Blight lights, blight city...the lion sleeps to-blight...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 5:44pm
I'd be careful with the appropriating from the Disney appropriation from the Beach Boys' appropriation from The Tokens' Brooklyn doo wop appropriation of south African culture if I were you.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 6:43pm
sorry I forgot the ear worm warning, but you're the one who brought the meme up.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 6:54pm
Technically "earwigs", not that I've seen a worm wear a wig.
Are you sure that video was appropriate? not that I want to doubt you...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 7:04pm
"Mbube" (Zulu for "lion") was written in the 1920s, by Solomon Linda, a South African singer of Zulu origin, who later worked for the Gallo Record Company in Johannesburg as a cleaner and record packer. He spent his weekends performing with the Evening Birds, a musical ensemble, and it was at Gallo Records, under the direction of producer Griffiths Motsieloa, that Linda and his fellow musicians recorded several songs including "Mbube," which incorporated a call-response pattern common among many Sub-Saharan African ethnic groups, including the Zulu.
According to journalist Rian Malan:
by ocean-kat on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 7:16pm
so awesome, thanks for sharing it, knew there as a source piece but never heard it before.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 8:02pm
I'm working today and no one is showing up. So I decided to look it up and what I found seemed interesting enough to share. Glad you thought so too.
eta: This is one of the reasons I love the internet. If I get curious about anything I can find the information and likely even a relatively obscure video in a few minutes. If I had researched this 15 years ago it would have taken a lot of time and effort, if I could have found it at all. Amazing!
by ocean-kat on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 8:35pm