January 2010
10 posts
This is an Alexander Pope sitting post
Stephanie: We had to write an essay about why we loved a certain critic of poetry from the Victorian era. I really, really, really wanted to write an anachronistic essay about loving Pope. I’d say how I called him “Poppy” and sometimes “Big Poppy.” Me: I call him Po’ myself. He goes by A-Po on the streets. Stephanie: Yeah, but you dated him longer than I did....
If you could photograph coolness...
it would look like this.
Iggy looks like a saucy sorority girl, Lou Reed, a sexually confused pilot, and David Bowie, well, he looks Bowie-esque.
A Day in the Life
When school is in session, my life ceases to be the whirlwind of excitement, glamor, and intrigue it is during summer and winter break (Dear Internet: Sarcasm). My life becomes as predictable as Pete Doherty at a crack party, with a routine so precise that the Japanese could set their train schedules to it. Since, my dear Internet, I know you are dying to learn about the life of an Arizonan...
What's Her Name, Virginia Plain?
Things I love about this performance:
Bryan Ferry’s singing voice sounds like the cry of an albatross
Spangles
Guyliner
Awkward 70’s dancing
Eno
This song.
I will never, ever tire of this.
The Epitome of "Hot Mess"
Now that it’s a new decade, I think it’s time for 1990s nostalgia to kick in. I think this clip is a good place to start. It’s from a quainter time when Madonna didn’t look like an Incan mummy, and Courtney Love did not have access to the Internet at all times, so she had to do things like this in order to shock and appall everyone.
Insert Iggy Pop/Zombie joke here.
“He looks like a corpse filled with rats.”—Peter Serafinowicz
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What's Inside a Girl?
I had a difficult time enjoying any sort of rebellion when I was a teenager because my mom was always two steps ahead of me in terms of the trends that usually annoy parents. To wit: my mom was very much into punk rock while I was going through a stage of listening to The Sound of Music soundtrack ad nauseum (not that there’s anything wrong with that). She forced me to listen to bands like...
'I Wanna Be Your Dog' is TOTALLY "our" song.
If there was one thing I could change about the world, I would make certain Iggy Pop played weddings, bar mitzvahs, baptisms, and other wholesome family events.
Personally, I’ve always fantasized about a wedding with a 1940s motif. A sweet little jazz band playing “Moonlight Serenade.” Slow dancing. Everyone in ballgowns and tuxes. It would be an affair so elegant that it would...
Josh Groban loves a blousy alcoholic
Josh Groban is the ‘Schrodinger’s Cat’ of music. I don’t mean that he is simultaneously alive and dead at the same time (that’s Keith Richards’ realm), but that it is impossible to like his music unless you are a 52 year old menopausal woman and yet- it is still utterly impossible to hate him. The man is a walking paradox of suckiness and likability.
Look!...