http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/fashion/04fashion.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Trends emerge, apparently from nowhere: they are fashion. This process can be intoxicating to watch. Suddenly young people in rock bands like the Decemberists and My Morning Jacket begin dressing as if playing a rock club was no different from running copies behind a counter at Kinko's. In place of stage costumes, they favor cheap sweater vests and no-brand thrift shop jeans. They make such a success of looking frumpy that their frumpiness develops into a style despite itself.
Frumpy it's the new flanell.
you think the copy editor for the new york times would have caught that bigass grammatical error.
Not only is this article piss-poor grammatically, but who is the fact checker? Last time I was in Kinko's, the copy kids were wearing blue vests/smocks...
Huh? How random is that article. :-/
Quoteno-brand thrift shop jeans
who fucking cares about brand names? jeans are jeans.
maybe it's just me, but... maybe the author of this editorial has confused
frumpiness with
personal depth.
damn. i mean, there's more to life than superficial shit like designer jeans. i would say the members of mmj would agree with this sentiment.
Say it, sister!
See, the thing is, everything has a brand name. KMart sells jeans that are called, like, Riders or some shit, right? Good luck finding anything in America without a label...
I don't know about chall, but I am personally more offended by a person who would spend 1/2 my car payment on blue cotton than the guy in ball-outlining Wranglers any day!
But remember- this article was probably written by some bitch/bastard (didn't read the byline) whose parents sent them to an expensive communications college who, for all the money they spent, has no concept of how the world really works. This is why all of the "amateur" writing found here is infinitely more satisfying than the nyt.
ps...
gitano!
Quotethe guy in ball-outlining Wranglers
Like this?
(http://shaunshine.homestead.com/files/largeshaun.jpg)
Feel the inner conflict raging with the feathered hair, knit sweater, and oh so casual wrist bracelets. Be repulsed/turned on/both by the ballooning, near bursting ball sack straining against acid washed denim nightmares. Question your own sexuality by staring into the infinitely dark pools that are Shaun's eyes. Run out and shoot at cans with a BB gun to "feel straighter". Tell no one of your...digressions.
hee hee
I don't know whether to ;D or :'(...
QuoteI don't know whether to ;D or :'(...
How can anyone cry looking at this picture? Unless of course, you can imagine how TIGHT those jeans must've been...then, you might cry if you're a boy! ;)
That's what you call a moose foot.
If you look really really closely at the left side of his gauze shirt, you can totally see nip. (Shaun was way ahead of his time! Nipple shots are so hawt right now!)
our left, not his
Suddenly young people in rock bands like the Decemberists and My Morning Jacket begin dressing as if playing a rock club was no different from running copies behind a counter at Kinko's.
The Decemberists don't always dress like everyday peeps like our boys.
(http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/D/Decemberists/2006/11/16/decemberists256.jpg)
QuoteSuddenly young people in rock bands like the Decemberists and My Morning Jacket begin dressing as if playing a rock club was no different from running copies behind a counter at Kinko's.
The Decemberists don't always dress like everyday peeps like our boys.
(http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/D/Decemberists/2006/11/16/decemberists256.jpg)
Exactly what I was thinking.
QuoteQuoteSuddenly young people in rock bands like the Decemberists and My Morning Jacket begin dressing as if playing a rock club was no different from running copies behind a counter at Kinko[ch8217]s.
The Decemberists don't always dress like everyday peeps like our boys.
(http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/D/Decemberists/2006/11/16/decemberists256.jpg)
Exactly what I was thinking.
I totally agree. Both have cool styles, but imho MMJ usually dress more typical, dykwim?
Plus that article saying that only gay guys wore beards until recently is silly, because what about the likes of Kenny Rogers and other country artists from the 70s and 80s? And now even some of the guys from Beauty and the Geek (as well as my coworkers :D) are coming in with more than a little facial hair...
(http://www.cwtv.com/shows/beauty-and-the-geek/cast/images/c/0000/cw-bg-prt-NateCecille-a_002829-711c01-281x374.jpg)(http://www.cwtv.com/shows/beauty-and-the-geek/cast/images/c/0000/cw-bg-prt-ScooterMegan-a_002838-902d8c-281x374.jpg)
guys with beards > guys without beards
anyone>fashion writers/analysts/whores
I guess I should grow a beard. ...to be cool and all.
facial hair is fuckin HAWT!
!
Course that may come from the tragedy of having actually HAD that particular Shaun Cassidy poster on my wall as a young girl. (What was my mom thinking letting me hang that SHIT on my wall? >:() Now my pendulum has swung completely the other way.
Hair = manly sexiness!
meeeee-ow!
;)
I especially like Jim's cut-off brown sportcoat! :)
QuoteQuoteQuoteSuddenly young people in rock bands like the Decemberists and My Morning Jacket begin dressing as if playing a rock club was no different from running copies behind a counter at Kinko's.
The Decemberists don't always dress like everyday peeps like our boys.
(http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/D/Decemberists/2006/11/16/decemberists256.jpg)
Exactly what I was thinking.
I totally agree. Both have cool styles, but imho MMJ usually dress more typical, dykwim?
Plus that article saying that only gay guys wore beards until recently is silly, because what about the likes of Kenny Rogers and other country artists from the 70s and 80s? And now even some of the guys from Beauty and the Geek (as well as my coworkers :D) are coming in with more than a little facial hair...
(http://www.cwtv.com/shows/beauty-and-the-geek/cast/images/c/0000/cw-bg-prt-NateCecille-a_002829-711c01-281x374.jpg)(http://www.cwtv.com/shows/beauty-and-the-geek/cast/images/c/0000/cw-bg-prt-ScooterMegan-a_002838-902d8c-281x374.jpg)
What does this say about me-->I think both the geeks pictured here are kinda cute...
And, to paraphrase Tina Fey- the girls look like trannys, and probably leave nasty wads of Barbie hair everywhere they go...
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What does this say about me-->I think both the geeks pictured here are kinda cute...
you're not alone on this one, sister!
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I don't know about chall, but I am personally more offended by a person who would spend 1/2 my car payment on blue cotton than the guy in ball-outlining Wranglers any day!
I am personally more offended by a person who makes judgements of another person based on how much money he or she decided to spend on a pair of jeans or on his or her education.
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I don't know about chall, but I am personally more offended by a person who would spend 1/2 my car payment on blue cotton than the guy in ball-outlining Wranglers any day!
I am personally more offended by a person who makes judgements of another person based on how much money he or she decided to spend on a pair of jeans or on his or her education.
ZING! BURN! OH SNAP!
So I come back refreshed from two days of discussions on the topic of sustainability. Y'know, WASTE REDUCTION. As the folks who lived through the depression said, use it up, wear it out, make it do, or go without...
Anyhoo, what do I find? A pretty angry reply to a silly post I made on a band fan site. A few days ago I would have read this response to my opinion and felt guilty, sad, maybe misunderstood. Instead I am laughin' my ass off because I stand by what I said. What other people do with their shit is none of my business. Just as the fact that I paid for my education and wear relatively cheap jeans is neither here nor there. I guess I'm comin' off as one of those reverse snob types because I 'judge' people who piss things away. But, I mean, get real. You are being judgemental too, right, so get off yr high horse!
I made cheeky comments on a fuckin' website. I'm sorry that you're drowning in the PC.
Besides, if I never said those things, I never would have gotten to see Shaun's bursting balls!
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I don't know about chall, but I am personally more offended by a person who would spend 1/2 my car payment on blue cotton than the guy in ball-outlining Wranglers any day!
I am personally more offended by a person who makes judgements of another person based on how much money he or she decided to spend on a pair of jeans or on his or her education.
I am personally more offended by a person who is offended by a person who makes judgements of another person based on how much money he or she decided to spend on a pair of jeans or on his or her education.
OH hell!!!! I just offended myself because I am personally more offended by a person who is offended by a person who is offended by a person who makes judgements of another person based on how much money he or she decided to spend on a pair of jeans or on his or her education.
This could go on all night.
Fuck offensive fuckers who offend me.
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I don't know what we're yelling about.
(http://www.umass.edu/umhome/images/upload/6232/ANCHORMAN.jpeg)
"como estan, bitches."
(http://www.ben-stiller.net/images/albums/films/anchorman/caps/normal_anchorman_caps008.jpg)
Best fight scene in the history of filmmakeing.
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Well, that one and the one in Life Aquatic. "They forgot their dog.....amatures."
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tonight's top story....
the streets run red with burgundy's blood!