Odds and Ends

[jlh]

1. Music lovers: Check out Idolator and get back to me. It's the new music-and-music-industry blog from the folks who brought us defamer, gawker and Consumerist.
   
2. I've worked out that my issue with the Gap ad isn't the ad itself, but the idea that the Gap is trying to get us to buy skinny black pants. First, three people look good in skinny black pants and none of them have an ass. (My friend L would look good in them.) Second, I continue to have no idea what the hell the Gap is trying to be anymore. They're all over the place and have been for a while now. Remember when a new Gap ad was something to look forward to?
   
3. Hell, remember when the MTV Video Music awards was something to look forward to? And it isn't even me being a fuddy duddy; my students didn't like them this year either, because they sucked. As did Fashion Rocks, which I watched on cable tonight and which had about 25 minutes of watchable programming in two hours of bullshit. I swear to God if I never see Fergie again it will be too soon.
   
4. About that Kirk/Spock "Closer" vid that's going around: One thing I think is truly awesome is how the stylizing shows how well that Star Trek brand of acting works in a silent environment, right down to the liberal use of eyeliner. It's as though all this time, the voyages of the Starship Enterprise was actually a German expressionist film. Spock even resembles Cesare the Somnambulist!
   
5. Why is Asia touring? No, seriously, why? Does anyone really need to pay $75 to see a bunch of old men play "Heat of the Moment" live?

Thanks to everyone who's been putting up with my emo crazies lately. When I'm already like this I really need to make sure I'm feeding myself or it just gets worse. Well, at least for one of my classes my homework is to watch Meet Me in St.Louis. I mean, how excellent is that?

Comments

[scrabble.livejournal.com]

This is my feeling on the Audrey ad, too. I mean, I think the ad itself is cool - it's well edited, it looks nice, and Audrey is always great. But it's advertising pants that did not need to come back. Of course, if you are going to advertise skinny black pants, I suppose this is a good choice for it.

I haven't seen all of the VMAs, just various youtube clips, but here are my thoughts:

Justin? Bringing the suck back. First of all, SexyBack is such a ridiculous song. Where did sexy go? Did we all stop having sex? Secondly, the ridiculous, 1995-esque shouts of, "Let me hear you New York!" and so forth. What was that? Are people still doing that? Are people doing that on live tv performances? What?

Christina was great, especially since it was fairly obvious she either had a cold or was just getting over one - her voice broke in a way at the end that is very much unusual for her. But the song was not appropriate for the VMAs. It was too serious. Her dress was fabulous, though.

Beyonce's performance was kind of cool, but only at a few parts, so that the rest was really boring, and I don't particularly like the song. Also, I kept waiting for someone to trip over one of those jackets.

Ok Go were fun and seemed genuinely delighted that they pulled off what they were doing.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I agree about Christina; I wish she'd done Candy Man or something. OK Go were pretty awesome. I thought Justin was fine, just not particularly interesting, but that might be because the rest of the show sucked so much. I guess it's the current crappy pop mix of bland emo goth rock and boring hip hop, all those bands wearing eyeliner and wailing and the rappers doing simple party songs about nothing in particular while interchangeable girls with nothing on whine about body parts and how horny they are. All that said, I thought The Killers were pretty good at the end, though I don't know why the lead singer has a porn 'stache.

[scrabble.livejournal.com]

Ha, I just noticed you were listening to SexyBack in this entry. Pardon me.

I didn't see The Killers, because I'm not a big fan of theirs (I don't dislike them, really, I'm just not into them). I watched the beginning of the Raconteurs but was quickly bored.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

Skinny black pants. I am not emo enough to carry them off.

But you know, I've actually started liking GAP a whole lot more just recently - in the UK at least they seem to have gotten over the whole late-90s khaki thing. So I've been getting some really great shirts there, although I still wouldn't wear their jeans.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It may be just that all their clothes are really boxy and I no longer want to wear boxy clothing. I have a waist, and wearing knits or at least shirts that have darts make me look slimmer. I also blame them for that whole capris with spiky heels thing that I find dreadful.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

Capris with spiky heels are a whole world of no.

And yeah, that was totlaly the problem I had with Gap when I started going off them. All I could ever find there were Ts and cargo pants that just made me look like a sack of potatoes.

[folk.livejournal.com]

My problem with the Gap this season is that it's all fucking monochrome. Seriously, I get depressed; I don't need my clothes depressing me too. (Didn't stop me from buying this awesome jumper in Bath today, though.)