I love J.D. Salinger. One of my favorite story pairs is Franny and Zooey, stories about the Glass family who are eccentric, intelligent, and mystical. In order to write about such people, you have to be something like them yourself, or know people like them well. Is Salinger like the Glass family or merely familiar? I don't know. From what I'm told he lives in New Hampshire somewhere and doesn't go out much. So when he does Anything outside of New Hampshire, he gets attention-- like the lawsuit.
Personally, I agree with the author that there shouldn't be any The Catcher in the Rye sequels.
I don't have anything against his reclusivity either, but the sociological side of me wants to know more about him because I admire his writing so much. And what makes a guy disappear almost completely like that?
So, I know these are old. I know it. But I just started watching these La Blogotheque videos of Delta Spirit in San Francisco again, and all over again, I'm enchanted. I saw these guys open for the Cold War Kids in Burlington, VT a couple years ago, and it was excellent. Tokyo Police Club also opened and for the Cold War Kids' "St. John" everyone that played that night got on stage and started banging on anything-- drumsticks on empty wine bottles, hands on water coolers, maracas on pianos, some people even drummed on drums, imagine that. Actually, here's a really poor quality video of that performance from Youtube just so you get an idea.
I didn't think much about Delta Spirit after that concert mostly because I missed the first couple songs and was really excited for the Cold War Kids, but I did like their performance a lot. So, without further ado, some videos from La Blogotheque:
Menomena performed at my college's Sepomona music festival a couple years ago. They actually performed in the dining hall that was being closed down for renovation so it was kind of emotional for people, too. (it was a very comfortable dining hall). They do The Pelican justice live.
It's these kind of clothes that can occasionally make me want to be a man, but I'm not sure if that's only because I'm a woman. Like, do guys want to dress like this or is it just a woman's dream that they do? sigh. (from ASVOF)
props to Alexander Wang's fall 2009 shoulderless blazer-- kind of edgy and sexy but also totally wearable and somehow also in keeping with the 80's vibe that I also got from Marc Jacobs this go-around. but while Jacobs was adding shoulders onto the lovely models, Wang elicited the same effect by showing some skin. I Want this.
In other news, Burberry Prorsum kept it classic, which was fine with me-- there were some beautiful pieces I would like to incorporate into my wardrobe, for instance any of the wonderfully roomy coats or new and floppier fedoras. And this one model looks just wonderful:
I didn't like 3.1 Phillip Lim as much as usual, which was weird because I love him, but I still liked the collection. Maybe I'm just not ready for flares again, yet.
A few other things I liked a lot:
Rag & Bone: Wow. I could wear EVERYTHING here. EVERYTHING. Here's a few. I got overwhelmed and stopped. One of the things I loved most (and this is gonna sound nerdy) was that they featured socks. SO COOL!!! als0 the hints of red.
I can't help but love Vice's do's and don'ts for June-- Johnny Ryan pours douche-eating acid on unattractive fashion trends that people sometimes take on with the mistaken belief that even without a sense of style you can look good. Those people are wrong. Among the funniest parts of this Do's and Don'ts are the first one about high heels and the one that says "running away from home is adorable at any age" Oh boy.
Spengler and I were talking about starting an experimental band which would consist of a normal and very talented band, but since I don't play an instrument, I would hold my cheeks back and make the noises I feel like making.
It wouldn't be experimental, exactly. It would be expressionist.
Here are two musical artists or bands that are kind of weird, but in the good way:
Frog Eyes (myspace). I like Frog Eyes, they're really cool, just so cool. I especially like "The Oscillator's Hum."
Porest (myspace). Porest "slices and dices sonic morsels into anthropological bitch slaps, and terror ready disco. His albums are a flag on the field for reptilian neo-cons, R.D. Lang disciples, religious fanatics, Straussians, Friedmanites, and anyone else foolish enough to believe that a free market global reality works. For those who ride their white horse of American luxury living into an apocalyptic sunset as remote viewers stab a depleted uranium sword into Islam’s gut, Gergis says, in the immortal words of known schizophrenic game theorist John Nash "Fuck you buddy!" But do not think that Gergis just tosses audio bombs from a comfortable distance, oh no, our man has traveled beyond the Muslim veil into Syria, and on several occasions brought back sounds that have been assembled, and released onSublime Frequencies – the only label that bends over Real World ethno-rapists, and exposes them as the colonialist they are" as Fecal Face puts it well.
I like his song "Hoyda."
And a very notable artist, Carl Baratta out of Chicago. Read an interview of him on Fecal Face, probably my favorite website. (interview).
Sunday, November 16, 2008
"Everything is true in its own time, place, circumstance, and untrue outside of its own place, time, circumstance. If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail. " -- D.H. Lawrence
