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Chain mail top by Argentinean designer Maria Pryor at Opening Ceremony New York (available in stores, coming soon to OC online). Photo by Anna Mackenzie
No, but this, like, makes a lot of sense to me.
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((pictured: Mickey Bulgakov, fab Muscovite writer [of plays, books, funny stuff 4 revolutionaries]))
i sometimes wonder what the deal w/ my bein’ soo zuperficial is, particulary within judgements of my fello artistes (holla!). creative people kind of need to be hot 4 my full allegiance (‘less they r “sartrey” heinous). honestly, master & margarita might be a better book just b-cuz bulgakov is such a babe. or is he a babe b-cuz he wrote the book? we may never know as i only found this picture after the second reading of the book.
also, i totally have 2 imagine main characters (within, like, reason) as being babes. same goes for musicians, artists. if i like a frontman/[frontlady, but not usually] enuff, i might just never look at pictures 4 fear of their possible ugli-ness.
am i normal? a wannabeatnik starfucker? ((& what does that mean if they are all dead writers?))
//// n e wayz, 2 celebr8 the “keep ______ weird” campaigns, I decided to create a little tableau 4 my own cause: “K E E P L S A N G L S B A N A L”
WAT.WE.R.CRUSADIN.AGAINST.:
* small businesses (so high ‘n’ mighty, and like, 2 much variety)
* counterculture (why’s it gotta b so0o0o contrary?)
*inclement weather (let’s keep it so mild you can’t think please!)
*good movies made here (might attract more weird people, weird people like good movies ya?)
WAT.WE.LYK.:
*big sunglasses (to hide that dead-behind-the-eyes look)
*palm trees (they all look alike, it’s chill)
*jeggings (easier to put on than pants, and everyone wears them)
*combination American Apparel/Starbucks’ (both are so prolific they will prolly intersect, and that’d b just gr8)
////but really I don’t know what my angle is on this, it just looks nice. Kinda like LA.
//// lyk wat is the deal with all these cities trying to stay weird?
“Keep _____ weird” seems to be a rising slogan for cities with high concentrations of stoners and hipsters. I guess it’s supposed to encourage ‘buying local’ and prevent overrunning of ‘totally unweird’ chain stores, bemoaning the death of the small business owner in America (why is it so cool/heroic to run a small business n e wayz?). The catchphrase itself has spread like Walmarts across the country only it’s chill ‘cause it’s free trade, right? If you define yrself as weird, and that is all you have, and if being weird necessitates living somewhere weird, well then I get it.
No, I still don’t get it.
&&&& who are they fighting against? is there a special CIA/FBI anti-weird squad?
Fur is glamorous because fur implies power. There is the cost; money, success, fame glamor, and there is also the more physical ephemeral power of man dominating animal. So fur coats, you see, are sexy by virtue of the power and domination they exude. Even more glam is wearing a fur coat and nothing else.
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There is so much to take in within one photo: Betty Page nude wrapped in a mink blanket (note to self: lounging nude and wrapped in fur, VERY glam), an excellent ink blotty line drawing of Satan, the iconic fifties typesetting, and a tantalizing headline—”How to Throw a Wild Party”. I want nothing more than to learn from a fifties nudie mag how to throw a wild party; can you blame me?
MINI HISTORY LESSON///NUMEROLOGY;; Satan magazine lasted six issues. How poignant.