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"WHEN YOU MIX A PHAROAH'S HAT, SKATEBOARDES SHORTS, A JULIET GRECO TURTLENECK AND A JOEY RAMONE SHOE IN A MONOTONE SILHOUETTE, YOU'RE THINKING OF YOURSELF ON A LARGER STAGE THAN JUST THE IMMEDIATE PRESENT."
- Guess who
Hi. I like your necklace. - It's actually a rape whistle, but the whistle part fell off.
"There's never been much love between literature and the marketplace. The consumer economy loves a product that sells at a premium, wears out quickly or is susceptible to regular improvement, and offers with each improvement some marginal gain in uselessness. To an economy like this, news that stays news is not merely an inferior product; it's an antithetical product. A classic work of literature is inexpensive, infinitely reusable, and, wost of all, unimprovable."
Jonathan Franzen, "Why Bother?"
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
^ sad but true... though it might be added for clarity that with the advent of post-modern marketing, the actual product itself doesn't even need to be improved upon or worn out - it just needs to be made to feel inferior or outdated. (cf. the fear of 'rehashes' as has been hashed out recently in the rick owens s/s collection thread...)
Clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. There is much evidence to support the view that it is the clothes that wear us and not we them. We may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." - Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
These days, people get into music to be part of the establishment.
The most fuck-you guy around is Justin Bieber.
What does that mean? There’s no counter culture – only over-the-counter culture.
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