As a union dues paying member here is a centennial celebration I can get behind. I've been excited for it all week and everything has been a total bizarro world confluence leading up to Friday, March 25th 2011.
One: Go ahead and Netflix stream the PBS documentary about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The ending will haunt your dreams.
Two: Watch an episode of Venture Bros. that makes a Jacob Riis joke. Spend an hour looking at Riis photos after being reminded he exists. Think about why The Alienist was never made into a movie. Wonder what it would take for Scott Rudin to make that happen.
Three: Watch the entire North and South series to get your Northern England industrial Victorian squalor on. Especially helpful if there's a Downton Abbey shaped hole in your life and you need more quiet Brendan Coyle dignity in your diet.
It'll be kind of difficult to do this all on a Friday but maybe make a weekend of it? Celebrate unionization and child labor laws! Do it!
Hey! New sex term I just invented. Two canadians going at it is called a "toonie". You. Are. Welcome.
The real reason I called though, how can you say no to a ruddy, old and Persol'd Irish potato face dressed up like a Cholo hobo? Cholobo? (Can that be a trend for men in perpetuity? Please?) Oh I'm in the minority on this? Add that to the list.
Is Gossip Girl still on the air? I mean, really. It used to be a point of pride knowing every actor's name ever but I just realized I forgot the blonde one's name. I had to take three internet steps to find her. Thank god I came along just in time for the internet or I wouldn't be able to mom translate for myself. How did I have cogent conversation before wiki? Welcome old age, welcome to my skull. All the things you love, die and facebook is thought elegant by Herr Kaiser. Also I have been fucking with the text size in my browser to make internetting easier. Glasses schmasses. Seriously, that's my new look, Yoko hair and NHS glasses!
I'm sure that reading gawker is like eating right before bed but how else would I come across stuff like this?
I am imagining not gold platform Beckham pumps for the win. Even though I'm not super jazzed by her shoe selection I feel like this is her true self and not all the studs and vinyl and shoulder pads? I get that she's in show business and studs and buckles are to Rihanna, what sequins were to every Bob Mackied starlet ever.
WHAAAAT? Marilyn McCoo and Andy Gibb pre-Gimme a Break! guest spot/MI via OD must be freaked the fuck out? I like that Wendy is holding her own against Madame and Madame isn't being her regular cunty self. I can't believe middle America was interested in W.O.W. ever. I can't guarantee that I saw this performance but I sure did love Solid Gold. If my little brains did see this I am sure it must have informed my earliest nightmares. SO THANKS AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY.
I'm not sure what the thread between these two things was in my head, I just took a couple of benadryls. Maybe my point was studs, buckles and leather mommy shit is as old as sequins? Know yer role? I dunno, she obviously looks bangin' in color and needs to keep it up instead of trying to wear thigh high patent leather boots because she's getting to Beyoncé levels of fame and flesh toned performance pantyhose under said boots looks ridiculous. Leave the leather to the professionals like Wendy.
Before I understood who Gloria Steinem was, I was watching this on television. Oh man remember when Kirstie and Delta were both walking that ED tightrope? You'd like to thank your parents for how you turned out or became the amazing adult that you are today because of them, but you watch a little youtube and realize how formative the idiot box was. I sat in front of that television a lot.
Mad Men Recap:
Really Lane? You think your Dumbledoric dad is going to be understanding of your "relationship" with that sweet little negrita? I'm not saying you needed or deserved a cane whipping, but there are plenty of things my grown ass doesn't share with my parents because it's just not worth the hassle. Who takes their dad to the Playboy Club anyway? Someone cruisin' for a bruisin', that's who.
Don and his fucking secretaries, so over it. I knew we'd have to deal with her after the Pond's inquisition and felt doomed to look upon her French extracted visage when Sally took a tumble last episode. Jane Siegel part deux. Barf.
Fecund ladies (mothers) in floral prints. So obvious. Yet Trudy was looking wan and greasy and not in a floral this episode. Stillborn! Calling it. Or maybe worse, she hemorrhages in childbirth and becomes Jeff Winger's full time jailbait freak. I just crossed streams, keep up.
Working women in geometric prints and stripes. We get it, they're not soft and yielding. I know this was part of the fashion of the time but Joan went 7 episodes not wearing a floral dress only scarves and wore several color block dresses over and over until she fucked Roger against that dirty stoop. Then shazaam p.g. and a whole wardrobe of floral dresses I'd never seen before. Also, three abortions Joan, really? Not to get all Judge Judy but y'know, I know it's not Greg's but you're what? 34 and a half? Old Balls, hey, keep Roger's second love child. He's a child, so why not have his?
But the most major thing, Maureen Cummings as someone's mom at that clinic. So major.
All the women in this show keep getting kicked in the box. I'm kind of over it. Erasure agrees.
Listen iTunes, I don't want to be a cry-baby but when you pay 35 bucks for a specific program it should be at the verrrrrrrry least available to watch, in your current time zone, as it broadcasts. Scratch that, it should be available at or before EDT broadcast since we're paying for specific content.
It is the only show I pay for. I don't even pay for HBO shows, you dicks. I could get half a cable package for the cost of this single show. I thought Apple had this sort of shit figured out. I tried to do the right thing by not illegally downloading because I love this show and foolishly thought it mattered. Wanton illegal downloading continues due to this obvious contempt for your customer.
It should not take over an hour to download, even if it is in HD, whatever that means to someone watching on a laptop. Make that a download option, I can re-watch in HD on Monday evening or later, whenever I'm not after NEW CONTENT. I shouldn't have to stay up until 4 am to watch Mad Men on Monday morning and pay to do so.I have taken to watching shitty streams on the internet whenever possible to reclaim the 5 hours of my life/sleep. I am not into having a sado-masochistic relationship with my mp3 software. I feel abused by you every week. Never again iTunes. I am going to illegally download next season because you've taken such delight in stepping all over my dick. Fuck your mother.
Also the 'Inside Mad Men' breakdowns should not load before the entire episode. I don't need the episode recap before the actual episode. Are your people in Cupertino on drugs?
Caveat emptor dude. You might need to watch the entire episode to find this funny but whatever. I can't expect you to hunker down and watch my 42 year old imaginary boyfriend deep throat a banana held by Milton.
I just spent an hour looking at AdR's blog. Is it weird that I feel sated by this? She lives like a modern Marchesa Casati and I am really into that. It also feels like she stole this frame idea and I am into that as well.
I used to watch Fashion File and Fashion Television religiously in high school on Sunday afternoons. Now the Style network is too busy showing Clean House and Supernanny reruns to bother with actual fashion content. Am I supposed to look up to Niecy Nash as an icon of anything? Way to keep Jeanne Beker to yourselves, Canada. How about a little reciprocity, Canada?
The thing about the internet is that it makes all the dreams I didn't know I had come true. I didn't know there was a video for a song that was so indelibly burned on my brain that is equal to said indelible image.
If you had to choose, could you? This is like choosing between sleep and toast. Sophie's Choice up in this motherfucker!
and i will have you
I just spent an hour looking at AdR's blog. Is it weird that I feel sated by this? She lives like a modern Marchesa Casati and I am really into that. It also feels like she stole this frame idea and I am into that as well.
I used to watch Fashion File and Fashion Television religiously in high school on Sunday afternoons. Now the Style network is too busy showing Clean House and Supernanny reruns to bother with actual fashion content. Am I supposed to look up to Niecy Nash as an icon of anything? Way to keep Jeanne Beker to yourselves, Canada. How about a little reciprocity, Canada?
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