A Few Good Things

Considering the more dour post preceding, I feel it necessary, as a considerate and loving writer, to give my readers some good things.  So here are a few good things:

1) My good friend has started a website.  Her name’s Brenda and she’s a good writer.  If you’re intellectually invested in the formidable tribulations of life’s transitions then you’ll like this site. 

 

CLICK THE PIC.

2) The 1980′s fashion redux. 

 

From Marc Jacobs Fall 2009 more: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-MJACOBS/

 

From Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall 2009 more: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-MARC/

  

From Top Shop Unique Fall 2009 more: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-TOPSHOP/

 These are homages to New Wave optimism that found fun in an otherwise despairing nation buckling under the weight of the Savings and Loan Crisis and Iran/Contra (amongst other concerns).  Considering the similar circumstances we are currently under, it only fits that fashion would look toward the kids that lit the path with neon and blasted The Human League’s Dare or the kids that wear pink to their prom, listen to The Smiths, and defiantly fall in love with someone that social convention dictates they shouldn’t.  These are nods to cultures of hope and fun in an otherwise cold and grey reality.

3) Slumdog Millionaire

Although I’m about to watch an XviD of the entire ceremony, I unfortunately missed the first half of the Oscars because I was preoccupied with the Tour of California bicycle race and, concurrently, falling off the bike I was on in front of an excited crowd of ‘cycling fans’. 

I MADE IT.

Public humiliation aside, I’m absolutely thrilled that Slumdog Millionaire won so frequently.  Although I wish some of the other awards went other ways, I completely understand why they might’ve gone the way they did and, to be honest, found what I did watch of the ceremony quite enjoyable.

4) A video of a group of polio stricken musicians who ride around in rad tricycles and record their music in zoological gardens with stolen electricity and let virtuosic 17 year old electric lute players distort their shit like it’s 1969 OK!

Staff Benda Bilili ‘Polio’

Amazing.

//Vladimir Sorokoskev