I don’t feel like I have a lot serious to say today, so here are some of the lighter links that have piqued my eye:
Slate’s Lucinda Rosenfeld on the Gap: "The company has launched an interior redesign campaign in select locations, but this store was still marching to its old Swedish-minimalist-meets-middle-school-gymnasium drummer: pale wood floors, lots of white wall, track lighting." The whole article is an excellent analysis of the brand, and the sort of thing fashion journalism should do more often.
T-Rage on Gen-Y "style": "The sad thing about fashion these days is so much of it is so self-consciously unfashionable. And just a note to Ys or Nexters or whatever they’re calling you nowadays: be beautiful while you’re young. You have the rest of your life to be ugly. And you will be, trust me."
sco describes an unusal anonymous polling call he received. Are the Draft Gabrielli folks really so thick?
The LA Times reveals an alleged dark side to Thomas Kincade: "’This one’s for you, Walt,’ the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade’s company, in an interview." (hat tip: Diana)
DCist has a good review of the Wedding Present show there. I saw them Tuesday at the Middle East and was impressed with the energy and range in playing their back catalog. I came late to fandom (they came on the scene in the late 80s, when I was a high schooler more into alterna-rock), but increasingly they’ve become one of my favorite indie bands… layered frenetic guitar, clever lyrics, just the right amount of discord. The opening act, Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves were fun, too. I’d read comparisons to Wire and Elastica, but late 70s American power pop of the Cars and Cheap Trick came equally to mind. I definitely want to pick up her/their stuff sometime soon.
Harvard Film Archive has scheduled a series of pseudodocumentary for later in the month. I have an academic interest in these films, as I’ve been looking more and more at the late 40’s cycle of pseudo-docs from Fox (curiously missing from the HFA series). But beyond that even, it looks like fun viewing. Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park was fascinating, and from its blurb I’m expecting Privilege to be over-the-top as well.
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