Lanvin Luhnvuhn Luhnvaaarhn

one of the questions at my recent university entrance interview touched on who (designers, especially) inspired me particularly.
i answered that while on one hand i was/am incredibly interested (perhaps more interested than inspired - i am not so much likely to design similarly myself / fill my wardrobe with their pieces) in concept-driven / conceptual design. i love that a political or social or even personal idea can be voiced so easily and globally through fashion. fashion can be so powerful; the industry can be used so influentially as a platform upon which these opinions, ideas, problems..are voiced. i spoke specifically of some of the more resonant Eastern designers; Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto..Vivienne Westwood even.. these figures have, on occasions, almost single-handedly altered the view of a society. they have changed pre-existing ideas of incredibly powerful standards such as what beauty, the feminine and masculine forms, clothing, wealth..should be, or should involve..or even stand for. i find this so interesting.

HOWEVER i rambled the most (which may be hard to believe, given the above^) about what Alber has been doing at Lanvin in recent years.
on a more aesthetic, rather than intellectually stimulating (i'm embarrassed by that sentence as much as you are<) level, i cannot go past Alber. everything that he does seems so simple..i am constantly asking myself why i had not thought of that, or done that, or why hadn't i even considered fusing those extremely simply ideas together before now.. the following looks are some of my ~most recent favourites, via style.com:




Alber Elbaz is brilliant. i love that idea of power dressing that he is all over. he dresses 'power women' / women with intelligence, direction, power, strength. but what i love even more about that is that he does it so unapologetically femininely. there are no strong shoulders, studs, 'rough' textures or colours as is nearly always seen to convey 'strength' or 'power' or even rebellion within clothing (think Balmain, for example). Alber's women are strong-minded, they're sexy, and they ooze femininity.
i also love that he fuses both minimalism (though not to the extent of Phoebe Philo) with excessive feminine embellishment (though not as much as that at Valentino)..not that there is anything wrong with any of those extremes. BUT with Lanvin there is no need for the extreme use of strictly cream, camel, grey, white, black, that minimalism has been so connected to recently. the colours at Lanvin ARE generally muted, but interestingly so. he has done his own thing here and i respect and admire it lots lots lots. there are shades of blue and green and brown and grey that i didn't even know existed, and shades that i had most certainly not previously considered to exist harmoniously side-by-side. AND neither are his designs ever frill / lace /etc city. i hate the idea that there is no other way to represent a sense of 'woman' or pride in femininity.

recently Lanvin has teamed up with mega chain H&M to create a small collaborative collection. it is so obvious that Alber has been completely involved in it, and is not at all what i had expected of this sort of product. the pieces actually LOOK like they could be of Lanvin origin. they do not look cheap, nor do they look repetitive, or from such a mass-produced store such as H&M. the fabrics look luxurious, the shapes interesting.
Alber has noted on a couple of occasions something along the lines of the following:

('H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress for less. i have said in the past that i would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. this has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.'
- Alber Elbaz, artistic director of Lanvin.)

a short film for the H&M vs Lanvin collection:

i love the details, even the maids in the hotel look they have stepped out of a Lanvin shoot.

this song does off like milk in the sun

Marion Borgelt’s work "Cryptologist’s Memoir No.35" is part of the Memoir series and was inspired by the death of 98year old Yang Huaanyi - the last living person fluent in Nushu, a secrent women’s written language over a thousand years old. the remarkable work in sculpted beeswax and oil comments on hidden language. Nushu is believed to have been invented by one of the Emperor's concubines in the Hunan Province of Southern China and passed down from mother to daughter in the form of poetry and feminine advice often disguised as patterning in embroidery. during a time when women were not permitted to be educated, and unable to read or write their own thoughts and feelings, they communicated with each other through messages written on embroidered gifts.

- mauve long tulle skirt, think Adelaide st in Brisbane
- Gossip Girl mum's reading glasses
- tan floral ish cut-out stiff cropped over pink fluoro faded lace sheer over white shear pleats, fall ish drapes easily. for top half sort of like gossip girl Sarina silver cage dress

'A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)':
i met you in a club in Atlanta, Georgia, said 'me and my homeboy - we're coming out with an album'. you looked at me like 'yeah nigga, right,' but you gave me you number anyway. you were on the talcum powder.
moved away from home to school with big plans. by day, studied the history of music, by night, just to pay for that shit you'd dance. to get your pants was a mission impossible, we were both the same age but i suppose wasn't on the same page.
we starting hanging like Ernie and Bert and in my idle head i'm thinking, 'cool', just when i think i'm going down your shirt, you're hiking up your skirt now. the angelic nastiness you possessed made you by far the best, therefore hard to tell. you'd dropped me off by the dungeon, never came in, but i knew that you were wondering, 'now are these niggas in this house up to something? selling crack by sacks so they could function?' well, yes and no. yes, we were selling it, but no, it wasn't blow. cook it in the basement then move it at a show, then grab the microphone and everybody yelled 'hey-oh'.
meanwhile, the video starts playing BET college radio and a van packed full of niggas with a blunt in their hand, and one in their ear - you know what i'm saying. but, i kept your number in my old phone. got a new chip flip with the roam roam. so it took me a minute to retrieve seven digits, but i promised i would call you when i got home. but, when i got home i never did. by the time i did, heard that you had a kid by some nigga in Decatur who replied 'see you later' when he got the good news..that life shit.
now, I'm nineteen with a Cadillac. my nigga had a Lex with the gold pack, got a plaque but i'm living with my pop pop so i got glock and a low jack. you kinda fast for that fella in class who used to draw and never said much, cause half of what he saw was so far from that place you wanna be.
are you starting to gather what I'm getting at? now, if i'm losing you, tell me then i'll double back. but keep in mind, at the time 'keep it real' was the phrase. silly once said now, but those were the days when spring break and Daytona and Freakniks made you wanna drop out of college and never go back..move to the south, but that ain't a Kodak moment. on went myself and Big Boi - well you knew him as Twan. that's right you were around before this shit begun. ..when Twan had a daughter and sort of was made to mature before the first tour.
we hit the road like Jack - laughed and cried, and drived it back with some Yak. girls used to say, 'y'all talk funny, y'all from the islands?' and i'd laugh and they just keep smiling. 'no, i'm from Atlanta baby, he from Savannah, maybe. we should hook up and get tore up and then lay down, hey. we got to go because the bus is pulling out in 30 minutes.' she's playing tennis - disturbing the tenants. 15-love, fit like glove. description is like 15 doves in a jacuzzi catching the Holy Ghost. making one woozy in the head and comatose, agree?
enough about me, how's about you? how's the lil' kid? she was about 2 the last time we spoke..i hadn't smoked or took a shot of drink cause i'd start the 2nd album off on another note. now, that note threw some niggas in the hood off, but see, i'd balled out, and before i fall out i'd slow my 'Lac down to a nice speed. the brain is that fried egg - i might need new direction, was apparent. i was a child looking at the floor staring. so changing my style was like release for the primitive beast. yes i was on the rise, yeast was the street. to make bread - never primary concern. just to hop on these beats and wait my turn.
i'd meet Muslims, ganstas, bitches, Rastas, and macaroni niggas - imposters. so on a trip to New York on some beeswax i get invited to a club where MCs at, and on stage is a singer with some thing on her head. similar to the turban that i covered up my dreds with - which o was rocking at the time. when i was going through them phases trying to find anything that seemed real in the world. still searching, but i started liking this girl. now you know her as Erykah. we're young, in love, in short we had fun. no regrets no abortion, had a son by the name of Seven - and he's five. by the time i do this mix, he'll probably be six - you do the arithmetic. ..me do the language arts. y'all stand against the wall blindfolded, me throw the darts to poke you in the heart and take you from the start to one luxury transportation and a Marta card, or either when your girlfriend that went to Mays
Momma or her Daddy let her borrow the Benz because she's smart. or maybe if your neighbor does you a huge favor and he sells you that rabbit that's been sitting in his yard. you fix it up, you trick it out, you give it rims, you give it bump. you give it all your time because that's all you can think about.

..and that's as far as i got.

editorial

'an ambition: to share our passion for the best fashion design with those who themselves want to stand out and find the 'other fashion alternative'. the idea: to draw attention to skill and invention, to the quintessentially modern, the avant-garde. the result: Tranoï Magazine. a fashion magazine that tracks the changing mood and reflects the transformations of society. our vision: to be always looking a season ahead - at Spring/Summer in the autumn and Autumn/Winter in the spring - with stylish writing and photography to ignite the imagination. our strength: being the one and only magazine to do it! our arguments: portraits of important and influential figures in the fashion world; emerging talents put under the spotlight; explorations of studios and exhibitions; a social approach to the phenomena of fashion; the poetry of the senses.. to thrill. to live. a world tour: Tranoï Magazine is available to the general public on the first day of Paris Fashion Week, in March and October for women's fashion, January and July for men's. the proof: this, the seventh issue of Tranoï Magazine, to be enjoyed today, without inhibitions.'

Michele Lamy, p4:
Matisse once said that 'Black is a colour in itself that summarises and consumes all others.' what do you think?
yes, of course, i love black. but for me real colour also includes the earth colours, crushed mustards.
when you buy clothes by Rick Owens, you're entering into a relationship with the material, with time; the silks, the jerseys, the cottons, the cashmeres amy be very fine or very thick, fragile or protective, but they have to deal with time, with light, with the body. Rick Owens says, 'my clothes are my autobiography, they have the calm elegance to which i aspire and the wounds i have inflicted on the way. they are an expression of tenderness, and of a competitive ego. they are an idealisation of adolescence and of its inevitable defeat.' clothing is a space of life and expression, and it is created architecturally. you were saying, 'Rick Owens is an environment, a house, furniture.' the names of the colours he gives his clothes, 'dust', 'dark brown', 'dark shadow', they all tell their own story. what do you think of the relationship to the elements reflected in that?
i think its all about time, and i don't like being over-aware of time, i don't like it when things look new. for me its not a question of fashion but a question of movement. its all very well saying this is how it is this season and now its going to change, but i'm with Rick on this. for me, a women isn't like that, she's telling a story of her own.
what is your medium, what is your nature of your contribution to Rick's designs, for example?
at first, it was very simple, i got rid of all the hems, things like that, that look neat and new. you see, what's important is the English butler side, relaxed elegance, you don't care, you slop about a bit..in Rick Owens there's this fluidity, trousers become shorts, clothes are draped. i don't like things that are permanent, which means that things have stopped. i like clothes to be living. i am a completely Rick Owens women.
your favourite flower?
white lilies. flowers have got to be white. that's what Rick and i think. except hortensias can be any blue they like..

Azzedine Alaïa, p10:
in another life, he'd be a gardener. 'i would be sweeping the paths in the gardens of Versailles, gathering the leaves. i'd be utterly alone, with a view of the palace at its best before me, and i would idly imagine the women in their finery.. i see them, magnificiently, majestically descendign the steps outside. one day, i'd dress them for a tremendous masked ball, terribly eighteenth century. another, i'd punish them by not making them dresses, just attending their matters horticultural and disappearing into the royal kitchen garden.'

- Tranoï Magazine, Woman Spring/Summer 2011 - Paris no.7

a benevolent stranger

'i would like to see how clothes look on a beautiful body, but somehow this has been lost. when i was a kid, it was all about Cindy Crawford, Tyra Banks, Claudia Schiffer, Christie Brinkley and Elle Macpherson. these women really have aspirational bodies - slim, toned and well-proportined - and none of them look like they just got out of hospital. the only catwalk that regularly has aspirational bodies these days is Victoria's Secret's' - LeanneH

'in this discussion the extremes always come up. from a health economics perspective, obesity has a far larger social cost than eating disorders. that is not to say the latter issue is not important or shouldn't be discussed or addressed, but i do believe it is somewhat a red herring. women in the media are on part of a complex problem, but the complexity is rarely discusses or even acknowledged. to blame the media is a one-dimensional approach.' - Fly

'just as we don't censor films to make sure they don't show any dangerous behavious, i don't think fashion should be "censored", but it should, in the same way that films go through a process of being rated and edited, and be more aware of its impact on socity.' - TakeV

'there's a big difference between striving to look one's best and being made to feel that anything less is not acceptable.. people should have the confidence to realise they are fine just the way they are, but i think it would also be constructive to help people find this confidence.' - Miss Melba

'i don't see anything wrong with wanting to be the best looking version of yourself, and by this i don't mean stick thin. i'm no advocate for skinny models but i honestly think that, for example, a pair of skinny jeans will look better on a tall, slim model than some person who is [short] with massive thighs.' - P!inkg!rl

'the biggest problem is not that magazines make us feel bad about ourselves (and this shouldn't be a debate of thin versus curvy), its the message we keep getting sent that as women, the most important thing about us is the way we look. or that if we're not attractive or attractive in a certain way, we're not worth anything. i don't believe that for a second.' - Tazzie961

'clothes do look better on skinny beautiful women, or rather, tall women with a body in proportion to itself. clothes just hang better on these very beautiful, and very rarely occurring body shapes. i, like most people, am in the mid-range on the bell curve of beauty, and i am okay with that. i think a big part of maturing is becoming okay with that despite the images in magazines. is everyone supposed to become mediocre so the rest of us feel better?' - Occy

'the blame should not be taken solely by the fashion magazines. a lot of these problems arise while children are still young and i think parents need to take much more responsibility than they seem to. but magazines have a vital role to play in the remaking of body image.' - Phoebeme

- The Great Debate p234-7, Vogue Australia October 2010



i cannot stop listening to the John Steel Singers' 'Your Favourite Perversion' (0:00 - 2:14 ).

am i really the only one who consciously breathes quietly and suppresses loud waterbottle slurping suction action, for the aural sake of others?

'mega-churches have inspired thousands of Christian worshippers to gather within vast, postmodern architectural spaces across America. Megalithic in size, these corporate structures, converted Hilton hotels and restored theatres are transformed every Sunday into halls of prayer, with performative rituals and multimedia spectacles. most definitions of the mega-church require that a minimum of 2000 worshippers attend weekend services for the building to attain 'Mega Church' status.

Joe Johnson is specifically photographing the empty interior architecture and sanctuary spaces where worship is performed. he uses the descriptive power of photography to construct a personal vocabulary with which he can communicate what it is about a subject that interests him. Johnson tends to gravitate towards subjects that have inherent tension and mystery. with the Mega Churches project, an interesting poing of tension lies in a secular treatment of contemporary religious practice within Mega Churches.

this body of work attempts to reveal the mechanics of creating faith by capturing wires, computers, light bulbs and cords that are used to construct on-stage mysteries for the faithful. the rawness of the abandoned mega-space and the eerie familiarity of its commerical fixtures questions the intention and the business of faith in the 21st century.'
- YVI Magazine #4 Relgion and Rituals









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'i wouldn't say that i'm eccentric, but i woud say i'm a maximalist. while i can appreciate the beauty of a nice clean line, its not really what gets me going personally.' - Clare Press

a good relationship can go a long way / i was in Baghdad when you were in your Dad's bag

below are some sections from the Business of Fashion site. i get daily email updates from it and i absolutely love it. its so interesting and, i think, necessary to know what is going on in the financial / behind-the-scenes side of the industry (if you are going to follow fashn, that is).
its a little like the double degree that i am applying for at university. i don't see why in the world you would apply for the single degree - when the dual is offered..ANY job in the industry - even if it is highly (or even at least slightly) creative (i.e. designing, buying, PR..) requires a really strong business knowledge to back it up - you cannot and will not succeed otherwise.

'running a fashion business means that packing boxes at 2am, steaming clothes over and over again, and pouring through receipts with an Accountant will become part of your routine. you will likely spend less than 10% of your time designing, while the rest of the time you will be managing production, sending clothes to magazines, dealing with suppliers who want their money (now!), begging Anna Wintour’s assistants to grant you a meeting, managing your employees while hoping they don’t fall ill, and trying to eat and bathe in between. on top of all that, you have to worry about making enough money to declare some kind of dividend from the business for all your hard work.

starting any kind of business require tenacity, endurance and dedication. setting up a fashion business is all the more challenging because this is a hyper competitive industry (who doesn’t want to be a fashion designer these days?) and a very complex one as well, even at the smallest of scales. what other kinds of start-up businesses so quickly find themselves with customers and suppliers scattered around the world, requiring so much coordination and organization? managing to get all of your raw materials (fabrics, trims, haberdashery, etc) all to your manufacturer at the same time to start your production and then sending it all out to stores in different corners of the world (each with their own customs procedures) in only 2 months can be a nightmare, even for those with great forward planning and troubleshooting skills. one of the key drivers of success will be your entrepreneurial skills and your commitment to running a business. in order to be successful, you should think of yourself as CEO first, fashion designer second. a CEO is a manger of people, finances and processes. for some people this is an extremely exciting and engaging situation to be in. for others, it is their worst nightmare.

clearly, you won’t be able to do absolutely everything yourself. this is where you need to find other people who believe in you to join your team or provide support in some other way. Doing a self-assessment of your skills and abilities will tell you what gaps you will need to fill in order to make your business work.
apart from mastering the design process, something that some of the smartest designers do next is to find a business partner they can trust, who brings different skills and connections to the table. Often it is a spouse (Patrizio Bertelli is married to Miuccia Prada), sibling (Christopher Kane’s sister Tammy runs the business) or a friend (Marc Jacobs has long time business partner Robert Duffy) who might take on this role. in this way, not only do you have someone to lean on in times of difficulty, you also have a division of roles, which allows you to focus more on the creative aspects of the business.

you will also need to find people in the industry who agree to support you and work with you. you’ll need a PR who will (at least initially) give you his services for almost nothing and a factory that will make your clothes in small quantities. you will also need accountants, lawyers, stylists, photographers, graphic designers, production managers and interns – hopefully all at discounted prices. finally, for most designers who haven’t come into an unexpected windfall inheritance in the millions, starting a business is also a question of finding money.

if there is one crucial thing I recommend that you do before rushing off to start a business, it is to carefully craft your business concept. what is it about your business that will be unique? why will people choose to buy your product over someone else’s? is it the design, the price, the value or the dream that they are buying into?

you will need to think carefully about who you are designing for. it is cliché now, but i almost always ask designers when i first meet them: ‘who are you designing for? and why?’. most of the time, this simple question is met with groans or blank stares or platitudes like, ‘i design for me and my friends’, or ‘a very glamorous woman with lots of money’. this is not enough. when they provide a fluffy answer, it usually indicates that they haven’t spent much time thinking about this critical question. and if they haven’t done so, it makes me wonder exactly who they are thinking of when they are designing. if they don’t have a specific person in mind, then how do they know exactly what that person needs? you need to get into the mind of your customer and understand what motivates them. where do they spend their time and for what occasions will you dress them? what makes them buy a garment? understand their psychology, emotional needs and relationship with clothing. visualise all aspects of their lives and assess how your business can blend into making them even better.

it’s worth pointing out now that not all fashion businesses have to operate at the high end of luxury, although it seems that that is where every designer wants to be. while it may seem ideal to be a ‘luxury’ brand, also remember that some of the most influential fashion businesses are on the high street and in your neighbourhood mall, because they dress thousands of people around the world.
as for your competitors, the better you can describe and understand their products, their style and aesthetic, and their positioning and strategies, the better you will be able to shape your business to stand out from the pack.

in the fashion business you incur many costs up front (designing, sampling, sales efforts) before any of your revenues even come in. if you can, you should have a trained financial or accounting professional (a friend, family member or other contact) to help you with this section.
in reality, you will make spending decisions every single day, how ever small.

success is rarely accidental. sure, we all benefit from some good luck from time to time, but real success can only come through hard work and good planning. for this, a business plan is critical. it is the document that helps you decide what to do, and just as importantly, what not to do. anyone who has set up a new business knows that when you are looking for investors, employees, suppliers, office space, banking services, professional advisors and everything else that you need, you have to tell people about your business and its aims. when you have spent the necessary time in crafting a business plan, you will be able to be more clearly articulate with what you business is all about.

before sharing the nitty-gritty details of your company with anyone, you should request that they sign an NDA, or non-disclosure agreement, which legally restricts the other party from sharing your confidential company information with anyone else.

creating large, unfocused sample collections with very expensive fabrics can be a death knell for a young fashion company. not only will you spend a fortune on developing a set of samples, you may have also created a collection that could never sell at retail because it would be far too expensive.'

Skins S01E04
Chris Miles: 'do you want to hear about the best day of my life? i'd pissed myself by accident. they'd had us sitting down for trying to get out..like to leave the room..but this kid kept blocking me, stopping me leaving, he was playing a game or something. ..so i told him, right, that he was a dickhead, and that he's gonna get out of my way, dickhead, and then the whole place went quiet cos i'd said 'dickhead'. and then they was all laughing, everyone, and i couldn't work out if it was cos i'd swore or if they'd seen that my shorts were wet, so i tried to cover my shorts with my hands, right, but that meant they all definitely noticed and then there was more laughing. but, yeah, Peter, my brother, he was youngest-ever sixer or something. they're the ones in charge, sixers. he could do all the knots, him. him and Dad would practise. he loved it. anyway, he stands up, yeah, sixer, and, they all liked him, he takes my hand, and took me to the toilet. and then he had me take my shorts off, and then he cleaned me up. and then he took off his shorts and put them on me. and then, he kissed me on the cheek, and took my hand, and we both went out there. him just in his pants. no-one laughed. ..best day of my life.'

weird how this is basically Acid House in disguise with a bit of guitar. if most of the people who love this listened to House circa 88-93 then they'd be in love

a huge amount of my appreciation of color combinations, proportion, genre mixing and pattern play came from studying any photos I could find of his runway shows (remember, this was pre-Style.com). in a fashion world of huge shouldered alpha women his women were quiet, artistic, gentle and seemed to have a strength of wisdom..
- Scott Schuman

describe your graduate collection: i was in Paris and i started reading about Jerusalem’s Syndrome, where people go on pilgrimage package tours and some of them get so overwhelmed by being there and they get this religious feeling and it turns into a psychosis. there’s a whole list of syndromes like taking their bedsheets, going out looking biblical and preaching. i found that really lovely and it’s complicated because they call it a syndrome but who are we to say they’re not having a wonderful time.
if you weren’t a fashion designer who would you be?: maybe a monk? i fantasise a lot about being a housewife, cooking and cleaning but to a higher level.
i come from a fine art family background and when i chose fashion they were really mad as they thought it was not a serious art but now they’re really supportive.
describe the moment you realised you wanted to be a fashion designer?:when i was young, and went to weddings, i really loved wedding dresses and always wanted to make them more beautiful.
if you could go back in time and experience any fashion moment, what would it be?: i really like tidy and feminine clothes so i'd go back to the 50s.
where do you see yourself in ten years time?: i haven't really thought about it! i'd love to be involved in textiles.
- Luke Brooks - Fashion Knitwear

i've been so excited about this for a while. i love getting recognised for my work and not what i wear, as its what I'm most proud of.
- Hayley Hughes

i’ve been doing this half-tucked shirt thing a lot lately. it always takes me ages to get it just right. all this talk of tucking in shirts reminds me of this old commercial on tv where a bunch of guys talked about different ways they tucked in their shirts. there was the full tuck, casual half tuck, and the quarter tuck.
- Camille Rushanaedy

it's human nature-- [...] one needs rules that one can rely on when instinct fails. i think the following rules will cover most cases:
i. never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
ii. never us a long word where a short one will do.
iii. if it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
iv. never use the passive where you can use the active.
v. never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
vi. break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
- Orwell, 1946

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menswear, rings, white/cream/tan colours, odd pairings, finding the perfect white semi sheer t-shirt, layer shades of grey, invest in a classic coat, with futuristic high backs, wear your thigh high socks over sheer tights, layer slips under dresses and skirts and let them peek out, i want a large raincoat too, built-in sleeves tied around the waist, and summer camp too with the bungee cords and backpack buckles on the waist and tye dye, capes!, granny-ish booties, socks socks socks, drapery, grandpa steez, dad pants, what they'll be wearing in grunge country this Fall, odd earrings, slouch, 100% supersoft silk, short, loose straight fit, raw hems, asymmetric and with drapes, camp counselor sandals, wool, monochrome, updating the classics, wear them with slicked-back hair, sew crop top/s, white or skin-coloured or pearl sequins, 'give time to make your art' - on tee = ?, tee - 'karl who?', woooo rope tee,

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Ramona’s not a waitress
she’s got flesh and skin and bones
she fills your cup, and you fill hers
cos at work she is at home
yes she may be a robot
but she’s more human for it
she knows to love the things she does
happy without more shit

i don't get what is wrong with discovering this song cause of that film... you don't need a reason to like a song, if you like it, you like it, if you want to be a Nazi about i'm pretty sure you're just some sad virgin
- Youtube, three weeks ago

in 2009, Scarlett Johansson covered Buckley’s ‘Last Goodbye’ for the soundtrack of He’s Just Not That Into You, PJ Harvey knew him personally and in the song ‘Memphis’, she takes lines from the song on his unfinished album, ‘Morning Theft’, and in her own words reflects on Buckley’s death: ‘in Memphis…die suddenly, at a wonderful age, we’re ready to go.’ Rufus Wainwright, whos career had barely started when he met Buckley, wrote ‘Memphis Skyline’ in tribute to him, singing ‘then came Hallelujah sounding like Ophelia, for me in my room living, turn back and you will stay, under the Memphis Skyline.’ Wainwright has also recorded his own version of ‘Hallelujah’, which appears on the soundtrack for the movie Shrek. Duncan Sheik also wrote and recorded the song ‘A Body Goes Down’, from his 1998 album ‘Humming’ in response to Buckley’s Death. Steve Adey wrote a song tribute entitled ‘Mississippi’ on his 2006 album All Things Real. the song contains the lyrics ‘Until the morning thief steals the humming of the Lord’ - a reference to Buckley’s song Morning Theft. Willie Nile’s On the Road to Calvary from his 1999 album Beautiful Wreck of the World was written as a tribute to JB. Juliana Hafield has written two songs related to her grieving for JB, ‘ Trying Not to Think About it’ on her EP Please Do Not Disturb and Until Tomorrow on Beautiful Creature.
Thom Yorke saw JB live during the recording sessions of the band’s second album The Bends. he claimed that Buckley’s performances had a direct impact on his vocal delivery in Fake Plastic Trees. Chris Cornell, wrote a tribute song entitled Wave Goodbye on his first solo album Euphoria Morning. 2007 marked the 10 year anniversary of JB’s death. his life and music were celebrated globally in May and June of that year with tributes in Australia, Canada, England, France, Iceland, Israel, Ireland, Maceconia, Portugal, and the US. many of his family members attended the various tribute concerts across the globe, some of which they helped organise.

this is a classic. i first heard this when i was hitch hiking in New Zealand when i was 19. i'm 54 now,,, oh my! i've seen some good concerts through my years,, Led Zep a couple of times, Elvis in Vegas in 70, Bowie in LA in 73, The Who in 72, Jefferson Airplane in 70, Jethro Tull a couple of times in the early 70s..some good music back then.
..we met when we were almost young.. Marianne was Leonard's first love. she was a Norwegian girl.

re Dappled Cities - The Price: i reckon i heard this song on the radio about fifty million times and every single time i heard it i found something new, something unexpected, something i hadn't heard before. they are adventurous and irreverent and intelligent songwriters who seem to have this magically never-ending packet of tim tams but instead of tim tams it's ideas and instead of being magically never-ending it's just because they are really talented. you know what i mean?

re Bon Iver: i love the self awareness in the line, 'this is not the sound of a new man or crispy realisation.'

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i reckon the mother travelled back through the portal and she is the only person who doesn't grieve like the others after her son's death at the end. i think the English and Science teachers also were involved in this whole time travel thing, since they knew things like Cellar Door that would only reveal itself later in the film. great movie. get the DVD and watch the deleted scenes, they change a lot.
ok, first of all, none of you have gotten it completely right. if you bother to go to the webpage and poke around, you will find out about the Living Receiver, The Manipulated Dead, Manipulated Living, etc.. it's all in the book, "The Philosophy of Time Travel".
yes, they have made an awesome flash site that explains 95% of it if you watch the movie, go to the webpage, watch the movie again, and visit the webpage again. (most of this explaination is from my knowledge of the book combined with the movie and previous discussions i've had, please feel free to add on or correct as needed. i do quote the book specifically several times without quotation marks.)

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some of my own words for a change..:

ignore the song and just read these lyrics and reflect upon how bloody good they truly are: 'lets dance to Joy Division and celebrate the irony that everything is going wrong, but we're so happy.'

- at my old work, Wednesday was 'cleaning shelves day'
- foreign $, buskers, other's book collections,
- you sat next to me in the school hall and from that day on i woke up just to see you smile.
- i've had lavendar icecream at a lavender farm.
- oh clothing by Gail Sorronda & Therese Rawsthorne, you are gaspworthy in person (i hope the shop assistants didn't hear me)

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i guess it is weird though, if you think about something for long enough it's like you're already working towards it, from the moment you thought of it, and then it takes on this natural progression on its own and before you even know it, you don’t even realise where you are because you don’t track every step that took you there. it kind of just happens? its never like 'oh wow, you’re here', because subconsciously, you’ve always been working towards it.
- Gail Reid
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describe your ideal world. it would definitely be bi-polar! and everyone would be on their own time! time would become an artificial construct and as everyone might already know, i’m always fighting the compulsion to meet my own time so ideally in a Utopian sense, there would be no concept of time. it would also be a bit fucked up like a Kubrick film, and a little bit David Lynch, but primarily it would be like something called a resource-based society where i would vanquish all monetary systems and instead you would exchange your talents so everyone would be working towards an actualisation of realising one's self, no paper-shufflers - just creative potential.
so, like a world of creative anarchy? yeah but creativity can mean a lot of things, so as long as you are evolving as a human being and not fighting the system, because in my world there would be no systems in place. oh! and i’m crazy about Zeitgeist! Zeitgeist 2 is the one with the resource-based society - you should Google it and totally post it on Pedestrian! [Ed Note: as you wish Gail.]
- Gail Reid

inspired by Yohji Yamamoto and Courreges early on, she began selling accessories to different shops as a hobby while she was studying, on top of her jobs in various retail stores and freelance styling. 'i used to get a buzz from sourcing materials, the creative process and finding out what different people responded to,' she says.
that buzz turned into a full-blown passion, and escalated when she won the Mercedez-Benz Start-Up Award with her graduate collection in 2005, which allowed her to show at Australian Fashion Week for the first time. fast track nearly five years later and Gail can’t imagine her life without her label.
'there’s a misconception that is there is limited opportunities in the industry,' says Gail. 'if you’re willing to work hard, be proactive and persistent and do it for the right reasons, you will create your own opportunities.'