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- Starbursts are apparently available in bags of only red flavors. I did not know this. This is the most brilliant marketing ploy ever! Yes, I will buy a bag full of all the best flavors with none of the flavors I don't like as much. Twist my arm, will you.
- My commute now takes me through the Manhattan Mall. Judging from the windows of Express, Penney's, and also Strawberry, I hate this spring's fashions. Apparently the cool thing to do this year is take all of the most intense colors and wear them all together at the same time. Yes, wear an electric blue jacket with a jungle green tee and bright pink shorts and orange leggings! Because the best way to look your best is to dress like a blind person who doesn't have anyone who loves her enough to pull her aside and tell her that those colors really can't be worn together.
- Ivy03 and I went to a concert by Red Molly and Hoot and the Hellmouth over the weekend. Red Molly seems to be drifting into more upbeat revenge country and out of Appalachian tragedy, but I like them on both, so that's fine. Ivy liked the other band. I wanted to. I really did. I liked the instrumentation and the overall style. But I hated the lead singer so very much, I just couldn't get over it. My description was a "pretentious hipster folk Dave Matthews with diction like Bob Dylan after a root canal". The combination of overwhelming "look at me, I'm so earthy and clever" whining with the inability to pronounce vowels with fewer than three syllables or consonants at all made me want to smack him until he grew up a little. Or at least give him a haircut so he would stop tossing his bangs around. Oy. This is why people don't like hipsters.
- My commute now takes me through the Manhattan Mall. Judging from the windows of Express, Penney's, and also Strawberry, I hate this spring's fashions. Apparently the cool thing to do this year is take all of the most intense colors and wear them all together at the same time. Yes, wear an electric blue jacket with a jungle green tee and bright pink shorts and orange leggings! Because the best way to look your best is to dress like a blind person who doesn't have anyone who loves her enough to pull her aside and tell her that those colors really can't be worn together.
- Ivy03 and I went to a concert by Red Molly and Hoot and the Hellmouth over the weekend. Red Molly seems to be drifting into more upbeat revenge country and out of Appalachian tragedy, but I like them on both, so that's fine. Ivy liked the other band. I wanted to. I really did. I liked the instrumentation and the overall style. But I hated the lead singer so very much, I just couldn't get over it. My description was a "pretentious hipster folk Dave Matthews with diction like Bob Dylan after a root canal". The combination of overwhelming "look at me, I'm so earthy and clever" whining with the inability to pronounce vowels with fewer than three syllables or consonants at all made me want to smack him until he grew up a little. Or at least give him a haircut so he would stop tossing his bangs around. Oy. This is why people don't like hipsters.
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Date: 2012-02-22 02:54 am (UTC)From:Ugh. It's The Gap's 1989 colors all over again.
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Date: 2012-02-22 03:11 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:00 am (UTC)From:Red molly is also great. I didn't realize that people who were not in my local folk-music circle knew them :)
Red starbursts on the other hand, are not so great. Can you buy the many-flavored bags and give me the orange ones?
Perhaps I will have something more profound to say after I get some sleep.
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Date: 2012-02-22 01:02 pm (UTC)From:Ivy03 discovered them at Falconridge years ago and has been following them ever since.
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Date: 2012-02-22 02:31 pm (UTC)From:Also, Abbie Gardner lives in JC, so I've seen her and the group around from time to time.
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Date: 2012-02-22 03:03 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 04:25 am (UTC)From:I still really liked his voice, though. I DOWNLOADED TWO OF THEIR TRACKS AND I'M NOT ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT. And one of them sounds like he recorded it with a gospel choir in a shower stall AND I STILL LIKE IT.
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Date: 2012-02-22 01:02 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2012-02-22 03:11 pm (UTC)From:a "pretentious hipster folk Dave Matthews with diction like Bob Dylan after a root canal"
Oh god, I would stab my own eardrums out.
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Date: 2012-02-22 03:59 pm (UTC)From:The bright neon colors were in full display at a Target I went to. My inner pre-teen fondly recalled seeing the bright neon orange earrings she bought from a church craft/tag sale in 1990, and then realized what a horrible, horrible mistake it was to wear those things. Ever.