Saturday , February 13, 2010
Style Icons: The Wassup Rockers Kids
The Wassup Rockers boys have made such fools of me; now every time some messy-haired kid with a bandana around his wrist skates past me on my way to the Echo Park library or the Venice Pier, I gape and gawk like one of those richie-hipster creeps at the Bev Hills party in the movie. It's bad and lame, and I want to make up for it by shouting something like, "I'm not like one of those richie-hipster creeps at the Bev Hills party in the movie! I like Defiance too!" But instead I just go home and blog about how I should have made "Like If the Wassup Rockers Kids Shopped at Forever 21 and Crossroads Trading" my personal fashion concept for spring, and then listen to the same Defiance song 27 times in a row. Because I don't really even like Defiance. I just bought that one song on iTunes cuz it was in Wassup Rockers.
So in some ways it's rough being a nerdy blogger-girl who'll never fit in with the 16-year-old skate punks, or even the skate punks twice as old as 16, but in other ways it's perfect. Because if I weren't that nerdy blogger-girl, I'd probably just go all eye-rolly at that scene toward the beginning of Wassup Rockers when one of the boys skates out into the middle of the street from off-camera, and then another boy does the same, and another and another and another till the whole gang's all skating together and they look soooo cool and I totally get the chill-bumps! Boys think that part's stupid. That's because boys are stupid, or at least less prone to going gaga and giddy over silly, awesome shit. And I guess one draggy thing about being a boy is that "giddiness" probably isn't a quality you're apt to display too often, whereas giddiness is generally pretty acceptable among girls. Given the choice between "cool" and "giddy," I'll take "giddy" every time, then I'll geekily push my glasses up my nose and get back to trying to work out #112 across on the New York crossword puzzle.
But yeah, fashion. I'm guessing those kids never figured they'd end up getting props in Glamour or whatever, but there's at least three Wassup Rockers-gleaned style rules we all should try to follow almost ever single day:
1. A KILLER BELT IS ALWAYS KEY
