Monday , November 16, 2009
Too June For You: Our Fave Posts From the Past Month
+ The best thing about the seasons changing is that your favourite trio of Anti-Fashion Industrial Complexicators finally get to unveil their long-awaited seasonal fashion concepts! A Day In The Life: Dopest Shit We'll Wear This Summer effectively prepared the world for three sweltering months of Kat and Laura Jane eschewing all-black and all-scrappy (respectively) in the name of sweetie-pie summer dresses, and Liz abandoning sweetie-pie summer dresses to channel the inner bad-ass-ness of zebras on a daily basis. We're hot.
+ LJ's "Let It Beat" post proved that writing honestly about anorexia need not be an after-school special full of special-effects hysterics and fake resolution. What's amazing (besides the huge deal about approaching the topic with ongoing candour, openness and bravery, especially in the fashion blogosphere) is that LJ's unmistakable, unique.voice still shines through -- the same wit, passion and feistiness that asserts the far reaches of Beatlesology plants you just a bit in the shoes of what's it like to live present-tense with a disease that a lot of us who dig fashion and style feel the shadows of, however obliquely. If you take one thing away from reading "Let It Beat," it's that anorexia sucks, but the people we love who suffer from it (and there are more than you think) are still who they are: immutably brave, unexpectedly winsome, wickedly smart -- and it's that part of them that deserves to win, flourish and be held accountable to living life large and keeping their game tight.
+ The worst thing about celebrity deaths is the amount of shit writing you have to read about said celebrity's life, and the meaning it now takes on. We all did a damned good job of writing up some characteristically non-trad Michael Jackson obits, but Kat Asharya really brought it home on this one- her stoic yet sentimental ode to aging, nostalgia and the sobering reality of how you'll never be a kid again will bring tears to your eyes, even if you never moonwalked across your basement carpet.
+ June was an emotional month for all of us over at nogoodforme.com- must be all the Cancemini energy in the air! Soundtracked by Bruce Springsteen's "Spirit in the Night," The Most Romantic Summer Song (Or: Why Bedroom Dancing Is Better Than Time Machines by Elizabeth Barker is a stunning tale- no, movement- about sex, summer, rock-and-roll, pink wine, dudes, (i.e. all the best things there are!) and the myriad meanings behind them. Featuring the showstopper of a sentence, "From what I can tell, bedroom dancing is way better than time travel, because you're simultaneously living in another generation and claiming that generation for yourself," this piece is a must-read for anybody who likes music, or great writing.
+ If LJ can be said to be the Andy Samberg of Fashion Bloggers (which she can't, since she's already The James Joyce of Fashion Bloggers), and her epic dance-a-thon was the "Lazy Sunday" of 2007, then this month's "Laura Jane For Sale" is certainly her "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals". In a dream world, this majorly LOLZ-inducing masterpiece is the kinda shit that goes crazy-viral instead of that total yawnfest "I'm on a Boat." HELP US BUILD THAT DREAM WORLD.
+ The only dumb thing about the inaugural entry for our new LIZ & LJ ON column is how Liz totally forgot to scan and post this exciting Beastie Boys photo from the June 1994 issue of Details. Even without that killer shot, "The Beastie Boys Through the Ages" is probably definitely the most gripping tete-a-tete on Mike & Adam & Adam's varying states of flyness you'll ever read anywhere.
+ We don't know when they'll be, but you are all invited to the nogoodforme nuptials! Go to City Hall with Kat, watch Kris Kristofferson walk Liz down the aisle, and drink fizzy white sangria at LJ's reception. Knowing the karmic connectedness of the troika, this will all happen in the space of ONE MOON.
+ While naming your most beloved Beatles record is maybe totally easy, trying to pick this month's most boss installment of LJ's "Young Person's Guide to The Beatles" column is supertricky. Still, we're gonna go with "Firing Off on Revolver" (aka "The Favorite Beatles Record of Neither LJ Nor Kat Nor Liz"), partly because the intro encourages all of us get slightly more vulgar (in an adorable way) on this here blog. P.S. If you can correctly guess each nogoodforme.com member's favorite Beatles record, then we will give you a million dollars, with which you can start up a publishing company and then put out The Young Person's Guide to The Beatles in book form. Go to it!
+ Liz went into the heart of darkness and confronted her inner Rufus Humphrey. It wasn't pretty, but she discovered ultimately that We are all Rufus Humphrey. Okay, not really, but it sounds wise, doesn't it?
Tags: Andy Samberg's cultural complexity, Beastie Boys, Bruce Springsteen, fashion, Gossip Girl, Kat Asharya, Laura Jane Faulds, Liz Barker, Michael Jackson, nogoodforme.com, The Beatles, The James Joyce of Fashion Bloggers, weddings
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Kat: Abbey Road
Liz: Ruber Soul
Laura Jane: White Album (helpfully, I happened to ask LJ this exact question not long ago)
Dice?
By Jill on June 30, 2009 11:13 PM
jill: the albums are there, but not exactly in the right places. hint: there's one repeat.
By Liz
on July 1, 2009 11:52 AM