ok i'm coming back to talk about this in a minute, i just got the yosemite golden master and it stole all my battery life.
ok i'm back.
That Celine looks INCREDIBLE. Ondira looking fierce as all hell in that show. Celine & Jil Sander have got the
lines. That Kate Bush song is held up as one of her best because of subject matter/melody. I own all of her albums now, after my psychotic episode with her, and I've got to say, that maybe that album is my favorite of hers. It's her last one before she kind of went quiet for awhile to have a baby and stuff, and it's amazing. It's called
The Sensual World and the title track was supposed to be the end of Molly Bloom's soliloquy but the Joyce estate wasn't ok with it so she wrote her own Molly Bloom soliloquy to go with it. The Joyce estate realized what fuck arounds they were being and let her re-record it, but her version is better than some dead white irish dude from the 19th century or whatever.
It certainly isn't her strongest vocally, or even lyrically, but I think it's my favorite because I've never heard a song that so describes the complex feelings I have as a woman about sex. About romance (
he called me flower of the mountain) to power and obsession (
do i look for those millionaires like a Machiavellian girl?). I even get references to specific sexual acts, but I could just be a filthy person. There's nothing else to it - she's
clever. I get to feel clever because I've read all the books she writes songs about. Her voice is just so polarizing that...well, I'm here for Kate Bush, and so is Big Boi, and that's all I need from that. Her movements are bizarre and so modern and conceptual. No one in pop dances like that, ever. She's got a really strong hold on me, and my imagination right now. To open her London shows, she apparently casts protection/opening spells before she begins to sing. I hope Grimes holds this woman close to her heart.
phew now that my Kate Bush rant is over.
Chanel/Karl. I actually find this on point and fascinating, from a feminist perspective.
Historically - women have been controlled by their clothes. Clothes that don't allow them free movement, not being allowed to wear pants, or swimsuits, or
she was asking for it, dressed like a slut, girls suspended from school for wearing skinny jeans or a tank top because it 'distracts boys' or any of that hogwash. It's a terrible word, but I'm
charmed by this. Personally, my feminism (as a WOC) is concerned about something far more base and primal than equality, no, I want
justice, but Chanel is for women who are concerned about equality and it's Emma Watson trappings. This show comes at a time when it's unpleasant to be a woman,
everywhere, which is so bizarre. Old white men tell us what the definition of rape is, refuse to allow us basic health care, it's a very ugly time to be a woman, for some strange reason, in 2014. Women who wear chanel regularly are concerned about these things, Hillary Clinton and access to contraception and getting Georgetown to pay for it. Karl was around for the '68 protests (which aren't exclusive to France), and I'd like to hear him talk about why he feels like now (instead of when Femen was everywhere, or Pussy Riot) is the time to do this? It's even got some of that clumsy 'Second Wave' in it (placard that says 'history, what about herstory?' which is the most ungainly of all the waves, christ!) It's great. It's absolutely fabulous. Even if it's awkward and silly at times, I will take someone with global recognition putting feminism up there for all to see, even better when it has a little critique or criticism. Holler at me Beyonce, Chanel, Emma Watson! Make feminism something to be excited about, instead of an
insult rush limbaugh uses to demean college students.
it was outkast this weekend. i'm reading the poems of Francois Villion because that's what julie deply reading on the train in before sunrise. there are worse reasons to read a book. sorry for the text heavy post.