If you like Whitney...

...you'll like this boy even more. I do, at least. There's a lot less Bobby Brown and more chubby cuteness.

NYMAG: Lady Gaga

image from nymag

Here are my favorite quotes:

"In those days, I’d wake up at noon in my apartment with my boyfriend and his loud Nikki Sixx hair, jeans on the floor, his stinky sneakers. He’d have his T-shirt on, no boxers. Then he would go do the books at St. Jerome’s. I’d spin vinyl of David Bowie and New York Dolls in my kitchen, then write music with Lady Starlight. Eventually, I’d hear a honk outside my window: his old green Camino with a black hood. I’d run down the stairs yelling, ‘Baby, baby, rev the engine,’ and we’d drive over the Brooklyn Bridge, dress up, meet friends, play more music.” She leans forward. “The Lower East Side has an arrogance, a stench. We walk and talk and live and breathe who we are with such an incredible stench that eventually the stench becomes a reality. Our vanity is a positive thing. It’s made me the woman I am today."

“It’s as if I’ve been shouting at everyone, and now I’m whispering and everybody’s leaning in to hear me,” she says. “I’ve had to shout for so long because I was only given five minutes, but now I’ve got fifteen. Andy said you only needed fifteen minutes.”
"At five-two and 100 pounds, with her hair styled into a mod blonde bob, she looked flush from a strict diet of starvation: 'Pop stars should not eat,' she pronounced"

She always landed the lead: Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Jealous older girls stuck in the chorus began calling her “the Germ.” “They always talked behind her back, like, ‘Gross, she’s the Germ! She’s dirty!’ ” says a classmate. Gaga has often mentioned that she was an outcast in high school, but other than adolescent shenanigans like these, her friends from this Pudding-like crowd do not share this recollection. “She was always popular,” says Julia Lindenthal, Marymount ’04. “I don’t remember her experiencing any social problems or awkwardness.”

“I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend,” she explained recently.

“I can have hit records all day, but who fucking cares?” she explained. “A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’ But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, ‘Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?’ Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they’ll just live in my bubble world.”

see the article here.

PS: Happy 500th post!

Beach House on NYMag

Ok, like I've said before, I saw Beach House open for Grizzly Bear this fall and thought they were okay. But go into any Urban Outfitters now, or on the music blogs, and you'll see them topping the charts. NYMag interviewed Baltimore duo-member Alex Scally about their upcoming European tour, new album "Teen Dream" and the band in general.

I'm kind of getting won over by them. The new album sounds much better than their previous two.

It'd be really fun to shoot a music video for them (16 mil, hazy, dreamlike, gorgeous but haunting aesthetic, you know what I mean?...)



Funny quotes from the interview:

"Is there a reason you’re not kicking off your tour in the U.S.?
It’s really hard to cross the mountainous, rocky terrain of America in the winter time. It just seems really treacherous to tour really far up north this time of year, but come around March people are much more ready to be alive. Whereas in Europe, they’re so beaten down after millennia of oppression, they’ll come out whenever."

"Now that you’re constantly touring, what’s your relationship like with your hometown of Baltimore?
Well, we have a practice space in Baltimore that’s our place of solace, our hub. It’s so hard to find a space like that. It’s like a really cool girlfriend. It’s our replacement girlfriend. People making music here, the families of support for musicians, I don’t think there’s anything like it anywhere else in the country. It’s an easy place to live. It’s so cheap. I think that the world of arts and music is just not very competitive, it’s really lively, but not competitive. I feel like in New York there are people with money lurking in the shadows saying, “You’re next!” That’s not happening in Baltimore. It’s like a giant adult playground."


I like this one:

"The phrase “teen dream” is sort of self-explanatory, but I’m gonna ask you to explain it anyway.
I think it’s about pulling back the veil of that composed, structured feeling we all tend to give ourselves. It’s really not for teens, or about teens. It’s about that feeling that you had and then you lost. You’ll get it back for a day at a time, or for an hour when you’re conversing with some friend. It’s all about that wild sensibility. I think that’s intellectually why we named it that. But how we picked it, like everything with our band, it was just blurted out at one point and it seemed completely appropriate. I think Victoria uttered the words."

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring Couture 2010

The designers are doing AMAZINGLY this season. Love the juxtaposed structure and exoticism. So clever. JPG is a freaking genius. Check out the slideshow here.

John Galliano Couture 2010

Check out the blog post on NYMag.

Galliano went equestrian this spring and does it SO MUCH BETTER than RL ever could.

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/01/john_galliano_presents_equestr.html

Absolutely gorgeous.

Topshop Spring Collections

I've never stepped inside a Topshop, but these pieces look awesome. This is totally taken from NYMag's The Cut blog, so here's the link.

Actually, now that I look at them more, the only thing that really stands out to me is the pair of shoes in the first photo. The model just "looks cool," as if to say 'Yeah, I wear spiky jackets and ripped clothing. Eff you. They keep me and my inflated ego comfortable.

But how gorgeous are those shoes? Georgina and I are very alike in some ways (ok, many ways).

NYMag's Top Performances of the Decade

I keep forgetting the decade is ending.

Anyway, do you guys agree with this list from Vulture? Here are my thoughts (in order of the images)



1) So spot on. This is such an amazing song, and Merriweather definitely was more accessible than their other albums. I thought I liked "What Do I Want? Sky" better than "My Girls", but I was wrong. "My Girls" is better (esp. when I was walking to work today in the blizzard--magic).
2) Cute couple--not sure if I'd put it on this particular list, though?
3) I said I hated "An Education". I still do, but I always thought Carey Mulligan was great in it.
4)I do not know Drake's music.
5)No opinion--don't know it.
6)Don't know Duplicity, and am regretting starting to judge everything in the slideshow.
7) I know why I fail--I don't get HBO. But I do get IFC now and am loving it! (Arrested Development is on right now, one of my faves).
8)alksdjf ad;s
9)Nobody at Dartmouth liked "Observe and Report" at the sneak preview, but I found it utterly hilarious in its cynical, disgusting and insane plot. I saw it with Georgina--I forget her opinion of it?
10)Holy shit:



11) Oh, boys will be boys. How stupid.
12)Hilarious. I will never see that movie, though.
13)Nor this one.
14)Though I don't watch "How I Met Your Mother", I love him!
15)The Vulture folks are right--the part between 2:45 and 3:30 was horrific.
16)als;kdfs
17)Georgina: why didn't I go to All Points West with you? I hate Dartmouth sometimes. Next year we will go!
18)I loved Melanie Laurent in Inglorious Basterds. I loved her style, air and detachment (though I would never want to go through the emotional torture she survived).
19)Grace Coddington is amazing. I basically want to be her. I adored her in The September Issue
20)I loved the Autotune News!
21)Kanye vs. Taylor was not one of the best performances. I don't respect either of them and think they're both lame.
22)Fred Melamed in A Serious Man, on the other hand, was absolutely perfect. Actually, all the performances in that film were spot-on.
23)Meh, I don't care about David Letterman
24)Sienna Miller annoys the crap out of me.
25)This was a good skewering, but Jon has had other ones that have been hilarious, too.
26)MAD MEN IS AMAZING AND that season finale was marvelously written, giving the right amount of neat packaging and making me crazy with anticipation for Season 4!
27)alsdfja
28) Lady Gaga+Alexander McQueen=awesome
29)Planning to see "The Princess and the Frog" eventually in my life. But first, I have to go see Avatar.

TV in the 00's

I forgot we were at the end of a decade. Anyway, read this piece in NYMag about TV and how it has dramatically changed over the past 10 years (reality TV boom, HBO, Showtime)