- It's awfully convenient that the same line of wifi routers that Linksys ships without security all have the same default SSID. #
- http://twitpic.com/qhpii – #LacunaCoil's new album is ridiculously good. And, of course, it helps that #CristinaScabbia is ridiculously hot. #
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Regarding Cristina Scabbia, to quote a description of another woman (by someone with, erm, posting privileges on this site), “she’s the sort of woman you wouldn’t especially mind cutting your throat in your sleep, as long as she did it slowly and nude.” But, yes, OK, I’m
pervertedstrange.There’s a longer post in here about resuscitation of sexualized vampiric/evil motifs in popular culture, but I don’t really have it in me tonight, especially as it would likely require watching both Twilight films to even have a pretense of knowing what I’m talking about. That I’m not sure I’ll have in me this year.
That I’m not sure I’ll have in me this year.
But good gods is Robert Pattinson dreamy in publicity stills from those movies. It makes me want to be a lovelorn teenage girl.
I’ve noted over and over again on this site how out-of-touch — pathetically, because there’s probably faux-elitism there — I am with popular culture. Someone mentioned to me, yesterday, about listening to Taylor Swift as a guilty pleasure. And I was reminded of a reader comment on this blog recently about Taylor Swift and Kanye West, that I can’t actually find at the moment. Could I search AMG to find out who this woman is? Yes. Would it be faster than writing this paragraph? Yes. But I saw her on a billboard advertising a local FM country and western station, and she seems very young and overly-made-up, so that seemed to suffice.
But, to get back to the point, I saw a Jimmy Fallon excerpt at an LCD captive-audience advertising screen in a checkout line at a supermarket (this is also how I found out that Jimmy Fallon has a TV show now.) He did an impression of Robert Pattinson, which I assume was spot-on, as he is one of the most flawless mimics I have ever encountered (check out The Bathroom Wall — among other notes, not only does Fallon do a stunningly accurate impression of a Robin Williams stand-up rant, he does an impression of Robin Williams doing four common Robin-Williams voices, such as the evangelical preacher and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Fallon’s impression of Pattionson was kind of distant, furtive, complex, and, yes, dreamy. So I’m assuming if I had seen something other than publicity stills of the teen vampire movies, I’d not change my opinion.
[OK, fine. Here's the allmusic page on Taylor Swift. Do I feel a more well-rounded person having read that? No. She is very young, she does sing country, and she is dolled up to a yucky degree. Sometimes osmosis from billboards is more than enough. For a faux-elitist.]
She is very young, she does sing country, and she is dolled up to a yucky degree. Sometimes osmosis from billboards is more than enough.
You’ll note that the dumbest thing about this whole discussion, at least as it appears to me, is that nowhere have I even contemplated trying to find her music and listen to it. It’s not unlike judging Nirvana’s music based on New York Times coverage of the grunge phenomenon, is it? I’ll check YouTube tomorrow — I’ll probably be able to find long-form trailers for the Twilight movies there, too. (YouTube is not on my radar of go-to reference sources, so it took tens of minutes for me to figure out I could probably find full Taylor Swift songs there. YouTube probably should be in the front of my mind. But like constantly forgetting that weather predictions exist, I have a large gap in this regard.) But, right now, a mattress calls. Sans Cristina Scabbia, but I’ll just have to come to terms with that.
She is very young, she does sing country, and she is dolled up to a yucky degree.
I’m not a fan of Taylor Swift in the slightest, but it’s entirely possible that she’ll mature into something remarkable. Not likely, but possible. Sometimes a mediocre early showing results in an unexpectedly good later evolution.
Example: One of my favorite albums from the late 90s is The Divine Comedy, an album that I did not expect to be any good when it was introduced to me. Milla Jovovich (yeah, that one) got her record deal at 13. All of the songs on the album were written when she was 15. It didn’t get a release until she was 19, but I think that she easily qualified as both “quite young” and “dolled up to a yucky degree”. Letting the album stand on it’s own merits, though, it’s hard to escape how good it is, particularly compared to the top twenty best-selling songs released that year.
Maybe something will happen and Taylor Swift will overcome her ridiculous success. Probably not, but it doesn’t cost anything to hope.