Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Pretty Little Flower]

spooky: Tom Jones is sort of "kitschy-cool".

He was sort of kitschy-cool about eight years ago. Now he is back to just being Tom Jones, which is cool without all the hipster drama associated with it.

It looks like I am going to have to jump on the Seb bandwagon again - I respect Steely Dan as musicians, but cannot listen to their music. It is possible that, a-la-Slave, if I gave them a fresh listen, I would be converted. I might even buy the EvenOdds I-cannot-appreciate-their-music-only-because-it-has-been-coopted theory. Maybe. But it does nothing for me. I have tried to listen to the earnest arguments about how subversive they are musically and lyrically, how they are phenomenal musicians, etc., etc. Nothing. I suppose that, as with the Clash, I am a heretic here.

I think nobody de-bunked the early-70s-sucked myth as well as Ollie and his list of classics. I love you like a brother. Don't run from the Stones' greatness.

Coolest trend-of-the-moment childhood award goes to . . . Slave! I would be proud to have a resume like that.