Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Don't fucking get me started. I was at Erehewon or EMS or some other "outfitter" and the store was jammed packed with yuppie families and their little fucking monster yuppiettes. Little Cody needs a Mountain Hardware coat for his ride from home to preschool. The heated seats in the enormous Lexus SUV won't be enough. So what if he'll outgrow this $300 coat in 6 months. They're running and screaming and I wanted to fucking kick them. I'm trying to buy a headlamp and and some glove liners b/c I'm ACTUALLY GOING HIKING IN THE BACKCOUNTRY that weekend. Mommy is outfitting her little human hand grenades for a trip to the ice rink. Kill me.

Patagonia is way overpriced given it's quality. Although their polypro/neopro/whatever material their long underwear is is actually pretty swell.

This city needs an REI.

I bought a North Face jacket 10 years ago and I still wear the fucker. There's no need to get a new North Face every year. Mine is still as strong as it was the day I bought it, and I've even gone over a barbed wire fance wearing it.

Patagonia is shit, except for the pullover Ts, which are inexpensive and last forever.

Disease targets the wrong sectors of society. Its too bad we don't have a modern day Moses to bring down a plague to wipe out the spawn of the soccer mom sector.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Does your current wife know about your future wife?

And I know it is not PC to say so here, but DMB is not bad. Some of his musicians are really talented and his songs range from really cool (Stay Tonight [this may not be the actual title]) to crap (Eat Too Much), just like a ton of other overhyped bands. So what? If it makes me FB uncool to admit liking some of his stuff, well fuck off.

Of course, not as much as Travis. But I do not blame the man for being non-British.

I think the fact that Trey has been touring with Dave says something about Dave's musical talent. At least I hope it does. I've had musician friends tell me Trey is one of the best guitarists they've ever heard. Both technically and creatively.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
. . . Little Cody needs a Mountain Hardware coat for his ride from home to preschool . . . . I'm ACTUALLY GOING HIKING IN THE BACKCOUNTRY . . .

Betcha Little Cody spends about two hundred times as many hours outside in the next three months as do you.

Probably won't need a headlamp to do it, either.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by RealityBites
TM, I knew you loved me... you still want one meelyun of my babies?

I knew you were capable of a litter, but a meelyun is a bit much.

TM

[bilmore]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Disease targets the wrong sectors of society. Its too bad we don't have a modern day Moses to bring down a plague to wipe out the spawn of the soccer mom sector.

Uh, Sebby, from everything you've said, you ARE the spawn of the soccer mom sector.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I think the fact that Trey has been touring with Dave says something about Dave's musical talent. At least I hope it does. I've had musician friends tell me Trey is one of the best guitarists they've ever heard. Both technically and creatively.

Phish is kind of like Rush. You know they can play, but they can't write or sing for shit.

Musicians also like Primus, and while Les Claypool may be talented, what he creates is unlistenable to the layman.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by RealityBites
. . . and my seat warmer in my car is malfunctioning.

You have a seat-warmer in your car?

Oh, that's right - those northern climes . . .

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Disease targets the wrong sectors of society. Its too bad we don't have a modern day Moses to bring down a plague to wipe out the spawn of the soccer mom sector.

Um, sebby, you do realize that said spawn to be wiped out would be our children* that you're talking about?

Whoa, in a keanu-like way -- that rhymes!

*Yes, sebby and I have children together, and I am proud to finally say it aloud. Our version of The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name has resulted in two cute little tykes named Muffy and Kip.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bilmore
Uh, Sebby, from everything you've said, you ARE the spawn of the soccer mom sector.

My folks are bad soccer parents. Dad was never around and mom had her own career and didn't like to play tea party with the local prozac moms in the Junior League or whatever other societies for idle imbeciles the local folks had constructed. We also lived away from the trendy devleopments because the folks hated the idea of having neighbors. Mom tried to doing the soccer mom bit for a while but was so unhappy with it that the familt urged her back into the workforce.

My folks often apologize for not being around as much as they'd have like to have been. They don't know how much I appreciate their independence and lack of meddling. These parents I see obsessing over their kids are (a) losers, and (B) creating a generation of narrow-minded soft-headed people who aspire to nothing more than the "brass ring" of suburban drug-controlled desperation which has been drilled into their demented little minds.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. I think most of it is bullshit. Both Hilton and Ritchie know what the producers want and they're giving it to them. "What's Walmart? Is that where you buy Wall stuff?" Bullshit. I'm sure she knows one of the Walmarts personally. They're playing it up.

She admitted that she knew what Wal-Mart was, but thought it would be funny to pretend like she didn't.

(The reviewer who wrote yesterday's review in the NYT that included that little nugget had this to say of Paris's 'improvisation': "It was.")

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
Betcha Little Cody spends about two hundred times as many hours outside in the next three months as do you.

Probably won't need a headlamp to do it, either.

Doubt it. I'm outside at least 15-20 hours a week. I'm a runner, remember? No treadmills for me. And then there's the skiing and the hiking and the...

I think you'd actually like me Bilmore. We already have the tarpon fishing in common. Scary.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
North Face
Patagonia is shit, except for the pullover Ts, which are inexpensive and last forever.

Prana is actually tough as hell, though it looks and fits too nice to be. If I'm scrambling down some icy rocks, their (non-yogawear) pants are great.

Boots--my LLBean shearlings are waterproof unlike crappy trendy Uggs. They may not be of-the-moment, but who cares when you're covered in slush?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
. . . suburban drug-controlled desperation . . .

Frankly, I like the sound of this. Bare desperation is best accompanied by good drugs. At least then, the desperation doesn't seem so stark. A good high can cover many sins.

(But, more to my point, I'm betting that, parental attention or not, you rode in nice vehicles, and wore new, trendy jackets yearly. Back then, at least.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I bought a North Face jacket 10 years ago . . .

Wow, that was before I'd ever even heard of North Face.

I call anybody who says "I liked that band before anybody heard of them" Donny Carmody, after a toolish guy from my high school who uttered that very phrase about Duran fucking Duran.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I think you'd actually like me Bilmore. We already have the tarpon fishing in common. Scary.

Oh, I do. It's just that sometimes you say the scrungiest things.

(Don't FUCK with my NASCAR, boy.)