#the only art store in my city is a michaels

[skunkes]

What's your process when it comes to finding certain papers for the texture you want? Do you usually try and come across it in stores?

I dont have a process for this yet, I've only ever bought a multimedia paper pad from walmart (only used for the 2 gouache paintings ive ever done) and then a watercolor block online (haven't used it yet for anything but swatches because im scared)

[axolotlbottle]

❝Like father, like son❞

Art done by my bestie @jester0jpeg !! We both made our own versions / lore of the postal dudes & postal series!!

Postal dude 1 with his son (little kid-postal dude 2! Who we call "the postal kid!").

We actually gave them names, too! (Sorry, they're not P names, but I could care less. Feel free to call them Postal dude and Postal kid if it bothers you that much).

PD1's name is Michael Toddhunter, and his son's (PD2) name is Aster Toddhunter (hehe get it? As in "disaster").

Preface: This takes place AFTER the first postal game. This is an AU of sorts, so just erase the ending of the game + a bunch of other things, and have Michael fuck off somewhere, nobody ever knowing his identity so he gets away with everything. That was a "TLDR" explanation of it. We could maybe explain this better on a different post in the future.

Anyways! Here's some lore we have about them:

Michael is the Command Sergeant Major for U.S army's RI Arsenal. Yes, he did serve in the army before going postal in the first game. Don't ask how he got up to that rank because god knows I don't know either.

He and Aster live in the Quad cities, Illinois, aka some fuck ass midwestern region of cities that only gets some attention from the John deere company that hogs the area. Fuck john deere.

Michael is a single dad. He somehow managed to win all custody over Aster. He doesn't talk about his ex-gf.

They live in a house that's next to a trailer park, so they're not exactly dirt fuckin' poor but they ain't buying branded food either. They're still trailer park trash without living directly in the trailer park though.

Michael has tried to give Aster some sense of normality (sorta) but Aster clearly is not cut out to be a normal child. He's very rowdy, violent, and bullies the neighborhood kids (if you get the reference, you're cool).

Michael calls Aster "My little wild thing" (reference to Aster's favorite book; where the wild things are).

When Aster was 5, for Christmas, Michael gifted him a black cat he bought for $10 at the pet store ( he didn't question it). Michael cruelly didn't think the cat would last long, but that cat might as well outlive him. Aster named the cat "Kostroma" and has shoved his dad's guns up it's ass and used it as a silencer to shoot at beer bottles in their backyard. Kostroma hasn't died (nor appears to be scarred or traumatized), no matter what Aster has put him through. He's like some weird immortal cat (who surprisedly loves Aster as much as Aster loves him). Michael and Aster don't question it.

Aster loves uncrustables. His addiction literaly is grape jelly uncrustables. He has to have one once a day or else he'll start wreaking havoc in the neighborhood.

Michael brings Aster to work sometimes (usually when Aster gets kicked out of school or is being too insufferable for the neighborhood). He can't help it, and it's not like anybody can give him shit for it.

That's all we'll share for now!! Hopefully we'll post more in the future!! Me and my bestie have been working on this since like late May, and we plan to continue to work on it >;). I'll leave ya'll with this doodle I did of Kostroma cat.

[small-sinclair]

Hello, hope you're doing well ^u^ The Sinclair brothers (separate) heading out to another town/city to get groceries and other necessities? I feel like thins would be pretty hard with Vincent, though maybe on Halloween it could work?

As a side note, do you have plans to expand your character list in the future? Asking out of curiosity

-Snake

Heya! Yes, I do plan on expanding my list. I’ll try Michael Myers(young, not old), Jason V., and Thomas Heewit once. I think they might be fun to write.

(I’m actually really excited to talk about my Thomas Heewit x preg!reader au!)

The Sinclair Shoppings

Bo: Grab and Go

Shopping List King. If it’s not in the list, he’s not getting it. He doesn’t care how bad you want it, you’re not getting it.

But as the gif shows, he does like to buy in bulk.

Aims for easy cooking/quick cooking meals, but he’ll make some good southern food if he’s in the mood or something special is coming up like a holiday.

He doesn’t like being far from Ambrose because he doesn’t like leaving Vincent alone (or his s/o).

He’ll also put up flyers for people to come and visit the House of Wax if Vincent needs a new muse.

Side note: I have a hc that they do open the HoW to the public, cleaning it up a bit, and have people come visit from the other towns. The Sinclairs actually drew a crowd and get a lot of money, too! As always, they take 1/4 of the money and donate it the cancer hospital in memory of their mother.

If he’s in the mood, he’ll stop for food on his way home :3 Burger King or Wendy’s.

Vincent: Halloween Only

The Sinclair Brothers make a DAY out of this!

It’s Halloween night he he goes out in public for shopping and to the art store for the Scary Art Fair at the local community center.

He loves seeing other people’s art even if it’s made by amateurs. What he really loves is when kids look up at him without fear and show him their art! He as a shelf in his workshop with all the art the children have given him over the years.

Oh! And there’s an art competition for best Halloween art! Of COURSE, Vincent stays and does this art competition. He loves it!

Anyways, he goes shopping and gets the items he needs for art, the house, and for anything else.

Bo is by his side the whole time because he has to make sure his brother is safe. Also, they sell candy apples at the art fair. He’s a happy camper with his candy apple.

Lester: An Average Day

He’s the one that goes out and does the shopping mostly.

Whatever Bo or Vincent needs, he’ll get it. If Vincent needs new art items, he’ll get it as long as he has a brand name/packaging.

Lester is actually really good at finding good art tools and supplies. He has a membership at Michael’s and Joann’s just to get art stuff for Vincent.

Lester has to bring Bo along for new car parts.

He’ll always bring back food afterwards. Ice cream is his go to, and no one has complained about it!

He can be gone as long as he wants… well, as long as he’s home for dinner.

[thececeverse]

002. CHOUKA AIKAWA … ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗

CHOUKA AIKAWA is a soloist under Republic Records, Flowerbank Entertainment, and Avex Trax. Starting out as a fashion blogger, YouTuber, former ballerina, and socialite in 2017, Chouka branched into acting in 2019, and finally made her way into the music industry in 2024. In addition to becoming a prominent fashion influencer, she has also become a prominent singer, with her debut single “Girls Don’t Cry” going on to become a chart topper.

BASICS … ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗

BIRTH NAME … Aikawa Chouka

ENGLISH NAME … Love Rose Antoinette Aikawa

KOREAN NAME … Soo Sa-rang (수사랑)

NICKNAMES … Rosie, Marie Antoinette, Cupid, Ai-chan

BIRTHDAY … March 14th, 1999

ZODIAC … Pisces

BIRTHPLACE … Milan, Italy

HOMETOWN … Milan, Italy + Kyoto, Japan + Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan + Paris, France + Berlin, Germany + Amsterdam, Netherlands + Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

ETHNICITY … Japanese

NATIONALITY … Italian-Japanese-American

SEXUALITY … Pansexual

PHYSICAL … ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗

HEIGHT … 5’7” 1/2 (171 cm)

WEIGHT … 119 lbs (53 kg)

BLOOD TYPE … O

PIERCINGS … N/A

TATTOOS …

꒰ ♡ ꒱ “Ti amerò per sempre” + located on left shoulder blade + shares with fiancé

꒰ ♡ ꒱ A rose encased in glass + located on left shoulder

CLAIMS … ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗

FACE CLAIM … Minatozaki Sana (TWICE)

VOICE CLAIM … Ariana Grande (English) + YooA (Korean / OH MY GIRL)

DANCE CLAIM … Sunmi (soloist / ex-Wonder Girls)

CAREER … ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗

COMPANY … Republic Records + Avex Trax + Flowerbank Entertainment + Wilhelmina Models + Creative Artists Agency

OCCUPATION … Singer-songwriter, social media influencer, actress, TV personality, businesswoman, model, former ballet dancer

DEBUT DATE … April 5th, 2024

TRAINEE YEARS … N/A

YEARS ACTIVE … 2024–present

SURVIVAL SHOWS … N/A

FANDOM NAME … Rosettes (로제트 + ロゼット)

COLORS … #FFA3B9 + #FFFFFF

BACKGROUND … ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ 🩰 … ONE. IF I WAS A RICH GIRL

Aikawa Chouka was born on March 14th, 1999 in Milan, Italy. And unlike most in her field, she was born into immense wealth and prestige. Her father, Aikawa Chujirō (also known as Michael Aikawa), is the current president and CEO of the Aikawa Group. Originally founded in 1969 as a technology conglomerate, the company sold its shares twenty years later for $20 billion, turning itself into a sprawling holdings company. Owning mostly luxury brands (including Versace), they also own multiple department stores in the United States such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy’s, and even Paramount. The Aikawa Group has been touted as the “Samsung of Japan,” and with a net worth of over $480 billion, the Aikawa family is the richest in the world.

Meanwhile, Chouka’s mother, Nakamura Aiko (also known as Liliane Aikawa) is an accomplished, London-born actress and designer, as the founder of luxury lifestyle brand Lily by Liliane, as well as a socialite, art dealer, and former model. Aiko was born into a family older and wealthier than her husband’s (or at least that would’ve been true in 1990), and is the only child of Nakamura Hiroaki, the president of the Nakamura Foods Company. Founded all the way back in 1909 (although the Nakamura family was rather high up in Japanese society generations prior), the food packing conglomerate is worth over $20 billion. Like her husband’s family, Aiko’s family also owns a department store, having acquired ownership of the Tokyu Department Store in 2009.

Obviously, Chouka grew up in the lap of luxury. Living in Milan for the first five years of her life, she attended a Japanese international school and learned her native language of Japanese, along with Italian and English. In 2004, Chouka and her family moved to Kyoto. And due to her family’s wealth, they would spend a lot of time moving.

During the summers of 2009 and 2010, they would live in three separate cities: Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. Starting in 2011, they would live in Singapore for a year. And finally, in 2015, the Aikawa family would move for the final time to the wealthy neighborhood of Aoyama in Tokyo. Chouka completed her final two years of high school there, and was involved in quite a few extracurriculars. She was a cheerleader, a member of her school’s tennis team, and she served as editor-in-chief of its newspaper club. Chouka would move again in 2016, but without her parents this time. She spent that winter at a boarding school in Switzerland, like most rich girls of her caliber.

By then, Chouka was a seasoned ballet dancer. At the age of three, she was placed in classes by her mother at the request of Chouka’s grandmother. She attended two separate ballet academies at some point: the Dutch National Ballet Academy and the Paris Opera Ballet. For years, Chouka believed that she would become the world’s next prima, but the universe had different plans.

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ 🩰 … TWO. DRESS TO IMPRESS

For the most part, Chouka’s childhood was normal. However, when you have a designer for a mother, you tend to get dragged to a whole lot of fashion shows. At the tender age of thirteen, she attended her first show for Dior. And it wasn’t just that, either. Chouka grew up watching her grandmother order couture from Paris and Milan, she would be gifted old pieces from her mother, and her father even gifted her Louis Vuitton for her tenth birthday. After that Dior show, however, Chouka’s entire world changed.

She became quite obsessed with fashion, and she would spend hours flipping through fashion magazines or rummaging through her mother’s closet. All the balls and launch parties and red carpet events that Chouka would attend with her family changed her outlook on fashion, and after she was scouted by a modeling agency at fifteen, her interest only grew. She attended Fashion Weeks in Tokyo and New York, and modeled for brands like Betsey Johnson.

Chouka kind of knew that her career as a model was temporary, though, and her “true calling” was a fashion designer or journalist (courtesy of her mother). With the rise of the beauty guru, Chouka’s interest in fashion blogs, and all the time she spent on Instagram, however, she decided that, instead, she would become social media famous.

In 2015, Chouka launched a blog of her own: Love Moda. This was unusual for her family, as like the real-life, Japanese rendition of the Young family from Crazy Rich Asians, they were notoriously private. They would sporadically appear in news articles, Aiko would give the occasional magazine interview solely for brand reasons or to promote a new project, and Chujirō mainly limited his media appearances to business publications. Obviously, though, Chouka had vastly different aspirations. Love Moda was mentioned in an editorial she did with Tatler, and that kind of exposure—plus the fact that she had money—made interest in her blog skyrocket. By 2016, it had amassed over 10,000 readers.

By the next year, Chouka had cemented herself as a somewhat of a “baby influencer.” Despite the invites to Paris fashion shows and the articles being written about her in Vogue, however, she was far from mainstream. Her small legion of fans wanted her to be, though. Chouka was asked to start a YouTube channel by one of them, and so on May 19th, 2017, she did.

Chouka was already a bit of a “micro-celebrity,” so by the summer, her sizable following had transferred to her new channel. Her YouTube gradually begin to grow larger than her blog as the beauty community gained traction themselves, and her status as the “Aikawa Group heiress” was definitely a selling point, alongside her feminine, “rich girl” fashion and peculiar accent. By the end of 2017, the brand deals were beginning to roll in, and everyone was gradually starting to know her name.

In 2018, a particular video of Chouka’s suddenly went viral. What followed afterwards was the exact mainstream fame that she’d been looking for. She moved to Los Angeles from New York and was scoring ambassadorships with the likes of Kate Spade, Nina Ricci, and even Prada. She was getting invited to award shows, launch parties, and was a seasoned Fashion Week attendee at that point. And by 2019, Chouka blew up even further. She was named “fashion’s newest It girl,” she made her way into the acting industry, and it was pretty much impossible to escape her.

2018 was also a rather difficult year for her, though. At that point, Chouka had been a ballerina for sixteen years. But with her rising career online, she knew that she couldn’t pursue her lifelong dream of prima stardom without giving up her YouTube career.

Although ballet would always have a special place in her heart, her career aspirations had obviously changed. Even then, though, Chouka was still training, and she still wanted to attend another ballet academy. But balancing that and what clearly transformed from a hobby into her way of life was asking for too much. So that year, Chouka hung up her pointe shoes and bid goodbye to ballet. That decision was a difficult one, but it was probably for the best, as her career as an influencer has done more for her than a ballet career ever would. And there was still a whole lot more in store.

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ 🩰 … THREE. ALL THE INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD

Within the next five years, Chouka would grow to become one of the best fashion influencers on the planet, with 11 million subscribers, over twenty brand deals, and countless successful business ventures to her name. Even with a billion dollar bank account, though, she—like most influencers nowadays—couldn’t help but branch into the music industry.

In late 2023, Chouka signed to Republic Records and Avex Trax to manage her American and Japanese activities, promising her fans a debut by the next year. And on April 5th, 2024, she fulfilled her promise. Debuting with the single “Girls Don’t Cry,” her debut was a smash hit. Surprisingly, it was received far better than the music of other influencers, nearly becoming a No. 1 hit and turning Chouka into an up and coming pop princess. Even with her previously existing and clearly successful career, Chouka has plans for an album, a Japanese debut, and a potential Korean debut. Her first single already has fans eager to see what she has next, and her next projects can turn her into not only an It girl of the fashion world, but an It girl of the music industry, as well.

Flowerbank Entertainment belongs to @pinkscaped + @venusvity ! ♡

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saved a few anons asking personal questions not all related to panel shows, spamming answers below the cut :)

she/her!

interesting question! first, i think it's very special that you had the opportunity to study at an international university and i am glad to hear you had so many amazing experiences!

i also feel like i need to preface anything i say with... holidays are obviously different from living, and i hope people can trust that i wouldn't base an entire lifestyle decision off, like, being a fan of taskmaster lmao the state of politics, brexit, housing, prejudice, and more make it difficult to say i'd want to commit to life there — plus i really love new york city, where i do feel at home

that said, i would be open to living in the uk for a period of time, yes. i am certainly very motivated to visit a lot of places, particularly in england, and decided last year to start spending a month or two over there every year (this year i think i will be in york! maybe i can post a little about that if people care). the history and motivations behind that decision are really personal to me, but it feels...right. i am really looking forward to my time there this year and treasure being someone who works remotely and can make that happen

living permanently, it's hard to say, but speaking for my interests in history, architecture, art, cinema — it would be wonderful to explore those things more in person, yes!

i really think in the 6+ years of this blog this is the first i've ever been asked about music! which makes sense ofc it just took me by surprise!

hmmm i think this playlist most accurately expresses what i'm listening to a lot of the time + a lot a lot a lot of classical music, some dad rock, and a few balladeers like judy garland and rufus wainwright

i don't claim to be the world's biggest comedy buff or keep up the best with all of the comedy coming out of the uk and american industries — even though i do enjoy it so much! — but growing up i was very interested in comedy writing. in high school, i worked at a dvd store where people could trade in their old dvds for store credit to buy new ones, so we had a HUGE selection of not only new releases but older, sometimes nicher stuff that you typically wouldn't see at a suburban american blockbuster-like shop. i can't stress how formative this was! i would always go through the store and "beautify" the shelves (pulling all the spines up neatly, keeping everything alphabetised, etc) just to constantly look through what we had in stock, grab the old black bar criterion films before some movie buff snatched them up, touch all the special editions (physical releases were more than just steelbooks back then, like stuff like this). each of the employees had a little shelf in the back room where you could store dvds you wanted to buy when you eventually had the money, keeping them off the floor so no customer would see and buy them. i was always reserving 30+ dvds at a time and spent my whole paychecks at work hahaha

anyways, that's how i found a lot of the random british films i ended up loving — by people trading them in or me just running across them at the store: a cock and bull story, death at a funeral, this is england, gosford park, monty python, (particularly holy grail and life of brian), confetti (didn't love this one but it had a lot of actors i really liked in it so i remember watching it quite a few times) and more — but especially withnail and i and in the loop. i was fucking obsessed with in the loop, which i watched on a loop (zing!) and was ultimately how i worked my way backwards to the thick of it as well as shows like the office uk, alan partridge, green wing, fry and laurie, peep show, and more. (the thick of it and peep show were particularly everything to me!) i still have all of the dvds from the dvd store i worked at! lol

in terms of american comedy, i was obsessed with the state and then their groups' projects like wet hot american summer and reno 911 (michael showalter is a great example of a writer/director i don't think is one of the greats but follows his heart & vision, and i really respect that; my fave of his, which is genuinely so good, is hello my name is doris! underrated lil treasure). i also really loved it's always sunny, flight of the conchords, party down, arrested development, jackass and wild boys, and house md, and some of the wild characters on bravo lmao. we had this channel called logo that was my lifeline to queer content before i really had full-time access to the internet outside of a shared family computer, so i was always watching reruns of jeffrey & cole casserole, the big gay sketch show, plus the l word and queer as folk, and they also did syndication of reno 911 (but i already had all the box sets of that 😭). i was never heavy into the judd apatow/bro comedy that was so big in the 2000s, and even the 80s–90s american comedy heavily influenced by the talent at snl wasn't particularly engaging to me; of that, my favourites were probably throw momma from the train and a couple of romcoms

+ every panel show i could get my hands on! and i think because i was really engaged with sketch comedy i was also reading a lot of playwrights, especially alan bennett, harold pinter, and edward albee, who i had (and have!) huge collections of

and, yes, so many of these are at the foundation of my very favourite formats and styles of comedy: mockumentaries , black comedy or dark comedy, existential comedy, stories rooted in reality or plausibility / domestic dramedy. i used to be very engaged by sketch comedy and wanted to crack the science behind writing funny sketches, but i do think i've moved away from that format and filled that void with the improv nature of panel shows (it works for me the way i think the format of podcasts work for so many other people... i wonder if anyone will relate to that comparison)

comedy evolves so much by the decade and i appreciate a lot of the ways in which it has grown, so i don't think of it as a then vs now, which is better, whatever. and like you i can't help but revisit my nostalgic faves often!

i do think eventually he will! but rn he's lapping up that tv money hahaha my very fave is firing cheeseballs at a dog, but they're all genuinely great!

[jimhair]

A few years (decades) ago I worked for an art materials manufacturer, and became a minor National Sales Manager. One of my responsibilities was college bookstores and our Canadian accounts. I also was responsible for organizing the booth for trade shows and looked forward to traveling to cities I hadn’t yet visited, and meeting customers I’d only spoken with by phone. (These were ancient times before cell phones, Zoom meetings, the internet was on dial up modems and computers were updated by exchanging floppy discs.) At one show in Chicago I met Michael O’Neill, who was the buyer for the store at the Alberta Art Institute in Calgary. As he approached the booth and we shook hands he said he had made something for me, and pulled a glowing blue orb from his shoulder bag. I was stunned, and couldn’t believe how beautiful it was, and that he brought it to me. Michael is now the Director, Emeritus of the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. I treasure this object of magic, and each time I’ve looked into it’s depths have thought I need to visit Calgary, and if possible, bring Michael something inspiring in return. 🇺🇦💔🌎💔🌏💔🌍💔🇺🇦 #earth #human #america #documentary @fujifilm_profilm #velvia #120 #transparency #slide #film #catalog #object #glass #sculpture #art #gift #photography #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #filmisalive #fromwhereistand #pdx #portland #nw #northwest #leftcoast #oregon https://www.instagram.com/p/CoSooJXPc0G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"BROKE GLASS, WALL GOT $9, SUIT, 'PEN'," Toronto Star. February 9, 1943. Page 28. --- James Fox Given Two Years - Anthony Del Grande 4 Years on 7 Counts ---- HOMES ENTERED ---- "A" Police Court, at the City Hall, Magistrate Browne. "You have a long criminal record and you are not improving any." So Magistrate Browne told James H. Fox [pictured] after he pleaded guilty to two charges of shopbreaking. He was sent to Kingston penitentiary for two years.

Fox was apprehended by P.C. George McKeown in a store on Queen St. W. at 5 a.m., Feb. 4. "I was passing a clothing store when I noticed a man inside and the door locked. Investigating I found a window in a hamburger next door broken. I entered and found the wall between the two premises was smashed. I found the accused hiding in the cellar."

The constable said Fox took $9.35 from a machine in the hamburger and a suit of clothes from next door. "He was wearing the new suit and left his old one on the floor," the officer concluded.

Constable McKeown was highly commended by the court for his work in arresting the accused. Fox had nothing to say in court.

In sending Anthony Del Grande to penitentiary for four years on seven charges of receiving stolen goods Magistrate Browne said: "Your record shows that you have been pursuing a life of crime for years. Thousands of dollars worth of goods have been stolen from decent citizens and very little recovered."

Detective Art Keay, who arrested accused on Jarvis St. Jan. 23, was commended by the court. The officer was off duty when he recognized Del Grande.

Detective A. Taylor who questioned accused, said that during December and January seven homes in Toronto, Long Branch and New Toronto were entered and "several thousand dollars worth" of clothing and jewelry taken, of which "very little" had been recovered.

STOLE PLANE PARTS ---- County Police Court, at the City Hall - Magistrate Keith. Charged with stealing airplane parts from de Haviland Aircraft Co., where he was employed, Michael Babij pleaded guilty and was remanded until Feb. 12 for sentence.

Det. George Wilson. North York, said he arrested Babij leaving the plant after work. "Babij had an airplane tail wheel, hub and tire. Accused said he had taken the parts for an experiment at home to im- prove the wheel. I asked him." the

officer said, "why he did not obtain permission. He replied he did not wish to reveal his ideas for fear of not receiving proper credit."

"I have previously made tools that were adopted for use and was never credited," accused said. "My only desire is to contribute to furthering the industry in Canada."

"You are paid to do a certain job and if there is no one to whom you can go with ideas that does not justify you taking material which doesn't belong to you," Magistrate Keith said,

BROKE INTO STORE ---- "B" Police Court, at the City Hall. Magistrate McNish. Arthur Paton denied a charge of breaking into the store and home of Louis Rose, College St., and stealing a purse containing $38. He was convicted, however, and remanded until Feb. 16 for sentence at the request of Crown Counsel F. I. Malone, who pointed out accused had a record dating back to 1924.

[AL: Fox had three previous penitentiary convictions, going back to 1932. 40, divorced, a commercial labourer since his last release in 1942, he also had served nine terms in Ontario reformatories. This time around he was convict #7211 at Kingston Penitentiary, and mostly worked in the stone cutters and masons. He had three reports to his name, but earned most of his remission and was released in September 1944.]

[smallerplaces]

It's Britney, Bitch: Kitchen BEFORE

My 7" Britney Spears doll lives in a gray mansard house built from the Petite Dreams Deluxe kit, a house that looks almost exactly like a Real Good Toys "Alison Jr.," only in reverse. I built the house with my parents as a family project over Labor Day 2017, so it was Mom's choice that the floors are painted brown and the walls off-white. She furnished it in very serious Old West.

When I moved into the family home a couple years after her death, I decided this was the only 1:12 house I was going to keep, since it had meaning to me, it's mostly flat and up so it takes a reasonable amount of space, and it goes with my gray bedroom walls. I refurnished it primarily with my own 1:12 furniture (previously in an IKEA Flisat that I didn't bother moving), plus pieces from Mom's collection that I particularly liked or found especially useful.

I'm now giving myself permission to really work on it.

The overall concept is that the house is the "big fancy house" in one of those little towns in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the present day. It's been divided into a main house (four rooms) and an income apartment (two rooms). It's to have been redone to capture or retain historic character while being modernized.

Let's take out the furniture and see what we have.

I'm 90% sure that the stainless steel kitchen set is from Hobby Lobby. While Mom boycotted everything in sight for the most random reasons, she never boycotted Hobby Lobby even though its management promotes appalling bigotry that she was supposedly opposed to. I'm chalking that up to the power of location: it's on the main drag of our city, near stores she shopped regularly. The other big craft stores are or were: (a) out near the highway in a difficult-to-get-to plaza; (b) way out past the highway; or (c) in the next town over. I've been tempted, just because it's so much closer than Michaels, but then I remind myself that its leadership would cheerfully have me killed, and there are limits.

Nonetheless, I'm keeping it, because it wasn't my purchase decision. I'm not tracking down the provenance of every innocent-looking item I've inherited, so there are probably items that are way more ethically gray. Also, I still wince when I recall my efforts to create a stainless steel kitchen using a cheap set from AC Moore.

The table set is a must-have because it was my find at an antique store in Sedona, Arizona, when I took the old AZ Shuttle there to get away from the Phoenix heat one summer. On the way up, I'd been talking with the shuttle driver about her dollhouses, and she talked me into the idea of making a quaint little cabin in a Greenleaf Corona Concepts "Primrose." So of course it was Meant to Be when I found this table set!

I never did order a Primrose kit, but this dining set is important and must be included.

Most of these items are things I bought at the Phoenix Park 'n' Swap or at the little J Chew Mexican Import shop in Scottsdale, or that Mom bought when I took her to those places. So they stay, and get some friends added out of my stash.

So the one thing that isn't making the cut is the paper rug that looks like a quilt. This room still needs a lot of work.

Flooring: I want something that says "Victorian California" but also says "washable."

Is this an occasion for subway tile?

Tin ceiling. Seriously. A must-have.

Shelving: means I can display more accessories.

Art: where the accessories don't fit.

Did I mention accessories?

It is time to get cracking on research.

[blue-eyed-bloodstains]

Look out of the nearest window. What do you see? Details, please. well it’s still dark out right now, sunrise isn’t for another hour but I see illuminated in the lampposts our driveway and the silhouettes of his Jeep in front of the house, and our neighbor’s house as well as the outline of her car parked next to hers and her front porch steps

When you think of the word “posh”, what springs to mind? British lol especially skits from Michael McIntyre (brit comedian)

When you have chocolate, do you eat it room temperature? yeah always

Or are you like me and stick the bar into the fridge first? nope only if it’s like chocolate ice cream from the grocery store

What’s the most shocking thing that’s happened in your part of town? umm no idea to be honest? ours is very small and quiet up along the backroads for the most part so anything shocking would be probably be in Reading or surrounding towns

Which brand are your headphones/earbuds? I have a pair of white Apple earphones and yes, with the chord attached 

Do you see planes fly over your house at all? all the time, our small airport is about 5-10 mins down the road so planes and occasional choppers flying overhead pretty low

Are there any constellations you recognize just by looking at them? yeah I always know Orion, I’ve never really gotten how to recognize others but we can see a lot of em here

Which room of your house/apartment do you spend the most time in? living room

Which insect do you find the most beautiful? butterflies, some fuzzy caterpillars too I love the patterns

Did you have crafts/woodwork at school growing up? I had shop once in 6th grade, loved it. I had art class in middle school 7th grade where one of my best girlfriends taught me how to draw basic anime characters and we did paper mache, made a clay pot, did some weaving...

If so, what was the best assignment you did for it? I loved it all, I love art and making things. especially when I learned how to do shading with drawings and oil pastels

Do you have a friend who likes to tell you everything? yeah

What was the last thing you got very excited about? not much lately, it’s been hell breaking loose lately You can go to any city in any country you want. Which city do you go to? London or somewhere in Italy

Do you like gardening? If so, what do you grow? I’ve never done any but I’d love to grow white roses and homegrown veggies and fruits

Do you enjoy puzzle games? If so, which one’s your favourite? yeah, I love crosswords mostly 

Is there a substance you avoid at all costs? If so, what is it and why? I mean I’ve never done any hard drugs and never really even wanted to so...I guess any substance where you’d have to shoot up. I hate needles, I’d never wanna get desperate enough to need to use them on myself constantly

What would you love to live next door to? a liquor store or bar

What gives you nostalgia? lots of things

What’s the best thing about fall? the colors 

What’s the worst thing about fall? certain dates that happen during...

Do you get cold easily? Or are you constantly hot? complete opposite. I’m constantly overheating due to an illness of mine so it’s very hard to deal every day especially with certain temperatures 

When you think of a classy drink, what comes to mind first? martini

Do you prefer eating out or cooking your own meals? eating out, I can’t cook 

Which language do you think is the most complicated to learn? every language has it’s difficulties so any of em

Is there a place that you might call your second home? his arms

How do you imagine your later life to look like? no fucking clue anymore...

What is a job you would never in a million years want to do? ask Mike Jobs lol there’s a show specifically to answer this 

Is there a piece of jewelry that you feel naked without? my engagement ring

Do you ever “go commando”? yeah sometimes

Do you ever try to make words out of number sequences you see? no

What’s the sweetest thing someone’s done for you? loved me...

Which wild animals are a common sight in your area? what isn’t, actually? lol we have a lot of wildlife and cattle around here given the farmlands...it’s PA, man. 

What’s the weirdest building in your city? the Pagoda given the design but it’s beautiful, especially at night with the red lights lit up 

How do you keep in touch with friends usually? texting/messaging

Do you get a lot of visitors? not a soul

Do you recognize friends’/family’s vehicles by sound? in the past one or two yeah, but right now my fiance’s Jeep. always.

Which Disney villain is your favourite? Scar

On a regular day, what do you usually do at 3 o'clock in the afternoon? if I’m not dozing, usually watching tv and scrolling on my phone

What’s something new you’ve just recently learned? not sure

Which possession would you not want to inherit from a relative? their reputation.

What is something you would never dare to do in public? anything that draws attention to me

Would you/ did you have a hen night/bachelorette party? haven’t gotten there yet, still haven’t been able to even plan the wedding...somewhere down the line maybe

Has anyone taken you on holiday somewhere? If so, where? yeah, my fiance to VA back in 2016 to where he was stationed while in the Navy and back in 2021 to LA I got to go on a work trip with him finally since I never can otherwise

Have you taken somebody on holiday? If so, where did you taken them? no I don’t have the money

Who do you see as an iconic star? too many to list

Have you ever been to a vineyard? yeah

Are there any swans around where you live? I haven’t seen any but who knows, possibly

Does anyone in your inner circle struggle with addiction? try my entire family, including myself

Has anyone told you lately that you have a nice smile? nope and I never believe it or see it when they do

How did you spend your last birthday? was just three weeks ago and spent it here alone...DoorDashed myself a nice steak dinner from Outback, that’s it..

[thehungrykat1]

Michael Leyva Celebrates 10th Anniversary in the Fashion Industry

Fashion designer Michael Leyva marked his 10-year journey in the fashion industry with a grand runway presentation last October 10, 2022. Dubbed “Hiraya: Isang Dekada ng Aming Pagmamahal at Pangarap,” the show took place at Manila City’s iconic landmark, the National Museum of Natural History, a perfect venue for his showcased pieces which are truly works of art. The gala fashion show featured Michael Leyva’s newest couture creations with Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, TV host Vice Ganda, and actress Anne Curtis gracing the runway.

We were invited to this very exclusive, one-of-a-kind event last Monday so I was really excited to see what was in store of us that night. I had never been to a fashion show held inside a museum before, so it was really fascinating to see the National Museum of Natural History as the venue for the evening’s activities.

Joining me that evening were my two lovely sisters who came all the way from the United States to attend my wedding just two days before this event. The dress code was Black Formal so all the guests came in their black gowns and suits.

Cocktails were served at the museum reception area before the doors opened at around 8pm for the start of the show. There were free-flowing wines, cocktails, and canapes for the guests.

Becoming a designer wasn’t actually part of Michael Leyva’s plan, but destiny led him to dress the country’s most beautiful personalities when he took the challenge to follow in the footsteps of his late brother, Brian Leyva. “At first, I was hesitant to do it because I have no idea of what fashion is all about,” the designer said. “I don’t know how to draw, talk to clients, or choose fabrics. The only thing that I have that time was the courage that I can do it with the guidance of my brother. He was the one that inspired me to do anything until today. I know, behind everything that’s happening to me right now, there’s one angel up above guiding me all throughout.”

A truly emotional show, “Hiraya” started off with Michael looking back at the past ten years of his life as a designer. He reminisced about the challenges he faced throughout the process, from his early struggles as a novice designer to the times when inspiration was scarce. He also recalled the many achievements in his life—all of which he owed to his lovely family, supportive friends and clients, and, of course, to his late brother. “Hiraya” is a Filipino term meaning the “fruit of one’s hopes, dreams, and aspirations,” and that’s what his show is all about. Marking the beginning of the show was singer Erik Santos giving an inspiring performance of “This is the Moment.”

What made this show truly exceptional was the use of the museum’s architectural structures and facade as part of the runway itself. The models walked down these descending hallways then paraded their couture outfits through the guests who were treated to a front row view of the action.

Leading the style fest on the runway was Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach looking like a goddess in Michael’s gilded garb. What followed next was an array of white couture pieces with dresses with elaborate boning details and sculptural suits. Soon after, his jewel-toned creations with fringe details, delicate floral embellishments, and brushstroke design elements paraded on the runway.

In one of the top moments of the night, TV host Vice Ganda emerged from the elevator of the museum’s Tree of Life wearing a breathtaking white wedding dress complete with a chapel-length train and a romantic veil. The style fantasy continued with a series of pastel ball gowns, glimmering ensembles, and dramatic garbs so immaculate everyone was moved and gave the pieces rounds of applause.

For the finale look, actress Anne Curtis wore Brian’s Filipiniana design made of five centavo coins, the piece he presented at the Young Designer’s Competition in 2006. The stunning show ended with singer Regine Velasquez-Alcasid giving an empowering performance of “I Believe.”

“Hiraya: Isang Dekada ng Aming Pagmamahal at Pangarap” was witnessed by Manila’s most stylish crop. One of the evening’s special guests was Atty. Liza Araneta-Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines. For Michael, the show was not just about what he achieved in the past decade, but also about honoring the legacy his late brother left in the local fashion landscape. The journey to get where he is now was not a stroll in the park. But with his natural design skills, tenacious spirit, and his brother as his all-time inspiration, Michael’s career is a true testament to the saying, “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Hard work is the key. It is very important that you love what you’re doing because you’ll never get tired of it,” Michael said. “In the past 10 years, there was never a day in my life na nagsisisi ako na ituloy what my Kuya Brian started… I know that there will not be a Michael Leyva if it wasn’t because of Brian Leyva. I hope I made him proud. Looking back at the past 10 years, when I’m in doubt if I can do it and I don’t have the courage, if I got the chance to talk to my young self, I’ll tell him that you can.”

I would like to thank Mitch Garcia-Arce of Storytellers Marketing Communications for inviting us to this gorgeous and glamorous event. Congratulations to Michael Leyva and the rest of the team for a successful and inspiring fashion show.

[violetsystems]

I quit overwatch awhile ago but just reading they took it offline completely. I wonder how that works with the switch version. I almost bought a switch at the Nintendo store in New York a couple of years ago. It was around my birthday one fashion week in 2020. The COVID one I think. They declined my card, held the items then declined my other card when I returned. Felt like nerd rage. That’s what I get for running a blog. So I never bought a switch or overwatch for it. Probably better off. Gundam Evolutions is enough overwatch for me. I rewatched Halloween kills last night. Better once you are used to the characters. It definitely reminds me of modern Illinois. Culturally diverse but backwards, proud and petty through and through. The gay couple are probably the most redeemable in that movie. Aside from moving into a serial killer’s home. At least they were good hosts? I play host to a lot of controversy. People deep diving into my personals and my fall collection choices from last year. Good streetwear over the years doesn’t really age. Especially when people are just modeling the same old techwear in a mud pit. What is this Woodstock, Illinois? NASCAR looks for when they turn Michigan avenue into a monster truck rally for abortion. They used to picket outside the museum at my old work. A different kind of monster rally. The pro lifers. Speaking of nerd rage? I got targeted by them over the years so much that they just follow me around in statement shirts at the Costco thinking I’m part of their Christian performance piece. Kanye did speak to the president of my old job three floors down from my old office. Way before he wanted to start his own schools with NDA’s. Nice idea. Where you come up with that one? The same president I told at art basel Miami one year I thought China was the future for our school. Maybe he went down there to get me fired. He was gonna let me finish my retirement? Maybe you people just never called the elderly out on their bullshit? Too busy pointing the finger at the boogeyman. What am I Michael Myers? I’m Columbo. I’ve got a nose for these things. They’re always running. Mostly from the truth. I’m always here to remind you. Chicago knows. Don’t make me write a eulogy for this city. I only am qualified to run a blog unless you’d rather me receive a cash settlement. How can you help? Maybe by completing the police report I filed online a week ago. That’s union speak for double u tee eff. 💰

[figofswords]

Hi!! Okay for comic recs, if that's okay - I'm not a big comic nerd because I don't like the gritty style as much (not saying that all are, that's just what I've been exposed to). I do love graphic novels.

But I've watched Young Justice and read the Batfam webtoon and am now a massive Dick Grayson fan. Do you have any recommendations for DG content? Thank you!!

ok sorry i saw this when i was busy and then forgot about it but YES i do have recs!

the lost carnival (michael moreci) - you said you like graphic novels so this is my first rec! it's a dick grayson stand-alone graphic novel about dick going back to visit haly's circus and sort of discovering this history of magic and romance and tragedy. i love this graphic novel. it's maybe not the most CANON canon thing but the art is GORGEOUS and it's a really sweet story.

robin: year one (chuck dixon) - this is among my favorite comics. it's a four book series featuring dick right after becoming robin, following the origin continuity established for him in batman: dark victory. it's very cute, it's sort of a coming of age story, and i adore its portrayal of dick and bruce's dynamic. (in general, chuck dixon is a good writer to look out for with robin comics—he has a really good run on tim's robin in the 90s. he is unfortunately annoyingly conservative but his writing itself is really good and he keeps his politics out of his comics, so. death of the author, yadda yadda, it's hard to avoid in comics but again his writing is really quite good)

batman chronicles: the gauntlet - this is a single-issue story, again from dick's early days as robin. the premise is basically he's got this final test before bruce will let him go out as robin officially: make it a whole night in gotham city without bruce finding him. but then! stuff happens! bruce needs to get to him to help him but uh oh! dick still thinks they're doing hide and seek! anyway yeah this comic is really well done and i like it a lot.

batman: year three (batman #436-439) - dick (now nightwing, post jason's death, JUST before tim) comes home for the first time in a while just in time for tony zucco's parole hearing and ends up revisiting the circumstances of his parents' murders. disclaimer that while this has been on my list for a while i haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but it's sort of the first real deep dive into dick's origin story and it's written by marv wolfman who i 100% trust. (anything by marv wolfman is also good to check out - he's responsible for aging dick into nightwing and giving him his own identity outside of being batman's partner during the new teen titans, which i haven't read much of but which is supposed to be very very good)

some other stuff i haven't read yet but have heard very good things about:

-nightwing (1996). chuck dixon's run. i don't like the art style which is why i keep failing to read this but the story is well regarded.

-the new teen titans. again, i trust marv wolfman. i did start reading and loved what i was seeing but haven't gotten very far. this is an ensemble cast and not just dick but you said you started with yj so you should be fine.

-batman: gates of gotham. batman!dick and the rest of the kids dealing with a resurfaced old old gotham mystery. the only reason i didn't finish this is i got distraced bc im trying to read like ten different things at once

-the current run of nightwing written by tom taylor is also supposed to be pretty good. i definitely love the art style but i've been putting off reading until more of it got uploaded to dc universe infinite. if i try and get caught up now i'm going to want to read them as they come out by going to the comics store and buying individual issues and that is bad for my wallet. ANYWAYS. it looks good so maybe worth checking out.

and that's my list for you! this is probably way wordier than you were looking for but who am i if i don't type up paragraphs and paragraphs when asked about my opinions. hopefully this is helpful and have fun reading!

[dogcunt]

WARNING : I'm just an addict ... addicted to music. There are people who are born to make music, o8 thers are born to hearing. Whenever was part of this second group. Maybe it's. a habit, I gotta use, even if it 's rock, jazz or the quiet storm. Great pictures of the things I love - music, painting, books, photography, architecture, design, women, and more. I love music more than lasagna. Better to burn out than fade away. The older you get, the better life gets. But time also seems to be accelerating, the clock running too fast. So, looking at those early days, everything is very slow, stretched, and great significance. The most recent time, I spent busy with simple things.People think rock and roll is only about teenage rebellion, but why can not exist old rebel too? THE RESIDENTS is my Biggest Addiction, and,THE RED KRAYOLA, FRANK ZAPPA, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, KING CRINSOM, OLD TIME RELIJUN - ARRINGTON DIONYSO, R. STEVIE MOORE, SHRIMP BOAT, MINIMAL COMPACT, THIS HEAT, COIL, SKELETON CREW, HARRY PARTCH, HOME and GARDEN, SMEGMA,THE SUN CITY GIRLS, TRAGIC MULATTO, WEEN, THE EX, LONG FIN KILLIE, VIRGIN PRUNES, AND ALSO THE TREES, MOONDOG,THE WORK, THE FIBONACCIS, LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, THE NECKS, CLINTON HENSLEY, CLOUD CULT, SACCHARINE TRUST, MODEST MOUSE, SCOTT WALKER, PROTOMARTYR, BONGWATER - (MARK KRAMER), SHOCKABILLY, RENALDO & LOAF, BUTHOLE SURFERS, MISSION OF BURMA, DAVID THOMAS,THE GO-BETWEENS, WALL OF VOODO, THROBBING GRISTLE, LONG FIN KILLIE,THE DARKSIDE,THE MUSIC TAPES,THE BETTER BEATLES, FIFTY FOOT HOSE, OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL,THE LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY ( Rick Potts, Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Tom Recchion, who worked at the store, had formed Two Who Do Duets with Harold Schroeder in March of 1975, Ace Farren Ford and the Professor (who performed as the duo Ace & Duce), Dennis Duck, and Richard Snyder), Doo-Doettes, Tom Recchion, John Wiese, CHEER-ACCIDENT, OXBOW, Fredrik Nilsen, Godley & Creme, The Bill Jones Show, Blah Blah Blah, Blitzoids, Bomis Prendin, Cardiacs, TONE DOGS( Amy Denio, Fred Chalenor),The Cheepskates, Confusional Quartet, Jim Copp & Ed Brown, German Shepherds, Freshly Wrapped Candies, Gerry & The Holograms, Ostrich Von Nipple - Nolan Cook, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Ptôse, Steaming Coils, HENRY FLINT, Robert Ashley, THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282, SWANS, CAN, FAUST, CASSIBER,TOM CORA, TELEVISION,THE MODERN LOVERS, SNAKEFINGER, TREES SPEAK, MILES DAVIS, SUN RA, KRAFTWERK, ANAL MAGIC & REV. DWIGHT FRIZZELL, MICHAEL YONKERS, RAYMOND SCOTT, SLAPPY HAPPY, ART BEARS, NAKED CITY, HENRY COW, JOHN ZORN, JOHN CAGE, THE DELTA NUDES, MARVIN PONTIAC, JOE BYRD and The Field Hippies,The Scene Is Now, FRED FRITH, Philip Perkins, JANDEK, HYBRID KIDS,THIS KIND of PUNISHMENT, FRED LANE, DEEP FREEZE MICE,THE DEVIANTS, MONKS,THE SHAGS, THE SLITS,THEE Oh SEES, WOMEN, BLURT, PRAM, BAND OF SUSANS, THE MARS VOLTA, THE BARK PSYCHOSIS, HUGO LARGO,THE PAINTEENS, STUMP, CERTAIN GENERAL, PINBACK, THE CHURCH,THE THREE JOHNS, CHROME, PRIMUS-LES CLAYPOOL, EUGENE CHADBOURNE, ESKIMO, HALF JAPANESE, MINUTEMEN, ARAB STRAP,FUGAZI, GLAXO BABIES, THE SEA AND CAKE, SAVAGE REPUBLIC, TUXEDOMOON, XTC, U.S,MAPLE, THE PAPER CHASE, MASS, PERFORMING FERRET BAND, LAUGHING CLOWS, ... AN THE HIPSTERS, The Grinning Plowman, Crawling Chaos, Suburban Lawns, SULFUR, ARAB ON RADAR, THE CHINESE STARS, RUN ON, DON CABALLERO, SLEEP, OM, EARTH, EX MODELS, TORTOISE, NEW WET KOJAK, TOBY DAMMIT, NOLAN COOK, ERIC DREW FELDMAN, CHARLES BOBUCK, CINDY LEE, DRY CLEANING, BEATRICE DILLON, WOMEN, Fontaines D.C,Porridge Radio, Scissor Girls, TV On The Radio, Motherhead Bug, COP SHOOT COP, VAMPIRE RODENTS, JUNE OF 44,THE BOOKS, UI, HIM, JOAN OF ARC, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, FIREWATER, BLIND IDIOT GOD, CUL DE SAC, DANIEL SMITH - DANIELSON FAMILE ....... Other musical priorities are: THE FEELIES, PERE UBU, THE CLASH, JOY DIVISION, MEDIUM MEDIUM, TIN KINSELLA - JOAN OF ARC, CAP N ´JAZZ, OWLS, GHOSTS OF VODKA, MAKE BELIEVE, OWEN, THE CORAL, DANNY COHEN, CAR SEAT HEADREST, IDDLES, THE BETTER-BEATLES, DARKSIDE,THE MEMBRANES, THEATRE OF HATE, NOCTURNAL P

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

THE FORTY-FIVE: ST. VINCENT

Sleazy, gritty, grimy – these are the words used to describe the latest iteration of St. Vincent, Annie Clark’s alter ego. As she teases the release of her upcoming new album, ‘Daddy’s Home’, Eve Barlow finds out who’s wearing the trousers now.

Photos: Zackery Michael

Yellow may be the colour of gold, the hue of a perfect blonde or the shade of the sun, but when it’s too garish, yellow denotes the stain of sickness and the luridness of sleaze. On ‘Pay Your Way In Pain’ – the first single from St. Vincent’s forthcoming sixth album ‘Daddy’s Home’ – Annie Clark basks in the palette of cheap 1970s yellows; a dirty, salacious yellow that even the most prudish of individuals find difficult to avert their gaze from. It’s a yellow that recalls the smell of cigarettes on fingers, the tape across tomorrow’s crime scene or the dull ache of bad penetration.

The video for the single, which dropped last Thursday, features Clark in a blonde wig and suit, channeling a John Cassavetes anti-heroine (think Gena Rowlands in Gloria) and ‘Fame’-era Bowie. She twists in front of too-bright disco lights. She roughs up her voice. She sings about the price we pay for searching for acceptance while being outcast from society. “So I went to the park just to watch the little children/ The mothers saw my heels and they said I wasn’t welcome,” she coos, and you immediately recognise the scene of a free woman threatening the post-nuclear families aspiring to innocence. Clark is here to pervert them.

She laughs. “That’s how I feel!” From her studio in Los Angeles, she begins quoting lyrics from Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Red House’. “It’s a blues song for 2021.” LA is a city Clark reluctantly only half calls home, and one that is opposed to her vastly preferred New York. “I don’t feel any romantic attachment to Los Angeles,” she says of the place she coined the song ‘Los Ageless’ about on 2017’s ‘Masseduction’ (“The Los Ageless hang out by the bar/ Burn the pages of unwritten memoirs”).“The best that could be said of LA is, ‘Yeah it’s nice.’ And it is! LA is easy and pleasant. But if you were a person the last thing you’d want someone to say about you is: ‘She’s nice!’”

On ‘Daddy’s Home’, Clark writes about a past derelict New York; a place Los Angeles would suffocate in. “The idea of New York, the art that came out of it, and my living there,” she says. “I’ve not given up my card. I don’t feel in any way ready to renounce my New York citizenship. I bought an apartment so I didn’t have to.” Her down-and-out New York is one a true masochist would love, and it’s sleazy in excess. Sleaze is usually the thing men flaunt at a woman’s expense. In 2021, the proverbial Daddy in the title is Clark. But there’s also a literal Daddy. He came home in the winter of 2019.

On the title track, Clark sings about “inmate 502”: her father. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his involvement in a $43m stock fraud scheme. He went away in May 2010. Clark reacted by writing her third breakthrough album ‘Strange Mercy’ in 2011; inspired not just by her father’s imprisonment but the effects it had on her life.“I mean it was rough stuff,” she says. “It was a fuck show. Absolutely terrible. Gut-wrenching. Like so many times in life, music saved me from all kinds of personal peril. I was angry. I was devastated. There’s a sort of dullness to incarceration where you don’t have any control. It’s like a thud at the basement of your being. So I wrote all about it,” she says.

Back then, she was aloof about meaning. In an interview we did that year, she called from a hotel rooftop in Phoenix and was fried from analytical questions. She excused her lack of desire to talk about ‘Strange Mercy’ as a means of protecting fans who could interpret it at will. Really she was protecting an audience closer to home. It’s clear now that the title track is about her father’s imprisonment (“Our father in exile/ For God only knows how many years”). Clark’s parents divorced when she was a child, and they have eight children in their mixed family, some of whom were very young when ‘Strange Mercy’ came out. She explains this discretion now as her method of sheltering them.

“I am protective of my family,” she says. “It didn’t feel safe to me. I disliked the fact that it was taken as malicious obfuscations. No.” Clark wanted to deal with the family drama in art but not in press. She managed to remain tight-lipped until she became the subject of a different intrusion. As St. Vincent’s star continued to rocket, Clark found herself in a relationship with British model Cara Delevingne from 2014 to 2016, and attracted celebrity tabloid attention. Details of her family’s past were exposed. The Daily Mail came knocking on her sister’s door in Texas, where Clark is from.

“Luckily I’m super tight with my family and the Daily Mail didn’t find anybody who was gonna sell me out,” she says. “They were looking for it. Clark girls are a fucking impenetrable force. We will cut a bitch.”

Four years later, Clark gets to own the narrative herself in the medium that’s most apt: music. “The story has evolved. I’ve evolved. People have grown up. I would rather be the one to tell my story,” she says, ruminating on the misfortune that this was robbed from her: a story that writes itself. “My father’s release from prison is a great starting point, right?” Between tours and whenever she could manage, Clark would go and visit him in prison and would be signing autographs in the visitation room for the inmates, who all followed her success with every album release, press clipping and late night TV spot. She joked to her sisters that she’d become the belle of the ball there. “I don’t have to make that up,” she says.

There’s an ease to Clark’s interview manner that hasn’t existed before. She seems ready not just to discuss her father’s story, but to own certain elements of herself. “Hell where can you run when the outlaw’s inside you,” she sings on the title track, alluding to her common traits with her father. “I’ve always had a relationship with my dad and a good one. We’re very similar,” she says. “The movies we like, the books, he liked fashion. He’s really funny, he’s a good time.” Her father’s release gave Clark and her brothers and sisters permission to joke. “The title, ‘Daddy’s Home’ makes me laugh. It sounds fucking pervy as hell. But it’s about a real father ten years later. I’m Daddy now!”

The question of who’s fathering who is a serious one, but it’s also not serious. Clark wears the idea of Daddy as a costume. She likes to play. She joins today’s Zoom in a pair of sunglasses wider than her face and a silk scarf framing her head. The sunglasses come off, and the scarf is a tool for distraction. She ties it above her forehead, attempts a neckerchief, eventually tosses it aside. Clark can only be earnest for so long before she seeks some mischief. She doesn’t like to stay in reality for extensive periods. “I like to create a world and then I get to live in it and be somebody new every two or three years,” she says. “Who wants to be themselves all the time?”

‘Daddy’s Home‘ began in New York at Electric Lady studios before COVID hit and was finished in her studio in LA. She worked on it with “my friend Jack” [Jack Antonoff, producer for Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Taylor Swift]. Antonoff and Clark worked on ‘Masseduction’ and found a winning formula, pushing Clark’s guitar-orientated electronic universe to its poppiest maximum, without compromising her idiosyncrasies. “We’re simpatico. He’s a dream,” she says. “He played the hell outta instruments on this record. He’s crushing it on drums, crushing it on Wurlitzer.” The pair let loose. They began with ‘The Holiday Party’, one of the warmest tracks Clark’s ever written. It’s as inviting as a winter fireplace, stoked by soulful horns, acoustic guitar and backing singers. “Every time they sang something I’d say, ‘Yeah but can you do it sleazier? Make your voice sound like you’ve been up for three days.” Clark speaks of an unspoken understanding with Antonoff as regards the vibe: “Familiar sounds. The opposite of my hands coming out of the speaker to choke you till you like it. This is not submission. Just inviting. I can tell a story in a different way.”

The entire record is familiar, giving the listener the satisfaction that they’ve heard the songs before but can’t quite place them. It’s a satisfying accompaniment to a pandemic that encouraged nostalgic listening. Clark was nostalgic too. She reverted to records she enjoyed with her father: Stevie Wonder’s catalogue from the 1970s (‘Songs In The Key Of Life’, ‘Innervisions’, ‘Talking Book’) and Steely Dan. “Not to be the dude at the record store but it’s specifically post-flower child idealism of the ’60s,” she explains. “It’s when it flipped into nihilism, which I much prefer. Pre disco, pre punk. That music is in me in a deep way. It’s in my ears.”

On ‘The Melting Of The Sun’ she has a delicious time creating a psychedelic Pink Floyd odyssey while exploring the path tread by her heroes Marilyn Monroe, Joni Mitchell, Joan Didion and Nina Simone. It’s a series of beautiful vignettes of brilliant women who were met with a hostile environment. Clark considers what they did to overcome that. “I’m thanking all these women for making it easier for me to do it. I hope I didn’t totally let them down.” Clark is often the only woman sharing a stage with rock luminaries such as Dave Grohl, Damon Albarn and David Byrne, and has appeared to have shattered a male-centric glass ceiling. She’s unsure she’s doing enough to redress the imbalance. “There are little things I can do and control,” she says of hiring women on her team. “God! Now I feel like I should do more. What should I do? It’s a big question. You know what I have seen a lot more from when I started to now? Girls playing guitar.”

If one woman reinvented the guitar in the past decade, it’s Clark. Behind her is a rack of them. The pandemic has taken her out of the wild in which she’s accustomed to tantalising audiences at night with her displays of riffing and heel-balancing. Instead, she’s chained to her desk. Her obsession with heels in the lyrics of ‘Daddy’s Home’ she reckons may be a reflection of her nights performing ‘Masseduction’ in thigh highs. “I made sure that nothing I wore was comfortable,” she recalls. “Everything was about stricture and structure and latex. I had to train all the time to make sure I could handle it.” Is she taking the heels off when live shows return? “Absofuckinglutely not.”

Clark is interested in the new generation. She’s recently tweeted about Arlo Parks and has become a big fan of Russian singer-songwriter Kate NV. “I’m obsessed with Russia,” she says. In a recent LA Times profile, she professed to a pandemic intellectual fixation on Stalin. “Yeah! I mean right now my computer is propped up on stuff. You are sitting on The Gulag Archipelago, The Best Short Stories Of Dostoyevsky andThe Plays Of Chekhov. I’m kinda in it.” The pop world interests Clark, too. She was credited with a co-write on Swift’s 2019 album ‘Lover’. At last year’s Grammys she performed a duet with Dua Lipa. It was one of the queerest performances the Grammys has ever aired. Clark interrupts.

“What about it seemed queer?!”

You know… The lip bite, for one!

“Wait. Did she bite her lip?”

No, you bit your lip.

“I did?!”

Everyone was talking about it. Come on, Annie.

“Serious? I…”

You both waltzed around each other with matching hairdos, making eyes…

“I have no memory of it.”

Frustrating as it may be in a world of too much information, Clark’s lack of willingness to overanalyse every creative decision she makes or participates in is something to treasure. “I want to be a writer who can write great songs,” she says. “I’m so glad I can play guitar and fuck around in the studio to my heart’s desire but it’s about what you can say. What’s a great song? What lyric is gonna rip your guts open. Just make great shit! That’s where I was with this record. That’s all I wanna do with my life.”

More than a decade into St. Vincent, Clark doesn’t reflect. She looks strictly forward. “I’m like a horse with blinders,” she says. She did make an exception to take stock lately when the phone rang. “I saw a +44 and that gets me excited,” she says. “Who could this be?” Well, who was it? “Paul McCartney,” she says, in disbelief. “Anything I’ve done, any mistake I’ve made, somehow it’s forgiven, assuaged. I did something right in my life if a fucking Beatle called me.”

Now there’s a get out of jail free card if ever she needed one.

Daddy’s Home by St. Vincent is out May 14, 2021.

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Movies I watched this week - 39

I spent over 50 (!) hours on the sofa this week, (enjoying myself 85% of the time)...

Sløborn, an ominous Danish-German TV pandemic series, very much like Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’ and in ‘Black Mirror’ style. Normal life of a small island community between Denmark and Germany breaks down and completely collapses when it is hit by a lethal bird flue like virus.

It was extremely prescient, as it was shot in 2019, before Covid! Conceived as Si-fi, it looks today like TV, because the series was able to capture everything that happened around the world after January 2020 in accurate details.

With Roland Møller (of ‘Riders of Justice’). 7+/10

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My introduction to “The grandmother of The French New Wave”, Agnès Varda (Hard to believe that I never saw her films before!):

✳️✳️✳️ “Inspiration, Creation and Sharing...” Varda by Agnès, my first Varda is her last 2019 auto-biography, in which, at 90, she shared footage and stories from her life and work. The first sample clip (of meeting her Uncle Yanco in Sausalito) won me over, and the rest convinced me to catch up on everything I’ve missed through the years. What a wonderful artist!

✳️✳️✳️ Cléo from 5 to 7. A feminine film about female identity - a new favorite! A beautiful singer must wait 2 hours for the results of her cancer tests. With a magnifique mid-film scene (at 0;38) of the heartbreaking chanson 'Sans Toi', marking the beginning of her quiet transformation.

✳️✳️✳️ Vagabond, a story of a lonely, young woman, an unapologetic drifter, unglamorous, aimless, independent, desperately lost. Dark and nonjudgmental exploration of the refusal to conform to anything. 8+/10.

✳️✳️✳️ (For Sammy - Per our conversation). The Gleaners and I, "The eighth best documentary film of all time”, per ‘Sight & Sound poll. Derived from the famous painting by Millet. Simply wonderful!

✳️✳️✳️ One Hundred And One Nights, 100 year old Michel Piccoli “Monsieur Simon Cinema”, hires a young girl to reminisce with about the history of cinema. An unsuccessful Meta-film that nevertheless is a love letter for cinephiles. Populated by 3 dozens of Who’s Who of French (and World) stars, playacting in this symbolic, Fellinisque fable that draws upon the classics. Mastroianni, Depardieu, Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Anouk Aimée, Fanny Ardant, Gina Lollobrigida, Jane Birkin, etc, etc..

(Photo Above).

✳️✳️✳️ The Young Girls of Rochefort, the wonderful, colorful, sentimental musical by Varda’s husband Jacques Demy, with the most beautiful woman in the world and her sister. Romantic eye candy set to music by Michel Legrand. A year later Deneuve would do Belle de Jour, and Françoise Dorléac would die in a car accident, 8+/10

✳️✳️✳️ Even better, The Young Girls Turn 25, Varda’s 1993 behind the scenes documentary and return to small town Rocheford, to show how it changed the town and left an impression. 9/10

“...The memory of happiness is perhaps also happiness...”

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The other Jacques Demy modern opera The Umbrellas of Cherbourg knocked me over all over again. Catherine Deneuve’s angelic beauty in this film made me cry for the duration like a baby. And not only at the train station when they say goodbye forever.

10/10

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Night moves, a tense thriller by Kelly Reichardt, about three radical environmentalists who blow up an Oregon dam. Slow and tense, and like her ‘First Cow’, watching it filled me with constant, low-level anxiety. The off-screen sabotage is placed at the exact mid-point of the movie: The first half is the preparation for it, and the second half shows the aftermath of the act. 7+/10

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2 unexpected Small Town gems by Miguel Arteta:

✳️✳️✳️ The good Girl, an odd and surprising mismatched romance between 30 year old Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal (22) as employees of a Texas big-box store that is always empty. Her voice-over reminded me of True Romance’s Alabama Whitman. 7/10

✳️✳️✳️ Ed Helms, a sheltered insurance salesman from the backwaters of Wisconsin, goes to an convention in the big city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The nearly conventional story arc has some genuinely heartfelt funny moments. With Maeby Fünke, as Bree the prostitute and Sigourney Weaver as the ex-teacher he balls. Also a surprising drug party, where he smoke crack cocaine and loves it. 5+/10

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Same theme of people prostituting their own ‘morals’, the notoriously-prudish 1993 Indecent Proposal didn’t age too well. “Billionaire”-porn that asks the question ‘How much would you pay for one night with Robert Redford?’ Gratuitous semi-naked Demi Moore included.

Related: “Stop hitting the button!”

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Wildland (Kød & blod = Flesh and blood), an uncomfortable and claustrophobic Danish gangster thriller about a 17 year old girl who moves in with the criminal family of Sidse Babett Knudsen, her estranged aunt. 6+/10

“For some people, things go wrong before they even begin”

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Jim Jarmusch‘s Broken Flowers, a touching road film with Bill Murray, as an old ‘Don Juan’ who receive a pink, unsigned letter from an old lover, letting him know that he has a 20 year old son he never knew about.

Loveliest film of the week.

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The 2 films directed by Tom Ford:

✳️✳️✳️ A single Man, a sad and lonely gay professor, closeted in 1962 Los Angeles, is preparing to kill himself with a gun, after his boyfriend / love of his life had died in a car accident. Mute and haunting aesthetics in the fashion designer’s debut film, based on a Christopher Isherwood novel.

The ‘Stormy Weather’ dance scene between Charley and George. 8/10

✳️✳️✳️ Nocturnal Animals: Amy Adams is an unhappy owner of a fancy art gallery who receives a disturbing book manuscript written by her ex-husband, which symbolizes their relationship 20 years prior. Rarefied visuals and distinctive style.

Starts with an astonishing scene of obese old ladies dancing naked at Amy’s gala event. Michael Shannon rules as a dying Texas detective! 6+/10.

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Jean Vigo’s 1933 classic Zero for Conduct was so blatantly anarchistic, it was immediately banned in France until after WW2. In silent film style, it tells about a group of mischievous kids who rebel against the authorities of their old-fashioned boarding school. Part-inspiration for Truffaut's 400 Blows.

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Anatomy of a murder, Otto Preminger’s 1960 courtroom drama, with opening credits by Saul Bass. Crisp black & white cinematography, and with rape victim Lee Remick playing it as an outgoing loose girl of ambiguous morals, a modern floozy. 7/10.

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Blush, a wondrous, spectacularly-animated, wordless short by Joe Mateo. What starts as a riff on ‘The Little Prince’, ends up like the opening montage from ‘Up’. The obvious realization that this is a personal metaphor makes the story even deeper.

I watched it twice back to back. 10/10

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If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast - 95 year old Carl Reiner asks a bunch of charming nonagenarian friends how they manage to live so well for so long. Their answers may (not) shock you...

Spry Dick Van Dyke (92) and half-his-age wife end the film with a lovely rendition of “Young at heart”

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Hi-school-level adaptation of Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the 21st Century. A breezy discussion of how slave economy and colonialist military repression 300 years ago turn into extreme capitalism of inequality & tax-avoidance today. America is now similar economically to what England was in the early 1800s. A tiny percentage of society controls almost all its wealth. (Full text of the book here).

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Ride the eagle, a flat new indie about a guy whose estranged hippy mother leaves him her cabin at the lake when she dies, but only if he complete a certain list of tasks. Could be so much better, but the actor playing the guy was just so terrible. Unlike JK Simmons who had a small role. Best detail, when he discovers that all the cabinets in the house are full with pot.

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Old, my first, (and possibly last), M. Night Shyamalan. The seductive premise of a secluded beach at a fancy tropical resort that ages everybody who comes there, turns into an unconvincing Twilight Zone bore.

...”(Gurgling sounds)”...

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First watch: I never saw (any) Planet of the apes before, and in spite of my misgivings, gave it a go. 100% anthropomorphic, it couldn’t visualize a universe different from the American mindset of that period. Preachy and very Rod Sterling-like. "It's a madhouse in here”. Pass!

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The latest Veritasium YouTube video about bowling current technology. Always interesting.

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Throw-back to the art project:

Planet of the Apes Adora. 

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(My complete movie list is here)

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Kicksaddict Sneakerhead PROFILES Interview Series: @CakedaGawd

After a long Hiatus, we’ve returned! Our popular Profile series has been requested almost on a daily basis (Thanks for the tweets, dms and emails). We were even threatened! (Thanks by the way).

Cake The Gawd! This one was so much fun. Tap in.

Where are you from? Brooklyn, NY born in Crown Heights raised in East Flatbush.

How long have you been collecting sneakers? I was introduced to sneakers in 1991 but I started collecting for myself in 98.

What’s your favorite sneaker and why? Air Jordan 6 Infrared. It's the shoe Michael was wearing when he won his first championship, and to me just it’s just the most beautiful Jordan shoe to date! The silhouette is unmatched, it is timeless, and no matter how many times it is retroed I will buy it!

Besides your hometown, what is the best city for sneakerheads that you know of? Why? I would say LA 100% !! It is a vibe out there. I am part of a sneaker group and 75% of the people in there are from LA. They really about the culture they know their shit and they are fresh as fuck too.

Do you collect just for collecting or do you collect and rock? I collect and rock. That is why I double up on certain shoes.. Some kicks you gotta have for store and show but some you just have to rock them!

What sneaker got you into the sneaker game? I cannot pinpoint one thing, it is so many things. It was Music, my parents introducing me to Nike, my older cousin, basketball, the dope boys around the way, and my 3rd grade crush and her cousin who both had Aqua 8's. (LOL) I cannot just say 1 thing because they all had a significant part in it.

What are your thoughts on these fake celebrity sneakerheads? I hate them all! All of these dudes just get perks, some of them do not even know the shoes. That shit really gets under my skin. Showing off shoes that they get and not even knowing the name or numbers of the shoes, creating their own names. Shit is sickening. S/O to the Sneaker Gawd Wale !

How do you feel about the Off white collabs? I liked the first round of the collabs. With the Presto's, Air maxes, Blazers, and Jordan 1's. I think after that it should've been left alone. But I can respect what they are doing over there. I just won my first pair of Off-White's with the Lot 50 joint.

If you could wear only one sneaker for the rest of your life, what would it be? Air Jordan 3 Black Cement. Yes 6's are my favorite of all time but the Black Cement 3's just go with EVERYTHING!

What advice would you give as far as storing and preservation of your sneakers? Wear your kicks man. I store and rock! I get it, wanting to save shoes but putting them away and never rocking them, when you finally do ya it’s separating and crumbling. In order for your kicks to last they gotta be worn anyway. Unless you're truly just on some collecting only for show vibes.

What is the most you’ve ever spent on a pair of sneakers? $900... I was able to land Black and Red and Royal 1's from 2001 together. A friend of mine had them and said he couldn't think of anyone else. I had literally just started my new job. A chunk of my first check went to that pick up.

Have you ever waited in line for a pair of kicks? I waited in line once in my life for shoes and swore I would never do it again. It was for the 2001 True Blue 3's. I waited online at like 7 in the morning at Kings Plaza. LMAO I said this will never happen again. I didn't have the patience for it. I do not know how ppl used to do that shit or camp for kicks. I was there for 1 hour and I was like this is ridiculous.

You're also a photographer, how long have you been taking photos? I have been taking photos since 2011 but officially became a photographer in 2013.

How do sneakers play a role in your photography? That is a great question because I didn't want the 2 to mix at all. Because I'm a scenery and landscape photographer. But I got into photography because of sneakers. No offense to anyone but a bunch of these  "influencers" get on IG with their DSLR cameras, take some on foot shots and call themselves "Photographers". 90% of them do not even understand lighting. I didn't wanna be one of those guys because I actually live this and study it. But recently I just started letting it be that and owning it. I am nice with this photography shit when it comes to sneakers. I have a deep connection with shoes and I love incorporating that into my art. I thank my wife for that. I told her I don't wanna be just another sneaker photographer and she said to me who said you have to be ?! I took that and ran with it. Off-White just recently featured some of my pictures on their Instagram.

I remember you saying you're a sneaker enthusiast, what is the difference between that and a sneakerhead? An enthusiast really studies sneakers. Sneakerheads just love sneakers like it ain't really about the history and all that for them. They just love shoes because it is cool and makes them feel good. Us Enthusiasts are invested. Things matter like knowing years of a shoe. For example, an enthusiast would look at a pair of Jordan's like Taxi 12's, We know Michael wore those in the 1996 - 97 season, but we also know that Martin gave away a pair on his show for the Christmas episode to the kid who had holes in shoes. They are tied to iconic moments. A sneakerhead may love Bordeaux 7's because they are dope looking shoes. Where for me it's that Michael Jordan wore those in a video with Michael Jackson and Kris Kross in the 92 Jam video. MJ and MJ in a video with Kris Kross, do you know what that did to my childhood?! Give you one more example that is not even Michael Jordan related. Piggy backing off of Kris Kross,The Patrick Ewing’s were one of my favorite kicks growing up besides seeing Pat play in them one of my favorite Hip Hop covers of all time is "Totally Krossed Out" and Kris Kross is wearing both colorways. So you see what I mean there is so much tied to it with being an enthusiast. This is just my opinion though some may not agree so don't shoot me! (Ha)

From the time you started collecting up until now, would you say that the sneaker game changed for the best or the worst? I have been collecting for 20 plus years now. I have seen the game at it's best, I have seen it die, I have seen it revive, and now I am witnessing the death of it again. The sneaker game is disgusting right now, and I honestly do not think it will ever recover. It really saddens me. It is a popularity and money contest right now.

Does pricing affect your collection? Hell No! And I hate that some people are trying to make this the norm. IDGAF if you paid $500 - $2000 for a pair, It doesn't mean shit.  The narrative is getting outta hand.

What does the word “Hypebeast” mean to you? Hypebeast is a person that only buys shit for status and popularity. They cannot form their own opinion about shit. They have to wear and cop items based on what every celeb is wearing or whatever these Social Media "Influencers" are saying is hot! It is not only sneaker related either. N*ggaz were hypebeasting for PS5 last year..

What are your thoughts on the females in the sneaker game? They are the best! I wish we had a Sneaker union and it was only run by females! The men in this game are annoying and so over the top. It is so bad that they feel the need to compete with women. The men get shoes just to show off to one another. Like what type of shit is that? The females are cool. I had a dude on twitter tell me women don't know the value of a shoe let alone about the shoe. The men feel like they always gotta try to shit on the women. The women are just trying to be part of the culture and enjoy it. And they shouldn't have to try to be part of something that is open to anyone who is willing to be invested and understand the culture.

Any advice for a young kid coming up in the sneaker game? Wear what you like! Respect the game and the people who have been doing it before you. Because this new generation of sneakerheads are little entitled dicks. No respect whatsoever!! I don't care about Travis Scott shoes. Without Jordan being who he is Travis wouldn't have a Jordan silhouette to collaborate with! Same with Off-White. These silhouettes were here before these guys. Say know your history and pay homage!! BUT STAY humble.

See I follow you and I'm loving the way you include your daughter in your work, what does that mean to you? Man, it is beautiful!!!! Without even trying she is invested in the culture. Both photography and shoes. Myself and my wife are both heavy into photography, art, music, sneakers, and clothes. My daughter is into all the same things but we are letting it be her own experience. We are not forcing anything on her. We want her to enjoy being a child and whatever things she picks up from us along the way is just a bonus. But I love shooting her, and I love when she asks myself and her mother "do we like her fit". It is truly a blessing man!

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