It’s time to transition out of August and into the fall that is September. Back to school – back to reality – back to dreams. I am so much happier w/ this collection post than the last one. These photographs are not as sarcastic as the last, but instead beautiful, inspiring, and more genuine.
An incredibly fun song to dance to…just sayin’
Out of every event during the year, award shows included, The Metropolitan Costume Gala is by far my favorite. This year’s theme was American Women: Fashioning a National Identity.
Oprah Winfrey w/ Oscar de la Renta in his design. 4.2
The newly released music video for M.I.A.’s Born Free has already been removed from YouTube and is officially banned. The music video to me resembled more of a short film with her single as the backing track. After hearing about this controversy yesterday, I spent last night and this morning searching for it. Was it really as bad as everyone said it was?
Yes. The cinematography was good, but the video did not sit well with me. The 9-minute movie shows armed “soldiers” executing a number of red-headed males. Not only does the video show graphic violence, there is some nudity and language.
Watching this video made me feel very uncomfortable and while I respect M.I.A. as a talented artist, that does not mean I have to approve of this. I don’t think I could watch it again. I think my emotions toward “Born Free” are heightened moreso now because of an article I read yesterday about how three high school senior girls had kidnapped a girl who had red hair after months of tormenting. After kidnapping her, they then proceeded to beat her incessantly and tried to push her over a cliff.
Not to bring you down so early in the day, but I am confused as to why this is becoming an issue again. Granted, I understand that this video was made before the incident, but maybe there could have been another direction for M.I.A. ?
To view the video click here
Thoughts?
(almost)
My header, once again shot by Mark Hunter The Cobra Snake, is of one of my favorite idols, Cory Kennedy. There are many reasons why I chose this as my header for September, one being that I brushed up against either HER or her look-a-like last night at the Street Scene Music Festival in San Diego.
September is a month for fresh starts, reinvention. It is always the month that I return to school after spending 3 months of summer anticipating slash scheming about the person I would like to be during the school year.
September is the start of fall, my favorite Seattle music festival Bumbershoot and
dun dun dun…
today’s song of the day is
because we’re gonna kick off the school year w/ a bang. bang. BANG!
