Obnoxious Brit Pop!!!

We decided to add THREE exclamation marks to that, just to demonstrate how hyper and obnoxious this brit pop actually is. Case in point: The Go! Team. We secretly suspect that at least 5 out of 6 of them are in fact perpetually on crack. And we are aware this they are incredibly late breaking news...actually, just LATE news, like, 2 years late. Whatever. Whenever we listen to them, we have epileptic spasms. Like all those Japanese kids that had fits watching Pokémon. It's like epilepsy inducing Pokémon...for your ears. Look at how colorful and bright they are! And happy - don't they look happy around that fire hydrant. Fire hydrants make us happy too, especially yellow ones.
And of course, you can't blog about brit pop without mentioning Lily Allen. Yes, we know Allen is just a little too mainstream to be cool in the U.S. of A., but she has such a...bad attitude. We like the cheerful poppy/ska beats in combination with her bitchy/lude lyrics. And yes it is shallow, but she has the cutest clothes. It's refreshing to have a pop star who doesn't look like Paris Hilton. Unrelated: P.H = Satan. If she and Pete Wentz, the other half of evil, ever had a love child, it would actually grow up to destroy the earth. These are signs of the apocalypse of culture.

And finally: listen the The Pipettes and the Klaxons, because obnoxious brit pop is not complete without lesser-known obnoxious brit pop artists. The Pipettes: love the polka-dots, totally confused by the lyrics.

He's Good Enough, He's Smart Enough, And Doggone It, We Like Him

If Arghnold can be senator of Cal-ee-forn-ia, then Al Franken is more than qualified. Hey, he wrote, like, books. Books which we love. We love Al! We're trying to get our friends to move to Minnesota and vote for him! Which isn't exactly working, but still, ladies and gentlemen: Al Franken. Who could NOT want Stuart Smiley as their senator?

More Betsey Johnson Spring 07 Plus Candy Conversation Hearts

Candy Conversation Hearts! So corny, so seasonal, so excellent. We are convinced they're made purely of dried toothpaste and food coloring, and nothing tastes better than yellow #5. Not even Crest.

We just could not get enough of Betsey Johnson in our last post, so here is some more from Spring 07! We even like that all her models look like she-males. A warning for the girls: the more makeup, the more man.
This dress makes us think of tea cozies, and we like tea cozies! Ah, the frills! The white! The scary she-man wearing it!

This one makes us feel American, even though it is obviously turquoise-y. It looks like we could wear it to a picnic on the 4th of July. If picnics on the 4th of July weren't totally toxic and sickening.

And this, this is just funny, in a Madonna-at-the-roller-rink kind of way. Least she-male-ish model. We like the pose - kinda like a duck washing itself, for some reason. And the stripes! They are so lollipop/barbershop! By far our favorite.

NY Fashion Week

We absolutely could not find anything to say about NY Fashion Week, besides that it is ridiculous, and kind of depressing. But at least it can be funny. And at least Tracy Reese still likes gold. We actually like Tracy Reese, because we are suckers for mini-dresses. When we were, like, eleven, we used to wear teeny tiny mini-dresses and big big Spice Girls shoes, which we now realize wasn't very age-appropriate, but we still refuse to wear full-length dresses. They're too Jennifer-Aniston-at-the-Oscars for us. And now, our favorite designer of all time: Betsey Johnson. We would totally go to prom in this...if we weren't so cheap.

....Or this.

p.s. Baby Phat = night terrors. See below. This looks like some really scary Christmas advertising stint.

Dangerous Beauty

The 'Dangerous Beauty' show is our new fav, even if we can't see it. Not only does it feature Lauren Greenfield, who is, as always, a hero, but Jacob Dahlgren is hilarious - in a heroic way. We'd totally walk all over his masterpiece if we had the chance. Which sounds a little messed up, but it's not. And E.V Day, who mummifies barbies, is also in the exhibit. Seriously, we will have nightmares for weeks because of E.V Day. Actually, this will probably be the most disturbing exhibit of the year. Still brilliant. We even kind of like the whole feminist revival in modern art.

We ♥ Ray Johnson

We love Ray Johnson. We love pop art. We love bunnies. We love "How to Draw a Bunny", about Ray Johnson. We especially like the part where he drops the giant wiener dogs out of a helicopter - and people eat them. This is not only a great documentary on pop art, but also a great documentary on the way mental illness and artist genius walk hand in hand. And if you are a mentally ill artist genius, maybe people will let you drop giant wiener dogs on them.