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My dead grandmother found me on Google. I swear if I’m haunted by anyone...
Current mood:
energetic
Category: Life
I googled my name and a few results down I get this:
Newark NJ USA
Kocur, Genevieve (Niemiec)
KOCUR - Genevieve (nee Niemiec), age 83, of Point Pleasant Beach, formerly of Bloomfield, N.J., died at home Sunday, May 4, 2003, predeceased by her beloved husband, John, in 1995 and her sister, Bernadette Booth, surviving are her loving children, Stephen Kocur and Christine Koerner, her grandchildren, Marc Gerardi and Amy Kocur, and her greatgrandchildren, Michael Gerardi and Frank Livia. Condolences may be paid at a Funeral Mass on Tuesday at St. Peter's Church, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. Please contact VAN HISE & CALLAGAN FUNERAL HOME, 812 Arnold Ave., Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., for the time of the Mass.
Published in the Star-Ledger on 5/5/2003
I've googled myself before and this is the first time this has popped up.
As a note - I moved into the bedroom she died in 2 weeks after. I have felt as though she has been a larger presence in my life since then than before she died.
The internet is intense.
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John Hughes has gone the way of the Salinger, save Drillbit.
Current mood:
awake
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-goldstein25mar25,0,3535882.story
I feel the need to listen to Otis Redding and wear pink taffeta.
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Black cops hate black kids - which system to blame?
Current mood:
chipper
Category: News and Politics
This book is one for the must read list
http://www.amazon.com/Ass-Backwards-Officers-Criminals-Enablers/dp/0595460933
This has got to be two of my favorite societal structures and the author writes to deconstruct one of them - what leads [black?] kids to become delinquint and why it's wrong - but I'm interested in the counter deconstrucion of his own 'nurturing' career path - what leads [black, white, anyone, really] to want to become a cop?
Both can be addressed through probably the same statement:
What is probably reassuring to a minority committing a crime is probably the exact same thing reassuring a U.S. citizen in becoming a cop. And again, as many debates go, the weight is held in the adjectives - what makes one good and the other bad?
Found through:
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/141971/index.php
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Karl Lagerfeld and Agyness Deyn - f*cked in my Blog.
Current mood:
groggy
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
"It's sophisticated and expensive clothing for the rich punk," Karl Lagerfeld said
As of this week, I'm feeling a feverish backlash to my own indulgence in fashion culture.
1. 'Punk' and 'sophisticated' are "supposed to be" antonyms, no?
2. 'Punk' and 'expensive clothing' are supposed to be mutually exclusive.
3. Teenagers making money selling clothes, etc. on eBay annoys me as I believe they're making money they don't need. Adults selling earrings for over $200 and handbags for over $10,000 annoys me even more because everyone's materialism has a stopping point and mine is waaaaay before those price tags.
So, where do I lie in my opinions of fashion? I thought Agyness Deyn was my new favorite something-or-other but - that's not even her real name, she's being touted as the 'new Kate Moss' (who I find just gross) and her whole 'punk' thing really isn't that unconventional, especially in London.
I think the only way I can rationalize it is in drawing parallels to theatre. Designers are putting on a show, literally, of costumes inspired by... whatever. Lagerfeld is simply drawing inspiration from a lifestyle he is so far removed from it's not even funny in order to create a show that is appealing to...whomever.
'Punks' most likely don't even know who Lagerfeld is, and either way, certainly don't care. Obviously it's catering to a trend but I just think it's funny that he deems his clothing fit for a 'punk' while sitting in a space that "was transformed to look like an elegant Parisian salon, with all-black chairs emblazoned with the Paris-Londres logo, candlelit tables, and a front row that included a mix of socialites, celebrities, and supermodels." (quotes fr. www.fashionweekdaily.com)
FULL article: http://www.fashionweekdaily.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=513874
"Sure there were a lot more punks, but there were a lot more posers too. What's a poser? Well, it's someone who looks like a punk, but they did it for fashion." - SLC Punk
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We are the crisis kids.
Current mood:
chipper
Category: Life
All my generation is known for is coming up with a new 'life - crisis'
08.23.07 [UPDATE] ... and then behaving as though they're the only person to have gone through something.
ARE THE WORDS INDIE/ DIY SYNONYMOUS WITH ASSHOLE? And I mean this question in a very serious, large scale sense - To a country of adults who have ended up on one side of a very divided countrywide social/economic structure it is very easy to believe their distaste for the youth has more to do with MY age group than the 'teenagers' being misclassified as spearheading this GenME movement.
The article that spurred this addition includes all of the fodder - lack of humility, made up adjectives (of musical root used to describe a film no less, really getting to the height of mocking that whole _____-core trend) - that supplements my disdain along with the real kicker that I neglected in my original piece:
"this romantic office comedy, about a hipster Annie Hall type, stars a who's who of the genre. It could very well be a mumblecore swan song, since, like all modern-day slackers, its creators are ready to sell out."
Thanks a fucking lot John Mayer - if you really were the one to coin the term 'quarter-life crisis' as that's what we've come to be known as. The crisis kids.
Too young to be hip, too old to be hip. That shitty generational thing that happens to kids born in contrast with a decade's defining trends.
Was Kurt GenX or are we claiming him as our own because we were going through puberty at the time?
We're at the tail end of GenX and we're paving the way for these fucktards in HS to stage an alterna-music revival with the front of arrogant dismissal garnered by clothing labels rather than the 'fuck all' label dismissal the real grunge era touted. I love that sentence. Me, me, me... Generation Me. The loss of community through the expansion of technology and exclusivity has rendered everyone isolated and hateful.
We are the generation of hateful adjectives. We are the generation of laughing at someone else to make yourself feel better. We are the generation of competition. We are the generation of fame-seeking, self-gratifying, debaucherous anti-aging with no concept of personal responsibility or personal growth. We're the generation seeing everyone turn to therapy thinking WE KNOW BETTER. And we don't.
This is what I think about myself and my peers on the eve of my birthday.
A few years ago I was quoting Billy Talent singing, "Missing since 1983." And it seems, with the younger kids getting slightly older that we've found ourselves, our voice... and all it is are those toys and aspects of our childhood that GenX was too old to get into and the newTeens are too young to really know.
We've all turned into Troll Dolls.
"All we are are crazy croutons and tomatos in a crazy salad."
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Amy Winehouse is a smokey mirror. To us all: Save Yourself.
Current mood:
annoyed
Category: Life
Amy Winehouse has talent. That's not what this rant is about. This rant is to all her fucking pride-filled friends and her deadbeat husband:
Why is NO ONE forcefully pulling her out of the situation she's living in and making her re-examine the way she's "living."
Excerpts are from overdose article in The Sun.
Even Amy says she will be dead within one year. If she wants to be dead then she will be. Self-fulfilling prophecy can lead an entire person's life. "She had a party of people around before she collapsed. "She looked like a zombie - white as a sheet and trembling. And I'll never forget her eyes. They were dead, like a shark. Why didn't any of her friends take her to the ER then??? If someone looks dead to you that's usually an indication of a problem. At least Joaquin called 911... but reading shit like this I wonder if River could still be alive. Why do friends especially in entertainment circles forget that even though drugs/alcohol can be indulged in w/o consequence you should always keep an eye for someone crossing that line into FUCKING FATAL USAGE.
But the source told how Amy has shocked pals by comparing herself to romantic poet Lord Byron who died in 1824, aged 36. They added: "She thinks all this stuff is romantic. She uses the word 'Byronic' - but for everyone else it's terrifying." This part I can understand and is why, I think, I'm calling out her friends/family so much. Artists do believe in this 'romance' that just isn't applicable in the real world and can become too foggy to see through.
"To be honest, Blake doesn't help. I've known Amy since she started going out with him and I've never seen her so f***ed up as she is now. "The house has become a drugs den. It's filthy, covered in ash and the stench of rotting food. "Blake wants to be like Pete Doherty, with Amy as his Kate. "But Amy is just tumbling and tumbling and all her mates are terrified." And throw love into the mix it's just too damaging... even if someone did pull her out... she'd be miserable for so long trying to repair all the damage that it'd very easily backfire and she'd relapse/ revert/ die.
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Do people really like her music so much that they'd rather see a person dissolve than step in and try to HELP?
And what is HELP in a society that puts VALUE on her behavior and similar erratic living?
Rehab is not a joke. It's not a song. And some people still need to be fucking committed, need to be punished and need to learn lessons - doing something artistic ONCE should not exempt you from that... whether or not you die or just start throwing temper tantrums at photo shoots.