Amazon orders going out while there are still ppl in the house to receive packages

[petronia]

* If you of the flist have a book in print and I haven't bought it... it's now because I forgot rather than because I'm broke. XD; Also, Jhegaala and Victory of Eagles. I'll get the Paarfi ones from the bookstore, they were there last I checked.

* The most recent volume of Steel Ball Run I own is #12 and #20 just came out. Also WTF is this and

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[flemmings]

Still people in the house? Your whole family is moving?

[petronia]

Yup! Moving or gone for several months.

[sub_divided]

Telephone reminded me of the line on Lady Gaga's Wikipedia page about dying her hair blonde so people would stop mixing her up with Amy Winehouse.

[dipping_sauce]

You can totally see why when Gaga's sister shows up in the Prison for Bitches.

[sub_divided]

Her sister's in the video? Like her real sister? Does she wanna be a fame monster, too?

Lady Gaga is always doing this stuff about being sexually objectified so hard that you go crazy and turn into a murderous automaton, so a women's-prison vid where the inmates strip-dance on the prison bars is a logical next step, I think. It's mashed up with a Virgin Mobile ad and a girls' revenge fantasy (with Kill Bill/Helen Housewife/Harold and Maude imagery!), which kind of confuses the issue.

The action-movie production looks like some of the higher-budget hip hop videos that have been coming out recently, like this one. If she's working with Akon and Beyonce, maybe that makes sense.

Also, while I'm putting down my thoughts, I want to put down that Beyonce is the better actress, by far. :p I always thought Lady Gaga was good-looking, and and didn't need the masks, but maybe the masks are a way to keep from having to act - in a subtle way - in public. Or maybe not being a good actress is an act? The "weird, damaged and vulnerable" act

[dipping_sauce]

Yep, her real sister.

[bladderwrack]

I missed the exhibition for the comics at the Louvre series by like one week orz. Also I was like, WAIT THIS RESEMBLES SENZA FINE (the artists were in residence too afaict)

Gaga/Beyoncé's "Telephone" SOBBING XDDD

[petronia]

Hahaha inorite I was like "Damn why didn't I think bigger!!!"

Weird poses, women's prison, nonsense repeating syllables, stars-and-stripes hotpants... SO YEAH.

[supplanter]

Telephone is an ok song, a better video; Videophone was just kind of depressing to me, maybe because none of the clothing worked for me.  (OK, Lady Gaga's normal clothes don't exactly work for me, but they're not screaming "I'M TRYING TO BE LADY GAGA, OR MY ALTERNATE PERSONA WHO TRIES TO BE LADY GAGA" only, you know, Beyonce.  How nice that Lady Gaga finds a way to keep her own clothes without even, presumably, hiding tonnes of cash in her boobs!  I wonder if Araki-sensei would have appreciated the Videophone clothes/video; were any of his favorite movies by Tarantino?)

Ah christ, amazon.jp.  Maybe I do want $10 boxen to put each individual series in!  And maybe I need that Araki at the Louvre thing too, it's not like I managed to strategically be in France for the exhibition. T.T

[petronia]

I always wondered about the cash-in-boobs bit, it felt like Araki had borrowed it off some exploitation flick? In which case it's Haus of Gaga research fail, that would've been right up her thematic alley. XDD

I didn't particularly like "Videophone" the song either, and this one is so iconable. XD GAGA SAYS LET'S MAKE A SANDWICH

[supplanter]

Oh yeah, is it particularly weird that Gallimard is publishing it?  I basically know nothing about the publishing house.