http://tv.yahoo.com/americas-next-top-model/show/35130/photo s/1#goto_1"For decades, media critics such as pioneering advertising theorist Jean Kilbourne have argued that ad imagery equating gruesome violence against women with beauty and glamour works to dehumanize women, making such acts in real life not only more palatable and less shocking, but even aspirational. ANTM’s pretty-as-a-picture crime-scene challenge epitomized the worst of an insidious industry trend that, ahem, just won’t die." Jennifer Ponzer
My headline quote was said by Gloria Steinem during a speech called "If Women Mattered" that she gave at the University of Washington recently.I'd like to meet Eric Dahl.
the velvet underground, the flaming lips, the dresden dolls, the handsome family, nin, queen, talking heads, belle and sebastian, bowie
Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine, American Beauty, Royal Tenebaums, Rushmore, Mulholland Drive, whatever Amber has me watch. Also, Grizzly Man and other Herzog films. Oh, and The Science of Sleep. Really, see that if you haven't. A Scanner Darkly is really good, too.
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Sputnik Sweetheart, Dance Dance Dance, Norwegian Wood, The Elephant Vanishes, Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, South of the Border West of the Sun, after the quake, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman and Underground by Haruki Murakami, Haunted and Survivor by Chuck Palahnuik, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn(Amber, I don't know how you can't read Philip K. Dick but you can decipher Truck), Sylvia Plath, David Sedaris, Flannery O'Connor (I've only read her short stories, the religious stuff in her novels scares me away), The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore, Watership Down, Catcher in the Rye (yeah, yeah...) You Shall Know our Velocity by Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, VALIS by Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick, Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace, and I would probably read the Dollanganger series by V.C Andrews again.
dodie forrest, amanda palmer and my mom.