Pictures #3 and #4
30 Jul
It’s early, early Thursday, and I’m excited because I have tickets to see the National Symphony Orchestra do some goodness from one of my favorite dead people tonight. (See yesterday’s picture for an illustration. It’s Dude Mendelssohn tonight though, not Chick Mendelssohn.)
I’ll be the nerd who’s there by herself, since my brother totally bailed on me this weekend and my husband is out of town. It’s cool though. I’ll have an overpriced drink and a book, hanging out on the lawn until the show starts– because yeah, it’s outdoors. I can’t really complain. Anyone who would should be struck down instantly.
And here’s another installment of Hard Drive Photo Finds (this time apparently illustrating some important developments in the history of EmoKids):
#3
#4
Huh. Yeah I can’t pretend those two belong on the same page together, no matter how I try.
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Now playing: Robert Schumann – Konzertsatz for Piano and Orchestra in D Minor
via FoxyTunes
I was wondering who the young guy was with the tattoo on the neck (now I know). And if number 3 guy had a tattoo, what would it be and where would it be?
Why did you pick that as your icon? For the first little while reading comments at other blogs,I couldn’t tell if the pic was a guy or a girl and just assumed that it was you!
So many questions…hey, and have lots of fun at the NSO tonight.
I love Morrisey! (shame on me, sure, but I do love him!)
Speaking of the development of Emo kids, what collection would be complete without a little Hamlet:
http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Rossetti.Hamlet.gif
If #3 guy had a tattoo… well if you believe some art historians (no reason not to, I should mention), I reckon it’d say “Caravaggio Was Here” right on his–
No wait. I won’t go there. (Too late!) It’d probably be a tattoo of some Smiths’ Lyrics on his back. (“And now I know how Joan of Arc felt…”)
I never thought about it, but I know why I picked that icon anyhow now that you mention it. One of my favorite things about Morrissey’s lyrics (because like Aaron, I love him in spite of myself. Unlike Johnny Marr, whom I just love) is that for all he takes himself too seriously, there’s also this sense of self-deprecation under the surface. He has his two-way irony mirror thing going on at all times, and it saves him from being completely obnoxious.
I’m definitely not trying to associate myself with that kind of cleverness, but I think the world– particularly the creative one– could do with more of it. And that picture says it all, with that extra awesome tattoo.
“Fake.” Hell yeah.
And thank you. My husband has actually ditched his duties this evening and decided to stay an extra day to go with me, even. What a guy!
Aaron, dude, that is an AWESOME picture. Click and save, that’s going to need iconning or… something. Brilliant. My Pictoral History of the Development of the EmoKid is nearly complete!
The second guys a hairy one!
Maybe that’s why he’s so emo :*(