oiran | bad TV / L'Uomo Vogue / hoochie woman / roadtrip warning

Oh. I totally meant to watch House, but instead I watched the cheesy Where-Are-They-Now? show about the last round of America's Next Top Model. Short answer: They're mostly delusional about their appearance and talent, just as they were when their episodes aired. I especially liked Amanda's speech about how she wanted nothing more than to spend every precious moment of her life with her son immediately after we'd just seen her walk away from him in order to do the rounds of the agencies in NYC. Did you know that she's legally blind? So sad.

Like a lot of viewers, I had been somewhat indignant on Cassie's behalf when Mark Bouwer basically called her a fat-ass. Her hips never appeared especially wide during the episodes. On this special, however, she was pear-shaped and absolutely not helped at all by the wide, white band of t-shirt hem stretched around her...well, fat ass. She is still an attractive (if bland) girl with a nice RL figure, but definitely not shaped like a model.

Ya² apparently comes from a long line of insufferably smug and superior people. It's just an explanation, however, and not an excuse, so I still definitely hate her.

Carl & Pete & L'Uomo Vogue: My obsession with boy models who look like greasy little drug addicts is slightly out of control. In my pursuit of more images of pretend manwhores, I purchased a shrink-wrapped Italian men's Vogue which does have many pictures of Carl and a few of Pete from the Libertines/Babyshambles. However, this issue is annoyingly free of images of actual models, since it's apparently a music issue. Well, fuck. Hey, L'Uomo Vogue, pictures of grotty guitar players are what music magazines are for! I buy men's fashion rags for the seething undercurrent of homoerotica, oiled abs, and sullen pouting, not music news. Flipping through the glossy pages, the greasy little drug addict look is prevalent, of course, but the musicians don't carry it off as well as the by-the-hour boys. Anyway,

msdaccxx? You have this yet? You want it? Or maybe scans of the relevant bits?

Tori Amos: It would be wrong to say, "The new Tori album rawks!!!!" because, well, it's Tori Amos and she obviously doesn't...but I'm enjoying it very much. After a couple of play-throughs, it's oddly familiar and very reminiscent of the last one despite not sounding much like it at all. I suppose one would call that consistency. As she is someone who did a great deal of experimentation early on in her career, I suppose being consistent isn't a terrible thing. I'm very excited to see her in Atlanta - with

rhiannonhero as my date. Or maybe I'm her date.

roadtrip: straight down to Highway 10, drive as far west as possible, head up the coast on the 101, take 90 east and at some point break north into Canada, eventually pass through Toronto, go back down south through NYC and drive down the coast to...Asheville? Maybe further? and then turn homeward. That's what I want to do later this year. This is just me preparing you for the eventual post where I try to wheedle you into letting me sleep on your couch.