Dreams -Woodstock '94

Was 1994 the coolest year ever? Possibly.

I have a VHS tape of Woodstock '94 and I must say some of the best viewing experiences of any movie ever have been - a 12 pack of beer, a best friend, a boyfriend, and the Woodstock '94 tape.

This clip of The Cranberries' set is a great example of the awesomeness.
Dolores O'Riordan rocks it with those strong Irish pipes of hers.


Also featured in this clip are two of my favorite summer looks. The long black dress with awesome necklaces on Dolores and the cut-offs with work boots on the female crowd surfer. Also if you stick with it till the end you can see some dudes re-define the term crowd surfing with one long haired hottie standing on another's stomach as he crowd surfs.

24 Hours Of Love

Do you guys remember back in the 90s when Trent Reznor was being a jerk to Courtney Love and she was all like "Don't call your band Nine Inch Nails if you only have a three-inch one." Ah that was rich.

I just read this great quote where she tries to justify it by saying:

"My band's called Hole. It's not called Little Hole, it's not called Big Hole. It's not called Flopping Nonie, it's not called Tiny Rosebud, it's not called Barbie Pussy, it's called Hole. He's still mad at me about it. Dude, that was the '90s, what the fuck?"





Here is a recent video of her dispelling some hard won words of wisdom.


So of course that sent me into a Courtney Love K-hole of you-tubing. Do you remember 24 Hours Of Love when Courtney took over MTV for 24 hours? That was back when they played music videos, good music videos!
So its starts off all sweet and innocent.....or not.


And then this is the last few hours. This actually doesn't even convey how crazy things got.


This is kind of a "best of" of that 24 hours. I actually love the depressed Courtney segment at 23 hours. I get like that when I'm hungry or tired. "All I really wanted was to be an evil genius"

The Good Witch of Modeling : Kristen McMenamy

When I was young my mom would drop me off at the Groton Library to work on science or history reports. Well at first I'd work on the report, then I'd go look at the books on anarchism or the average array of fashion magazines. The library had pretty decent magazines, and although I agree that a lot of fashion magazine's make everyone feel poor and fat, my experience pouring over Vogue or other high fashion stuff was actually really helpful.

I can't find a good example of what teen magazine girls look liked at this point but picture a 16 year old Maggie Rizer. Teen magazines were horribly annoying with their smiley lip glossy photo spreads and the 'put something on a high shelf and ask him to get it for you' dating advice.

Anyhow, finding magazines that had a more dynamic concept of beauty than the average happy teen magazine actually made me feel a lot better. The fact that something could be kind of dark and off putting and intriguing but beautiful for those reasons was kind of like finding art or other inspired friends....it gave me some hope that there was more to life than the average jr. high experience.
Recently I saw a photo of Kristen McMenamy at the Met gala and thought 'Who's that crazy woman, she's kind of amazing'. Then I realized she was one of the main models I used to love in those magazines back in the mid 90s...

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Well anyhow, Kristen McMenamy has been popping up again a lot lately. Like some sort of good white witch she's still kind of freaky and ethereal. She's also super busy with ads for Lanvin, shoots in Vogue Italia, and walking the runway for Givenchy. At 42 she's even more unconventional than she was back in the 90s, which is nice cause she still makes growing up look awesome.