Gwyneth Paltrow's Meaningless Fight For Cancer

Karl Lagerfeld designed a T-shirt and Gwyneth Paltrow was the chosen model for a new campaign “Key To The Cure” to raise money for cancer research. The idea is good but the outcome is terrible!

Gwyneth Paltrow has been named the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s (EIF) ambassador for Saks Fifth Avenue’s 2008 KEY TO THE CURE campaign, a women’s cancer initiative founded in partnership with EIF’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund. The limited edition T-Shirt modeled by Gwyneth was created by legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld and features a cross bow and arrow on the front and a sketch of Karl himself on the back. Gwyneth will appear in all KEY TO THE CURE ads and a public service announcement wearing the T-shirt. Karl’s limited edition work will hit Saks Fifth Avenue stores and their website on October 1 and retail for $40 with over $35 to exclusively benefit KEY TO THE CURE. (source)

Why does the t-shirt have Karl Lagerfeld’s stretch of himself on the back?? Are they fighting for cancer or promoting the designer? One signature would be enough!! What are those 2 crossed arrows supposed to mean and what does it have to do with cancer?? The campaign was named “Key To The Cure” … wouldn’t it make more sense to have a lock and a key on the t-shirt?
Couldn’t EIF find a more interested and creative designer?? Big shout out to the photographer Julian Broad and Gwyneth Paltrow that donated their time to cause! Gwyneth actually looks amazing… I didn’t just say that! I claim temporary insanity!!

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manic pixie dream girl

so on the A.V. Club blog (don't ask), this dude wrote a column in 2007 and in it, he coined the term, "manic pixie dream girl," aka the girl in a movie who pulls the sensitive, brooding unhappy male out of his slump to see that yes, life IS wonderful. the guy writes that,

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations
of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young
men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.

Like the Magical Negro, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype is
largely defined by secondary status and lack of an inner life.
She's on hand to lift a gloomy male protagonist out of the
doldrums, not to pursue her own happiness.

the A.V. Club just came out w/ a top list of movies that feature the MPDG (manic pixie dream girl). since debwa loves lists and since I am in awe that somebody was clever enough to coin a phrase describing this annoying, unattainable, wish-that-was-me-but-also-despising-the-stereotype creature, I am only listing the movies I agree with/have seen/ and some that aren't on the list but I think holds true.

1) Garden State ft. MPDG natalie portman

2) breakfast at tiffany's ft. MPDG audrey hepburn

3) annie hall ft. MPDG diane keaton

4) along came polly ft. MPDG jennifer aniston

5) almost famous ft. MPDG kate hudson

6) eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ft. MPDG kate winslet


7) pretty woman ft. MPDG julia roberts

and finally, the Honorable Manic Pixie Dream Guy goes to: Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.

any other suggestions? international MPDGs perhaps?

probably the worst thing about the MPDG is that it projects this unrealistic expectation that 1) just by the MPDG being in your life, you will be a) happier, b) more joyful, c) more thankful, and the dreaded d) "open my eyes/I can see clearly for the first time/etc," which is ridiculous and perpetuates the myth that you should look for outside fufillment in order to feel whole, and 2) I wish I was a MPDG. fuck. why do I let movies stipulate my life feelings. motherfucker.

ps I don't know what the "magical negro" is but I really want to.

Fierceness

okay. so i feel like i have been slacking in the blog posting department, but this one will make up for it, i promise.

a friend of mine asked me this weekend if i was familiar with the ballroom scene. I wasn't, so he filled me in:



the ball scene, aka the house system is an underground gay subculture, predominantly black and latino (i think), in which trans-gender individuals compete for trophies by having walk-offs. apparently this is where 'voguing' originated from. The people involved in these events belong to certain houses, sometimes named after fashion designers, which have a leader and somtimes several other ranking positions (house mother, house father). when you belong to the house, you incorporate it's name into your own name; for example if i belonged to the house of Xtravaganza I would be KD Fantasy Xtravaganza.

here are some famous houses:
House of Corey
House of LaBeija
House of Ninja (i think one of the house of ninja was on ANTM)
House of Pendavis
House of Garavani
House of Xtravaganza

This is a whole house performing, with a batman theme




Besides providing a support system for its members, the main function of these houses is to compete against one another in "walks" or "drag walks" in which they are judged on dance skills, costume, general appearance, and attitude. Participants dress according to category in which they are competing and are expected to display appropriate "realness.

Categories can include:
banjee realness (?)
butch queen (emphasizes masculinity)
executive realness (also known as Wall Street)
drag queen (emphasizes extravagance)
fag out (displaying androgyny and stereotypical gayness)
fem queen (emphasizes femininity)
old way (showcasing dance styles from circa mid-1990s and before)
preppie realness (also known as Town & Country)
AND MUCH MORE!!!

this is a good mix of new and old styles




This is a battle.



The majority of fashion and music used today is hip-hop based, and many people believe this culture has greatly influenced hip-hop style as we know it today.

here is an article about it on wikipedia (which i used to get all my info)
the movie Paris is Burning is also all about the ball scene

Drag is a form of control. By looking good one can feel good. By looking powerful, one can feel powerful. One can be powerful. Therefore, beauty begets control. Artifice equals power.

no thank you urban outfitters

so a couple days ago mara and I played a fun game from when I was younger which is get a catologue (we had a sears jewelry one and an urban outfitters one) and you each take a pen and circle the thing you like best on each page. (we're girls so this was fun to us).

the sears one was fun, but the urban outfitters one fucking suckedddddddddddd so bad. the clothes were completely uninspired, overpriced, and boring. I guess they're trying to cater to the "gossip girl" crowd b/c it definitely had a private-school uniform theme, but seriously, nothing was cute at all (except for 1 thing, see way below).

here are some of the ugly too-expensive things:

now I know urban outfitters has sucked and been overpriced for a while, but usually I am able to go in there once every few months and find something cute on the sale rack. the non-sale racks usually have some super cute things, but not for the price (i.e. the price does not outweigh the cuteness). but now, I don't think I will go in there again. I can't really see how anybody can justify $48 for a bland t-shirt or $68 for a boring cardigan. NO THANK YOU!

there was one redeeming factor in the catalogue, though. mara and I both really really love the shoes below. (there is a big white space that is part of the jpeg I can't remove)

wayyy too expensive for my blood ($178), but a girl can dream, can't she? and here they are on a model so you can see how truly adorable they are:

they kind of remind me of a more delicate version of the girl's outfit in amelie. she wore really cute thrift-type dresses w/ low doc martens, and whenever I tried that look it just looked dumb on me, but I think w/ these shoes it would look feminine and slightly retro.

tooth gems

if are into grillz but want something more understated and more femmine, why not go for a temporary tooth gem?


I experienced my first two tooth gems on the same day, within hours of one another, when i was working at the diner last week. At first i thought the girl had food on her tooth, but then i realized it was a beautiful rhinestone! Apparently you can get them in different shapes too(like a dolphin or a cowboy hat). I told my manager and she confessed to me she had one when she was 15 during her 'chav phase'and stuck in on with nail glue. i wish i had been that cool when i was 15.


you can buy tooth gems from this lovely website, smilegems.com, which also sells BIKINI GEMS to stick on your yoni, pubic hair dye, and hair glitter.

this is why I love dlisted

this is why I love dlisted. I read this and literally choked on the peach I was eating b/c I was trying to laugh silently (at work). the bolded part is where I started choking. michael k wrote about john mayer:

During a show in Mountain View, CA, last night, John Mayer told the audience about a dream he had. In his dream, he made out with a chick who wasn't his girlfriend. A bitch who was at his show told E!, "He was talking about 'dream cheating. He apparently made out with some chick in his dreams. He had to do his penance to his girlfriend by singing 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart.'"

Jennifer Aniston probably flipped her chin when she found out about his dream. She cornered him and screamed, "You cheater! How dare you!?" John had to explain to her it was only a dream. She didn't care, "I thought you were different. But you're not! Who was the tramp?! WHO?! Let me fucking guess. Her first name stars with an A and ends with an N." John responded, "You mean ends with an A?" That's when Jenny made him shave off all his hair off. She used it to make a potion to ward off the cheating spirits.

Here's John making "diarrhea faces" while playing Irvine, CA the other night. I miss his 80s mop.

ummmm

this is amazing. seriously even if you don't watch embedded videos, check out at least the first one. it's this bv from shreveport, LA and mr. jones said he's into it b/c it's a mix of children's hip-hop and has a tripped-out feel to it. I am into it b/c I wish I was a mini BV extra in the video


1) "fry that chicken"




more of ms peachez:

2) "in the tub" (like fiddy's in the club)

ps I found on the internet that ms peachez started as a joke and then blew up, and that ms peachez is a straight man w/ a family, hayyyy