Misc.

So, turns out there is a band called the Barbarellatones. This is both good news and bad news. The good news is that there is a band called the Barbarellatones. The bad news is that I should have thought of the name first, because my band called the Barbarellatones would have been girl group meets surf rock and all of the songs would have been about sex. Sex in outer space. Oh, and sung in French. This band called the Barbarellatones describes themselves as “a glam pop band with dreamy, sitar drenched songs,” who “bring back the glam pop of the Ziggy Stardust years.” Now, in and of itself, this sounds like a pretty not bad premise (although – I hadn’t realized we’d left the Ziggy Stardust years behind. My bad), and the title of their first album is also pretty good (Interview with a Glampire), but the sample that you can listen to on their website just sounds like a not-very-good Hedwig soundtrack ripoff. And I really don’t know how I feel about their song Chocky the Hawaiian Dirt Cat, like, is it funny because it’s actually funny or is it funny because it’s not actually funny? I don’t even know, and I’m usually a pretty good judge of these kinds of things.

Anyhow, the Barbarellatones are actually playing in L.A. tonight, and, although I am usually exactly the kind of person who would go to a concert because the band has a wonderful/stupid name, tonight it’s not happening because I have:

a) a stomachache
b) no desire to go wandering around in the dark looking for the club
c) a prior engagement with the Santa Monica Stitch’n'Bitch
d) a sneaking suspicion that this band might actually be kinda shitty.

In other news, I’ve been reading the Sartorialist a lot for the past while, and you should be too. While he and I do not always agree on what is fabulous (for instance: he thinks this is fab, I think she looks like a microwaved corpse), and while he tends to like women’s clothes that favour the waif-like, today he has outdone himself, because this has got to be the most stunningly beautiful thing I’ve seen in forever.