New eyebrows, Old Labour
Jan. 4th, 2006 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusIn Japan, the pace of change is unrelenting, and as the changes arrive, we here at Click Opera report them to you. Yesterday I brought word of a new art movement, today--hold the front page!--it's a new eyebrow shape that is sweeping Japanese fashion magazines. Here (from Hanatsubaki, Dazed and Confused Japan, and H magazine) are snaps of what I call the Denis Healey eyebrow.
Yes, it seems that the British politician is, like so many undervalued Western things (like Momus, indeed), a cult in Japan. Well, certainly amongst stylists on trendy fashion magazines, who are painting his distinctive eyebrow shape (stray wild unplucked hairs brushed upwards, or a tiny smudge of eyeshadow just above the brow if you want to cheat) on the faces of beautiful young models like the delicious Rina Ohta, perhaps in an attempt to spread his Old Labour values ("I'm going to tax the rich until the pips squeak!").
It's the least we Western trend-makers can do to return the favour by spreading Japanese values in the West. My new column at Wired is Water therapy for better humans, and lays out for unbathed Western barbarians the correct use of water.
Meanwhile, I'd like to thank David Fenech for introducing me to a wonderful American cultural export: the folk song collector John Jacob Niles and his gorgeous falsetto voice.
Yes, it seems that the British politician is, like so many undervalued Western things (like Momus, indeed), a cult in Japan. Well, certainly amongst stylists on trendy fashion magazines, who are painting his distinctive eyebrow shape (stray wild unplucked hairs brushed upwards, or a tiny smudge of eyeshadow just above the brow if you want to cheat) on the faces of beautiful young models like the delicious Rina Ohta, perhaps in an attempt to spread his Old Labour values ("I'm going to tax the rich until the pips squeak!").It's the least we Western trend-makers can do to return the favour by spreading Japanese values in the West. My new column at Wired is Water therapy for better humans, and lays out for unbathed Western barbarians the correct use of water.
Meanwhile, I'd like to thank David Fenech for introducing me to a wonderful American cultural export: the folk song collector John Jacob Niles and his gorgeous falsetto voice.
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Date: 2006-01-04 01:30 am (UTC)The Michael Foot specs?
Or perhaps the Neil Kinnock Feria 74?
God forbid what they'll make of Roy Hattersley...
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Date: 2006-01-04 01:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-04 02:57 am (UTC)eyebrow control: marxo-freudian significances
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Date: 2006-01-04 01:14 pm (UTC)der.
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Date: 2006-01-04 02:00 am (UTC)Ironically enough, I only have a single song of yours(that being "I Was A Maoist Intellectual").
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Date: 2006-01-04 03:10 am (UTC)I've noticed that model (Just "Naomi"/ăăȘă) is very fond of that type of eyebrow.
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:57 am (UTC)btw. they were both part of murakami's first superflat show /hey, you just said this, just noticed/, that's how unbeliavably things converged at that time.
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-06 06:39 pm (UTC)thank's, you've ruined my fantasy. now i'll go throw up in the toilet.
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Date: 2006-01-07 12:03 am (UTC)Really interesting :D
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Date: 2006-01-04 10:57 am (UTC)I always liked him for aesthetic reasons: nice white suits and a sharp line in phrasemaking. Calling his leftist critics "out of their tiny Chinese minds" was just an alliterative dig at Maoists. But, as usual, politicians are penalised for being interesting, or for making pithy phrases which can be used against them.
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:01 am (UTC)are you cult now Nick ? ;)
happy new year 2005 ! it's good to read your posts in the same time zone for a change !
Antonin / Digiki
The correct use of water...
Date: 2006-01-04 11:07 am (UTC)I feel the reason it is so invigorating and refreshing to bathe in these kinds of waters is because of the engery water absorbs from the mountains and surrounding rocks, as well as the powerhouse that is volcanic heating.
Even a cold natural spring feels utterly wonderful and gets deep down into the muscles of my back.. there is nothing like it I know aside from the hands of another human being skilled in masage therapy..its the energy as well as the bathing I think.
Interesting artical BTW :) It reminds me of what you were writing about food earlier that I didn't respond to.
Re: The correct use of water...
Date: 2006-01-04 12:17 pm (UTC)You sit in a muddy pool with your feed immersed in a disgusting slime with drunken yobs all around.
Has anyone actually tried it out?
Re: The correct use of water...
Date: 2006-01-04 12:37 pm (UTC)I spent some of the Christmas period gifting the Thames and The London Canal System with orgone generators...
http://www.metatech.org/cloudbuster_&_orgone_generator.html
You don't need to be a nutter to have fun with stuff.
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:25 pm (UTC)Just becaurse you are a interlectual dosent make what you say a fact. Interlectuals are just as big liars as any one.
Dont believe what USA, left-winged people, french people or canadians tell you. Make up your own mind.
-from fritz
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Date: 2006-01-06 02:59 am (UTC)Nice sentiment, but you can't spell worth a shit, so it's hard to take you seriously. No offense.
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Date: 2006-01-06 09:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-06 09:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-06 06:54 pm (UTC)"Because right is right, and left is wrong."
Also, remember: "If B then A" doesn't mean "If A then B."
John Jacob Niles
Date: 2006-01-04 10:31 pm (UTC)My eyebrows look just like that!
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