DAREN FISHER JONES (2011)
Fashion is willfully absent of theory, but not without meaning. Sip the effortless. It can be said to be the life without words. The life to be wanted. The Internet is making this excessive and we want it this way. We want everything to be free of dialog, free of wrong answers. In fashion, nothing is said and nobody fails, except language. The failure of language is fashion, the success of images and the meanings they confuse and proliferate. Even now as I devote myself to language, I am slipping. I drive to the Hamptons on a Sunday and I’m not looking for words. I want the speed of the car and my new shoes and to forget the office. I can wear whatever. I won’t really speak to anyone and that is the ultimate lifestyle equation, something to balance the excessive midtown language market, the compression of social networks into productive corporate departments, executive suites, the rounded weight of words and time that becomes an enlightened market and a fat consulting fee. The company will wear blue this season. We won’t talk about it.
The Curious Mystery - “PB & J” from We Creeling [KLP225]
The CMers are going to be playing in Seattle at Folklife this Friday. Here’s hoping they play this sweet jam, this jellyroll of a tune. It’s nutty, but we love it. Plus, it’s named after my favorite kind of sandwich!
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