Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and his girlfriend, model Kemp Muhl, have attempted to recreate the iconic Rolling Stone cover of his famous parents, but have failed miserably:
The original photo (below), taken by Annie Leibovitz, is a classic. The new photo, taken by Terry Richardson for the fall issue of purple fashion magazine (France), is pathetic by comparison.
A word that might best describe the original is "intimate." But the words that come to mind when looking at the recreation are, "Not now, I think I'm going to be sick!"
In fairness to Palin, nobody's Twitter posts are elegant or awe-inspiring. So she's not reaching a new low when 'tweeting' about listening to Big & Rich; she's just the target of the moment.
The focus is, and should be, on the guy with the arrow — Shatner, and on what he could teach the former governor of Alaska — a woman who is in desperate need of transformation.
Shatner realized early that the key to a long career is perfecting the ability to reinvent himself. It didn't work out very well for him in the beginning, but look at him now. His exaggerated style of interpretive reading is hilariously successful not so much because of the content, but because there was a time when he took this type of performance art seriously. Very seriously.
In 1968, in an effort to move beyond his Star Trek personna, Shatner released his first album, The Transformed Man. It was a failure then, but his songs are now cult classics. If you haven't heard any of them, listen to some tracks posted on YouTube. Do that now; you won't be disappointed.
Ten years later, Shatner hosted the Science Fiction Film Awards and performed Elton John's Rocket Man as spoken word (video below). Today, viewers find his rendition of that song (and the "special effects") comical, but no one in the audience laughed when he performed it live — not even when he started dancing.
Forty years ago, Shatner wasn't at all happy about being laughed at, but now he's the one laughing from gig to gig. Kudos to him for reinventing himself over the years through the art of self-deprecation. Hopefully, Sarah Palin is paying attention.
No, not mine. So if you've come here looking for porn, you've come to the wrong place.
That quote belongs to performance artist Storm Large and it's from her music video "8 Miles Wide": "My vagina is 8 miles wide. Come in, come in, come inside!"
It's a catchy tune. Very catchy. After listening to it only once I found myself singing, "I am not loose, I'm not a whore. This is a metaphor for my supervagintastically mystical feminist goddess core!" while making coffee.
Hat tip to my good friend Megan A. for turning me on to Ms. Large and her one-woman show "Crazy Enough." If I ever get to Portland, Oregon, I'll be sure get tickets.
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