verdandi rocks
Aug. 24th, 2002 04:14 pmHarry Potter is out. Lemony Snicket is in. Fur is out. Edible Spandex is in. SUVs are out. Nitro-burning funny cars are in. Epic journeys of laughter, love and self-discovery are out. Shrugging sheepishly and changing the subject are in. Engineering right-wing coups in Latin American countries is out. Conspiring to make Latin American leaders think their flies are unzipped and then giggling is in. wasps in the rear windows of cars are out. Dried flowers pinned to the rear view mirror are in. Regency romances are out. Novelizations of Leonard Cohen songs are in. Blowing up high-rise buildings is out. Spraying random Americans with Silly String to protest global warming is in. Darkly baroque feminist revisionist versions of medieval fairy tales are out. Grimm Brothers fairy tales told in Lego format with all the really gory and ic parts included are in. Comanche helicopters are out. James Bond ejecto-car seats upholstered in gorgeous purple suede are in. The more embarrassingly racist and anti-Japanese bits of Max Headroom are out. The rest of Max Headroom is in. Low-rise ass-crack blue jeans are out. British-public-school boys' shorts worn with charmingly anachronistic striped blazers are in. Ideology is out. Daydreaming is in. Apple fritters are out. Raspberry tarts are in. Realpolitik, Volkisch and Weltanschauung are out. Aggressively fake French accents are in.