Shakti - mwah back atcha.

Incidentally, this particular friend is gay and his take on facials was "urgh, that is so demeaning. When did people get into that??" and on just shoving it in during anal sex "straight people are insane".

I agree completely. I've never really been one to follow trends or know what's cool or not, nor do I have really give a shit about it. I do love clothes and seeing what's new, but when it comes down to it, give me my jeans, hoodie and converse and I'm set. It's pretty much the same for anything else in the world. I couldn't even tell you who's playing on the radio right now.

also, the whole "A giant talent" thing about Jimi is true. He was supposed to have a giant knob. As in, monstrously big.

"And because I can do anything I like at 40 and anything with my Daily Knob, as it were, then I am going to celebrate a dead person today." Yes! good for you!

Some observations..

The Carpenters came out in 1969.. they were really popular as a sort of wholesome alternative to what was going on then in rock.. I don't think they were ever considered 'cool' back then, of course i wasn't around... but I do remember that horrible compilation in 1994, with the sonic youth cover of 'Superstar'... that was shit... but the bottom line is Karen Carpenter had one of the greatest voices in popular music history.. I think that's am empirical fact, and coolness is really just a non issue as far as the carpenters are concerned,,

Anyone who has fucking sex a certain way, because they were told it's cool i a moron... Do people learn new ideas from watching and reading.. of course, but that's not the whole enchilada.. they filter them through their own mechanism, incorporate them.. they don't simply, robotically mimic what they see.. and if they do they're morons..

So at one point you DID like bad Williamburg hair...

spjv - I am supposed to be working, but of course now have to go and google for more information about Jimi's giant knob. Expect to see me on your doorstep when I can't make my mortgage payments.

Zeitgeisty - There is a world of difference between "hip" and "hipster". It's essentially the difference between the innovator and the imitator. Today's hipsters are doing a second-rate job recycling what people in their 40's and 50's invented. (You're familiar with that age right? You call it "no-mans land"). Some people can take an existing idea - aesthetic, written, verbal, sexual or whatever - and recreate it into something new and original. Others just regurgitate.

As for Williamsburg in '95, when the photo was taken, it really didn't have the pseudo hipsters it has today. The place was actually hip. You'd know that if you weren't still scrabbling around in dodgy porn shops with your other self-labelled  "socially repressed misfits". Nice try though.

spjv and anyone else that's as interested as I was - "

Her first successful mold was destined to become her greatest, the very large and very famous cock of Jimi Hendrix. According to the specs provided by the Cynthia P. Caster Foundation website, Jimmi’s piece wasn’t that long, but it was as thick as a woman’s wrist. It measured 6.25 inches in circumference and was a whopping 2 inches in diameter, which coincidentally is the exact circumference of a Fender Strat at the 16th fret."

jesus.

Ahh... well first off a clarification ... the 'no man's land' I was referring to was specifically women in their 40s looking for their 'soulmate'.. and the overall theme was people's unrealistic expectations of what they want, as opposed to what they need.. as well as the erroneous idea that getting what you need as opposed to what you want is settling...

As far as what I was doing in 1995.. well I was 23, recording an album for a major at Electric Lady Studios on 6th street... you know what that studio is right? The one Jimi Hendrix your 'Daily Knob' built, and recorded Electric Lady Land in...

I understand the difference between innovating and imitating.. It's kind of like that hair of yours in 1995... You see, David Bowie Innovated it back in the 70s with Ziggy Stardust, then Annie Lennox imitated it in the 80s.. and you well.. what were you doing with it in 1995 exactly?

Zeit - Ziggy Stardust had orange hair. It was much longer in general - kinda like a short mullet with spikes on the top. Annie's was orange too as I recall, although it was certainly the same style. But plenty of people had pink hair before and after me. It just wasn't a Williamsburg thing at the time as you know being such a hipster.

Sometimes one's own style overlaps unintentionally with another. Presumably that's the case with you, Sally Jesse Raphael and Elton John? Maybe they copied you though.

Whatever happened with your band anyway? It sounds as if you used to be quite successful.

Incidentally, I really must go to work. Further mud slinging will have to be read when I get back tonight. Thanks very much. As you were...

Presumably you're referring to my eyeglasses? Have always had those frames... I always thought they were more woody allen than anything else..

As far as the 'success' of my band goes, I'd say that depends on your definition of success...

We released our album back in the 90s.. toured as the opener for Kiss, Soul Asylum, Semisonic, etc... Our video got played on MTV, did the Conan show... whatever.. We didn't go gold, and due to a law suit with our first manager, we broke up... Then Britney SPears and the Boy bands like Nsync were what was hot, and rock was not... so we all just kind of went off in different directions...

Was that success? Well, in the sense that not many people can say they've experienced all that and came out of it alright, I guess it was... Did we become a household name? No... not hardly.

wow, anathema_teatime, for the first time ever, that actually made me eager to to reach my forties and hopefully become the self-confident woman who knows what she wants, as you appear to be!

Also, *VERY* curious about electrical play. Why have I not even ever heard of this before? Sounds like a good way to turn on my man, especially when I'm mad at him. Ha!

Yeah that's what I said... They were never cool.. However, you cannot deny that Karen Carpenter had an incredible voice...

zeitgeisty - That was illuminating. Now a lot of things have fallen into place.

Toluca - I had pink hair (pale, fuschia and, of course, orange like Annie) when I had my first son, but then I got really sleep deprived. I felt like hammered shite and didn't want to be so conspicuous so went back to my natural color.

anathema - very well said. It's amazing how younger women take responsibility when sex is no good, whilst many men just go banging away without a thought about it. That's probably why so many men like to be with younger women. Thank fuck for exceptions like your 20 something, although I can't say that electrical play grabs me.

spjv - 40s is fab. Really. But use moisturiser now and wear rubber gloves to do the dishes. Trust me on those.

xcalibur - I didn't explain myself well. They weren't exactly cool themselves, but it was cool to like them. Ironically cool that is. Ditto Abba and The Sound of Music.

recycled - see above. I guess we disagree on that one. I also think that Americans are determined to compartmentalise taste - whether musical, fashion, sexual practise - in a way that Europeans don't. No one asks the question "which table did you sit at in the cafeteria?". I've been asked that here a bunch of times and, the first couple, I needed an explanation.