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"my mother thought being an actress was a nice idea, she used to cut my hair in bangs to look like margaret sullvan, and my father said not to be afraid to go because if certain deals worked out as anticipated he and my mother would be regular airline passengers between las vegas and new york city, so i went."
--play it as it lays
always and forever.
odd future's loudest member's brilliant debut goblin has leaked across the internet and i must say that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. framed like a visit to a shrink's office, tyler the creator positions himself as the premier teen idol for the stoned and disenfranchised, spitting his usual rhymes about personal demons, unattainable girls, and being young while polishing it with a day-glo production and an overburdened fear of consuming fame and the prospects of suicide. this is purely psychological and outrageously cynical, but there is a deep vulnerability about him that takes off his typically comedic mask and unleashes a more tragic soul, not exactly tortured by his art, but by the systems in which try to reel him in.
the only clown to make somberness funny.
wouldn't it be nice?
i miss the flapper era. there will never again be such a fascinating threesome.
the upside: she's playing john gotti's son's wife with a big middle-finger to the detractors. bring on the wilma flintstone-style frying pan fights in huge du beers diamonds.
the downside: she's going to jail, again. but at least she already knows how the food tastes.