Stawberries Music
Oh, Gaga. What are we going to do with her? This Lady Gaga on the cover of December’s Flare Magazine. The cover shot was taken by Max Abadian. Well… it’s not as bad as many of Lady Gaga’s previous magazine covers - like that bubbly Rolling Stone cover or that simply gross, what’s-that-on-her-face Out cover. Considering those, Strawberry Shortcake is definitely a step up. But that iconic pink-haired doll was my first reference point. My second reference point? Britney Spears’ pink wig of doom. In any case, Flare hasn’t released the full interview, but here are a few excerpts:
Training for the Monster Ball, her tour:
“I’ve been training for two hours a day to get ready for this. I sing on the treadmill! I do cardio and weights on top of my rehearsals. I want to get my whole body in prime condition so I can carry the show.”On what the world of la mode did for her:
“Fashion saved my life. It was complete liberation… it made me feel powerful, ambitious and much more resilient.”On her version of beauty:
“We all need an image that screams, ‘I’m an individual!’ I think Jennifer Aniston is beautiful — she’s gorgeous — but I prefer to look interesting rather than pretty.”
[From Flare Magazine via Oh No They Didn‘t]
I actually have to give Gaga some begrudging credit. I was getting tired of all of the pop star ladies being so f-cking safe with their fashion/styling choices. It’s nice to see some diversity, at least as far as what is considered “interesting” to look at. While I don’t consider Gaga to be a beauty, I respect that she’s not really trying to be “beautiful”. She’s not a cookie-cutter, trying-to-be-sexy pop star. She’s trying to be fabulous. And she succeeds most of the time.
Images via CoverAwards
I'v almost been in El Bolson for two weeks now. I've settled into my wwoofing lifestyle. The first few days were hard, especially because we were stuck inside a tiny house by the cold rain. But the weather improved, actually, the weather became amazing and an outside lifestyle was realized.
There is no set work schedule at my farm. Because nothing is produced for commercial value we (the wwoofers) are able to pick our own projects, in fact we must use our creativity to create our own work. I'm in the midst of creating a vegetable garden, adding to a stawberry garden, creating a fountain, carving a bowl from a knot of wood I found in the mountains and trying to germinate some seeds. Also, we have daily Spanish sessions...today was on pronuciation (reading from a book called 'Conversations with God'...I have no clue what the author was saying).
I have also started on a new endeavour...reading a book in Spanish. It's a 'pick your own adventure book'. So far I've found out I'm a thirteen year old adventurer who was asked by a famous scientist to accompany her on an expedition to find the sole surviving dinosaur living in the depths of some obscure ocean. It's very exciting.
Other than what's related above, my life consists of walking in the absolutely stunning snow-capped mountians and (attempting to) playing guitar as an accompianament to another, very talented, wwoofers mandolin. We try to make beautiful music, sometimes it works and sometimes it doens't.
