Like my poem? Will hopefully be reading it at Kid, I Wrote Back next month... Also, I'm so in love with Panic!'s video for The Ballad of Mona Lisa and am if possible even more hyped to see them at Reading. Am thanking God Panic! decided to go back to their old punk cabaret ways from their 'A Fever' days...The 'Mona Lisa' video is like the 'Vice and Virtues' version of the 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' video...except Brendan's outfit is EVEN better. I wonder if I could pull off that insane gothic/satanic inventor look he's swinging...
I don't know how much input Panic! actually have in their video set and costume design, but something strange I found with their earlier videos, as well as with these latest ones, is that I literally could've designed them myself, it's like those costumes were plucked directly from the 'I wish I could wear something as zany as this' fashion design department of my brain. Which is actually a very active department. I don't want to sound up myself here but it's true, and it figures. If I was to take a stab in the dark, I would say that apart from being very obviously steampunk/goth influenced, Brendan's outfit is so cartoonish it's been practically swiped from some random anime character already in existance. And anime and manga, as a section of culture, has always been...pretty much a quarter of my personality, so of course all of my fashion design inspiration would be heavily influenced by Japanese art and manga/anime.
It's like that with manga nerds, of which I'm a prime example. You're either not connected with that part of culture, or you're connected completely - it's more than just an interest, it's a 'way'. If you're a real manga nerd, you act, talk, draw, write and think in terms of manga. I'm making it sound like it's an obsession but it's more of a subconscious thing...you just casually, gradually become Japanese...
Was also thinking randomly that I'd like to know who came up with the idea that 'You're the shit' is a compliment.
Now Listening To:
Muse - Origin of Symmetry. Just reminding myself of one of my favourite albums ever before I hear it PLAYED IN WHOLE (probably) at Reading this weekend...Space Dementia best song for me no doubt, although I have hotly debated this with many friends...
Bring Me The Horizon - There is a Hell etc. Their best album to date, I love it.
Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia. The latest outing from my favourite male pop star is just as impressive as The Bachelor but I don't know if anything, for me, will ever compare to the dark genius of Lycanthropy...or even Wind in the Wires...As much as I do already like it, hopefully Lupercalia will grow on me.
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