Saturday, June 12, 2010

Another blog about more than clothes

So I just did another blog but I felt this new one needed to be seperate.

I am currently reading the book the elegance of the hedgehog and it talks about how these two very different characters have these characters that are so hidden and no one really knows about them. Anyways, one of the characters is a 12 and a 1/2 year old girl who has a mind beyond her years and wants to commit suicide on her 13th birthday. I do find that the section that she "writes" is very similar to thoughts that I have and I feel myself really relating (except the suicide part). The other character is a concierge, and she is really what I want to write about today. She talks about this other character is I assume is probably my age and is a theology student. She talks about how this girl tries to dress like a bohemian. So then she goes on further, why do rich people want to dress like poor people. You all know what this means. Things like ripped jeans or imagine things that you wouldn't wear to meet the president. What does this mean about our psycology. Do we want to look poor? What is the draw of that? Maybe we want people to not see us as perfect. Being perfect seems to be so uncool. People that are perfect are boring. People don't want to hear stories about someone who has gone and done everything perfectly. There always needs to be some sort of conflict making a story not perfect. So maybe by dressing like we're poor people will assume we are interesting, and there is something behind the outfit. Also when people are wearing suits and dressing with nice neat pressed clothes there is something that you may not trust about them, because someone in that kind of outfit would be seen as powerful, and as a society we often assume those in business or politics are sheisters. Maybe dressing as though we are poor makes us seem more honest in who we are, because we don't see ourselves as perfect. Speaking of not being perfect being cool, a lot of music these days sounds like the singers are so disinterested in what they are singing about. Even on the radio, example, the song run this town - the rihanna part of so uninspiring. This could also be because it's more about the music. In general though, people really don't need to be talented to make it in the music industry. Thoughts?

I'm also watching a show about food right now. It's interesting how a lot of authentic food has to be "scaled back" so that it can be more appealing for consumers. I feel like that means we miss out on sooo much good food.

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