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  1. JackViolet
    Ohh, I love all the pumpkins! I didn't carve any this year, sadly. Blue Sky, you looked great! Suzy, your apple documentary was funny. I have a fair amount of apple stuff, but not as much as that! Although I DO have a set of dessert plates with apples on them, and dessert knives to match, with apple handles. And my costume this year was quite apple-themed, but I sent you photos already... --Jack (P.S. I wore the apple bracelet you gave me to a few job interviews and got called back for two of them. I think the bracelet gave me good luck!)
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    Oh, so cute! We should have gone together. :-) --Jack
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    Yeah. :-) We're myspace friends, right? I have non blurry ones up there. And englishrose, the bed photo is really great! --Jack
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    No. :-) I had the skirt and the top, and I bought the blue bodice. Then I pinned yellow bows to my blue ballet flats, and (though you can't see it) I made a collar from a doily. But there was no sewing involved or anything. --Jack
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    Twas fun. :-) --Jack
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    Haha, I hope so. I intend it to look somewhat like this: Ooops, thanks to me drawing this up really quick, I accidentally filled in the hands with background color. But actually that's probably accurate. I intend to powder my face and neck white, but I doubt I'll bother with my hands. --Jack
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    I want to see that!!! I'm going to be a Zombie Snow White. --Jack
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    Well, twice with Mika, and then once in Toronto and now once in NY. So 4 times total for now. --Jack
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    April is a young man. :-D But a kind of androgynous one. Like this, except less snooty-looking, more friendly and open. --Jack
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    Thanks. :-) MommylovesMika took photos and video, so she may have a more substantiative one if she decides to post. Re: meeting the guys--unfortunately they aren't planning to come back to the US anytime very soon, but I think they said they'd consider it in the new year. But assuming they do come back, they're quite genial and easy to meet, so I'm sure you will. For instance this time, as I was coming up to the venue, Mike K was lounging outside with some people. And then as soon as I walked in the door, I pretty much literally walked into Nathan. (It really was packed, haha.) And then I went in to see a bit of the band that was on before them, and ended up standing next to Mike W. Daenen was the only one that I had to seek out to say hi, 'cause he was taking care of stuff in the van, or else surrounded by a bevy of ladies. --Jack
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    Katy Perry

    JackViolet replied to Ioana's topic in Other Artists

    Yeah, I think it has a lot to do with context. I rather hate guns, and of course in the US we have a fair amount of gun crime, but I don't mind, say, "sexy" photos of an actor dressed in an expensive black suit and brandishing some James Bond-style sleek and almost sci-fi gun. Same as I don't mind a photo of someone in western wear with some vintage revolvers. Both glamorize violence certainly, but both are fantasy, and are sexy not so much due to the guns as to tapping into a cultural archetype. I would have a different reaction to a photo of a person in just, say, underwear/lingerie holding a (realistic) gun, because that just says "guns are sexy." Or a photo of someone in modern urban wear with a gun, or of someone in a hunting outfit with a rifle, etc. Because that's less painting a story and more saying "this thing that a lot of people are in fact doing is cool." I think Katy's photo doesn't bother me because she looks like she has no idea what she's doing with that knife. So it doesn't seem particularly menacing or like she'd ever use it to do anything but clean her nails. --Jack
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    So I was them yesterday at Arlene's Grocery CMJ showcase. They were great, of course, very energetic. And I really really love "Never Again" live, it has more of a rawness to it and an intensity that's smoothed out in the single/album version. The place was pretty packed. And I actually ran into our very own MommyLovesMika there! That was a pleasant surprise. The guys were all sweethearts as usual. Mike Kirsh's lovely ladyfriend flew in from Greece to help them sell merch and take video for their site, so maybe you'll be able to see footage of the show later? Oh, and I thought it was cool that some of the people who showed up to see them and hang out were back up dancers/PR people from the Mika tour. I guess they met backstage and became fast friends. I thought it was sweet. --Jack
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    Katy Perry

    JackViolet replied to Ioana's topic in Other Artists

    I think the picture is juvenile, not "wrong" or "bad" but I also love knives. And I think there's nothing wrong with that: knives are very pretty, they're useful tools, and they can be works of art. Glamorizing knives the way that Katy was holding one there is no different than glamorizing "secret spies" or ninjas or whatever. Lots of actors and models pose in "sexy dangerous secret agent" set-ups, and we have plenty of movies and tv shows with "sexy-yet-dangerous" characters, and yet no one complains about those. Violence has always had a sort of romanticism, there's certainly a fantasy associated with it. It doesn't become a problem unless the fantasy crosses over to reality. Katy's picture was firmly in the land of fantasy--the knife was obviously nothing more than a prop. And knives are far harder to use as killing weapons than guns (or at all--they require the kind of immediacy and intimacy with the fight and the opponent that guns don't, and that would deter many people), so I think posing with a knife in a photo is significantly different than posing with a gun. --Jack
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    It was good, but the after night was awfffull. Among other misadventures in getting home, I got paint on my beloved coat and now it's kind of ruined and I don't have money for a replacement. :-(

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    Don't be jealous, it'll cost me a lot more to actually get to NYC. And then I can't even be assured of getting in--CMJ ticket holders get first priority, and only then can you buy tickets at the door. --Jack
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    Honestly, I think this entire MFC "friends" thing is really, REALLY silly. We're already all friends on myspace, etc... and we can already send each other PMs and view each other's info anyway. So, I don't see the point of having more clutter. As such, I just gotta say, I think I'll only be "friending" people with whom I actually regularly talk off-site or PM or have stayed at their house or stuff like that. It's still just as pointless, but not as pointless as friending EVERYONE I ever interact with on MFC (and I think you're all great, I really do). So, not trying to be mean, just I think this whole feature is ridiculous and annoying.

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    I think I'm gonna go see them Wed. I asked if they could get me on the guest list 'cause I am broke and they were like, "no, pay the money." Which makes sense, they do need paying fans, not freeloading fans... At least it turned out I can only pay $10 as opposed to the $300 CMJ fee. --Jack
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    So Mika's award show look has gone from granny to granpa. Huh. I am not a fan of the back-combed hair or of the octogenarian suspenders. The b&w suspenders themselves are quite nice, and go great with the outfit--and so long as he is shot from chest-up, it is fine... but the way they're attached? Ick, no thanks. It's like he was rifling through discarded wardrobe from John Wayne's Wild West movies. And the hair too, when he keeps it long but combs it back like that? Like an elderly physics professor or something. The rest is nice though. --Jack
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    I, for one, demand that none of us talk about the DVD on here until it is available for sale in EVERY single country. It just wouldn't be fair otherwise, and surely Estonian and Argentinian and South African fans deserve to find out the details of the DVD by watching it first rather than hearing people describe it all. And after all, if Norwegian fans see any clips of it on youtube or in people's signatures, or read anyone talking about it, it may be spoiled for them forever, and they may not wish to purchase a legit copy if they know what's in it already! So you see the only logical thing to do is forbid all discussion of it (along with any mp3 rips or uploading any clips of it). --Jack
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    Oh goodness! Well I hope he gets it done soon and does not lose the photos! I'd love to see both the illustrations and stories when you can get them... --Jack
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    Well. It's not like I guessed out of thin air. I knew the bride would be wearing a red strapless gown with striped stockings (I also knew she'd have a veil and a headdress, but I just chose not to draw that), and that the groom would be getting a suit from this one specific designer-person... so I had a fair bit to go on. That's really neat though! I am glad you Aussies at least know who he is. People don't much here, apparently. Which is... ridiculous to me. How can they not know? He's... he's Nick Cave! I am told that because of this he doesn't tour here very often. I was annoyed that it was so easy to get first row, honestly. (Well, I ended up joining some people who had been queuing since early at the very head of the line, but even my original spot would have gotten me there...) I was like "what is wrong with people?! They should have been lining up ages ago! He is amazing! AMAZING, goddamit." Wendi, that's so great about your children's books! Btw, I can do illustrations even from far away you know. :-) Feel free to hit me up for any future publishing endeavors, haha. Are you doing a whole series? Twatty, I totally forgot about Coming Out Day. ack. --Jack
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    Thank you and Scut again. Yes... love that man. He was so nice and witty and charming and everything, and best of all, talking to him felt like talking to just... a person, and one with whom it's easy to develop a rapport. He really makes you feel comfortable. I followed him around just for my own amusement, but I am really grateful now that I got the chance to meet him. Why am I not a fan of Terry Pratchett? I mean, I just haven't read his things but I don't dislike him... I just haven't really taken the time to read him aside from "Good Omens." Ohhhhhh no, I love him. He is in my top 3. David Bowie, Marc Bolan, and Nick Cave. I think his voice is actually great, ha. I was just talking with my friends yesterday how amazing it is that he kept it, considering everything he's put himself through, and how he can still both croon and scream with as much vigor as he does. David Bowie is the artist that I feel could not sing for a very long time, but he's learned how to over the years. (Mind you I still love his early stuff, because even though he couldn't "sing" he has a lovely voice that he uses to interesting effect.) Anyway, yes, adore him and his music. He's a legend. --Jack
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    Oh hah, we did! Wow, that's pretty crazy about your friend. Hope she remembers you indeed. Even better, hope you come up with something to patent soon and remember us. Awww, yes I did. And for not having seen their wedding clothes yet, I did not get it too badly off, I think! --Jack
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    Right on Suzy. By the way, your son is not the first to suggest the first drawing has Mika in it. That really confused me at first, because it's an illustration of "Snow, Glass, Apples"--a short story by the author--and the character is meant to have reddish-blond hair and a beard. And that's how I drew him and how I see him in my head. But I guess you can't see the beard well from that angle, and haircolor gets muddled in b&w... Oh, and thank you all so much for your kind comments about my drawings. They did take a lot of work. --Jack
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    And finally, yesterday: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds! We were right front and center, and it was soooo good. Seriously. And Nick Cave spent a lot of time coming up to people in the first row and pointing at them or singing to them, and he sang part of this song to me, and it was... pretty much amazing. (The girl behind me kept poking me and going, "he's singing it to you!" I was thinking "I had noticed!") --Jack
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