Wanted:

boys who dress like the male Pretenders in the 'Brass In Pocket' music video.

***I requested some copies of Sassy from various libraries in Rhode Island, and I read the 5th Anniversary Issue from March 1993 yesterday. it was just as good as I remember it! I particularly enjoyed the last page: for those unfamiliar with Sassy specs, there was a brother-mag founded by Spike Jonze, Lew and some other skateboard guy called Dirt. It only lasted a couple of issues, but was super cool and zine-y and ahead of it's time (hello Spike Jonze, before even the music videos). so the back page from this anniversary issue featured Spike Jonze and Mike D of the Beastie Boys baking a cake for Sassy, and it is a step-by-step how-to. very cute.

there was also an ad for a Sassy music hotline, where for $.95 a minute, you could call the hotline, and listen to 1:30 of any one of 4 songs off of a particular album. I guess Sassy was trying to help you not get burned on things not your steez, but this seems really funny to me. I can't imagine asking my mom permission to spend money to listen to a minute and a half from the Shonen Knife album. the other bands featured that particular month read like a who's who of early 90's alterna-acts who are mainstream enough to be coopted by essential what is a corporate zine: L7, Pearl Jam, Urge Overkill, Sloane, 7 Year Bitch, REM, etc...

there was also a super-fun article in which the writer collected 30 inane suggestions from Cosmo, YM, Seventeen, etc on how to get a guy to notice you, and then tried them out. of course, they all were major fails. I hope I get the issue soon with the 1st Annual Junk Food Taste-Test.

** also, in the category of things said by Mark D that I hope never to hear again:

"a deep cut from Sixteen Stone

my style idol.....

the best outfit ever goes like this:
black crop top, high-waisted black shorts, hot pink tights, huge silver hoops earrings, and black combat-esque boots.

sound familar?

CLARISSA DARLING I SALUTE (YOUR SHORTS) YOU!

you are my style idol, and it's hard for me to put on my bright tights and clashing skirts without thinking of you and your ridiculous outfits!

I've realized a lot of what I wear is a direct reinterpretation of clarissa outfits: high-waisted everything, crazy tights (or in her case, leggings), colorful cardigans and vests, sequins, random t-shirts with skirts, headbands, hoop earrings....the list goes on.

bitch kills it every time. I'd love to know who was the stylist for this show, but there is no deets on the dvd for costume design. carrie bradshaw is sort of like a grown-up clarissa as well.

creep alert jr: while looking for clarissa pics I stumbled upon a trove of clarissa fan fic. fans will recall the show ended when clarissa left to pursue her dream newspaper job. the fan fic picks up with her new life in the city. I guess this makes more sense than the darkwing duck fanfiction I found earlier this month....

HEY! if you like MIDI's then click here for a bonkers MIDI versh of the Clarissa Explains It All (or CEIA for those who like obsessive fan internet acronyms) theme song!

music videos I never knew existed: XYZ Affair

I don't know who this band is, XYZ Affair; I admit, for someone who pays attention to supposed buzzy-brookyn bands, a few are bound to slip through the cracks.

what I do know is that I would like to have a conversation with these guys, because their music video for 'All My Friends' was pulled straight outta my effed up head (see 'review of my daydream #1 for further proof). 

this video is like a U.N. summit meeting for washed up Nickelodeon stars! you gotttt, one of the Petes, fuckinnnnn' BOBBY BUDNICK, and even a bald/bespectacled Ferguson Darling looking like a super creep jr.

I'm all like 'whatevs' about the song, I just want people to get SLIMED.