Last edited by Worried Man (2013-12-04 20:48:13)

Worried Man: at least you don't wear a hat. There may be some hope for you.

I'm just making light of what I perceive to be some of my own personal inanity.  Sometimes you need to step back and make a mockery of yourself.  It's healthy!

I can see where GW is coming from, which is where I think a lot of the past, present, and future Talk Ivy members come from, which is a mod background, which I think trains eyes to a bolder, cleaner, more Italian sensibility.  I was pretty perplexed at all the mod - ivy back and forth over there at TI, but it made more and more sense the longer I stuck around.  It seems a lot of TI posters arrived at Ivy through the mod thing.  GW's just a highly sophisticated and advanced mod that has kind of gone off the ivy thing more and more.  He used to post over there quite frequently - taking a whack at the rise of my pants, getting bent out of shape about the sleeve of my harrington, etc.  He's never really been keen on the Worried Man's style.  And that's fine.  I do really respect his opinion.  But I can attest to seeing a few of his posts that raised my eyebrows a little back when he posted more frequently over there.

And Goodyear, I'm not blinded by any praise.  That's not why I post.  I just have a look I'm going for and I go for it.  I admit, sometimes I look like shit.  Seriously.  That's also not the reason I play music either.  Accolades are nice, but you have to have some internal blue print that's immune to all input.  Something you want to achieve.  Otherwise, I'd be making pop music rather than playing to 12 people in a shitty bar all the time.  Obviously I just want to look like Ward Cleaver.  I'll need to start wearing pleated pants though.  I know the throwback thing can be really irksome to many.  But shit man, it's just what I like.  Plain and simple.  On a certain level I can appreciate the "fantasy" or delusions of the Fedora Lounge people or these old mod dudes.  I've even joked that I'm going to defect to Fedora Lounge.  The difference is that I too find most of the looks hideous and laughable.  They just miss so many damn marks.  Hence my enjoyment of your work here in the Inane thread. 

And Charley, never had any interest in acting really.  I could quite easily get a job in movies, as a good friend of mine works in casting.  The one golden opportunity I passed up was being the drummer in Jame's Brown's backing band.  I could have nailed that part, being a drummer and all.

Last edited by doghouse (2013-12-05 06:16:24)

I guess the moral or lesson is to expect both praise and criticism when posting pictures online.

Hahaha!  Jesus. I shouldn't have listened to that at work.  People are wondering what I'm laughing at.