my past weeks has been nothing but decadence now i...

                        my past weeks has been nothing but decadence. now i've assignments due here and there and i haven't done a single piece of research! HOW CAN LIEK DAT?? take for example yesterday. headed down to the deen/paramount saturday night. danced up a storm! it felt like forever! of course, as cliche has it, you'd get dramas. some were resolved... read more

Been reading alot of crit of Miami Vice (what little there is) as part of ongoing meta projects with oddmonster and one of the things that sticks out is how often the various critics, regardless of their ideological stance, emphasize the "decadence" of MV's visuals. Now, maybe it's because my tv watching experience is primarily post-Vice, but this strikes me as odd. I know the visuals are emphasized to a greater extent than even most shows today; but what strikes me as odd is the judgment...

Decadence "describes a lack of moral and intellectual discipline." From Wikipedia "And is completely F**king fun!" From Poink. Indeed, I live a primarily happy and fun life by making sure that I add a little bit of decadence into every day! Nothing gives you more of a warm and squishy feeling except maybe dropping your pants and sitting on a freshly baked Apple Dutch Crumble that's been sitting on the windowsill to cool, which is itself, is deliciously decadent! And you should too! No day...

if you want to play, drop me a comment and i'll pick three of your userpics and three of your interests for you to talk about in a post on your lj. suburbangoth chose: icons: hundreds thousands, wasteland, attack! interests: the blue of distance, midwestern loneliness, d.i.y. decadence hundreds thousands. the artwork which i made this icon out of was done by k. marie ratticus. it was for a piece we did together, that i wrote and she drew, titled hundreds, thousands . we did the...

"It's a silly idea, isnt it?" That's what Damien Hirst said when asked about his twinkling fresh art piece 'For the Love of God'.....Damien Hirst and his jeweller worked about two years to create this extravagant cast of a skull (bone replaced with platinum) draped in thousands and thousands of diamonds. The thing itself is currently up for sale, and estimated to cost at least 50 000 000 british pounds. 50 MILLION POUNDS! H A R D C U R R E N C Y! Have I gone completely raving mad, or is this the...

Oh my. Have just come back from a wonderful day course on 'Decadence, Dandies and Aesthetes'. Got to spend a whole day looking at beutiful images, reading excerts from fascinating books, watching film clips of 1953 Picture of Dorian Gray, Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Patience' and the 1970s BBC drama 'Lillie' about Lillie Langtry and discussing all manner of important things like peacock feathers, the Yellow Book and the partaking of absinthe. Dolce Domum, Atkinson-Grimshaw "To burn always with...