SHE KEEPS BEES, by Jessica Larrabee and partner LaPlant. Like coming out from the 90s rock scene, while being inspired by the 70s rock legends and then working through the 00s Jack White rock heritage.
The following things come into mind while watching & listening Larrabee singing :
1. Jim Morrison
The best justice anyone has ever given to a pair of leather pants...
Jim made his leather pants from glove leather at a little leather shop on Little Santa Monica Boulevard, kept by an old tailor from Germany.
Nobody may look more ravishing than Jim Morrison and nobody can be more poetic than the man who was once inspired to write these words:
...A Vast Radiant Beach In A Cool Jeweled Moon
Couples Naked Race Down By It's Quiet Side
And We Laugh Like Soft, Mad Children
Smug In The Wooly Cotton Brains Of Infancy
The Music And Voices Are All Around Us...
His association to Larrabee is in making me feel like she is wearing leather pants while singing this, even though they are plain black jeans. If one can sing "gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme... work me like my back aint got no bones..." in this voice, is internally wearing Jim-ie leather pants.
2. Lou Doillon
Solely due to the appearance resemblance. Doillon is super cute, sure, but in no way as deep in confidence as Larrabee. Yes, she would wear an old t-shirt and black jeans, and yes, even leather trousers, but would only do that to waste it to yet another fashion statement for the suspicion, and suspicion only, of a free spirit...
Shame it is... That fashion has evolved so as to replace a personality.
And it is doing it painfully good, innit?
3. Maya & Willie
Adorable honey bees... Vague memory of my early childhood, but so sure they had their part in my growing up...
Storyline:
The premise of the anime was that Maya was tasked to collect pollen for her hive, but she ended up doing such a good job that she gathered all of the pollen around her hive, and there was none left. The queen bee then sent Maya further away from the hive in search of more pollen!
Moral lesson :
1. It only comes as natural to do "such a good job".
2. It only comes as natural to go "further away" in search of m o r e !!!
4. alcohol
Oh, how satisfactory right Jack Daniels is in this ad.... It makes you wanna pour one, doesn't it? Some C2H5OH as we would call it if we were Chemistry students, or ALCOHOL if we were all other things anyone can be.
In today's blog, listening to Larrabee's sound, this is whiskey.
My favorite is a Lagavulin
but since we're standing (we're at the SHE KEEPS BEES concert, aren't we?) a Dewars suits my taste much better!
And it does appear to suit many people's taste & creativity throughout the years, as Hemingway and Churchil among so many people would agree. Churchil might also support a confrontation like he once did to Braddock:
"Mr Churchill, you are drunk!" Braddock said harshly.
Churchill paused and said, "And Bessie, you are ugly. You are very ugly. I'll be sober in the morning."
5. marlon brando
2 reasons:
#1 His leather outfit in "the fugitive kind"
#2 For everything else about him. And I'm laying out a very small example of his predominant character, through the words of Sidney Lumet:
"Marlon Brando is a suspicious fellow. I don’t know if he bothers anymore, but Brando tests the director on the first or second day of shooting. What he does is to give you two apparently identical takes. Except that on one, he is really working from the inside; on the other, he’s just giving you an indication of what the emotion was like. Then he watches which one you decide to print. If the director prints the wrong one, the “indicated” one, he’s had it. Marlon will either walk through the rest of the performance or make the director’s life hell, or both. Nobody has the right to test people like that, but I can understand why he does that. He doesn’t want to pour out his inner life to someone who can’t see what he’s doing."
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