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Twilight: The Doll, Twilight: The Novel, Twilight: The Shopping Spree

TWILIGHT's Rachelle Lefevre goes shopping with MySpace Celebrity

Such vapidity repels like garlic. But, such vapidity is aristocratic like 'dem blood-hording wampyres.

Moychandising!

Giorgio Armani Skin Minerals For Men Grows On You After A While

At first, I admit, the site seemed wholly devoid of substance and rife with platitudes, but it is not style without substance entirely.

And, the trios are unlike other clean, correct and protect trios, though it appears that they all have to have trios, tercets, triangles, threes, as if two is not enough and four is too much. And, being an IT-wanna-be, use of the term 'matrix' impresses.

Trio One:

Strengthen the skin structure
Refine the skin texture
Unify the skin tone

The site is like a black panther in its power and beauty.

 

Trio two:

Primers
Boosters
Masters

Capturing the volcanic force, the lava rock's living essence, the tidal pool that spawned life. Iron, silicon, and other mercurial minerals: that is Volcanic Complex.

Rounding out the site are video tutorials on how to apply the products: the dos and the don'ts. Not bad.

 

All in all, a trip through the ads and spreads in GQ magazine, but with undercurrents of useful information and purpose that is more potent than the fall fashion lines.

The Vacant Barren Male Skin Care Kiosk At Macy's

Though the space be bare and barren, devoid of even an assistant, the de-bottled men's grooming genie is flourishing and cloudily swelling and helping itself to the swollen cumuli adjacent, gobbling them and growing like a cotton candy glob.

With fragrances and serums freely mingled, cleansers and manglers fashioning a bubbly smile, the smithy and steps swirled upwards like a floral vortex.

The procession marches on, spritefully watching the spangly precession, and reaches higher and higher heights, captures more and more share, though all deny its importance and the aisles and counters are curiously un-busy.

Brands present: Lab Series, Zirh, Calvin Klein.

Transcendence With CK MAN

Nightfall's captivating tonality spews infinitely complex memes that disperse like particulate smog across vast valleys and galaxies and then are reabsorbed, reinterpreted and redistributed via Fabien Baron's ecstatic wild aeroscape.

Calvin Klein's MAN Fragrance.

Grindhouse Evolves, Or Must Evolve

The Grindhouse branding theme in male grooming, eternized by Axe/Lynx, may be played out and nearly extinct, though a dozen more brands will likely kick it like a dead dog for several years to come.

Video is of 4 fake Grindhouse trailers.

Fabric And Fragrance

Yeah, it's a sponsored link, but it's ex post facto!

Check it out.

Music And Fashion: Friends Forever

Fashion: urbanoutfitters
Music: Japanese Motors
Song: Single Fins & Safety Pins

The Four Foundations Of Grooming, Circa 1948

The Foundations:

1. Health
2. Posture
3. Cleanliness
4. Neatness

Actually, this video seems to contain an unspoken fifth foundation, Fashion Style or Taste, that is significantly more developed than Finishing Touches.

Whereas cleaning under your nails and ironing your clothes fall into Cleanliness and Neatness, respectively, being pattern-sensitive in outfit selection, and not painting your nails red because you have stubby hands, better fit into a fifth category, Style.

Title: How To Be Well Groomed
Producer: Coronet Instructional Films

Ne Jabba No Barta

Reawaken your youthful princess crush with the edgy, updated Leia's Metal Bikini site.

Vampire Happenings And Trends

With graphic novels, comic books, glittering websites, and pixelated films, GGI'd to the max, forming torrential currents that inform cinematic and visual culture, the underwater streams, moonlit trends, and tertiary darkness of vampires, continue to inspire and drive the murky, turbid brooks coursing through back alleys and gargoyle-tormented parapets.

The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and the so-called Dark Knight, would be wise to avoid the skulking bloodsuckers, for all three, and their cliquish brethren, would be severely outmatched by Nosferatu, and his brethren. Plainly put, superheroes are not primordial enough to battle folk legends and mythological beasts.

For instance, The Hulk would not stand a chance against Ajax. Supposed stats notwithstanding, the primordial power is not there. Smaug would have no chance against a serpent plucked from a medieval bestiary. And, perhaps the most fitting past-present match-up, Dungeons and Dragons Tiamat would be feckless against ancient Tiamat.

These age old concoctions and constructs are too vast, too shrill, and too fearsome for any chromatic pop culture hero or villain.

Our newest category, Vampires, will contain random and non-systematic commentary and review of bleeding edge vampiric presence in film, graphic novel, video game, artwork, poetry, novel, tale, and, if so inspired, even board game and puzzle.

Check out Breaking Dawn: Book Four in the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer and upcoming HBO series True Blood.

Dalliance and Dainty

And rather brutal.

The spectators vibrate with glee. The riders snarl. Wild steeds surge like entangled climbers. And, deep in the dewy morning hills, the hermit awakens.

Screenshot is from Ralph Lauren: The Black Watch Edition.

For Some Reason, Coca Cola Seems Apparelled In A Shroud Of Innocence

The Coke Zero Game

There seems to be no end to the line of cool games, gadgets, music, and, of course, beverages, being churned out by the Coca Cola Happiness Factory. And, additionally, Coca Cola is not like McDonalds or Thanksgiving: childhood dreamstates that lose their innocence after their murderous nature is realized.

Coca Cola is ringed by a mass media halo. Guiltless indulgence. Joy.

Felix The Square, Felix The Mod

Although Felix was generally portrayed as the squarer of the two between himself and Oscar, season 3 episode 22, 'Take My Furniture Please', temporarily inverts this imbalance, but not without precedent. Felix is the more artistic of the two, and not entirely reactionary, so it is not surprising that when there is an opportunity to refurnish the apartment, Felix has more progressive ideas than Oscar.

The potato chip recliner, hand-shaped chairs, and ridiculous mock-digital wall clock, confuse and upset Oscar. Felix, on the other hand, has not even started realizing his transformative vision. It is through the indirect conduits, the splashes and sharp edges, the non-representational and the ludicrous of contemporary furnishings, that Felix streaks past Oscar into the less-square modern age.

Photo is of a Panta Rhei Two Person Accent Chair by Gypser.

Because It Just Looks Cool

John Varvatos Skincare Collection

There is iPhone cool, Taking Back Sunday cool, Manga cool, Rush and D&D anti-cool, and then there is high fashion skin care via John Varvatos cool.

I have only sampled the product line on a few occasions, but the marketing is so sleek, the packaging, so gleamy, that I cannot help but endorse the line. I haven't even checked out whether the serums and concealers are cruelty free. I will do that eventually.

Any help on that would be appreciated, actually. Just drop a note in the comments section. If there is rampant animal testing on the more cutting edge serum substances, then there will be no choice but to go from, as Spaceballs' Colonel Sanders says, 'suck to blow'.

Otherwise, enjoy the burnished bronze and polished marble. Weep in the melancholy frost. Savor the Euclidean geometry. Bathe in the music of the spheres.

Approved Dating Tips from AskMen.com

Top 10: Timeless Dating Rules

My beloved Geekbabe, and most girls in general, I assume, are generally scornful of the dating guidelines found in Maxim, FHM, Stuff, Details, or any other male-oriented periodical. But, the timeless, sensible, and elegant nature of these particular guidelines, and the conjured manga-gentlemen who might embody and employ them, have fleetingly captured my dreamster's attention.

This is good. These high ideals and standards inspire, for they ensure that I will never become complacent, never lack a romantic streak, never be the guy who plods around Home Depot, lost in a world of home improvement and non-imagination, never become a tired tale.

More silly dances, more crazy tangents, more Star Trek, more primordial artwork, and more poesy!

Additionally, though kind of complacent as a senior title examiner [dull and boring as can be, but lets my fancy fly as soon as the day ends since I do it second nature], my beloved eventually wants me to use my savant powers to enter the IT field: think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco. It would delight her to no end to move to San Francisco or Seattle by 2010.

I am thinking I could just pimp out my savant resume, emphasizing uber-ivy-league-MIT-level near perfect GRE, GMAT, and LSAT scores, super Sudoku, BrainChallenge, and other geek-happy puzzle solving abilities, membership in TNS, an ultra-high IQ society, along with a vast, though not particularly vertical, mostly book-and-web-learned, grasp of technology, computer science and computer math, algorithms, and theory, then earn a few certifications, and start sending out resumes.

If not, my next best option might be to form a startup and start contracting in a chosen ken, on spec at first, and then, once a few projects are under my belt, in a more expansive fashion. Not sure, and this is a shameless, braggart notion, but it is splendid having a savant mind in a knowledge economy! It allows me to even consider these options even though my real-world IT experience is ethereal.

Anyway, these AskMen.com tips are spot on. Check them out and then begin searching, well prepared, for something far beyond career, well beyond terrestrial concerns, more important than both combined and exponentially magnified: the love of your life.

JBananaGap + BurgerForeverYoung + iPhone = Cool

Forever Young at McDonalds

It feels like a golden age. Forgive the endless, eternal and shameless optimism here, but the mass availability and affordability of chic, boutique, and sleek fills me with tears. Everyone and their pet can now expect affordable exquisiteness, discounted high end, and the WalMartization of every quality brand. Hipsters and shop owners may lament this development in the same way selfish guild members rued the spread of knowledge and mass production throughout the renaissance and industrial age, but they certainly have no monopoly on what is cool, fun, and fashionable, and thus do not warrant or deserve consideration. Enjoy!

Though a strict vegan and rarely a patron of McDonalds, for all that is exuberant and thrilling about the near future, I still hope McDonalds offers all its splendid reimaged products at McDonalds prices. This way, the golden age will continue and the golden arches can, in some small part, lead the way.