LeMouth

Don't be a fashion victim- be a fashion pioneer!

You know how your mother looks back at old pictures of herself and nods in disappointment while tisking and murmuring, "What was I wearing….?!?!?!"

2 things to remember:

1) Mumzy shouldn't feel so bad because aren't you often secretly crawling into her closet and swiping some of the vintage pieces she wore in those disappointing photographs from 25 years ago?
2) Fashion: once out of season, twice in season. So don't even trip. [Here I go recycling the idea of recycling again...]

But if you're daring enough or just plain ILL, you didn't need all that jibber-jabber pep talk to rock these.

Go to Shu Uemura online and score a pair of these Asian favorites.

Get your head outta the gutter (literally)! If you thought recycling was only meant for plastic, think more than twice! Below is a frugally abridged list of some of my favorite edgy cool alterna-indie rock post-punk revival acid-folk electro-pop new-wave bands that happen to have followed what the Beatles started as the popularization of band names fashioned after animals (so it seems), but added a twist of 21st century post-grunge punk-influenced music college-dropout flavors.
Modest Mouse (origin: Issaquah, WA circa 1993)

Deerhoof (origin: SF, CA circa 1994)
Sparklehorse (origin: Richmond, VA circa 1995)
The Dears (origin: Montreal, Quebec, Canada circa 1995)
The Doves (origin: Wilmslow, England circa 1998)
Eagles of Death Metal (origin: Palm Desert, CA circa 1998)
The Bees (origin: Isle of Wight, England circa 2001)
Arctic Monkeys (origin: Sheffield, England circa 2002)
Sea Wolf (origin: LA, CA circa 2003)
Wolfmother (origin: Sydney, Australia circa 2003)
Wolf Parade (origin: Montreal, Quebec, Canada circa 2003)
New Young Pony Club (origin: London, England circa 2004)
Band of Horses (origin: Settle, WA relocated to South Carolina circa 2004)
Grizzly Bear (origin: Brooklyn, NY circa 2004)
The Bird and the Bee (origin: LA, CA circa 2006)

Each selection above will provide you with tunes appropriate for all social/anti-social occasions, whether you're in the mood for meticulously hand-crafting 500 of your own EP album covers in the comfort of your kitchen nook, or cruising down Sunset Blvd. (east of course!), car-bar, complete with the skinny guy in the corner who wears -7.5 prescription eyeglasses and calls himself McLovin--it's all ok! Don't forget, there's always room for the animals!