Do yall remember when music journalism/writing papers in 5th grade used to be about writing intros like this:
Walking gawkily into the room, Pip Brown is a mess of crumpled urban-wear and ruffled blonde hair. Held together by a Patti Smith T-shirt, black leather jacket, hooded blue shirt, skinny black jeans and unlaced Doc Martens, Brown – aka Ladyhawke – doesn’t exactly look like someone you’d go to for fashion tips. But she’s fast becoming a name to drop in the music world, revered as much for her dress sense as for her 80s-referencing, melodic synth-heavy rock.
“It’s really funny, that style icon thing,” says the 27-year-old New Zealander, now relocated to London. For a start, she says, she doesn’t wear women’s clothes, like, ever. “I have this thing where I refuse to wear anything made for a female because I don’t like conforming to gender stereotypes. It’s so predictable to get girly-cut jeans and blouses. I wear men’s clothes: jackets, shirts and shoes. It doesn’t take away from my femininity.”
Ladyhawke at some profile piece from the guardian:
“I have this thing called Asperger’s syndrome,” she says. – a disorder on the autism spectrum characterised by difficulties with social interaction and idiosyncratic behaviour. “When I found out, it explained my whole childhood. I told my mum and she said, ‘That’s why you used to sit on the floor doing puzzles for hours!’ It was the reason I was so solitary. I’d say completely inappropriate things. The other kids thought I was a weirdo.”
She mentions two traits associated with Asperger’s: a thirst for knowledge and a love of music. At home, she would sit with her ear glued to the radio, or listen to her parents’ Beatles and Pretenders albums. That’s when she wasn’t being sick: she suffered from a panoply of illnesses and allergies that kept her in and out of hospital.
Yall. When we think of blogIndieRockNRollers/AltCelebs, we usually think of ‘untalented rich kids who play MicroKorgs/Serato.’ We usually don’t know the ‘real stories’ behind these people. Good 2 finally find 1 out.
Here’s a list of other famous people with Asperger’s Syndrome. Gifted and Talented people usually have it.
- Woody Allen -wrote a movie about Manhatty
- Isaac Asimov – invented ’science’
- Jane Austen – wrote about anguished tweens from the past
- Samuel Beckett – kinda invented postmodernism/hung out with Jamie Joycey
- Ludwig van Beethoven – paved the way for bloghouse
- Alexander Graham Bell – invented the telephone, txt messaging, and the iPhone
- John Denver – died in a plane crash R.I.P.
- Bob Dylan – paved the way for meaningfulcore music
- Thomas Edison – invented light
- Albert Einstein – was smart but never really ‘applied himself’
- Bobby Fischer – was rlly good at Chess, Monopoly, and Puzz3Ds
- Max Fischer – was a gifted and talented kid
- Henry Ford – created Toyota/Ford/Volksvageon
- Bill Gates – Hired Girl Talk to say ‘I’m a PC, yall!’
- Al Gore – invented ‘Global Warming’ as a buzz viral marketing gimmick
- Jim Henson – created ‘Fraggle Rock’. Wrote the Sequel to Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” about the
- muppets taking over it.
- Alfred Hitchcock – wrote spookie stories for SNICK. (Are Yall Afraid of the Dark?)
- Howard Hughes – a character played by Leo DiCaprio who ‘had problems’, but still had a beautiful mind
- Thomas Jefferson – Paved the way for interracial relationships
- Carl Jung – Invented words/practices for ‘people who can’t deal with real life’
- Andy Kaufman – was played by Jim Carrey in the movie “The Truman Show: When Nature Calls (Liar)”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – paved the way for ‘indie’ musik
- John Nash – a character played by Russell Crowe in the movie “A Beautiful Mind (Gladiator Vs. Joaquin Phoenix)”
- Isaac Newton – created gravity with ‘the large hadron collider’
- Friedrich Nietzsche – was ’sad abt life’ and ‘had strong opinions’ about ‘God being dead, yall’ for tweens to write on their backpacks during High School
- Keith Olbermann – popular SportsCenter anchor
- Daniel Plainview – Was an oil man.
- Keanu Reeves – starred in Speed II, The Matrices, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, and Parenthood
- Charles Schulz – invented “Snoopy”
- James Taylor – wrote songs for Girl Talk to exclusively mash up
- Royal Tenenbaum – had tummy cancer.
- Henry Thoreau – lived at a pond without internet and blogged about it (on paper)
- Mark Twain – was a member of the 90s AltRock band Tommy Sawyer and the Blowfish (Huck Finn)
- Andy Warhol – doodled 4 a lot of money
Are yall inspired? I remember in the past I have accused alternative celebrities of being ’spoiled’ and having ’symptoms of A.D.D.’/needing attention, but I guess I need 2 be more tolerant and try 2 find out more b4 I make judgments about people who are ‘in the spotlight.’ The article makes it seem like Ladyhawke is ‘in the spotlight’ because that’s what musicians have 2 do, not bc she’s entirely comfortable with it.
<3 post-tolerance <3
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post more panda bear notwist remix.
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oh yeah post more about how she refuses to wear womens clothing but is wearing a patti smith t shirt.
hmmmmm…
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i wonder if she always plays with her records propped up around her like that.
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She doesn’t have Aspergers. It’s called being New Zealander.
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//////////Reply by poopmeister
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@Coz, lawl so true
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//////////Posted October 12th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
@poopmeister, hahaha thats funny and i am a kiwi
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//////////Reply by Ohhaiboiz
//////////Posted May 27th, 2009 at 5:07 am
@Coz, I love being a New Zealander.
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david byrne
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//////////Reply by KP
//////////Posted November 21st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
@dilla, i <3 david
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Being a tard’s no excuse for records as shitty as Ladyhawke’s.
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//////////Reply by vicki davis
//////////Posted May 9th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
You are the tard!!!!
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do the ppl tht take care of visa’s discriminate against those who have aspergers?
why won’t they let ladyhawke come to our country
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//////////Reply by Stina
//////////Posted December 8th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
@me, if you’re posting from the U.S., she played a club called Pop Scene in San Francisco not too long ago.
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Everyone who’s ever done anything good has Aspergers. Jesus had Aspergers, WIlliam Shakespeare had Aspergers, Frank Sinatara had aspergers, the list goes on.
Of course the guy who came up with Aspergers admitted himself he just invented the thing to inspire more research into autism. As in, it’s not even a real condition. JOEKS ITON THEM TGNV IRGHT?
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//////////Reply by joooohn v
//////////Posted May 6th, 2009 at 11:14 am
@BURRRGGGHLL,
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//////////Reply by joooohn v
//////////Posted May 6th, 2009 at 11:36 am
@BURRRGGGHLL,
you made that up. Aspergers is a real condition. What you just said is a long dispelled notion brought about by a jealous academic peer that hasn’t held a legitimate place in educational philosophy in over fourty years. Joeks iton you tgnv irght?
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post more panda bear “boneless” remix
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Carls,
I think we learned more about your age with that Olbermann comment!
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guy from The Vines. Kinda sux though.
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oh i soooooooooo have Asperger syndrome
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The new comment system sucks, I should know because I have aspergers. Seriously the list would be funnier if it didn’t ring true among so many idiots.
I have been thinking a lot lately about creative alts and what makes them different. Are are all alts creative but they just haven’t found an outlet other than being culture/anti-culture obsessive? Should I dump all my mainstream friends that won’t go to shows because they don’t “get” this whole “music” thing?
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my boss has aspergers? u alwayz teach me so much <3
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Ludwig van Beethoven – paved the way for bloghouse
lmaooooo
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my god, aspergers?, how fucking inappropriate will it get carles?
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted October 10th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
@89798yjkh,
ASSBURGERS
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//////////Reply by Bum Face
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
LTRMAO
Assburgers…hahahahahhhhhaaaaaaaaaa
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forgot one
Carles – attempted to blog for 48 hours straight by surviving on sparks, ice cream sandwiches, and radiohead music videos.
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Mmmmmmmmmmm, assburgers, those sound delicious
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GARY NUMAN. Come on.
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So I guess it’s hip to have asperger’s now?
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//////////Reply by Gary Numan
//////////Posted October 9th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
@kat dennings, It’s hip to have Asperger’s and still be hip. Just having Asperger’s makes you difficult.
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“thomas jefferson- paved the way for interracial relations”
lawlz, sounds like someone double majored in post colonial pre- democratic republican history and web design…
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Henry Thoreau – lived at a pond without internet and blogged about it (on paper)
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//////////Reply by Niki
//////////Posted July 31st, 2009 at 8:35 pm
absolutely hilarious
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People interested in knowing more about autism, Asperger Syndrome, and other autistism spectrum disorders are welcome to listen to the free Autism Spectrum Podcasts available for download at http://www.mic.mypodcast.com
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Pip’s awesome. I saw her play at a record store here in London, great intimate setting and she rocked the house even if it was for only 4 plus the encore she through out. Got to meet her after the show and she is the most awesome lady(hawke). Not to mention that she came out to see everyone that couldn’t get in to the already store. Awesome show!
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mtv true life: i has aspbergies
it was good. did y’all see it?
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being socially awkward is SO in right now.
you’re all just so goddamn weird and isolated, you poor lonely individuals. hey, you can always blame your shit live performances on this, cause you’re just so weird!
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One of my friends has this. Shit is fascinating, but totes a bitch to deal with. However, he does hilariously weird things, knows a lot about science, and rides a bike with 3 wheels even though he is 25. Also, he used to pull on his clothes like he was fapping his belly button. My point, don’t be post tolerant about people I might empathize with (moar NGGRS, FGGTS, & MGMTS).
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And whyyyyyyy don’t I see Gary Numan, godfather of Synthpop and Industrial?
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OHNOES! i smell some assburgers
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My son has Aspergers syndrome. He could read before he had teeth. He’s talented, funny and a complete slacker when it comes to cleaning his room. If you met him on the street, you would never know he had any issues, but it was a tough childhood. Kids are cruel as hell, but while those little assholes who tormented him are in jail or working at Walmart, he’s thriving. Go fig.
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First.
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i have aspergers and spend my whole life learning how to avoid you type of people and that people like you can go rot, having aspergers is not being disabled or a retard like you clearly put out, its a (social) condition which means it takes longer for us to understand problems, body language and and social understand,
i found that some of the best people in history have aspergers like listed above,
people think aspergers is autism which isn’t, its a very small form of it, people wth autism have a hard time talking, walking and going around thir day business without help, people with aspergers is at the low part of the scale but god was nice enough to give us two things you nasty morons will never have, caring hearts and super iQ,.
for instance people with asperger are amazing with some subject such as art, news and music,
cause its someone they can do without anyone else being with them, which brings out the best work in the world and history, did you know the guy who invented the A-bomb had Aspergers and mozart :) and he pretty much created music, rap/rock/pop/classical/metal/screamo/dance/indie/ all was created because of a retart so when your next listening music, remember that your listening to retart music
so show us some god damm respect!
cheers for reading – Jesse -The Verdict
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=278327200
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Gary Numan or Garry Newman? :B
lol everyone famous and noteworthy totes has assburgers amirite?
now then, is assburgers a disease or a higher plane of being, as some asspies claim?
But seriously, modern life in the West seems to create a lot of people with mental/emotional issues that can’t be fixed easily. Whether it’s ADD, autism, or whatever disease-of-the-week. LOL.
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having aspergers is kool bcuz it means ur creative/alt and not just an awkward luzr
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Aspergers have contributed a lot to the world. The condition is a blessing as well as a curse.
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interesting, i think i may have asparagus syndrome too
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Some of the people on your aspberger’s list have autism not aspberger’s.
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tao lin probably
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carles has aspergers
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Henry Thoreau – lived at a pond without internet and blogged about it (on paper)
lololol
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I want to fuck the world in the ass. I want to slide the continents off the table and press them down on the floor, slowly inserting my manhood into the earth ass.
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question for carles:
Is there really any such thing as authenticity anymore? it seems people today are way too self-aware, self concious too approach style, art, charcter in a nondeliberate, uncontrived fashion. It also seems like a good thing. What I believe all of this amounts to is making individuals live thier own lives in their own spheres, without bieng pressured to represent any ‘brand’, due to the fact that all branding is an in authentic gesture. Slowly, digusting things like television, the internet, and other places where unitelligent baby types gain recognition and value from other inauthentic individuals will one day dissappear. There will only be a need to practice and play alone, or with of few other people. ‘perhaps’ this already exists for people who know better. You remind me of some kind of Aristophanes….How would you define your own authenticity. chances are you cannot
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Cute lil indie flick called ‘Adam’ now out starring some guy named Hugh Dancy who played a bisexual pedo that slept with Julianne Moore and her son in another indie film called ‘Savage Grace’ and Rose Byrne, some broad who killed ppl to keep her bf’s funeral home open in yet another indie flick called ‘Just Buried’. Film is about Adam who has asperger’s and struggles with it but still falls in luv then moves to CA but Rosie doesn’t go with him. Go see it, y’all.
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you can add jerkstore to that list.
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haha I love all you advocates with your “Autism” bumper stickers and your little shitty asshole kids that act like little turds but oh well they have a spectrum disorder. 20 years ago you would just be plain old retards.
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i think i have asparagus syndrome too, hehe might go make a shitty record and let my audience down by performing live badly, brb
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