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Allez zou, un peu de #familypromo :
The barbershop

Une formation qui démarre son premier EP par un titre intitulé « Carrie White » mérite toute l’affection du monde. Car en sus de rendre hommage à la plus belle des reines de promo, les parisiens The Barbershop, à l’instar des formidables Ghost Friends il y a quelques semaines, proposent une noisy-rock qui ne connaît guère la baston. Les grattes peuvent bien rugir, qu’importe : la souplesse prédomine, le cool supplante la colère. À la fin de l’olympien « Rocket Rock » par exemple, l’auditeur s’attend à un long crescendo façon « Instant Street » ; mais le quintet, intelligemment, préfère rester à hauteur humaine. The Barbershop : un peu les nouvelles chansons que The Rakes n’écrira malheureusement plus ; endiablées mais profondes, vives mais avec une cicatrice exhibée en gros. Pour tout dire, cet aspect freak, on ne voit que lui : influence série B, musique teen qui patauge dans le sang - comme une étrange association entre les films de John Hughes et les premiers De Palma.

A écouter là :
▻http://barbershopy.bandcamp.com

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What My “My So-Called Life” Taught Me About Beauty - Bitch Media
▻http://bitchmagazine.org/post/what-my-my-so-called-life-taught-me-about-beauty

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Would the character have been as resonant as a pretty blond? It’s been widely reported that Clueless star Alicia Silverstone, who started modeling at the age of six, was almost cast as Angela. In a 2013 retrospective, MSCL’s co-executive producer, Marshall Herskovitz, revealed that they ultimately decided on Claire Danes because she wasn’t conventionally attractive. “Alicia is so beautiful that that would have affected her experience of the world,” he told The New Yorker. “People would have been telling her she was beautiful since she was six years old. You can’t put that face in what’s been written for this girl.”

Danes was to ‘90s teen TV what Molly Ringwald was to ‘80s teen movies. A decade before MSCL premiered, John Hughes had been inspired by Ringwald’s head shot, which showed a pouty freckle-faced redhead, to write Sixteen Candles. And he proceeded to lean on her “charismatic normality,” as film critic Paulina Kael put it, in 50 percent of the films that made up his teen canon. In Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club, Ringwald provided a welcome antidote to the buxom blonds that bounced across the reels of Porky’s and Revenge of the Nerds. As Jake Ryan, the hunky senior in Sixteen Candles, says of her to a meathead friend who wonders why he’d bother, “Maybe I’m interested in more than a party.” Ringwald’s characters, like Angela, craved something deeper than her hormones did. “What turned things around for me is remembering how serious I was at that age,” Hughes told The New York Times in 1986. “It’s the point in your life where you’re most serious, yet, due to conditions beyond your control, you’re also at your geekiest.”

#séries #beauté

Hand back Donetsk its original British name
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/andy-hunder-hand-back-donetsk-its-original-british-name-361024.html

“Donetsk is a British city! God Save the Queen!” – so an online social media referendum campaign, slightly tongue-in-cheek, promulgated earlier this year. The link with Britain comes from John Hughes, a Welsh businessman, the city’s founder, who launched the first iron-works at the end of the 19th century and subsequently built a steel plant and opened several coal mines in the region. The town was consequently named Yuzovka, or Hughesovka (“Юз” being a Cyrillic approximation of Hughes).

Today, the eastern Ukrainian city of 1 million residents is seeing intense military confrontation, where Ukrainian troops are fighting off and closing in on the Russian backed and funded mercenaries and terrorists.

During the 19th century, Hughesovka received numerous immigrants from Wales, especially from the town of Merthyr Tydfil. By the beginning of the 20th century its main district was named English Colony, with the British origin of the city reflected in its layout and architecture.

During Soviet times, the city’s steel industry expanded and in 1924 it was renamed Stalino. In 1961, Nikita Krushchev, in order to distance it from the out-of-favour former leader Joseph Stalin, gave the city a new name – Donetsk, named after the Seversky Donets River. Apart from today being twinned with Sheffield in the UK, it is also twinned with the US steel city of Pittsburgh.

Yuzovka -> Stalino -> Donetsk -> ? (Hughesovka)

Pour effacer l’empreinte du passé, rien de mieux que le retour au passé. L’époque (bénie) de l’entrée des capitaux occidentaux en Russie.

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