Well, you all lucked out. I was going to post my ultra crazy and hysterical animal figurine based photos, but Picasa’s being a mega bitch and hiding my absolute favorite photo from that session, so I guess it’ll have to wait until next week. Luckily, I just posted a new crayon drawing of my favorite person ever, Mr. Lee Hazlewood. And, if you weren’t aware, he was this brilliant, brilliant person and musician and writer and producer (and he had a wicked ass mustache to boot!). And he wrote Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made For Walkin’” too, hence my theme for this week’s photo session: boots! So now you don’t have to look at my stupid animal pictures (that I really, really adore by the way) and you can be a perv and look at a chick in some knee-high boots instead…aw shucks, screw you.
Just playing, my little friends. Anyway, Lee was incredible. Run out and buy Nancy & Lee, Cowboy in Sweden, Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause and Cure, Requiem for an Almost Lady, Trouble Is a Lonesome Town, The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood…hell, buy everything. It’ll all be worth it because that’s how awesome Mr. Hazlewood was. His music is beautiful and his lyrics can be extremely sincere and meaningful on one song and then be way hilarious and snarky the next…it’s all so amazing, you don’t even know. If I could do anything (and I mean anything), I’d build a time machine and go back to the 1960s just to meet up with him and hang out with him. We’d be best pals, I think (I wanted to be his very bestest friend the first time I ever heard his voice and that desire’s never waned). He’s one of the few people I’ve ever really had the desire to meet in person and talk to…and unfortunately this will never be since he passed away last year (rest in peace, my friend). But his music lives on, his love and wit (he might have actually been the funniest person ever…but I’m a close second) and charm and genius and mustache and coolness. And best of all? He was really genuine in his awesomeness and he never seemed like he was trying to be something he wasn’t. He was just Barton Lee Hazlewood, the best damn person on the planet. We should all aspire to such greatness.
And here, watch this. You’ll see what I mean:
And this, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4
Aw hell, watch all his other videos while you’re at it. They’ll keep you entertained (unless you suck…always a possibility, I suppose).
On to the photos…um, these were a tough group to pick. I can’t believe I didn’t mention it in my miniskirt post, but the whole miniskirt and boots look is tough as hell to pull off without looking like a mega slut. I was trying to get a picture of me sitting down in boots and a miniskirt for the longest time (so I could pair it with the terribly clever-in my eyes-caption “These boots were made for sittin’”) and it took me fucking forever to take one that was decent enough to put out there for public consumption. Like I’d be sitting on the couch, all normally, wearing my miniskirt and conservative flat boots, and Eric would be taking pictures and he’d stop and look at them and be like, “Uhh…look less slutty,” and I’d be like, “What? I’m just sitting here,” and he’d be like, “Yeah…I don’t think you can use these,” and I’d go grab the camera and…holy shit. Me sitting around in a short skirt and boots looks like soft-core porn for some reason. I don’t know, I tend to pose too much in pictures anyhow (the camera points my direction and I twist and turn and tilt my head and stick stuff out…and damn, I’d give anything just to take a normal picture), and that coupled with the possibility of my underwear peaking out at any second isn’t a good combination. So I have hundreds of pictures of me in boots that are pretty useless. The photo I ultimately ended up using for the “sittin’” caption is one of me on the floor in leggings and a shirtdress and it almost looks slutty (how does that happen?! I’m basically wearing a long shirt with pants!), but I think it’s resting on the side of semi-decency, so I’ll let it slide.
In closing, the lovely Nancy Sinatra made it work without looking trashy…so here’s hoping I do too.
-
- Trying not to walk on you in my boots (pretty considerate, eh?)
-
- Daytime boots
-
- Halloween minus the majority of my costume
-
- I’ve used so many photos from this particular session, it’s ridiculous (no worries, I’m retiring them after this post)
-
- You know, just naturally lounging about on the floor in boots…righhhhhhhhht
-
- Wary of all this shoe nonsense
-
- These boots were made for walkin’ (trying to channel Ms. Nancy)
-
- And yup, these boots were made for sittin’ on the floor (my, you’re clever!)
I'm a writer, music freak, pop culture critic-at-large, natural born lover, and professional crayon drawer.
1 Comment
September 11, 2009 at 7:32 am
I think you look good in your boots.