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Originally posted by kapellen421
I hate fucking emos
Good job you're not Australian then
OH... 'EMOS' *lol* Right, I see.
You mean:
"Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music. Since its inception, emo has come to describe several independent variations, linked loosely but with common ancestry. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate.
In its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe the music of the mid-1980s Washington, DC scene and its associated bands. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and, slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.
Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason put forth a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic in nature than its predecessor. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles.
As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture. Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music."
I WAS GOING FOR A TRIBUTE TO HORST:
Childhood
Horst was born in Weißenfels-an-der-Saale, Germany, to Klara (Schönbrodt) and Max Bohrmann. His father was a successful merchant. In his teens, he met dancer Eva Weidemann at the home of his aunt's, and this aroused his interest in avant-garde art. In the late 1920s, Horst studied at Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule, leaving there to go to Paris to study under the architect Le Corbusier.
Youth
Photograph of Horst taken by George Hoyningen-Huene in 1931.While in Paris, he befriended many people in the art community and attended many galleries. In 1930 he met Vogue photographer Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, a half-Baltic, half-American nobleman, and became his lover. He traveled to England with him that winter. While there, they visited photographer Cecil Beaton, who was working for the British edition of Vogue. In 1931, Horst began his association with Vogue, publishing his first photograph in the French edition of Vogue in November of that year.
His first exhibition was hung in La Plume d'Or in Paris in 1932. It was reviewed by Janet Flanner in The New Yorker, and this review, which appeared after his exhibit was over, made Horst instantly famous. Horst made a portrait of Bette Davis the same year, the first in a series of celebrities he would photograph during his life. Within two years, he had photographed Noel Coward, Yvonne Printemps, Lisa Fonssagrives, Natasha Paley, Cole Porter, Elsa Schiaparelli, and others.
Horst rented an apartment in New York in 1937, and while residing there met Coco Chanel Chanel, whom Horst called 'the queen of the whole thing.' He would photograph her fashions for three decades.
He met Valentine Lawford, British diplomat in 1938 and they would live together as a couple until Horst's death. They adopted and raised a son, Richard J. Horst, together.[1]
In 1940, Horst applied for United States citizenship. In 1942 he passed an Army physical, and joined the Army on July 2, 1943. On October 21 he received his United States citizenship as Horst P. Horst. He became an Army photographer, with much of his work printed in the forces' magazine Belvoir Castle. In 1945 he photographed United States President Harry S. Truman, with whom he became friends, and he photographed every First Lady in the post-war period at the invitation of the White House. In 1947, Horst moved into his house in Oyster Bay, New York. He designed the white stucco-clad building himself, the design inspired by the houses that he had seen in Tunisia during his relationship with Hoyningen-Huene.
Work
Horst is best known for his photographs of women and fashion, but is also recognized for his photographs of interior architecture, still lifes, especially ones including plants, and environmental portraits. One of the great iconic photos of the Twentieth-Century is "The Mainbocher Corset" with its erotically charged mystery, captured by Horst in VOGUEs Paris studio in 1939. Designers like Donna Karen continue to use the timeless beauty of "The Mainbocher Corset" as an inspiration for their outerwear collections today. His work frequently reflects his interest in Surrealism and his regard of the ancient Greek ideal of physical beauty.
His method of work typically entailed careful preparation for the shoot, with the lighting and studio props (of which he used many) arranged in advance. His instructions to models are remembered as being brief and to the point. His published work uses lighting to pick out the subject; he frequently used four spotlights, often one of them pointing down from the ceiling. Only rarely do his photos include shadows falling on the background of the set. Horst rarely, if ever, used filters. While most of his work is in black & white, much of his color photography includes largely monochromatic settings to set off a colorful fashion. Horst's color photography did include documentation of society interior design, well noted in the volume "Horst Interiors." He photographed a number of interiors designed by Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade of Denning & Fourcade and often visited their homes on Manhattan and Long Island. After making the photograph, Horst generally left it up to others to develop, print, crop, and edit his work.
One of his most famous portraits is of Marlene Dietrich, taken in 1942. She protested the lighting that he had selected and arranged, but he used it anyway. Dietrich liked the results and subsequently used a photo from the session in her own publicity.
Later life
In the 1960s, encouraged by Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, Horst began a series of photos illustrating the lifestyle of international high society. The articles were written by the photographer's longtime companion, Valentine Lawford, a former English diplomat. From this point until nearly the time of his death, Horst spent most of his time traveling and photographing. In the mid 1970s, he began working for House & Garden magazine as well as for Vogue.
He died at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, at 93 years of age.
And you're a
TWAT
Twat has various meanings, clearly dependent upon which regional dialect one is accustomed to. It is generally used as a term to mean 'twit' or 'idiot'.
Look up twat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Further information: tuat
Twat is a vulgar term for the human vulva,[1] which can also be used as a derogatory epithet. In British English, it is often pronounced with a short a (to rhyme with bat). In other areas (eg. Australia and New Zealand) it is also pronounced with a short "o" sound (to rhyme with what) and this was common in British English usage in the past. In Australia, a male is a twit and a female is a twat.
Robert Browning famously misused the term in his 1841 poem "Pippa Passes", believing it to be an item of nun's clothing:
Then owls and bats
Cowls and twats
Monks and nuns in a cloister's moods
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry
Its meaning was in reality the same then as now, Browning's misconception probably having arisen from a line in a 1660 satirical poem, Vanity of Vanities:
They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat
They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat
Another mistaken (or perhaps dialectal) use was in Lord Lytton's 1870 science fiction novel The Coming Race, in an apparent satire on Darwin:
Among the pithy sayings which, according to tradition, the philosopher bequeathed to posterity in rhythmical form and sententious brevity, this is notably recorded: "Humble yourselves, my descendants; the father of your race was a 'twat' (tadpole): exalt yourselves, my descendants, for it was the same Divine Thought which created your father that develops itself in exalting you."
A more contemporary usage (but still early to appear in commercial print) was in Henry Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer. The novel, widely banned by censors, contains the line, "A man with something between his legs that could... make her grab that bushy twat of hers with both hands and rub it joyfully."
Although the term was not notable enough to be included in George Carlin's original seven dirty words, it was one of four words (the others being fart, dick and turd) that later made his slightly expanded 11-word version. He also used it in a sports cheer during a standup routine.
"Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat. Sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot. Hooray, lizard shit, fuck!"
The term may be an inherently funny word, as it is prone to wordplay, a common example being the dirty pun, "twat did you say? I cunt hear you...nevermind I'll finger it out later, I have an ear infucktion." Another well-used joke has an airplane passenger on Trans World Airlines suggesting to a coffee-bearing flight attendant that he would rather sample her "TWA Tea". More recently, bloggers and internet pundits have used the word as a parodic acronym for "The War Against Terror". Sometimes in the telecommunications industry a TWT is pronounced "Twat", but usually not in the presence of females or supervision.
It is sometimes combined with the synonym cunt, to form "twunt".
A common spelling alternative is "tw@." This was used in the video game Grand Theft Auto 3.
The term is more commonly used to indicate the following:
A fool an alternative to the word twit - 'You are a real twat 'n' a half'
One who behaves in a childish, extroverted manner
To hit something (or someone) really hard - 'I twatted him one'
To become drunk or otherwise intoxicated - 'Let's get twatted'
There is an urban legend that "twat" is a term for a gravid (pregnant) goldfish.
In South African English, the word gwat is used instead of twat; however this has fallen into disuse.
In England, "twat" is frequently employed as a verb, meaning "to hit violently" (usually another person) i.e. "I twatted him for that.". This may be due to its onomatapaeic sound, similar to other such words used to describe a violent blow, such as "swat", "smack", "flack" or "thwack".
I LOVE WIKIPEDIA
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