Veronica Varekova/Jim Noir/Lemony Snicket
Veronica Varekova
If you can draw yourself away from the above picture for a moment – come on, you can do it! - you might just learn something about the way a model’s mind works. The Super, and I do mean ‘Super’, model above is Veronika Vařeková and that is an image from her Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot in 2004. The czech born model has appeared in the swimsuit edition of the magazine on six separate occasions, she’s also been the face of Nivea and had contracts with Victorias Secret, Chanel, Guess? and Pantene – to name a few.
In may of 2006 Vařeková threatened to sue Maxim magazine for unauthorised use of photos from a shoot she did for Victoria’s secret - where she was naked from the waist up and clad in stockings – Maxim used this for the cover. "They put me on the cover without my permission," the model told reporters, "They have no right to do it." Vařeková went on to say that the photos were fitting for a feature on Victoria's Secret, but "for Maxim, it looks -- to my eyes -- super, super vulgar."
Look again at the photo above, seems Veronika may be a little quick to judge Men’s magazines like Maxim or is that just an average day at the beach for her? Having said that she’s no dumb blonde, she is fluent in three languages and has degrees in Psychology and Education.
I guess the lawyers will sort it out and save her modesty.
Jim Noir
Jim Noir, or Alan Roberts to give him his real name is a genius in waiting. The term ‘Brian Wilson’ is been happily banded about in the media and it doesn’t take a beach full of boys to see why. His music is joyous, childlike, effortless and estute, the songs, he claims, come to him in flashes of enlightnment and are put together speedily and are mostly improvised. He’s keen to retain the chracteristics of his youthful efforts at music by holding on to the spontinaeity and by not over anaylzing the processs of recording.
I love the music and I’m happy to give him the ‘genius’ monicker, I also love the fact that Jim won a Batman water pistol at a holiday camp in Newquay for a rendition of ‘You're the One That I Want’ when he was nine.
MP3: Jim Noir - In the key of C
Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
The series of unfortunate events unfold themselevs over twelve volumes so far – the thirteeneth and final one is in production – and tell the sorry tale of three abandoned orphans who move from relative to relative after their parents perish in a mysterious fire, constantly on the run from their sinster Uncle, Count Olaf, who has a tattoo of an eye on his ankle and plans to kill them and inherit the family fortune.
The story is retold via lemony snicket and as well as being viscerally grisly in it’s gothic undertones, mostly borrowing and expanded from the works of Edward Gorey, it uses lanaguage far beyond its intended childrens audience and is an education and a pleasure to read for languages sake alone.
Lemony Snicket is actaully the accordian player for the Magnetic Fields and one of Stephin Merritt’s other bands ‘The Gothic Archies’ are currently putting together a compilation album of all the music used so far in the Audio books of the series.
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If you can draw yourself away from the above picture for a moment – come on, you can do it! - you might just learn something about the way a model’s mind works. The Super, and I do mean ‘Super’, model above is Veronika Vařeková and that is an image from her Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot in 2004. The czech born model has appeared in the swimsuit edition of the magazine on six separate occasions, she’s also been the face of Nivea and had contracts with Victorias Secret, Chanel, Guess? and Pantene – to name a few.
In may of 2006 Vařeková threatened to sue Maxim magazine for unauthorised use of photos from a shoot she did for Victoria’s secret - where she was naked from the waist up and clad in stockings – Maxim used this for the cover. "They put me on the cover without my permission," the model told reporters, "They have no right to do it." Vařeková went on to say that the photos were fitting for a feature on Victoria's Secret, but "for Maxim, it looks -- to my eyes -- super, super vulgar."
Look again at the photo above, seems Veronika may be a little quick to judge Men’s magazines like Maxim or is that just an average day at the beach for her? Having said that she’s no dumb blonde, she is fluent in three languages and has degrees in Psychology and Education.
I guess the lawyers will sort it out and save her modesty.
Jim Noir
Jim Noir, or Alan Roberts to give him his real name is a genius in waiting. The term ‘Brian Wilson’ is been happily banded about in the media and it doesn’t take a beach full of boys to see why. His music is joyous, childlike, effortless and estute, the songs, he claims, come to him in flashes of enlightnment and are put together speedily and are mostly improvised. He’s keen to retain the chracteristics of his youthful efforts at music by holding on to the spontinaeity and by not over anaylzing the processs of recording.
I love the music and I’m happy to give him the ‘genius’ monicker, I also love the fact that Jim won a Batman water pistol at a holiday camp in Newquay for a rendition of ‘You're the One That I Want’ when he was nine.
MP3: Jim Noir - In the key of C
Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
The series of unfortunate events unfold themselevs over twelve volumes so far – the thirteeneth and final one is in production – and tell the sorry tale of three abandoned orphans who move from relative to relative after their parents perish in a mysterious fire, constantly on the run from their sinster Uncle, Count Olaf, who has a tattoo of an eye on his ankle and plans to kill them and inherit the family fortune.
The story is retold via lemony snicket and as well as being viscerally grisly in it’s gothic undertones, mostly borrowing and expanded from the works of Edward Gorey, it uses lanaguage far beyond its intended childrens audience and is an education and a pleasure to read for languages sake alone.
Lemony Snicket is actaully the accordian player for the Magnetic Fields and one of Stephin Merritt’s other bands ‘The Gothic Archies’ are currently putting together a compilation album of all the music used so far in the Audio books of the series.
(Read Unread Reading)
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