What's Wrong with "Get Him to the Greek"

 "Get Him to the Greek" could have been a classic comedy. Halfway through I was still laughing unstoppably, and so were my parents. It's a novel and potent concept for a film. Rock stars, fame, and the crumbling record companies are compelling topics that have not yet been delved upon on film recently, besides maybe "Control" and "Anvil." But never in such a huge Hollywood film. Apatow! Diddy! Krugman! (?).  Now finally here was a movie that was doing so in the most brutal, albeit hilarious, depiction I have seen since "Spinal Tap." I am intensely interested in the music business- I've followed every career move and interview of my favorite band, The Killers, for 6 years. I've similarly "studied" many other musicians and celebrities, although not quite as intensively. But I know a thing or two about the topic, and watching the first half of "Get Him to the Greek" was therefore absolutely delightful. The nods at executives making their stars feel invincible, the nerdy nothingness that those who organize their lives really are, the incomprehensible mindset of those who know that millions admire their every gesture. GREAT actors. Damn, almost the whole cast was amazing and spot-on. It was all there, and it was delightful for a music biz nerd like me.

But, then, something changed. And everything went downhill. And I left the theater frustrated and muttering about what a shame it was that the whole second half destroyed what could have been a milestone film. If this film had reached its potential, it could have been hugely successful, would have led to copycats... maybe would have revived rock music. Who knows. Yes I'm exaggerating, but then the horrendous turn this film took really left me dumbfounded. Before I keep babbling about nothing, I'll let you know just the major points that pissed me off about "Greek." In fact, you can apply many of these to most recent films graced with the Judd Apatow label. "Anchorman,""40 year-old Virgin", "Superbad" were instant classics, "Knocked Up" also good. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" was really funny. Then, "Pineapple Express" funny but overindulgent and lost. "Walk Hard," "Funny People," "Year One" I haven't seen, but from what I hear I should continue avoiding them. Apatow has been going downhill, while films such as "The Hangover" with the same exact humor as "40 y/o Virgin" have grabbed that prized instant classic designation. Why? Maybe some of the problems with "Get Him to the Greek" will help you understand. And maybe they'll teach Judd a lesson or two about how to keep his entourage in check. Dude, I watched "Freaks and Geeks" last month. That shit was amazing. You know quality. Don't lose it in the face of success. Now moving on. The trouble with "Get Him to the Greek." Obviously spoilers ahead:

1. I'll start by saying that I really did love the first half or even 3/4. A lot. "African Child," the video and promo and backlash and all. The fictional ups and downs of Aldous and his wife's careers. Aldous' talk with Jackie in the phone- when asked who was with him, he said "just an affable lil' twit," referring to Aaron. True to celeb life and funny. I applaud. Diddy was #1. Hi-la-rious. Holy shit he blew me away. How can he be so successful AND be so funny. It's crazy. He really hit a home run with literally all of his lines. Jonah Hill was really funny and perfectly understated. Russell Brand was perfection. I am already biased because I love him and have read My Booky Wook and I think he is a comic genius, but he really was flawless in his film. Yes the character is practically him, but still. He was just really, really fucking good and funny. I loved that Elizabeth Moss was cast as Aaron's girlfriend. She is one of my favs on Mad Men and she managed to be funny even with some of the bland lines she was given (perhaps you can already guess what one of my problems with the film is). The Jeffrey and rubbing wall fur. The moment when Aldous stuck the adrenaline syringe in Aaron (Jonah Hill) and the latter's eyes went crazy with his face filling the screen- I don't think I've laughed that hard in a few good weeks. But then rapidly, suddenly I and the rest of the audience stopped laughing mere seconds after this moment. I don't remember what happened, but the attention was taken away from this climactic hilarity scene. It was a really queer moment and I felt gipped. I wanted endless milking of that laughing a la "The Hangover." Why stop when you just had the audience in the palm of your hand? This wasn't an artistic, let's-not-just-do-what's-expected-of-us kind of decision.  There was no good logical reason behind it. Before this moment the film was already showing signs of falling apart, but after it everything completely tumbled. And for no good reason. It's really a shame.

2. Now for the criticism. In no particular order. The decision to bring the story to Las Vegas. It made no sense. How could Aldous change the flight so quickly, and how couldn't Aaron stop him from doing it? If it was so very important for his career to bring him to L.A. I get and appreciate and support the fact that comedies take crazy unrealistic turns for the laughs, but this  turn wasn't particularly funny. It slowed the film down. Momentum was building up to the moment they return to L.A., and suddenly it was cut off, because Aldous wanted to see his dad from a sudden bit of advice dished by the ever wise Aaron? Bleh. Not good enough, sorry buddy (writer). Why couldn't their flight have had to take a sudden stop in LV? They had to take a road trip and stopped in LV? I don't know, anything else that was less an abrupt and slightly annoying/baffling detour, more a crazy twist that still kept the momentum going.

3. Aldous' dad. Terrible actor for the part. Not funny at all. Sucked the life out of every exchange that involved him in the Vegas scenes. Even Russel couldn't save it. Sorry, the guy just wasn't right. He contributed a hell of a lot to the film's slow-down. When Aldous and father were talking about their issues in a booth at the Rat Pack club, I started fidgeting and rolling my eyes. This was only the beginning of my reactions. I'm just being honest.he should have been an extreme sort of character. Hilarious, strange. Instead he was just a bore and a terrible, terrible person one had absolutely no sympathy for.

4. Sentimentality. This single-handedly killed the film. Why? WHY? Was there sentimentality in The Hangover? No. Was the film awesome? Yes. Coincidence? I don't think so. Sentimental boo hoo Aldous' parents are terrible and Aaron is such a caring perfect specimen of the human race and Aldous performing with his broken arm is so amazing etc etc in a crazy comedy film do not belongeth. Either this is a drama or a comedy. You can't do both. Perhaps it's possible to find a middle ground, but this film proved that it's extremely difficult- even nearly impossible- to pull that off. And starting the whole first half of the film without a trace of the sentimental misty-eyed cheesiness, before blasting a whole shitload of the stuff at you during the last fifth, is a disgusting thing to do to your viewers. We're not idiots. We're not a combination of a cross-section. perhaps some don't expect much of you, and so won't think much of the stupid turn. But real fans came in there. people whose expectations built throughout the film. Why shit in their faces? Why? Did some idiot producer say adding a cheesy happy message (or ten of them, why not) would save the film? add $10 million more to the gross? Perhaps, but you know what? You also lost $500 million from future DVD and paraphernalia and re-release money. Oh, and you lost cult classic status. But it was worth the $10 mil, right? Sorry, you can't cut off the last 45 minutes of a film and put that up for consideration for classic status. If a big chunk of a film sucks, the film just isn't up to par with the bests. Too bad. Guess you should think twice about listening to those all-knowing producers, eh?

5. Now for a problem less all-encompassing but still important, to me at least. Someone with a big role in creating this film knew very little about real, awesome rock concerts. And it's a crying shame because it made the film about 10% less effective. This was most glaringly clear at the end of the film in the concert I am sure the filmmakers intended to be a OMFG AWESOMENESS ending glorious rock concert, but instead came off as an indulgent boring useless piece of film that should have been cut to no more than two minute, if even that, at its state. First of all, Aldous constantly looking back at Aaron to smile and be like "dude how awesome!!111!"? No. Just no. Wouldn't happen, shouldn't happen. Stupid stupid stupid and unnecessary. We know they're happy, give it a fucking rest already. The audience members at the Greek? Aw hell naw man. All of the supposedly die-hard sold out crowd in the GA section gave me second-hand embarrassment. Every floor audience member stood five feet from the other, i kid you not. Dude. This is coming from a diehard Killers fan- when you go see your favorite band and are lucky enough to have floor spots, you jam to the front as closely as you possibly can to the stage. This means you learn to be very cozy with your neighbors. I'm sure the extras cost a bunch ($100 a day each adds up), but spreading them out like that was terrible. It was instantly obvious, at least to me, and I'm sure equally so in a subconscious way to everyone else. Not to mention, every time the extras waved their hands and fist pumped and clapped with fake smiles, they looked like the fakest bunch of posers I have ever seen. Basically lamest concert ever. What the filmmakers really should have done was film a real band's audience at a real Greek Theater concert. They could figure out releases and all of that- no one minds being in the audience in a film. Finaly, Aaron was backstage watching Aldous perform and exchanging the aforementioned buddy-buddy exchanged of euphoria. But when he was leaving in his great "yesss I succeeded" moment, he walked through the audience. Uh, what? Since when do you have to walk through the audience to exit from the stage? I'm sure the filmmakers thought this was extra exciting to see him walk through extatic people with a satisfied smile. And I'm also sure I would easily overlook this detail if the film hadn't unfolded as it had. But as it were, I was so disappointed and pissed off by this point this this just stirred the pot even further. I literally seethed and just thought, WTF. WHO MADE THIS STUPID DECISION.

6. girlfriend

7. too long

8.feeding lessons to audience- we should be allowed to figure it out on own instead of spoon-feeding

9. flashes of news stories and youtube vids at beginning- too much
bazillion famous actors etc at beginning- just feels like overindulgent and bloated now. showing off big budget. keep it small and real, much more preferable.

Brandon Flowers the Trendsetter: Feathers on Shoulders

*Scroll down a bit if you're a feather-aware BFlo obsessive and just want to get to the good stuff*

This post is about feathers.

Feathers on Shoulders.
As worn by this lovely man, Brandon Flowers of the Killers:
And many others, both famous and not, soon after him. Yeah, he's looking at you all badass-like because he knows he can start a ridiculous trend with a snap of his fingers.

Before I go into more details and pictures, I want to explain my Theory of the Feather Epaulets.

Brandon has started many trends. Thanks to the Internet's impressive memory, I have the ability to prove this point instead of just looking as if I'm talking out of my ass. He was at least very instrumental in the inception of these trends, even though he never gets any actual credit other than in (uhum) obscure blogs. He's not 'cool' enough / not famous enough in Middle America to get major media credit.

You might scoff, but I can prove that he was among the creators if not the main originator of the following major revival trends, and many more:

--The Bruce Springsteen hero worship going on in the past year and a half or so in the indie music scene. Brandon was already at it in 2005, and when he discussed it in 2006 most were either shocked or laughed or bashed to no end. However, today it's pretty much a rule that alternative rock fans must glorify the Boss (mini-proof).
--'Guyliner' (eyeliner for men) in 2005. He stopped that year but the trend continued into '07 and even today with Adam Lambert and such. (mini-proof).
--Mustaches- his debuted in early '06 and got a ridiculous amount of backlash. Choice quote - "who grows a mustache these days?!" Well, no one can ask that today. The stache became a bona fide trend in early 2007 and is still worn by Bflo-hating hipsters in Brooklyn and liberal arts colleges, including mine (mini-proof and another).
--Wayfarers. Yup, those Risky Business sunglasses you see all the hipsters and everyone else in the fucking world wearing? He virtually spearheaded that revival back in 2006 (mini-proof).

Phew. Trust me, music snobs and hipsters would prefer to keel over and die than admit that their trends were started by a man they want dead ("I hate Brandon Flowers" in quotes returns over 2,000 results on Google). But that's okay. They don't have to. I'm here to document it anyway.

So. This finally brings us to feathers on shoulders.
My Shoulder Plumage Theory (the name changes) is that Brandon eventually had enough of this BS. He was all, "WTF? Everyone keeps copying my shit and I don't even get any credit in the end? Fuck that. I'm gonna do something crazy." (Obviously Brandon Flowers talks like that). So he hired Fee Doran aka 'Mrs. Jones' to make a nutso feather monstrosity of a jacket for him. She did Kylie Minogue's outfits, so he knew she was up for the challenge. He mst have said something like, "Oh Mrs. Jones, please create a garment that I and only I would wear and no one else in their right mind would possibly want to copy. Especially not hipsters." Or something. And she did it. The feather jacket was born. And many others would come after it, designed by others as well. All with feathers. Brando became a bird shoulder man, basically.

Now behold, the many feather epaulet jackets (and other, slightly more vague shoulder adornments) that have graced BFlo the bird master:

On the cover of Paper magazine, a sort of mixed plumage... thing on a blue blazer. Paper magazine, as in hipster magazine #1?!! What?! Yes, yes. He was on the cover this year. Deal with it and simmer down, hipsters.
Here he is wearing a... um. This is really difficult. Power Rangers villain cape? Disney bird prince fighting gear? I don't think anyone knows, but IT has feathers on the shoulders, that much is clear. This was from a musician photo shootthe New York Times magazine did at Coachella this year when TK headlined. Brandon is in fact pictured here with Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley and Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. ...Um woh, get an inhaler or something hipsters. Eesh. You can get through these trying times. They're probably not friends in real life... Yes, take that seat. it's okay.Here he is at a Q magazine photoshoot, which was apparently inspired by a movie called Mad Max or something. I don't even now. Feather football warrior gear? Eh, I give up.
Lest you think he's a one-time feather football dresser, Brandon dressed in a red version of the aforementioned garb in the Spaceman video. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the ultimate feather explosion.
He wore it again for his article with Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan in Blackbook magazine. He is with his baby son Ammon (born July '07). That baby is too angelic for words. Good genes? You betcha. No pictures available of little Gunnar yet (born July '09- uh oh, close birthdays), as far as I know. But what is he doing, wearing this thing with his son around? Poor Ammon must be traumatized. The fact that his dad is holding him like a sacrificial offering doesn't help.
In a photoshoot with The Guardian, those Brits used their ever-present wittiness. Oh ho ho. Birds... on his shoulders... get it?? Because he wears... yeah, ok.

  Brandon wore a full-length black feather shoulder coat in the World We Live In video. As far as I know, the only other time he wore it was in the "Zombie Hands" Halloween bonus video/song for TK's fanclub, The Victims. 

Now to the big business. Brandon wore this jacket/blazer/sequined feather kitschy mess of a divine creation. Of course, it was designed by Mrs. Jones. I would say he wore it in about 10% of the Day & Age tour. This included the World We Live In video and TK's Coachella performance, which I believe at least one of these pictures is from:
And finally. The big kahuna. THE feather jacket. I kid you not, Brandon has worn it in 80% of the performances in the 2-year Day & Age tour. He is obsessed with it. It is really kind of scary. Homeboy is crazy, I've never denied it.

Human music video:
Camping. you know, the usual. (Spin photoshoot).
Bran quote from a Q magazine interview (read it- he cries), to show you how damn serious he is about his feathers:

"The feather epaulettes were my most fabulous style statement. When I get into the jacket I feel good and very triumphant. It's the old cliche of putting the mask on. I don't know if I could get up in front of 70,000 people at festivals without my feathers on."

Smirking on Jonathan Ross. Notice the plumage fuzz from too much wear. I don't think i can overstress the fact that he has worn this jacket at least a million times. Literally. Now I know I seem to have an agenda. And I'm not going to try to say that I don't. I place Brandon on a pedestal where only other exclusively amazing things such as Middlesex, Marcus Flutie, my mom's strawberry jam crumb cake, and the first day of break reside... but just because of that, it doesn't mean I'm completely 100% biased in this account. To prove this point I give you:

Meryl Streep and her feather-epaulette-laden backup singers in the movie version of Mamma Mia, which I openly admit came out before Brandon ever showed signs of going bird crazy. As far as we know, Mrs. Jones might have copied this look when she made Brandon's jacket. I doubt it, but I'm saying it's not impossible. The brilliant idea of sticking feathers on your shoulders is not that novel.

Also, Patrick Wolf (who coincidentally hates BF's look- "I think Brandon Flowers looks like he’s just walked out of Primark and bought a Casio synthesizer.") wore a feathery jacket in a photoshoot slightly before Brandon. But the feathers form more of an uneven cape than epaulets. And he could have been dressed by a stylist with no personal choice. And can you tell I don't like him because he's trash-talked Bflo multiple times? Moving on. More tellingly, Brian Eno of Roxy Music, (a band Brandon has always said to be influenced by), wore a featheryjacket long before Brandon, in the 70's:
However, these do not disprove my point. I don't claim that Brandon invented shoulder feathers (nor mustaches, nor guyliner...). I'm just saying he borrowed on them from decades earlier for his own use when almost no one else in their right mind was doing so.

Then after a lot of backlash and screeches and taunts, something started changing. This happened every time. The so-called tastemakers slowly followed- sometimes subconsciously, at times deliberately, and at other times bashfully obscuring where they got the inspiration. People gawked when they first saw some of these unfamiliar looks on Bflo - I know I did. But as he wore them more and more, they got ingrained in our brains and many people adopted them for their own use, forgetting or not knowing where the return of the trend originated in the first place. It's not a huge problem, but credit is due where it's due!

Back to feathered shoulders. Brandon was up for a big surprise. His plan failed. He thought no one would put feathers on their shoulders after they saw him, and he would finally be left in peace to his own strange ways. He was plan ol' dead wrong.

Lily Allen popped up wearing an angelic white dress with feather shoulders.

Over half a year after Bflo started wearing nothing but feathers, Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes displayed wing-like fixtures in her video for the song Pearl's Dream (even Stereogum pointed out the BF similarity).

And again she wore plenty of shoulder (peacock) feathers while picking up her Mercury Prize.January '09, not long after Lady Gaga's first single "Let's Dance" hit #1 on the Billboard charts, she wore a black blazer with black feathers. At the airport, where else. And this was before she really went batsh*t with the outfits. You can say the similarity was a coincidence. However, Gaga has specifically stated before she wore this that she loved TK and was inspired by Brandon's style so...
Brandon does it better. Just saying. Very off-topic but she looked much healthier weight-wise back then, no?
The lovely Juliet Lewis, who is friends with The Killers (her band Juliet and the Licks or the New Romantiques, or whatever her band is called these days, opened a huge show for TK at Arena di Verona in Italy) wore plenty of feathers on her shoulders this past summer at music festivals and concerts (lots of floaty feather photos at that link). Yes she did wear them at the TK concert.
Britney Spears (or more likely her stylists) adorned her shoulder with hairy feathery things. MTV first pointed out the Bflo parallel.
You want more Gaga? I'll give you more Gaga. Style Bubble's Susie Bubble discovered that these are beetle wings, not feathers, but close enough. Most recently and prominently, dirty-looking "Tik Tok" sensation Ke$ha (God that fucking $ in the name... gag me with a spoon) wore a bunch of black feathers on her shoulders at a Z100 winter concert festival. She combined the look with invisible pants a la Gaga.
Imogen Heap (SO MUCH LOVE) also wore dark feathers while performing. I see the women are drawn to darker feathers than Brandon's pheasant ones. Go Fug Yourself disapproves, but I like. Biased? Me? Naaahhhhh.

Newest to the group is long-time Killers fan and Brandon-admirer (she said he was her celeb crush or something about a year ago. No comment.) MILEY CYRUS. Miss Disney pop princess herself got alll dressed up in feathers galore, yet most prominently on her shoulders of course, for her new video "Can't Be Tamed," which just premiered on E!'s website. Everyone on ONTD claimed she's copying Ke$ha but HELLO, we know the real originator! How easily they forget...

Finally, last but not least, the homewrecking bitch is back. I told you I did not trust her around Brandon, and now you see I was not (just) in the fits of a jealous rage. Sienna I-must-suck-the-soul-out-of-every-good-thing Miller was not just hugging Brandon in the infamous picture, she was latching her evil claws on and raping him of all his good taste and purity.

She failed, luckily, and all she escaped with was this creeptastic stalker jacket at the 2009 Elle Style Awards. It really takes a great deal of head-scratching to figure out where she got the inspiration from this jacket from. Hmmmmmm.

Go away, Sienna. Shoo!

Moving on, Kenley of Project Runway preferred a pop of color. Purple. I like. Even though this girl was a huge b*tch on the show, I always thought she looked impeccable. This might have been slightly before, or right around the time Brandon first wore his feathers. So, again, proof that he was not exactly first, but definitely a big push. I don't see Kenley wearing those damn things to every single public appearance.


I honestly have no idea wtf this is. According to the blog it's from, Clothesmonaut, this is actress Kathleen Robertson dressed in character as Azkadellia for the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series The Tin Man.

In addition to TV and musical performers, feathers made a huge splash in the fashion world almost immediately after Brandon first wore them. Remember how Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Target and every other store suddenly sold a million feathery earrings, headbands, necklaces, tops, etc etc about a year ago...? That happened a few months after Bflo.

Some instances were pretty extreme.


Brandon would not approve. His feathers were *gathered.*

Many feathers showed up on the runways in the past year after Bflo. And yes, often on the shoulders.Prominent fashion magazines were also susceptible to the feather invasion. Vogue this year:
And also from Vogue, a few months ago. The caption says: "Quirky interest around the shoulders is a major movement right now." Oh really, Mrs. Wintour? I wonder who exactly started that 'movement.' This example from British Vogue is not even debatable- it is virtually a carbon copy of Brandon's pheasant feather epaulets.

  Lily Cole wearing golden feathers.
Some interpretations of the look are admittedly, er, impractical... but definitely interesting. This girl would look so badass on a motorcycle, with the feather "wings" fluttering in the wind...
Pristine Smut (indie label) "feather shoulder decor." Found through here. Positively regal.
Moving to more mainstream commercial fashion use. I told you the shoulder feathers made a looong journey from Brandon Flower's crazy self. Side-note: keep in mind all of these examples are from this past year or so, as are pretty much all of the results Google provides in a feather shoulder search. Hint hint.

Bridal wear. This is absolutely stunning. She looks like a goddamned angel with the delicate white wings. I want this wedding dress.

Another commercial product, but not quite at the chain store level. Yet? Who knows. But one has to be pretty daring to wear feathers on his/her fucking shoulders. This lovely piece is Lou Lou Loves You, Lavinia collection... some indie British brand apparently. £90 so no joke.

Beyond the considerably privileged and exclusive examples thus provided of feather shoulder appearances,


replicas of Brandon's feather blazer have popped up in guys' pictures all over the web. Why? Halloween costumes, of course! The past two Halloweens have been prime times to either mock or revel in Bflo's Day & Age era stage uniform.

Those who take it seriously usually look pretty serious business. This kid had his fashion designer friend create the costume for him:This guy made it himself. You know what, now that I think about it I don't even know if he did it for Halloween. Maybe it was just for kicks. As you do. Hey, if I was a guy I would totally replicate each of Brandon's outfits. It's not like I don't copy a bit here and there anyway. Ok I just checked and he wrote that it was a masquerade. Well same difference. Then the mockery. Even Ray Suen, The Killers' traveling traveling backup multi-instrumentalist ("the new Ted") decided to dress as Bflo for this past Halloween. He posted pics on his twitter to fans' amusement. You can tell he's not serious business because of his expressions. See.
For this one he wrote that he must have misplaced one of the feathers, muaha.

Finally, we reach the last step in the journey of Bflo's feather shoulders- normal everyday people. Well, not exactly, These are more of the fashion-forward types that like to experiment and post the resulting pictures online. You're not going to see my mom with feathers on her shoulders any time soon, let's put it that way.

Those who do take fashion risks have been eager to try Bflo's look. This girl made two different, equally awesome epaulets:This girl posted a Bflo feather look on Lookbook. The feathers are similar but everything else is way more casual and girly. Very versatile, these shoulder feathers are. (I really need a new word for 'shoulder.' And 'feather' because 'plumage' is not enough. I have seriously used those words a million times in this post. Sorry if you have a headache!)
yesss! A guy, not dressed in a costume! And looking damn amazing if I may say so myself.

Finally, another stylish girl on Lookbook, totally owning the feather shoulder look and making it her own. She called the outfit "Flowers are forever." Flowers. Yeah.




So that brings us to the end. Why do I always feel exhausted when I finish one of these research-intensive posts? Damn. Well hopefully it helps are amuses or [infuriates a hipster] or teaches something new. Feel free to post other feather shoulder sightings. And remember, wear that shoulder plumage with pride.

What in damnation will Brandon Flowers wear when the next album comes out? Fuck all if I know. Goddamn, the guy is crazy, don't you get it by now? But I sure am excited to find out. It will be over a year until then, unfortunately. TK are taking a long break. Maybe I'll make more of these posts to pass that time. Stay tuned.

P.S. If you think I'm the only crazy bitch admiring Bflo's style, well you're wrong. Sort of. There are some more! Spin wrote a really nice blog on this urgently important issue. The Fashion Spot also has something up. It basically a replica of my own blog post a while ago (someone hasnt learned about plagiarism!), I mean down to the minute details, no credits... but I'm letting it roll off my shoulders (FEATHERS) because it's not like I never copy here and there, or don't give credit. Plus any advancement of Brandon's style in the public is good enough for me. But B*tch, couldn't at least have given a link? Oh okay, fine fine. Anyway it doesn't come aaanywhere near the diabolical copycatness of this girl's post... which is exactly the same as a post I wrote before (about Brandon's ubiquitous purple tiger hoodie), just with different words. Wow. Sorry, had to vent a bit. Doesn't bother me too much though. Imitation is flattery...?

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