Do you lilac it?

April 28, 2010

Maybe it’s the countless times I’ve had to read papers making a teleological argument for cinema’s inception in the many turn-of-the-century games and apparatuses that foregrounded vision over all other senses, the famous zoetrope that relies on the phenomenon of the persistence of vision etc., but I often find myself playing a fun little vision game when I have absolutely nothing better to do. I pick a colour and keep repeating it in my mind as I let my eyes run wild all over the room – oddly enough, suddenly my eyes are drawn only to objects of that colour. Then I’ll switch colours and again, a whole different set of objects are brought to my attention. Try it! I swear it works!

What does this have to do with fashion and being eurotrash?

Well, it all started with a little trip I took to my dad’s house a few nights ago to get a space heater for my place because, although it is almost May, below-normal temperatures paired with high ceilings, large windows and no heating makes for very chilly nights. While I was perusing through the rec room or wreck room as we like to call it (my dad’s makeshift office/music room/gym) I found a bunch of retro books that were just my speed: Harold Robbins’ smash hit 79 Park Avenue and Julia Percivall’s The Stewardess. I guess you could say eurotrash has a thing for trashy, old-school paperbacks with kitschy covers and valley of the dolls-esque female protagonists. What got me going were the bright lilac block letters on Robbin’s cover; just like when I play my colour game, my mind has been on lilac overdrive ever since!

Last night I picked out a new skin for my blackberry, lilac.
Today I got my nails done, lilac.
Tonight I took some pictures of all the lilac things that are plaguing my life at the moment.
Tomorrow I’ll wear my lilac PINKO hat to work. Why fight it? After all, it’s just my eyes playing tricks on me…