I'd like to live Rio's rock-star lifestyle, 'cause where I'm coming from, $250-$400 for a handbag is definitely expensive. I think "fancy" is more of a judgment call.

To me they are Hec, but I have one pitiful, Clampettesque handbag I've had since ever which is broken. Everything is fancy next to it.

Flea, I don't have a rock-star lifestyle, and I can't generally afford very expensive things, but it's possible to know the lay of the land anyway.

Do you have to go all the way to a Hermes's Birkin to get a Fancy Bag?

No, there's a lot in between. Your big designer houses: Jacobs, Vuitton, Balenciaga, etc.

Also, check this out, Strega sent me some videos on DVD including a Steve Buscemi short that ran on Bravo in 1992. As the credits roll, I was startled to see that one of the production assistants was none other than...RIO HERNANDEZ!

Haha. I wish that were me. I used to know her in my youth!

I wouldn't pay $249 for a 4GB Nano when the 20GB iPod is only $50 more.

But it's teeny and CUTE!!

Signed, Bought the pink iPod mini for $249 due to its ridiculously cute, shiny pinkness

Ken Nordine sucks.

Sistah!

River by Versus is on my iPod right now. I haven't listened to them much lately and I almost forgot just how fucking much I love that band.

And now it's Step Aside by Sleater-Kinney. The iPod is doing me right tonight.

City of Fun – The Only Ones

Is that as good as "Another Girl, Another Planet"?

Hec, from way back: Kate Spade bags are not particularly expensive or "fancy." They are solidly middlebrow in every way.

I think I see them as being really expensive, but not especially flashy. But I only own three purses, and they all came from either Target or the sales table at Hecht's, so what do I know?

My first 10 tracks on iPod shuffle:

1. "Genius," Warren Zevon
2. "Bam Thwok," The Pixies
3. "Goon Squad," Elvis Costello
4. "Get the Wow," Shonen Knife
5. "Sunshine Superman," Jewel
6. "Abattoir Blues," Nick Cave
7. "Wouldn't You Like to Know," Dismemberment Plan
8. "Shine a Light," Rolling Stones
9. "Sunglasses at Night," Corey Hart
10. "The Origin of Love," Jonathan Richman

Is that as good as "Another Girl, Another Planet"?

Yeah, but it's not IIRC a stomp in the way AGAP is; like a lot of their stuff it's moodier and glummer.

In my book, right now(AIFG) Terry Quinn is making out with a woman who likes Dismemberment Plan(whom he calls Dismembered Man) and she swats him playfully. Poor Quinn. Everyone he knows tries to shape his musical tastes, when all the man really knows for sure is that he likes "Darkness on The Edge of Town" and, as of this book, that Proctor and Gamble isn't the same team as Gamble and Huff. I just thought the synchronicity was funny, I guess.(And I'm kind of the thread's Terry Quinn. Except I've not shot anyone. Yet.)

erika, that might be really funny ... except I'm deficient and don't know who Terry Quinn is.

Do you know the greatness that was the Plan? Because I can get all evangelical.