CKB: i wanna be a mad genius with my own space program
JBR: you shall be
CKB: i'll forgo the sideburns though
JBR: thanks
JBR: i want to open something called "house of jody." doesn't even matter what really.
JBR: but i want someone to make me a wallpaper with the connie francis oscar art
CKB: mmmmmmm
JBR: and brass everything all over the place
CKB: roxor!
JBR: and a carpet that looks like it belongs in an inconspicuous but posh movie-star hotel circa 1957
JBR: deep red
CKB: MMMMMMMMMMMM
JBR: i would sell furs... fur coats, fur hats, fur bags. no one does that anymore.
JBR: and i would sell hats festooned with the feathers of exotic birds
CKB: :-)
CKB: there's a high-end crap store on the upper east side that was filled with antique stuff like that. like if you were going to outfit a gilded-age museum of jurassic technology that wasn't quite as cool
CKB: it was weird enough that i took a picture
CKB: (which are at home)
CKB: thinking of name
JBR: i think animal cruelty is the new animal rights
CKB: hahaha
CKB: a new wave of meat eating!
JBR: there should be more game hunting
JBR: and i want to see old oak lounges with big stuffed owls and moose heads and stuff like that
CKB: MMMMMMMMMMMMM
JBR: that's the world i want to live in
CKB: not too dissimilar from the early 19th-century explorer's club look i want
JBR: a bit more 20th century than that
CKB: aye
CKB: musty books with a stuffed owl on top
JBR: something for not-quite-old-money man's men
CKB: an old free standing globe
JBR: yes!
JBR: but a bit of elegance too
CKB: of course
JBR: a long slender bar where the ladies sip cordials
CKB: excellent!
JBR: and show off their furs!
JBR: and chanel suits
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago) link