I like the outfits where he just gives in and wears a baggy t-shirt for comfort
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
he doesn't seem to place much emphasis on shirts. maybe someone can find him some leather shirts.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
this is insane
― Woody Ellen (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
leather shirt http://www.theawl.com/2013/03/the-most-expensive-t-shirt-in-new-york-city-costs-91500-00
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
money is kind of the enemy of self-awareness isn't it. money and a shitty childhood.
― Woody Ellen (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
and i guess just being horrible
― Woody Ellen (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
i was looking at all the boards to see where the thread on ilx was about this
why are there not tons and tons of pictures? the clothes all sound so terrible! but i love this, i love that he buys the women's stuff too
it levels up on the crazy every page
i wonder what he got at band of outsiders though
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
lord how i have lold
― Woody Ellen (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
major lols that this is on i love style
needs cross-links with Mens Trousers thread
― Woody Ellen (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
realized that i am actually wearing a gucci sweater right now. it's very plain, no patterns or logos. i got it on consignment. i don't wear it all that much but it seemed like a good idea this morning
seriously buzz, you could spend that money at gucci on something that's not hideous.
i can't figure out who he looks like in that photo. like he should be a tag team partner for diamond dallas page?
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
omg yes
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
or an old rich dude Winger cover band
he def looks like hes in costume
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
ford fairlane meets medieval times
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
the whole thing is so weird why does he think rockers wear gucci why does he have the same old haircut why is he in his underwear at the radio station
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
why did somebody let him choose his underwear
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
the weirdest thing to me is that he isn't observant enough to pay attention to how clothes should fit. like whatever image he has in his head of whatever rocker dude is completely distorting what's right in front of his face, which is that his expensive clothes aren't cut in a way that suits him. and he's so observant about other things.
i'm always fascinated when i see people who wear really flashy clothing that doesn't fit. they seem so focused on what kind of person they think that clothing makes them, that they don't have much awareness of how it doesn't really fit them. but it's not bad, it makes life less boring
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
i like the way things steadily unravel. you see that picture of him on the second page, where he's transformed from a brooks brothers dude with a paunch to eurotrash nikki sixx for halloween and you think to yourself, well, there seems to be something deeper going on here. and then he's having trouble with his wife, and, oh wait, he's blowing guys but he's not gay, just wanted to give it a go, fair enough we've all been there, and now he's whipping a guy in a gimp suit at an s&m club and his teacher used to wear leather gloves when she disciplined him and now he's being choked out by a filipina hooker in wanchai and buying an ostrich boa.
love it, buzz.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
i'm always fascinated when i see people who wear really flashy clothing that doesn't fit.
yeah this revelation should get his personal gucci stylist fired
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
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― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
his personal gucci stylist probably (correctly) assumes it's his/her job to just make sure buzz is happy and has had enough drinks to keep spending $50K+ per visit.. i mean, going on the description of the kinds of things he likes, you can't style that into anything else than what you get
i think there is def something deeper going on than $22K jackets here
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
like detached from the excessive spending, if he feels his style is over the top euro nikki sixx, go on. the "shopping addiction" angle means he can write about all of it like it's destructive addictive behavior but all of it isn't - if he can't stop himself from buying those $22K jackets, that's not healthy, but there's no need to go to rehab for wanting to look fabulous. the trouble is, he likes bon jovi
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
buzz
― Room 227 (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
what kind of commission u think the divine stylist gets
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
i met somebody who was a lowly greeter at LV and she said the proper salespeople can make 6 figures a year in commissions
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
i want to make it clear the guy's leading a bizarre possibly self destructive lifestyle but if he called me up and asked me if i was down for hitting up a "sex club" or whatever he calls it, drink a few bottles of cristal and get blowjobs together on a disinfectant-slick vinyl bench while watching some fucked up dutch bodybuilder couple violently simulating coitus on a fur dais... fuck it, i'd be down. you can still talk to the guy about college ball or whatever still, i assume, if it get too awkward.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
Internet says small salery + 3% commision
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
why does he think rockers wear gucci
there's something freudian going on with dad's loafers if you ask me
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
buzzbissinger @buzzbissinger
I see. You want my Twitter feeds to change. Fuck yourselves. Thin-skinned? Spend a minute in my shoes. Nobody comes close to what I write.8:08 PM - 10 Oct 12
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
buzzbissinger @buzzbissinger 19 Mar@michaeltillery Yo. This is Buzz Bissinger. I need to speak to you about Dennis Rodman asap if possible. His style of play. 215-290-5370
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
buzzbissinger @buzzbissinger 22 Jan@FakeJohnBolaris I think I should be allowed to own several guns due to my meds. This is America.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
Despite the many lols this thread and Buzz's unimpeachably brilliant article have brought, it's hard to shake the impression that the guy is in the middle of an epic breakdown and I feel a little guilty for laughing so hard :(
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah. I'm armchair psychologizing but he seems a little manic, maybe?
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
I shouldn't say that, though, bc how could I know. I do get the impression that there's more than just midlife crisis here.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
guys, he talks about going to sex clubs
― max, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
there is clearly more than just midlife crisis here
― max, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
the best part about the whole article is that he writes as though he's being very introspective and deeply honest and rigorous in his self examination... and then you get to the end and you realize hes managed to convince himself that all his new weird sex shit is just an extension of his shopping addiction and not... the other way around
― max, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
I think all sex tourists are fundamentally ill in some way, but I didn't think that was the popular view. Also good point.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
I am still back on the "I want my pants to give me boners" thing tbh
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
xxp Yeah, it seems he's managed to conduct with forensic thoroughness an audit of his history, circumstances, feelings and behaviour and then apparently managed to draw incorrect conclusions about all of them. It's almost an impressive achievement.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
It's probably easier to tell yourself "I am a tastemaker with a dangerous sense of style" than "I am a dude who wants to fuck pants"
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
He can tell himself that all he likes, but ultimately he's just shared with the world thousands of words of self-reflection which can be neatly summarised by "I am a dude who wants to fuck pants" and that's what anyone who reads it will take away. Still, if anyone can maintain the superhuman levels of delusion required to think of themselves purely as a dangerous tastemaker, it's Buzz.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ioqanwj3387png/original.png
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
This is all a prank by John Malkovich, right
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
No wonder male heterosexual whites are aimed toward obsolescence, boring the rest of us to death.
"the rest of us"
is he saying...?
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
he says near the end that he's not really straight, but he's not really gay either
basically, he wants to fuck pants
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
that is the one glaring takeaway I got from this article
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
if he feels queer he of course has the right to identify as such but i have trouble seeing his journey for something beyond total dissolution on an epic budget
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
I keep imagining dude browsing through a record store and hovering over Fuck Buttons while going "hmmmm.... almost" and then getting to Pissed Jeans and shouting "EUREKA!"
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link