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After a weekend in Vegas, I need a break from fashion victims. Let’s start with some positive fashion observance: Japanese women are the most fashionable. It’s not like I’ve been all over the world observing the way women dress, but Vegas has women from everywhere. I’ve also noticed this in LA and other countries that I’ve been to. Of course, most of these women are spending a ton of money to look good. In fairness, I’ve also seen some wealthy Asian women dressed like hoochies. Thin hoochies with small chests are slightly less offensive than women with lots of stuff hanging out. I know What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas, but normal women shouldn’t be confused with working girls and tragically some working girls are dressed classier than the general public. If only women would observe the advice that many of fashion icons have given: There’s no need to show off everything at once. Keep some things covered. But dressing like a slut is synonymous with Vegas. What was even more disturbing were the women wearing those dresses with banded hems. Someone who hates women designed these dresses since they flatter no one. The dresses poof at the ass and the bottom hem is a large band that clings to one’s legs. These do not celebrate a women’s body. I thought they would maybe flatter women lacking in the ass department, but they don’t. If I had millions of dollars I would pay each of these women off to burn their dresses and sign a legal document promising to never wear the style again.

P.S. I am referring to the tourists in Las Vegas

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Sorry that posting has been infrequent lately. I’m working on a project and trying to move. I will be writing about the Toronto Film Festival in September again. I know you can’t wait. Meanwhile, I will be posting before then. I still have a cool giveaway that I will do sometime this week.

Coldplay Concert Review

I saw Coldplay live a week ago today for the first time and it was very blah. The band clearly could not be bothered to rehearse before the tour and phoned in their performance. Chris Martin’s voice was not so great, the visuals of the show were blah, the band did not have enough presence for a venue as large as the Forum and they did not seem to care that they were doing a very half-assed performance. I’m sure that a lot of people didn’t notice and I wondered for a minute if I was being too harsh of a judge since I used to work in the music industry and have seen so many live shows, but with live music you can really tell if a band is performing at its best capacity. The sound sucked as well. DK likes Coldplay more than I do and had wanted to see them live forever. I didn’t want to ruin his time and didn’t even say anything negative about their performance until he did. With the way the economy is going, it’s much harder for people to find extra money for things like concerts. It offended me that Coldplay didn’t take their performance seriously and didn’t seem to care when they messed up chocking it up to the first night of the tour. Chris Martin even let his vocally challenged drummer sing a whole song. WTF? I’ve really lost respect for them. If they’re not going to bring it for a tour, they should just stay at home and enjoy all their millions. Hopefully, they will be better rehearsed and more energetic for the rest of their tour. Just beware.

Here is Charlize Theron at the Hancock premiere in Paris. I don't like her dress because it flattens her breasts and has too many things going on. I do love her hair, though. I'm going to cut my hair soon and donate it to charity. Remember when I started growing my hair really long almost a year ago to this day? I have been getting my hair trimmed on a regular basis and have been taking good care of it. Now that my hair is perfectly healthy it's hard to cut it, but I'm going to be cutting at least 8 inches off by the end of summer at the latest. I think I'm going to donate it to Pantene Beautiful Lengths since I'm giving less than 12 inches. I can't decide if I want to have my regular hair person cut my hair or try another stylist that gave a friend a fabulous short cut. Another problem is that my current stylist cuts and colors hair and the other one only cuts hair.