Comments on: South Paradiso: The epiphany of Romulus Von Stezelberger http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:11:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jezebel http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37&cpage=1#comment-24240 Jezebel Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:31:06 +0000 http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37#comment-24240 Is Jefferson Thomas and Tomtom Jeff the same person...hmmmmmm? Who ever you are Jeffy Boy it sounds like you are just a little jealous...no????? South Paradiso ROCKS! Is Jefferson Thomas and Tomtom Jeff the same person…hmmmmmm? Who ever you are Jeffy Boy it sounds like you are just a little jealous…no?????

South Paradiso ROCKS!

]]> By: Tomtom Jeff http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37&cpage=1#comment-21966 Tomtom Jeff Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:07:15 +0000 http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37#comment-21966 Have you never heard of ghetto fabulous! These jackets are what the people who spent their time scrounging through heaps of used clothes for a killer leather jacket would buy if they somehow get rich. But rock n roll will never be about material goods, just cause somebody is making material goods about rock and roll it doesnt take away from the ongoing practice of the down and dirty boogie woogie. This guy just decided to make these revivalist, imatation, tribute, what have you, leather goods because the originals got him so hard thats all he could do. Is he building golden calf? who gives a ____? Have you never heard of ghetto fabulous! These jackets are what the people who spent their time scrounging through heaps of used clothes for a killer leather jacket would buy if they somehow get rich. But rock n roll will never be about material goods, just cause somebody is making material goods about rock and roll it doesnt take away from the ongoing practice of the down and dirty boogie woogie. This guy just decided to make these revivalist, imatation, tribute, what have you, leather goods because the originals got him so hard thats all he could do. Is he building golden calf? who gives a ____?

]]> By: Jefferson Thomas http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37&cpage=1#comment-13686 Jefferson Thomas Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:50:16 +0000 http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37#comment-13686 People who take credit for the artistic vision of another, especially ones from bygone eras, are in my humble opinion about as worthy of accolades as a dj is of a groupie's affections. Like the dj, Stezelburger is playing somebody else's tune and calling it his own. In order to do this, he exchanges vital fluids with the Hollywood junk exchange - functioning as a costumer for artists and spoof movies such as "Walk the Line" - and languishes in one clownish creative realm exploiting this bastardized ideology of "rock" - what was once fun & threatening music with the lifestyle to boot. The scenario on the street will illuminate the flipside of the coin - the hapless souls who pathetically scrape together their paltry wages from their day jobs as indentured servants at vegan cafes, toadies to the bootlickers of Babylon, & extras from the set of "Almost Famous" in order to buy into South Paradiso's "friend rate" of $700 for an East/West knock off motorcycle jacket. All of this is unfortunate, in consideration of the apparent potential of companies like his to rejuvinate mens clothing with vitality and original ideas with real cojones. Instead Joel chooses to wallow in Easy Rider-era motorcycle wear for people who don't ride, ignoring his increasingly more relevent customer base in San Francisco - at the Folsom Street Fair outfitting leather daddies with studded calfskin chaps for Gay Pride. That being said, let me say I do enjoy rock music - the down & dirty boogie woogie, heavy rhythm, scuzzed out blues. The brand that had raw feeling. Ragged guts. Heart torn to shreds and spit out through the microphone and pounded out on the piano keys through the likes of the Greats. But the promise of the rock and roll lifestyle for me never really had any more to do with being able to afford a $700 brand new leather jacket than finding an old, broken-in, tattered one in the Goodwill Donation bins on 11th Street and patching it up myself, being a little rough around the edges, and fucking shit up onstage with the electric guitar I bought for half the price of one of those jackets! Don't believe the Hollywood hype, kids. If you are truly a bad ass it has nothing to do with the "Instant Caracature" version of the real shit. People who take credit for the artistic vision of another, especially ones from bygone eras, are in my humble opinion about as worthy of accolades as a dj is of a groupie’s affections. Like the dj, Stezelburger is playing somebody else’s tune and calling it his own. In order to do this, he exchanges vital fluids with the Hollywood junk exchange – functioning as a costumer for artists and spoof movies such as “Walk the Line” – and languishes in one clownish creative realm exploiting this bastardized ideology of “rock” – what was once fun & threatening music with the lifestyle to boot.
The scenario on the street will illuminate the flipside of the coin – the hapless souls who pathetically scrape together their paltry wages from their day jobs as indentured servants at vegan cafes, toadies to the bootlickers of Babylon, & extras from the set of “Almost Famous” in order to buy into South Paradiso’s “friend rate” of $700 for an East/West knock off motorcycle jacket. All of this is unfortunate, in consideration of the apparent potential of companies like his to rejuvinate mens clothing with vitality and original ideas with real cojones.
Instead Joel chooses to wallow in Easy Rider-era motorcycle wear for people who don’t ride, ignoring his increasingly more relevent customer base in San Francisco – at the Folsom Street Fair outfitting leather daddies with studded calfskin chaps for Gay Pride.
That being said, let me say I do enjoy rock music – the down & dirty boogie woogie, heavy rhythm, scuzzed out blues. The brand that had raw feeling. Ragged guts. Heart torn to shreds and spit out through the microphone and pounded out on the piano keys through the likes of the Greats.
But the promise of the rock and roll lifestyle for me never really had any more to do with being able to afford a $700 brand new leather jacket than finding an old, broken-in, tattered one in the Goodwill Donation bins on 11th Street and patching it up myself, being a little rough around the edges, and fucking shit up onstage with the electric guitar I bought for half the price of one of those jackets!
Don’t believe the Hollywood hype, kids. If you are truly a bad ass it has nothing to do with the “Instant Caracature” version of the real shit.

]]> By: Vintage Guitar http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37&cpage=1#comment-4205 Vintage Guitar Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:56:24 +0000 http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=37#comment-4205 (Collecting famous musicians guitars is a different, and I am sure equally fulfilling hobby). (Collecting famous musicians guitars is a different, and I am sure equally fulfilling hobby).

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