Lagerfeld vs. Ghostface · Nov 8, 07:56 AM

A few people wanted to know why I was so hyped on the Karl Lagerfeld documentary. Check out the following from a review in the New York Times. Here are some sample quotations: “I hate people who can’t be alone”; “The best things I’ve ever done have come from dreams”; “Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair”; “There is a German saying: ‘You can’t borrow on your past.’”; “I love change; I’m attached to nothing”; “When I took on Chanel, it was a sleeping beauty — not even a beautiful one; she snored”; “Success nullifies; you have to do it again, and better.” He sneers at “bourgeois marriages,” is pro-prostitution and, as befits a man who aspires to be an apparition, virulently anti-psychoanalysis.

His most unsettling remarks concern friendship (those aren’t my words, Steven Holden thinks they’re unsettling). Hanging over every close relationship, he asserts, is a sword of Damocles. And he implies that many have been permanently exiled from his court. “Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with,” he says. “Turning the other cheek is not my trip. The curtain falls: an iron curtain.”

Lagerfeld seems like the kind of guy who would explain, in very simple terms, how someone screwed up, and he’d only explain this once. Real Talk. What’s unfair about that?

Then you’ve got Ghostface. That song Tooken Back represents, at face value, an opposite take on relationships but it really speaks to the fact that people’s priorities and interests change.

[Ghostface Killah]
Yo, yo, yo, aiyo you brought me on Jerry just to take you back
After that bullshit you put me through a couple months back
That wasn’t right, call the cops on me, and told them I had it like
“Yeah, pop the trunk, he got dope and guns”
Check for warrants, that son of a bitch on the run, I know
Three of his niggas got life, he use to roll with
And told ‘em I bodied an upcoming basketball star
Once I heard that, I fell out the cop car, real hard
You bugged out, and thugged out, wanted me to take you back
That could never happen, I’m sorry
No disrespect, but you a psycho, honey
Got that S.S.I. money, and you start actin’ funny
Shrimp’s every night, ordering steaks
Them jumbo joints, them shits cost a buck 50 for eight
And when you told me your Merlo, need more grapes
I said “Honey, you never had wine before!”
And if you did, that’s not how you act at all
And no… that’s not how we rock in Theodore

Yo, you know I always love you, I never meant to hurt you
Even the stress’ll work you, I miss your old perfume
Promise never curse you, I want you in my circle
Honey right by my side where I keep my herbals
We both agree on no more fighting, we’ll just have a verbal
The man’ll treat you like a queen, I will bird you
Mother and father birthed you, if I have to hit you
Then damn, I might as well leave, cuz I don’t deserve you
Watch from you face, when you sleep, let the heat disturb you
Fiendin’ from the magic wand, when she ‘nique and serve you
Take me please, take me with ease
Take me back, God damn, and scrape marks on my knees
‘Member the first time you made my key
You was drunk, you went behind a tree and pee’d
I miss shit like that, and all of the times
We played cops, I’ll arrest you in bed
Police brutality, I’ll leave the side of your ass red
God damn it, is sex for real girl? Girl, we in special ed
Uh-huh… fuck that, take me back, pretty please, with you on top

Yeah, yo this goes for everybody all across the world
Whether you got fired or your lover dropped you and all that
Youknowhatimsayin? Everybody wanna get tooken back
Youknowhatimean? Don’t be afraid to ask, if you wanna see—
Yo, take me back, fuck it, everybody wanna get tooken back and shit
This is your man, Big Ghost, your host, signing off and shit
Theodore, I understand

I used to be like Lagerfeld but a little bit of Ghost has crept into my life. I never had to forgive before because I never cared; no one ever did anything wrong to me nor I to them. Maybe I should design clothes and stop rappin.

— Young Philosopher

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1. How can you use the Largerfeld connection to raise money for the fashion party gift bag edition?

   — ajs · Nov 9, 05:00 PM · #

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