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The New York Times reports on The Misshapes once again (according to Gawker, the 10th time in under a year).
Love them or hate them, and we're sure you hate them, our limited first hand encounters with these three have been fairly pleasant. We've been to their party a few times over the past couple of years, despite the fact we weren't sporting asymmetrical bangs or...whatever the kids are wearing these days (we did have an Eastpak backpack on though, that may have helped).
Don Hill's on a Saturday night, however, is very much so unlike what we imagine Andy Warhol's Factory was like, ever. Yet the NYT's states:
"partly because they have an entourage, they have been compared to Andy Warhol and other figures of the 1960’s underground."
First off, people coming to your weekly party does not an entourage make. Secondly, spinning the new Killers mashup is not the same as housing The Velvet Underground. That said, this isn't the first comparison they've made, but we ask that it is the last. Warhol painted a Campbell's soup can, these three look like the Campbell's soup kids - that is the closest similarity (except...that new Jacksonnn kid does resemble Warhol a little).
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yeah. the huge difference between the factory and this is people in the factory CREATED.. these motherfuckers cant even beat match!
partying 6 nights a week does not an icon make. they'll be forgotten in 2 years.
I wish I could add to this, but you've said it all!
Lee comes to tompkins dog run and is a total bitch however her dog is named Edie after Edie Sedgwick so maybe that is the Warhol thing...
MisShapes is to the NY Times what Shake Shack is to ________:
a) the Village Voice
b) Screw magazine
c) NY1
d) Gothamist
Ummm, no. Seriously. Just no. Nothing to see there...just walk away.
The problem with MisShapes it's an 18-and-up party (or perhaps they are simply allowing 18-year-olds in). We're talking about a lot of giggly kids who just moved out of their college dorms. Go home with one of them, and you'll have to trip over the pizza boxes and face using old napkins as toilet paper.
The music is all right, but it's the same stuff you hear in a million other places. It's the usual '80s new wave schlock you hear over and over and over again. The Cure, the Smiths and Joy Division, while good bands, get really old after the BILLIONTH time of hearing the same songs. And if they aren't playing new wave, they play ironic cock rock, such as Motley Crue, which the crowd eats up.
It's basically music for lushes. Picture "Girls Girls Girls" cued up by the deejay. Then a 21-year-old rocker girl nearly spills her vodka tonic to yell out "WOOOOOOOOOO!!" and her friend shoots a digital photo of her, which she will put on her MySpace profile that night at 5:30am.
There's a lot of eye candy, but don't go if you're a music connoisseur, or if you prefer your lovers to be old enough to have pubic hair.
The only reason anybody pays any attention to these pasty folk is Princess Coldstare aka Leah whatever her last name is. Seriously, she's the beer ad girl of the hipster generation.
nobody last year really got it last year, but with all the media exposure this year, maybe i should go as loveleigh again for halloween.
15...14...13...may as well make the most of it.
If only this crowd would get a batch of the fentanyl laced heroin, but alas, only the worst of us live.
wait, wait whoa, reality check. You enjoy pubic hair? I gag on that shit.
As for the misshapes, luke and leroy was a better venue.
what a bunch of bores.
SOMEthing in common is reporters often elide the fact that both warhol and at least one of the misshapes were/are flagrantly gay. so was the factory and is this party, not exclusively, but enough to strongly influence the character of each.
also, people (on the internet especially) need to get a grip re these kids' successes. obviously they are benign to everyone except ex-club kids. they are doing a good job at hustling and probably having fun, both admirable activities. not worth getting your panties into a wad about how retarded is the nytimes.
they are hustling?
thats funny!
I see self promotion...but promotion for what?¿??
I do not see creation..I see followers..which makes a group of people..who you refer to as hipsters aka sheep.