Today I got the 1988 Smash Hits Yearbook which I won on eBay, and it's totally brilliant. Very, very funny, especially the interview with Morrissey in which he confesses to making voodoo dolls of his enemies. The funniest things of all are the random facts in the calender at the end; in one of the little boxes for the days of January, the Hits tells us:
In the 1951 Girl Guide annual there are careful instructions of how to make 'Hector the Dachshund' out of red plasticine. "Don't be too ambitious!" they sensibly advise...
Pure madness! But terribly amusing. In May, Souxsie Sioux gives some "How to get Those Troublesome Spiders From the Bath" Tips. Don't use an envelope, she says, because "they could always crawl up your arm." How true. God, I miss old Smash Hits.
Also,
glitzfrau and I went to look at shoes on the unwitting behalf of biascut! Well, okay, we went to look at shoes in Schuh because there was a pair the Glitzy one had her eyes on, but we happened to see the shoes biascut linked to the other day, and oohed and ahed over them. All were delicious, but I like the pale green round toed ones the best, I think!
Oh, and here's a meme: which of my icons do you think represents me best?
In the 1951 Girl Guide annual there are careful instructions of how to make 'Hector the Dachshund' out of red plasticine. "Don't be too ambitious!" they sensibly advise...
Pure madness! But terribly amusing. In May, Souxsie Sioux gives some "How to get Those Troublesome Spiders From the Bath" Tips. Don't use an envelope, she says, because "they could always crawl up your arm." How true. God, I miss old Smash Hits.
Also,
glitzfrau and I went to look at shoes on the unwitting behalf of biascut! Well, okay, we went to look at shoes in Schuh because there was a pair the Glitzy one had her eyes on, but we happened to see the shoes biascut linked to the other day, and oohed and ahed over them. All were delicious, but I like the pale green round toed ones the best, I think!Oh, and here's a meme: which of my icons do you think represents me best?
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The Naughty Little Sister one is still my absolute favourite though. Every time I see it I think about the 'Speeseeay Man' and scary vacuum cleaners and things like that.
I'd never realised that was Buffy, though. I always just thought of it as Slightly Wistful Lonely Girl.
The Naughty Little Sister one is my favourite. And it actually looks like me (well, my infant self), so it's quite an apt one!
I'd also never realised that the A was absinthe. I just thought of it as A for Anna. Now I know that, of course, I can see the fairy and the scoop for the sugar cube and it's obvious.
On topic - the 'my naughty little sister' (or whatever) icon is the one that always makes me think of you, but I also had a soft spot for that short-lived one of you all glammed up for Halloween the year before last. And I think you should make a Ginger Snaps icon!
Oh my, that's hysterical. Now I'm coveting your Smash Hits. I just got the new index magazine in the mail, and I must say, ol' Moz is looking quite dashing these days. He's aged well.
I can't really answer the icon question, but I love your Mina icon.
And, were you a Smash Hits fan back in the day? Even after my sister won me over with her Smiths and Cure records (in 1988, when I was 12 or 13), I loved ver Hits, because it was so hilarious. If it hadn't totally revamped itself and got rid of all the amusing eccentricity - in, I think, about '92 - I'd probably have kept buying it to this day.
I don't think I had the money and/or inclination to buy the music papers until 1990 or so. I don't even remember seeing Smash Hits in my l'il town, although MM was relatively easy to come by.
Now I'm sorry I missed it.
it has to be the kitten-monster. no, i just say that 'cause it's my favourite. the one i most associate with you is the forlorn buffy one, although i, too, never think about it being buffy.
Ahem.
There are a few other yearbooks on eBay! I'm very tempted to get more, because this one is so funny. I really want to find the one that had a comic strip running through it called The Amazing Adventures of Bubbles (He's a Chimp!). It was really, really funny - there was a short strip for every 'month' of the yearbook, and by the end of the book, when Bubbles was (I think) running for president or something, it was The Amazing Adventures of Bubbles (He's a Chimp and He's Hungry For Power!). 'He's a Chimp and He's Hungry For Power!' became a catch phrase in my house for a while.
Which one of mine represents me best, then? Too many doleful oil portraits; some shall have to go.
But I always thought it was a bit too miserable for every day...
Actually, at the moment she's sitting right next to the radiator in the sitting room. Facing it. She's so weird.