I'm fortunate enough to have found a way to watch Season 14 of America's Next Top Model here in Kooorea. Though it's not the same without Joelle, Diti, and our baby, it's still a pretty fabulous show (despite the fact that Tyra sings all the time. Stop it already).
The Girls and I use to watch the show together: the first time (yes, we watched it more than once in one night) to simply see it while we ate salad and bread and drank wine (swoon); the second time to critique who we thought should be voted off. Now I'm forced to do all this work on my own. Rough life, I know.
thanks, Amazon!
Anyway, the special guest judge this season is none other than Vogue's Editor-in-Chief, André Leon Talley. His comments so far have been priceless. Stumbled upon his blog on my travels today. Check it out here if you have the time...it's pretty, pretty fabulous.
I was struck though by a phrase uttered by the first girl to be voted off Our Show. It's common enough to be said at least once in some cliche about success, but I find it very strange indeed.
"I'm going to be somebody."
Hmm...one has to wonder, aren't you somebody already? Isn't it funny how much we value success? Or at least a certain kind of success? What are we, who are we, if we aren't a somebody?
I was a pretty privileged child with a pretty amazing set of parents. They never stopped telling me how fabulous I was, even when I was no more than mediocre. Nice eh? Though sometimes it's given me quite a large, unwarranted ego, it has also instilled in me a sense that I'm already a somebody. So in case you didn't know...
thanks, strobelightsandblownspeakers!
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