{"id":281,"date":"2007-09-14T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/masks-are-the-new-black\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T18:40:55","slug":"masks-are-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/masks-are-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks Are The New Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve noticed that masks are the new cool thing to wear. Animal masks, in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Fox+N%27Wolf\">Fox N&#8217; Wolf<\/a> performing &#8220;In Yr Underwear&#8221;:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ckalQdRtheA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K_Ql0vilBso\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>Exhibit B:<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/batforlashes\">Bat For Lashes<\/a> video &#8220;What&#8217;s A Girl To Do&#8221;:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n1wnOUH2jk8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nExhibit C (my favorite):<br \/>\nLast night at the ridiculously awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/institubesparisterrorclub\">Institubes Paris Terror Club<\/a> show a bunch of the DJs were wearing animal masks:<br \/>\n<img src='\/jason\/files\/masks.jpg' alt='DJs wearing masks' class=\"alignmiddle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(On a side note: the concert was absolutely amazing&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Surkin\">Surkin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Curses!\">Curses!<\/a> totally blew me away. There was silly string, hella dancing, &#8220;Hungry 4 Love,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Switch+(2)\">Switch<\/a> remix of Nine Inch Nail&#8217;s &#8220;Capital G,&#8221; some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Klaxons\">Klaxons<\/a> remixes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Boys+Noize\">Boys Noize<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;&#038; Down,&#8221; <b>animal masks<\/b>, and a bunch of other stuff that I was too drunk to remember! It might beat out <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2007\/its-not-you-its-the-elcohol-talking\/\">Soulwax&#8217;s show<\/a> as my favorite event at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopsuey.com\/\">Chop Suey<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>So what does this animal mask trend mean? Honestly, I don&#8217;t have any theories yet but I&#8217;d love to hear others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve noticed that masks are the new cool thing to wear. Animal masks, in particular. Exhibit A: Fox N&#8217; Wolf performing &#8220;In Yr Underwear&#8221;: and Exhibit B: The Bat For Lashes video &#8220;What&#8217;s A Girl To Do&#8221;: Exhibit C (my favorite): Last night at the ridiculously awesome Institubes Paris Terror Club show a bunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/masks-are-the-new-black\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masks Are The New Black<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,53],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}