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This is over a year old, but it was brought to my attention that I should upload it. Taken in my parents alternate dining room/family room with their camera in a suit I got from a thrift store. I had no socks or shoes that went with the suit, so I went barefoot. Look how huge that foot is! I get a lot of Harold (from "Harold and Maude") comparisons when people see this picture.Related content
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It was. He's changed now.
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I never saw this. You are as perfect a you as there could be.
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Tell me Harold, what do you do for fun? What activity gives you a different sense of enjoyment from the others? What do you find fulfilling? What gives you that... special satisfaction?
Sorry, I am a Harold and Maude fanatic, awesome photo, ultra cool
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Since it's a picture of me, does that make me awesome?
I'm kidding - you don't have to answer that.
I already know I am.
(thank you!)
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Ha ha!
that sounds like something I would say.
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oh wow you look really quit snazzy and cool relaxed ya know. Its a really flaterrng picture
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A "holy cow you're sexy" would've been just fine.
lol, jokes - thank you!
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HOLY COW YOUR SEXY lmao better lmao ^_^
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I like your willingness to say fuck it! to wearing shoes if you don't have any that match. Interesting picture.
Also, your parents have a very nice dining/family room.
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Thank you very much!!
It's part of my artistic work ethic: If it doesn't work, get rid of it. The work may be weaker because it's missing something, but at least it's not ridiculous because it includes something stupid.
Otherwise I'd be wearing checkered vans in this picture, with black socks, which would RIP RIGHT THROUGH the color scheme and even the feel of the picture.
(My parents were middle/lower-middle class while I was little, then they divorced, and they both moved up into upper middle-class territory by the time I was a teenager and were more than happy to adopt all the nasty aesthetics involved - including fancy dining rooms that no one ever uses. Capitalism holds promise of a future because...?)
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lol, I'll trade you!
Well, I'm 22. I should probably be trying to leave anyways. Something about having a "life" or something. I don't know.
I wasn't really paying attention.
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Actually, it's kind of hard to feel bad when you're upset about having to live in a fancy home. Ah, well -- to each his own.
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My Hobbit inches are even better.
/pun
middle-earth
middlesex
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*eyes grow huge*
All I see is a naked hobbit with a huge, hairy penis.
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I've never heard of Harold & Maude, but am reminded very much of the Beatles. Here's hoping that doesn't offend you.
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Absolutely not! In fact, the Beatles are above my doorway - they watch over me as I pass through it to go on with my day.
I also talk to cars.
(I actually really love the Beatles - favorite band since I was 9)
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... 
My English teacher once said that the Beatles are overrated. I dished him all the indignation a 13 year old can muster in the last period on a Friday.
I talk to cars myself, my friends and I name them.
(The Beatles will never die)
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13 albums in 7 years is so incredibly prolific and they were so immensely popular and experimental at such an explosive time that the only logical result is that their influence would be felt decades later.
That's not being over-rated, that's just statistics and sociology.
If you look at it in the perspective of the BREVITY of the history of recorded popular music - we're BARELY getting into a 100 years now and the Beatles were only 40 years ago, there has ABSOLUTELY never been anything like them before or [yet] since. Strictly from a business standpoint, the marketing of the Beatles created the current model of the music market (which is now failing in the wake of the technological revolution).
When recorded music is into its 500th year and album art is beamed into your cornea and there's been a band BIGGER than the Beatles, then we can start having conversations about the Beatles being over rated. But while they've been, statistically, its most popular and, artistically, most cited band for almost HALF A CENTURY out of only a century of [recorded] background to base it on, the Beatles deserve their praise.
I know I'm preaching to the converted, but now you can reel a bunch of this shit off at your English teacher. If he seems unreceptive, throw in the fact that Paul McCartney is probably the worst lyricist per dollar he's made. An English teacher should respect that.
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You're so right! Nobody can argue with statistics.
I was really surprised by the man, The Beatles certainly seem the type of icon he'd appreciate.
Considering that they did everything you just noted, plus they invented a lot of that technical stuff that's used in basically ALL music recordings now. I've been to The Beatles Story in Liverpool. I know these things.
He redeemed himself ever so slightly when he handed me his copy of Abbey Road and said; "Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Really rate it."
He's such a dick.
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You CAN argue with statistics, they just tend to argue back.
Their contributions to music are just so far beyond JUST the music, that from a technical stand point you HAVE to acknowledge their influence. They were an INTENSELY studio-oriented band and pushed the idea of "production" through the roof.
Abbey Road is probably one of the BEST sounding, least boundary pushing Beatles albums out there. The White Album is really where it all pinnacled (IMO). They wrote the ultimate psych-pop record (Pepper), fucked up their business (MMT), and then crammed 5 years worth of studio knowledge and musical experimentation, drug use and inner-band turmoil into a double album of...basically every musical genre existing at the time, while opening the doors for a few new ones (including Metal and Reggae).
See, people want to try to look at EVERY Beatles song and say "Well, what's so great about THIS one?" And it's not necessarily EACH song, it's their whole body of work - their work ethic, their creative processes, their studio experimentation. They managed to remain market friendly while maintaining an experimental edge. What MASSIVELY popular experimental pop bands are out there now? The Beatles managed to reach a point where they had the attention of enough people to say "Music is going this way" and the people followed.
So how do I rate "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"? The Beatles can play a damn good pop song. NOW - let's look at "Her Majesty" - the first "hidden" track on an album. See - they were always doing SOMETHING.
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That has to be one of the coolest self-portraits I've ever seen. Very Beatle-esque (though you've heard that many times over. 
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The Beatles were the first band I ever loved! And it's funny, because it's all the incidental aspects that make this picture any good, lol.
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Haha, too true. (And it is a great picture.
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so besides talented you're handsome too ~
thats a great combination.
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I also like walks at sunset and homemade dinners with primetime television and social commentary.
;D
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and you also know how to promote yourself~. xD hehehe
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Ha ha, suited up so nicely and just one detail throws it away.
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lol, I can't tell if you mean you like it or not.
The table the camera was on IS in the frame EVER so slightly, and I didn't notice until I'd uploaded it already, and getting the original file again is sort of gonna be a pain. I was really pissed when I saw the table, though.
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It's an interesting pic
Don't you hate little details like that?
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It's the hair that gives the sixties feeling. Definitely early british invasion hairstyle.
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What up with that!
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There's something cosmically uniting about this image.
A god told me that.
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Whoa yes, I agree!
This has a very John Lennon look to it. I'm still kinda obsessed with the guy.
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*nods*, definitely thought of harold right away
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obviously old-fashion, well done. Bravo from MontrΓ©al !
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i just think you lkook nice on the hphoto : )
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i know you've gotten a bit of this, but truly, there is something Beatles-esque about this
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I agree that the barefoot look works well with this photo.
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Imagine if my wardrobe had been just a touch more extensive - this picture wouldn't hold the same power.
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well, contrasting socks would have been cool.. say a paisley or plaid pattern. Something that would completely stand out against the rest of the picture. But I like this the way it is, although I agree with you that the foot seems gynormous because of the photo angle and position.
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