eBay shamelessness
From the description of an eBay auction currently in progress:
You are about to bid on a rare copy of the famous book, SEX by MADONNA! This was a limited release in 1992 and never reprinted. This is copy number 0209633 (as shown on back cover) of only 1,000,000 published.
“Rare copy” — yup, there are only 120 copies currently on sale at ABE.
And it's ‘limited’ to a mere million copies...
Still, the seller at least had the decency to start the auction at $25, while the copies offered on ABE all seem to cost $100 or more.
posted by ill-advised at 7:17 PM
4 Comments:
So, you're buying? :)
Thank goodness, no :) I'm not in the least tempted by that book. I saw the photos from it on a web site some time ago — they're not really my cup of tea. Nor am I such a big fan of Madonna (although I do rather like many of her songs, especially from the earlier part of her career).
Oh, you mean the part of her career when everything apart from her inguinal area was left uncovered? :) (Now I think of it, maybe all these leotards she's come to wear lately are indicative of her returning to that "early" stage of her career...)
Oh, you mean the part of her career when everything apart from her inguinal area was left uncovered? :)
Ah, you medical students... I had to look "inguinal" up in the dictionary. Can't you say "crotch" like everyone else? :)
But actually, was she ever really that uncovered? I always seem to remember her wearing her famous pointy bra.
Anyway, I never really found Madonna all that attractive. Her hair is almost always short, and her face is not all that pretty. Her efforts to appear provocative often ended up seeming merely pointlessly pretentious. There's a number of singers whose appearance I like much better than Madonna's. But I enjoyed the trashy sound of her 80s pop music.
But then at some point in the first half of the nineties or so, she apparently decided she was too old for her previous image, she started bringing up children and dabbling in all sorts of ridiculous mysticism — well, I have no use for that. I think Frozen was the last of her songs that I really enjoyed.
One thing that particularly annoys me about her recent song, Hung Up, is the heavy borrowing from ABBA's Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!. I might just as well listen to the original then — I like it better anyway :)
(Now I think of it, maybe all these leotards she's come to wear lately are indicative of her returning to that "early" stage of her career...)
My guess is that they are indicative of some kind of mid-life crisis. :)
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