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The 1st Annual Barbelith Awards!

 
 
The Apple-Picker
12:21 / 08.09.02
Who really remembers who walks away with the big awards anyway? It's all about the fashion. How was everyone dressed?

I saw t.o.d.d., and he was wearing an elegant tux designed by some impressive designer, which he had modified by cutting out a window for his ass.

Ganesh was wearing He-Man boots, a big pelt (loin-cloth style), one of those white chef jackets, but with the arms torn off, and one of those really old looking, spherical deep-sea diving helmets with the portal on the front. He was carrying a large club, too.

Flux wore an outfit to draw attention to the large mural-like tattoo on his back, which was pretty crass. This is it (he had to describe it to me, since I was too appalled to look at it long enough): Rob Reiner, naked, with an angry look on his face, holding his own penis, which has been inked to an incredible size. He has a conversation bubble that reads "How's this for a meathead?!" Flux had to explain the joke to me. To draw attention to it, he wore one of those wrestling uniforms that serious wrestlers wear, so his back was completely visible. He also wore flippers, so that it wasn't thought strange that he was walking backwards.

Plums went very simple, in a dufflebag with holes cut out for her neck, arms, and legs, and a Carol Channing wig.

Rizla wore a peasant blouse--open in the front so that he was bare-chested. He also wore a pair of frayed daisy dukes, a high powedered wig, and many many gold chains around his neck, like Mr. T would do.

ZoCher also dressed fairly simply in a grass skirt and a ham-and-cheese sandwich necklace. His footwear for the evening was a pair of brand new white Keds.

Billy Corgan wore an Arby's employee's uniform and a wig that made it look like he'd grown dreadlocks.

Suds had her body papier-mached in pages from NME, Teen Magazine, and YM. Since she was unable to move anything but her head in this outfit, she was carted around all night on some wheeled device, just like Hannibal Lecter in that movie.

I thought that they were all spectacularly dressed.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
13:56 / 08.09.02
I saw t.o.d.d., and he was wearing an elegant tux designed by some impressive designer, which he had modified by cutting out a window for his ass.

Hey, my gerbil needs to see, too.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
14:35 / 08.09.02
...I didn't notice that....
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:26 / 09.09.02
*Sniffle* I told Plums I was going to be wearing a duffle-bag, and she promised me she'd switch! Then I got to the venue just in time to see her going in-- we had on practically the same outfit and everyone had seen hers first!

I could have killed her. And myself. I had to hide in the limosine and do a quick change. Lucky we still had that sack of cement left over from Tuesday or I wouldn't have had a thing to wear.
 
 
w1rebaby
18:29 / 09.09.02
Are He-Man boots the ones with the fur peeking out of the top?
 
 
The Apple-Picker
19:28 / 09.09.02
Yes! They are! And they look kinda like they're laced over.
 
 
w1rebaby
19:38 / 09.09.02
Now, y'see, he must have gone for those Eternia designers, because last time I saw him he was wearing eelskin slip-ons.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
19:43 / 09.09.02
Haus strolled elgantly down the red shag wearing a fencing suit made entirely of $20 bills. Each bill was enscribed with one of his multitude of ficsuit extensions. Reports were later filed that the chants of Sexy Bitch could be heard in the fishing town of Dildo.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
20:07 / 09.09.02
Haus looked best that night when he was wearing skin-tight black leather head to toe with holes cut out for his nipples, face, and ears, with a red visor and a huge chrome metal codpiece.

I thought Pin looked pretty cool dressed in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket, and a realistic full-head dolphin mask. It was especially good in constrast with Videodrome, who wore enormous baggy Sean John pants, a red button down shirt, and a plush teddy bear mask.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
23:22 / 09.09.02
Lucky we still had that sack of cement left over from Tuesday or I wouldn't have had a thing to wear.

Personally, Mordant, I preferred your pale pink sweatsuit with the puffy-paint panda bear on the front. You wore one of the most alliterative ensembles of the affair.
 
 
Jack Fear
00:04 / 10.09.02
The Apple-Picker proved true to hir name, in s stunning pantsuits ensemble of tanned fruit-rinds in Braeburn Pink with accents of M'Intosh Red and Granny Smith Green.

Accenting the ensemble, contiuing the theme and adding a dash of pagan-warrior bravura, a belt hung with shrunken head apple sculptures.

Shoes were #9 herring boxes without topses, or a charming rustic touch.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:43 / 10.09.02
I told Plums I was going to be wearing a duffle-bag, and she promised me she'd switch!

No way Mordant, I promised you I'd switch, not switch...

And I swopped with you for the aftershow party, what more d'you want?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:46 / 10.09.02
Ganesh and Zocher were, for my money, the belles of the ball in their matching Farrah Slacks and Cashmere Sweater ensembles... As they dawdled past the frenzied paparrazzi, Zocher was heard to murmur, 'always keep them wanting just a little bit more'...
 
 
rizla mission
16:21 / 10.09.02
Rizla wore a peasant blouse--open in the front so that he was bare-chested. He also wore a pair of frayed daisy dukes, a high powedered wig, and many many gold chains around his neck, like Mr. T would do.

I'm sorry about all that, I just didn't have time to change out of my work clothes. And it's not a wig.

I'd like to think that Grant wowed the crowd by arriving in his new Sea-Going Grant-Mobile, the protective casing of which he refused to leave, hovering throughout the ceremony and drinki ng through a specially modified straw. For some reason.
 
 
Rage
06:56 / 11.09.02
I kind of figured we'd all go naked...
 
 
The Apple-Picker
12:02 / 11.09.02
Nah, too normal.

Thanks for the outfit, Jack Fear! It suits my coloring very well indeed.

Jack Fear wore a dashing three piece suit made out of those manilla envelopes that have been padded with bubblewrap, and the shoes were black leather loafers with tassles. People were shushing him all through the ceremony because he couldn't move without being very noisy.

Stone Mirror wore a car.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:34 / 11.09.02
And I'm sure I caught a glimpse of shortfatdyke screaming in on her chrome moped. Starstruck, I was, I can tell yez.

But- and this is the mad bit- when I went for a piss, guess who I ended up standing next to? Haus, that's who! And he was dressed like Oscar Wilde! (Only with deely-boppers on, which, when viewed from the correct angle, said "I *heart* Aristophanes"!!! No shit! (It was some kind of mad LED shit, I think...)
 
 
adamswish
18:17 / 11.09.02
(It was some kind of mad LED shit, I think...)

No Chairman M, you're thinking of the LSD shit Haus secreted into the punch using the artifcial flipper of a penguin that he wore on the back of his left wrist.

I remember lifting my head from the table nearest the door at the back of the room (an instant sign that you're not getting an award this year) and catching sight of Tom up on the stage in the distance.

He looked resplendant lazing on a throne constructed from the entwined bodies of James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson and Kerr Smith (and the boys seemed to be enjoying themselves too). His illuminous jacket, visible from space I was told later by Flyboy, shattered the darkness and after a couple of minutes facing it left you "snowblind". The mole skin dungarees were set off nicely by the jewel encrusted claws that encircled the 12" flared ends, masking the trained smoking beagles Tom wore instead of shoes.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:27 / 11.09.02
You're forgetting that Tom Coates also had substantial plastic surgery, drastically extending the arch of his eye brows, and elongating his ears. He looked a bit like a Vulcan from Star Trek.

Flyboy looked great in that tight babyblue sailor's uniform, but not as smashing as E Randy Dupre in his day-glo space-age body armor, or Captain Zoom who wore nothing more than a plastic cup over his genitals, Birkenstocks, and metallic shoulder pads.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:45 / 11.09.02
By the way, can anyone tell me who that guy in the bright orange latex full-body suit was; the guy who was entirely covered up except for holes for his eyes and for his cock, which was waving around as he walked? The guy kept stumbling around and tripping over me while walking behind me into the auditorium...he smudged my new Pumas! I'd like to have a word with him.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
19:12 / 11.09.02
Come on. Be a man. Own up to what you did.

Maybe even offer to contribute to a new pair of Pumas.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:17 / 11.09.02
You just can't take Jonny Suede anywhere.
 
 
Rage
09:52 / 12.09.02
Ok, so nudity might be a little normal. But what if we all wrote poems about talking forks on our bodies?

Or not. I'll exit this thread so you guys can be clothingly creative.

(But I will keep my nudity values! You can't take away my nudity values!)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:55 / 12.09.02
God, the "on-body talking fork poetry" thing. Jesus, that's, like, so five minutes ago.

Course, when Rizla wore that look to the awards ceremony, it just *fizzed* with post-modern irony.
 
 
No star here laces
11:16 / 12.09.02
Flyboy sat outside the front door mumbling into his straggly beard inbetween gulps of Brasso, reminiscing about the days when his name would've been at the top of the awards thread, and in bold type too.

However when an inebriated Randy Dupre staggered outside only a few hours into the revels, the bearded one swiftly rendered him unconscious with a rolled up copy of the Spectator he kept on him at all times. Working with surprising speed he removed all of the drunkard's clothing and entered the ball minutes later resplendent in a pair of patched brown corduroys and a Belle and Sebastian t-shirt modified with sequins. This outfit was proclaimed a triumph of contrariness and he rocketed to the top of the News of the World Sunday magazine's best-dressed list.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:21 / 12.09.02
This grass skirt is laddering my tights and so does not go with cashmere, but still...

Plums, I have never seen that much silk organza in one place before. Did you sew on all those sequins yourself? I don't know that the caged birds in your headpiece are going to survive the klieg lights in here. They can snack on these insects I've gleaned from my highly organic Jean Paul Gautier men's skirt though.

OOPS, got a bit distracted there by the sight of Bear and Solitaire Rose on their lycra wrestling gear. Neon pink is so good with the Burnt Sienna codpiece, Bear. Have to go and lie down for a short time.
 
 
gridley
20:51 / 12.09.02
Entertainment Tonight correspondant Dottie Parker had this to say about the whole red carpet crowd:

"What a sexy bunch of theory bitches! Why, if the those brilliant sexy Barbelithers were laid end to end, well, I wouldn't be surprised!"
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
22:16 / 12.09.02
I had a great time doing the Valet parking. I got £30 for the night and Flyboy had left half a beer in his limo. It was only slightly warm. Score!
 
  
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