i am Anderson's intended audience

Why doubt that there could be a coincidence between his and your cultural/aesthetic lodestones?

i am intellectually interested in the creation of taste as an identifying categories

and that this is v. much not a condience

also, he can spell better than i am

(not making a value judgement)

No marketer or demographer in his/her right mind would come up with Anderson's referents as a strategy. That's what seems to identify them as more reliably individual than anything focus-grouped. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're Anderson's. I think too much cynical marketing and manipulation has made us all suspicious of every kind of cultural product as something designed and targeted. It could just be that Hunsecker thought the fellow was funny, so he gave him a plug.

Jack Spade

Best Made Co

Glenn O Brian

Simon Doonan

there is an aesthetic of that kind of work

i dont know how accidental or delibrate it is

but you know

the question of why exactly someone decides to love francois hardy

and if that love is nostalgia, or hipster kitsch

or about the design of the record label

or if the love of the records preceded the love of the artist, or vice versa

is an interesting question

and if i love Francois Hardy as an aspritational gesture

as a signifer of taste and class (double meaning intended) or if i love Francois Hardy because she is a genuinly interesting musician

or because of her eroticism

Francois Hardy here is a metonomy

(or that the hank williams tone chosen is one that is mostly known as a 80s reclaimed kitsch classic?)

(it's also something i am concerned with re:madmen)