- which the young man depicted (whom I do not know) felt was a good promotion for his voice recital at the UWM School of Music. (In other words, this is a publicly available image, which I photographed.) He is very, and deeply, wrong about this.
Here are some reasons why:
* The faux-Boreanaz hairdo: I suspect he thinks he looks like him.
* The shadows that render his nose aggressively beaky.
* His posture, with what he probably imagines is a rakish angle but which only makes him look incapable of holding his head straight.
* The washing-out of the right side of the image, as if he's just emerged from some sort of spooky primordial murk. Note also that, like Lord Voldemort, certain body parts (in this case, his left ear) appear creepily underdeveloped and waxen in their pallor.
* The weird thing with his hands. I am guessing that autocannibalism is rather uncommon, but he really looks as if he thinks his right index finger is terribly tasty indeed.
* His facial expression, which says, "Someday, when the cops finally rip the floorboards up from the secret crawlspace beneath my attic, even the most hardened veteran will retch uncontrollably."
I am sorry, Mr. Singer Guy, but the thought of attending your recital fills me with icky dread. Thank god it's this weekend, so these posters - unavoidable in the environs of the music building, next door to where I work - will mercifully disappear.
At least until the next mysterious disappearance of a ten-year-old boy last seen en route to his "voice lessons" with this guy.
1 comment:
This random internet surfer thinks that it is your taste that is poor, not this young man's. I don't see any of the inferences you draw from the picture. I think it's a nice picture, if you want to present yourself as intriguing, smug, and kinda 70s, which is a valid choice.
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