Because high fashion smelled money. Question answered. Also: I think that’s Cindy Crawford’s kid on the right, and the one in the middle died ten minutes before the picture was taken.
Go read the article; I was planning on making fun, but it appears the author is sub rosa on the side of right and justice, and she is mean to John Mayer several times. This is his fault, after all. The Hypewearing and the Streetbeasting and the Off-Whiting: all of it can be blamed on him. Online Geranimals? Josh. The guy who puts the Black Flag logo in the Stealie? Josh. Pop-up stores on La Brea? Of course that’s Josh.
We can only come to one conclusion, Enthusiasts.
John Mayer is the Devil. Allow me to walk you through my argument.
FACT: Think of all the Devils you know from teevee or the movies or books or experimental theater. (Not the red ones with the horns; leave Tim Curry out of this. We’re talking about human-appearing figures.) John Mayer looks like all of them: tall, dark, and douchey.
EVIDENCE: The faces he makes while soloing are devilish, indeed.
HYPOTHESIS: John Mayer (the Devil) made a deal with the Grateful Dead (Or What’s Left Of ‘Em): they would once again get to sell out the big rooms, but there was going to be an unbearable amount of embarrassing bullshit and also John Mayer (the Devil) would be attending Bobby’s daughter’s sorority function.
CONCLUSION: John Mayer is the Devil.
Thank you. This has been a test post. Had it been a real post, it would have been funny or interesting. Please enjoy your evenings, but not too much.
He loaned Andy Cohen $20 once.
QED
the black flag thing was an inside joke that everyone who got bought the tshirt of and then a bunch of people who were never in on the joke wanted one. It’s the guy who made the original “we can discover the wonders of nature” shirts back in the 80s, and not really his fault. Can you afford to turn down free money for what you do? That reminds me…
Yeah, that guy seems okay. I shouldn’t blame him for what John Mayer did.
What’s the joke? I always thought it was just a nod to Greg Ginn being a deadhead. I love the story about how BAM magazine had done a snotty review of a Dead show saying something along the lines of “people into Black Flag wouldn’t be caught dead here.” Ginn wrote the magazine to explain that people in Black Flag were at that very show.
Anyway, I grew up in L.A. South Bay area, and in the unique burnout-kid ethos of the, being into the Dead and local punk was not so incongruous. A surfer/skater thing I guess . . .