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“I just spent 4 hours looking at chairs and trunks for my bedroom. I didnt eat or go to the gym and just got back from the grocery store where I looked like a ZONED OUT METH HEAD because I had RAISIN EYES from starring at the monitor for four hours non stop but I narrowed the chair down to two.
Which do you think is better? I was considering the quilted tall one in leather with MATTE BLACK WOOD not the lacquer that its shown in OR the tall rectangular one in black velvet not gray or MAYBE black crocodile but thats a WIDE SURFACE to cover with a pattern which always looks bad in my book unless the pattern is MEGA HUGE which it isnt. Anyways, all of my friends but Whitney and myself lean toward the quilted one which SHOCKS ME because the quilted one is a straight up kick in the nuts of HIGH FAGGOTRY and though its obviously a FULL QUEENS bedroom I dont want it to be a BONER KILL when a dude walks in and both are seriously going that way but I was surprised to hear that most of my friends think the cushioned one is LESS GAY?!. My friend said if if I wanna butch it up just throw a towel over it which I could do but if I throw a towel over the rectangle one dudes will think TYNE DALY is hiding in the corner?! 
So imagine the quilted one with matte black wood or the rectangle one with black velvet or crocodile…” [1]

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“The aestheticization of the quotidian has had the (unintentional) effect of undermining the rigorous distinction that has traditionally been made between high art and mass culture; as a result, the boundary between those two has become blurred, a process aided and abetted by those artists who have gone, and still go, into industrial design, advertising, and the various ‘image production industries’. The aestheticizing process can thus draw on the whole repertory of art through the ages; everything is up for grabs, available to be recycled. ” [3]

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“Indeed, practically all metaphors for style amount to placing matter on the inside, style on the outside. It would be more to the point to reverse the metaphor. The matter, the subject, is on the outside; the style is on the inside. As Cocteau writes: ‘Decorative style has never existed. Style is the soul, and unfortunately with us the soul assumes the form of the body.’ Even if one were to define style as the matter of our appearing, this by no means necessarily entails an opposition between a style that one assumes and one’s ‘true being’ . In fact, such a disjunction is extremely rare. In almost every case, our manner of appearing is our manner of being. The mask is the face.” [2]

TEXT [1] AND IMAGES 3 AND 5 TAKEN FROM “I HAVE FORSAKEN MY LIFE FOR A CHAIR…”, HOUSEOFVADER.COM; IMAGES 1,2,4 TAKEN FROM DAVID BARTON GYM, ASTOR PLACE; TEXT [2] TAKEN FROM “AGAINST INTERPRETATION AND OTHER ESSAYS” BY SUSAN SONTAG; TEXT [3] TAKEN FROM “THE IDEA OF THE POSTMODERN: A HISTORY” BY JOHANNES WILLEM BERTENS AND HANS BERTENS