Threesome May 26, 2010

For more than 4 years now, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and I have participated in a deliciously, disgustingly one-sided romance. This love affair has involved, for the most part, an unhealthy interest (obsession) and embarrassing amounts of piracy (guilt). I have often felt like a filthy voyeur, completely unknown and completely unwanted, rifling through their catalogue which I have no legal ownership of in the same way a stalker would paw through their victim’s underwear drawer.

It’s sick (me), and beautiful (them).

I even used to be a regular member of their fan forum. It’s like I’d found my way into their house and snuck into their closet, waiting for them to come by.

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Okay, is this analogy getting a bit much? My point is, basically, that the YYYs and I are- and were always- meant to be. They’re cute and they’re clever. Their old interactive site at the time of my self-introduction to them featured a clickable Karen O whose head would spurt both blood and champagne. And their ever-changing band logo featured, most prominently, bunnies. At the age of 12, when I first got into them (are you calculating my age, you pedo?), I was very fond of doodling bunnies. I was also quite mentally immature, I suppose, because my mother’s 12-year-old pupils are more fond of drawing various parts of the human anatomy.

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Either way, everything just fits with the two of us. Therefore, I was convinced that I had the chance of chances to win when the band announced a t-shirt design contest in June. My design was everything I’d ever valued about our relationship, plus I was from Pakistan so imagine the awesome publicity in having a fan all the way in Pakistan (no, I am completely unashamed to admit that I was playing the child-from-poor-country card)! This was my design:

It didn't win.

I can’t say I was extremely shocked, my Photoshop Skills were a day old. The winners, instead, were a white t-shirt design of upside down band members doing the classic Abbey Road walk of the Beatles (an understandable loss), and a black t-shirt design of a pink and blue blob (featured in the next pictures, completely NOT an understandable loss. Call me a sore loser).

But the YYYs never disappoint. Ever. I went on the site recently and, well, guess who’s a part of the site design now?

me! me! me!

ME!

Makes me feel like a real ~art star~. And not so much of a creep. 0:)

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