Interesting thread. It actually isn't a porno but a movie called The Night Porter (which doesn't sound any less like a porno).
I think the understated "here I am in Hugo Boss" caption was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, although maybe it's also vacant; at any rate it was far from any sort of explanation, which he apparently doesn't want to give. I do remember a quote from him saying that it was for shock value and that for any art to really reach its audience, it has to shock, or something to that effect. (Sorry, I don't have a citation.) I think that's BS; what, was The Song Remains the Same supposed to have more of an impact on the audience because he was in a Nazi uniform? He obviously wore it as an homage to S&M and to look "cool."
It also raises a question of whether certain parts of the Nazi look can ever be glamourized or seen as cool. It sounds like Minaj ran into this problem recently. I know there have been t-shirts (and apparently even http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/KBJP200lg.jpg figurines) made with him in the costume, which make me uncomfortable, but others must agree with that assessment and disregard the subtext in the outfit (assuming they are not actual Nazi sympathizers, and I think neither JP nor most people are). A sidenote: I sort of wonder how many people instantly identify that outfit as a Nazi uniform, especially since there's no swastika or red and black.
Putting the outfit discussion aside, I'm unsure if this has been posted much earlier on the thread, but you can see some photos that were supposedly taken this night on this page: http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1071817 If you read through the posts, you'll see someone say that he heard from a tour worker that he took angel dust rather than coke that night, which might explain why he could play through all the other nights when he was on coke, heroin, and/or alcohol but not PCP.
Jimmy's food poisoning Chicago 1977
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Interesting thread. It actually isn't a porno but a movie called The Night Porter (which doesn't sound any less like a porno).
I think the understated "here I am in Hugo Boss" caption was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, although maybe it's also vacant; at any rate it was far from any sort of explanation, which he apparently doesn't want to give. I do remember a quote from him saying that it was for shock value and that for any art to really reach its audience, it has to shock, or something to that effect. (Sorry, I don't have a citation.) I think that's BS; what, was The Song Remains the Same supposed to have more of an impact on the audience because he was in a Nazi uniform? He obviously wore it as an homage to S&M and to look "cool."
It also raises a question of whether certain parts of the Nazi look can ever be glamourized or seen as cool. It sounds like Minaj ran into this problem recently. I know there have been t-shirts (and apparently even http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/KBJP200lg.jpg figurines) made with him in the costume, which make me uncomfortable, but others must agree with that assessment and disregard the subtext in the outfit (assuming they are not actual Nazi sympathizers, and I think neither JP nor most people are). A sidenote: I sort of wonder how many people instantly identify that outfit as a Nazi uniform, especially since there's no swastika or red and black.
Putting the outfit discussion aside, I'm unsure if this has been posted much earlier on the thread, but you can see some photos that were supposedly taken this night on this page: http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1071817 If you read through the posts, you'll see someone say that he heard from a tour worker that he took angel dust rather than coke that night, which might explain why he could play through all the other nights when he was on coke, heroin, and/or alcohol but not PCP.