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  • Remarks on Color: Insouciant Indigo November's Hue

    Remarks on Color: Insouciant Indigo
    November’s Hue

    Insouciant Indigo doesn’t care. In other words, he simply does not give a rat’s ass about anything or anybody. A lifetime of ever darkening dreams has laid him low once and for all. To add insult to injury he’s never been popular with the ladies, being mostly cheerless, sad, and constantly brooding. He’s not good at a party, hunched in one corner of the room, and listening to Mahler on his headphones while around him people eat, drink, mingle and laugh. Insouciant Indigo HATES laughter, and most days he can barely stomach a smile. Children are out of the question as he doesn’t care what they put in their mouths, or how many pieces of candy they got on Halloween.

    Truly a kill joy, Insouciant Indigo has no interest in traveling to foreign places, nor is he interested in the tapestry of lives he might encounter if ever inspired to leave his living room. He simply does not acknowledge that there might be another kind of existence somewhere else. There is even a sign on his front lawn emblazoned with the bold (and for some offensive) proclamation, “Frankly Scarlet I don’t Give a Damn!” from the iconic Gone with the Wind.

    Insouciant Indigo spends his nights walking the streets of New Orleans, seeking his own uncaring reflection in various storefront windows. Stopping at each he thinks to himself, “why the fuck am I standing here?” And/or “Really, I am completely disinterested in the crap that all these people are selling, and I’d much rather be eating a bagel!” And so, off he goes early on a Sunday morning to the local bagel shop where he has no attachment to any of the assorted flavors presented there – strawberry, blueberry, everything, onion, cheese and jalapeño – each one holds its specific allure, yet none appear that enticing because in the end, who cares! Best to go with plain and be done with it.

  • Remarks on Color: Rambunctious Rojo July's Hue

    Remarks on Color: Rambunctious Rojo
    July’s Hue

    Rambunctious Rojo, or simply, “Big Red” as she is known in more conspicuous circles, has taken to the open road in search of LOVE – not just any old love, but the kind of love that electrifies the blood – brooding, elliptical, soaring, wild and unbidden. Rambunctious Rojo worships at the altar of the Blood Moon, a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie – she continuously seeks the road of greatest resistance for the most authentic lived human experience. Rambunctious Rojo has scaled every major mountain in the US, skied the Scandinavian slopes, sky dived over the Antarctic and skinny-dipped in the Seine, all in one day.

    Rambunctious Rojo is known the world over as a daredevil, but mostly she is just a plainspoken, run of the mill housewife who gets up to no good and often finds herself in the most precarious and embarrassing situations. For example, once, while traveling in Lancashire England, she deliberately drove her car over a cliff of considerable height to “drive home” the point that she is clearly the most ubiquitous color in the world. Needless to say, many heads were split that day in the service of such an outrageous and profligate stunt.

    It is rumored that Rambunctious Rojo was indeed the inspiration for Alexander McQueen’s iconic and celebrated “Blood Dress,” and she was brought on as a consultant by the great film director Brian De Palma while shooting Stephen King’s, Carrie, a gruesome, but necessary tale of revenge and delayed female empowerment. To this day, R & R is still close friends with Sissy Spacek and can often be seen sharing a steak at Grand Central Market.

    There are a few obvious high-profile occurrences however that she wishes to distance herself from if at all possible. The Manson Murders for example – she tried desperately to convince the court she was out of town that day, but the sheer amount of physical evidence was simply undeniable. Isadora Duncan’s death is another unfortunate event she wishes she could put behind her, though several people did try to warn the great beauty that it might not be a good idea to drive at high speeds through Nice trailing an enormous silk scarf. After all, as Gertrude Stein said, “Affectations can be dangerous.”