On The Subject of Being Different

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ESQASArsoWM?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br />Remember this interview?  She talks about her need to be different.  I was a <em>huge</em> Gwen Stefani fan in the 90s, because I was so invested in the concept of individuality and originality.  I'm really happy I didn't have a digital camera 10-15 years ago because I'd feel obliged to show you the inventive outfits I wore.  (A friend may or may not have dressed up like me for Halloween).  I wanted so much to be unusual and I still<em> </em>get a thrill when I can be a teeny tiny bit different.  <br /><br />Lime green car?  <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-evidence-of-painting-charlie.html">Check</a>.  Billy Buttons are everywhere?  <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2011/05/diy-felted-wool-billy-buttons.html">I'll make some</a>, thank you very much.  One of a kind headboard?  <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/vicarious-diy-headboard.html">Of Course.</a>  I was thinking about this as I examined the accessories I added to my nightstand: both vintage (and stolen from other rooms).  You can't easily duplicate anything from <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/bedroom-update.html">our bedroom</a> except the white West Elm bedding and the lamps (which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_McGrath">Blake McGrath</a> has.  I saw them when he was on MTV Cribs.  My lamps are famous.)  And I feel a little tingly about that - the being different, not the famousness of the lamps.  Is that weird?  <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4NfWd0CeDnZ7rGSVKybx_dVrhtXMnE5iUsyt608TwGvaZ6Rg38jHTm6n_40G19BSlfZJ-_pbpHXFN7mzzHh60oDTV7GqRyT8BJ_xQ3aHxgGByamEPCzKIU1bh2qEBWMwECyKFde6QokT/s1600/008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4NfWd0CeDnZ7rGSVKybx_dVrhtXMnE5iUsyt608TwGvaZ6Rg38jHTm6n_40G19BSlfZJ-_pbpHXFN7mzzHh60oDTV7GqRyT8BJ_xQ3aHxgGByamEPCzKIU1bh2qEBWMwECyKFde6QokT/s640/008.JPG" t8="true" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mine.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Is being different, original or one of a kind important to you?  Is that why vintage is so hot right now?

On The Subject of Being Different

Remember this interview?  She talks about her need to be different.  I was a huge Gwen Stefani fan in the 90s, because I was so invested in...

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