2024-12-11 - You Have the Right to Remain Fabulous

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Hi Dante! It's Ty. Lennox gave me your number

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Word around town is that you can play the drums?

[TXT to Dante] Ty: JK, not really WORD, like, he straight up told me

[TXT to Ty] Dante: And here I thought news of my rhythmic talents had finally spanned the globe!

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Word is correct, though. I do sometimes like hitting things with sticks.

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Hitting things with sticks is GREAT. I also hit things with sticks but admittedly I'm better at guitar

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Would you be interested at all in joining a jam sesh with us? With the possibility of even forming a baaaand?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Oh, I could be down to jam for sure. I'm getting you're on guitar and probably Lennox is on bass?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: If you want more people to jam with, Saint and Angelo might be up for it.

[TXT to Dante] Ty: I think Nox is gonna do guitar, my roomie River wants to join too but I'm making her jump through hoops cause I don't want her to think she can Nepo Baby her way into this 😆

[TXT to Dante] Ty: But she'll probably do guitar too and I can switch to bass and/or keyboard. Whatever, I'm flexible, I just wanna jam again haha

[TXT to Dante] Ty: But I'm always down for a huge jam group! The more the merrier

[TXT to Ty] Dante: So that's violin, drums, guitar, bass, and keyboards. Anything you don't play?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Also since no one ever nepo babys me for things I endorse your hoops.

[TXT to Dante] Ty: I don't play the harmonica! Or any kind of horn or trumpet or flute or woodwind really. Those are HARD.

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Oh also at some point I gotta ask you about OUTFITS cause I'm already starting to wear down this one

[TXT to Ty] Dante: So no bagpipes, then. Any danger of accordion? I like to know what to watch out for

[TXT to Ty] Dante: And yeah definitely ask me about outfits! I guess you could get away with looking a little threadbare if anyone could but it's better when that's intentional. Also no one wants a bardsicle.

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Zero bagpipes are in your future. Unless you suddenly want to learn them. And no accordions either though now you've got me thiiiiinking about them

[TXT to Dante] Ty: I don't wanna be a bardsicle either lol. Plus I want something in GREEN. Maybe blue. IDK, what would you recommend?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Now I'm thinking about accordions too, but mostly trying to work out why I kind of want the plural to be accordia.

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Anyway, we could definitely find you some greens and blues, together or separately. There's shades for everyone. We should make an appt one of my wardrobe days so I can look at the state of what you've got and talk over what you need.

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Also, my sibs are indeed in for jamming sometime

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Probs cause accordia sounds fancy as fuuuuuck. Like academia. Omg is the study of accordions called accordia academia????

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Also YES to both. Wardrobe time and jam time. We'll make 'em happen!

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Academe accordia sounds nice and Latiny. Or academe accordiana! Which feels like a good name for an all-accordion band if the world were to visit such a thing upon us. Academia accordiana sounds like a magic spell, which I guess would instantly teach someone the history of the accordion or something...

[TXT to Ty] Dante: And good. Probably not at the same time, though. I have many skills but I dunno that simultaneous drumming and design is among them

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Lemme just...write down that magic spell for later. Just in case.

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Never know when you might need to spread accordion facts in a hurry

[TXT to Dante] Ty: And no lol, different times. Different days. Different groups of people cause if I have to try on clothes in front of a crowd I'll blush myself to death

[TXT to Ty] Dante: I'd say no reason to, but fair. You weren't a theatre kid, huh?

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Something something three's company joke haha

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Not theater kid specifically but I went to school for music

[TXT to Ty] Dante: HS/college musicians don't usually go through costuming the same way the actors and dancers do. Makes sense

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Which school and what'd you study?

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Yep. We just wore the black shirts and pants our moms got us from kohl's

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Berklee College of Music up in Boston. And I studied composition. Thus the millions of instruments etc

[TXT to Dante] Ty: I take it you were a theater kid?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Now I'm curious what you compose. And more or less. My sibs own the stage, I did more backstage. Still enough actually wearing the costumes to get used to the changing, though.

[TXT to Dante] Ty: I was in a band back home for like six years so I wrote mostly like indie stuff? Sometimes I mess around just for fun and do some instrumental pieces but I've kinda been burnt out and low on motivation for a bit...which is why I'm HERE I guess. Doing bardcore covers of every song under the sun

[TXT to Dante] Ty: So did you go to FASHION school (lol what's it actually called??) or how did you get into costuming and stuff?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Is the bardcore motivating you? You at least look like you're having fun, so congrats on either your unburning or your non-theatre-kid acting skills

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Mostly we call it fashion school, though now I suddenly want to come up with something more interesting. Academia sartorial? And I did, yeah. Not for costuming per se, but I've been doing at least some of that since we were kids and this place has things to recommend it

[TXT to Dante] Ty: I dunno about motivating but it's definitely fun. So maybe just...something silly I don't have to put a lot of effort into? I know that sounds a little mid but...idk 😅

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Academia sartorial!!! YESSSSS. So what's endgoal for that? Designing something for a celeb or getting an award or disrupting all of fashion as we know it?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: It sounds ideal for dealing with burn out, from what I've read...

[TXT to Ty] Dante: And the end goal is to irritate Donna Karan by usurping her as the first person people think of when they hear DK in the context of fashion. Plus all of the above, why not?

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Well I can already say that I think of you instead of Donna when I hear DK.

[TXT to Dante] Ty: I mean...you and Donkey Kong, but like that's a me problem, not a you problem 😆

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Donkey Kong's in fashion too now? He's not just doing barrels on straps, is he? 'Cause that's been done.

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Also, super unflattering to most figures

[TXT to Ty] Dante: As far as name competition I could do worse, though

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Knowing him? He probably is. Time to call the fashion police wee-oo-wee-oo

[TXT to Dante] Ty: (I'm assuming you have them on speed dial)

[TXT to Ty] Dante: I'm a fully qualified deputy

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Badge and everything. (Metallic embroidery, beaded. The original sequins were way too '80s)

[TXT to Dante] Ty: oh my goooooooooooooooooood

[TXT to Dante] Ty: So you can arrest people, huh?

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Pull over you have the right to remain fabulous

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Is what I envision you saying

[TXT to Ty] Dante: I do have some fabulous handcuffs. I usually just give a caution, though

[TXT to Ty] Dante: And don't we all have that right?

[TXT to Ty] Dante: (You have the right to remain fabulous. Any Crocs you wear can and will be used against you in a court of public opinion. You have the right to the advice of an honest friend; if you do not have access to an honest advisor, one will provide themself for you...)

[TXT to Dante] Ty: 💀 💀 💀

[TXT to Dante] Ty: deceased

[TXT to Dante] Ty: You're WILD, we need to hang out more omg

[TXT to Ty] Dante: I'm pretty sure there's a Sex and the City joke about Miranda rights here somewhere but I never saw enough of that to make it. Damn

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Anyway you're in luck 'cause I hear we're gonna jam soon

[TXT to Dante] Ty: You could have made one up and I'd believe you at this point lol

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Okay great! Can't wait 😃

[TXT to Ty] Dante: Let me know when you guys wanna do it... and come by wardrobe next week

[TXT to Dante] Ty: Will do x2