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Bjork: Women auteurs have to ‘make guys in the room think it’s their idea’

“The world has a difficult time with the female auteur”: “I have nothing against Kanye West. I’m not dissing him–this is about how people talk about him. With the last album he did, he got all the best beatmakers on the planet at the time to make beats for him. A lot of the time, he wasn’t even there. Yet no one would question his authorship for a second. If whatever I’m saying to you now helps women, I’m up for saying it. For example, I did 80% of the beats on Vespertine and it took me three years to work on that album, because it was all microbeats–it was like doing a huge embroidery piece. Matmos came in the last two weeks and added percussion on top of the songs, but they didn’t do any of the main parts, and they are credited everywhere as having done the whole album. [Matmos’] Drew [Daniel] is a close friend of mine, and in every single interview he did, he corrected it. And they don’t even listen to him. It really is strange.”

On taking credit: “When people don’t credit me for the stuff I’ve done, it’s for several reasons. One! I learned what a lot of Women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up. Two! I spend 80% of the writing process of my albums on my own. I write the melodies. I’m by the computer. I edit a lot. That for me is very solitary. I don’t want to be photographed when I’m doing that. I don’t invite people around. The 20% of the album process when I bring in the string orchestras, the extras, that’s ********ed more. That’s the side people see. When I met M.I.A., she was moaning about this, and I told her, ‘Just photograph yourself in front of the mixing desk in the studio, and people will go, ‘Oh, OK! A woman with a tool, like a man with a guitar.’ I remember seeing a photo of Missy Elliott at the mixing desk in the studio and being like, a-ha! it’s an ongoing battle. I hope it doesn’t come across as too defensive, but it is the truth. I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.”

[From Pitchfork]

Cele|bitchy | Bjork: Women auteurs have to â€˜make guys in the room think itâ€™s their ideaâ€™

Does anyone have an idea how to fix a bad dye job?

I’ve been dyeing my hair a lighter shade of blonde since my teens but recently I noticed that I’m getting really gray and my hair is sort of two toned with very light ash blonde at the roots and top of my hair and darker blonde on the bottom few inches. I only have shoulder length hair so it’s pretty noticeable that my hair looks like it’s half gray and half blonde!
The top blonde is so ashen it might as well be gray and the bottom part is a bit brassy. I’m only 29, so I really don’t want to go natural gray yet. I’m going to try a new salon but I don’t know what to tell the colorist. Do I want to just go with the gray roots and dye my hair a lighter ash blonde and hope it takes at the ends of my hair too or try to dye it a little darker blonde, to a color I’d prefer but might be harder to maintain because of all the gray?
Thanks.

30 Adorable Kids Who Had No Idea How Famous They Were About To Become

Haven’t seen a lot of these before so thought I’d share. Apologies if this is the wrong section.

1. The Dalai Lama, age 2. [1937]

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, was selected as the tulku (student) of the 13th Dalai Lama at age 2, later becoming the Dalai Lama at age 15.

2. George Clooney, 7, would grow up to look exactly like his dad. [1968]

3. Teddy Roosevelt, 18. [1876]

Roosevelt was often ill as a child, suffering from extreme asthma. In his teens, Teddy tried to fight off illness with sport – including bare knuckled boxing and rowing.

4. Barack Obama, 4, riding a tricycle. [1965]

5. Bryan Cranston, 14, with his dog Lady. [1970]

6. Bill Clinton, 12, with his saxophone. [1958]

Clinton was in the chorus of his elementary school and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band’s saxophone section. He briefly considered dedicating his life to music.

7. Fidel Castro, 17, playing basketball at High School. [1943]

Castro was born into a rich family, and so the rebellious teen was able to attend a private high school. Although he did not excel academically, he was incredibly promising at sport.

8. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 19, enjoys Oktoberfest in Munich, West Germany. [1967]

9. Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, 12. [1954]

After getting into boxing at an early age, Ali started training for championships at the age of 12. He would go on to win the World Heavyweight Championship 10 years later.

10. The Notorious B.I.G., 6. [1978]

11. John Wayne, 19. [1926]

After losing his football scholarship to USC because of an injury, Wayne started getting small work as extras on movies. This photo is of his very first role, a Yale football player in ‘The Brown of Harvard’

12. Tiger Woods, 14, playing Zelda. [1989]

13. Cher, 13. [1959]

Cher was arrested after ‘borrowing’ her mother’s car.

14. Frank Sinatra, 10, looking as suave as you would expect. [1925]

15. Marilyn Monroe, 19. [1945]

Monroe was working in a wartime factory when a photographer came to take photos of the staff. The camera and photographer loved Marilyn and he helped her get into modeling.

16. Stevie Wonder, 13, messing around with Muhammad Ali, 21. [1963]

17. Robin Williams, 18, as a senior at Redwood High School. [1969]

Williams was voted "Least Likely To Succeed" while at the school. When the school asked him back to speak to students, he refused, saying it was some of the worst times of his life.

18. John Lennon, 17, with his then-girlfriend and future wife Cynthia. [1957]

19. Audrey Hepburn, 13. [1942]

Audrey was born in Belgium but grew up in German-occupied Holland. Following the end of the war, she moved to England and started acting.

20. Paul Newman, 18, having his mugshot taken while joining the navy. [1943]

21. Andre the Giant, 19, during a Paris Fashion Show. [1966]

At age 17, Andre moved to Paris to train in wrestling. While there, he made several appearances at fashion shows.

22. Andy Warhol, 8. [1936]

23. Tommy Lee Jones, 19. [1965]

Tommy was on the football team during his senior year at St. Mark’s School of Texas.

24. Winston Churchill, 14, in his school uniform. [1889]

25. Dwayne Johnson, 15. [1987]

Yes, he was always huge.

26. Ben Stiller, 13, on a trip to New York with his father Jerry. [1978]

27. Kurt Cobain, 19. [1986]

According to Cobain, who claimed to be "gay in spirit" and "probably could be bisexual", he was arrested for spray painting "God is gay" on cars. Though police records suggest his graffiti actually said; "Ain’t got no how watchamacallit"

28. Robert De Niro, 7. [1950]

29. Stephen Hawking, 12. [1954]

Hawking was relatively unaffected by his motor neuron disease as a child, though it got far worse into his teens.

30. Paul McCartney, 8, with his father on a day trip. [1950]

Distractify | 30 Adorable Kids Who Had No Idea How Famous They Were About To Become

Bjork: Women auteurs have to ‘make guys in the room think it’s their idea’

[From Pitchfork]

Cele|bitchy | Bjork: Women auteurs have to â€˜make guys in the room think itâ€™s their ideaâ€™

Jack Nicholson Mocked the Idea of Marrying Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston’s on-again, off-again love affair with Jack Nicholson was turbulent, to say the least.
The actress chronicles her 17-year relationship with the Departed star in her new memoir Watch Me, out today.
Most notably, Huston speaks candidly of the moment she suggested that she and Nicholson tie the knot.
"I [said], ‘If you had any balls, you’d marry me,’" writes Huston. "And he said, ‘Marry you? Are you kidding?’"
The 63-year-old actress goes on to say that she "sobbed for three days after that."
Here are five over things we learned about the pair’s relationship from the tell-all:

1. Nicholson scared Huston

Huston recalls meeting a young Gwyneth Paltrow at a fundraiser for a senator. The then 12-year-old Paltrow took one look at Nicholson and told Huston, "That man scares me."
"He scares me, too," Huston answered.

2. She found his possessiveness attractive

After watching Nicholson flirt with a model at a restaurant, Huston tried to leave the table only to have the actor pull her back into her seat.
"Don’t ever stand up like that to leave," he reportedly said to her. "I enjoyed his brief flash of possessiveness," she writes.

3. He once bought her a Mercedes-Benz

Which Huston promptly crashed the day she got it. No word on whether he got her another one.

4. She beat him up when they finally broke up for good

"I don’t think I kicked him," she writes of that brutal final breakup, "but I beat him savagely about the head and shoulders. He was ducking and bending, and I was going at him like a prizefighter, raining a vast array of direct punches."
But he was impressed with her display of passion.
"Goddamn, Toots, you sure landed some blows on me. I’m bruised all over my ****," he reportedly told her on the phone days after the final confrontation.
Huston writes she replied: "You’re welcome, Jack, you deserved it."

5. She wanted to have Nicholson’s baby, but was not physically able

After actress Rebecca Broussard became pregnant with Nicholson’s baby, Huston felt "inadequate and bitter," she writes.
"I had endometriosis, and had probably had it since my teens. I had undergone a laparoscopy, followed by a hysteroscopy, but a child was not to be."

Jack Nicholson Mocked the Idea of Marrying Anjelica Huston – Memoir, Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson : People.com