Lady Gabby by Gabby Gabby

                Gabby Gabby has been ‘blowing up the blog-o-sphere’ lately. Everything she does garner quite a bit of attention. Some say it is due to various ‘pictures’ or her prettiness. I say it is due to the quality of her work. And lately she has cranked out quite a bit of material, up to the point where she appears to be ‘spiriting’ through the internet. I’m a sloth so it is hard to keep up. Nonetheless I finally made it. I got to her Tumblr and watched this video.

                What does ‘Lady Gabby’ say? It shows how powerful Gabby Gabby truly is. Few people get to work firsthand with such a famous celebrity. Many people yearn to work with Lady Gaga. Yet out of all the people Lady Gaga could have picked she choose Gabby Gabby? Why you might ask. I’ll tell you. Lady Gaga is obsessed with alt lit and secretly blogs about alt lit late at night. People expect her to be so much. But sometimes all Lady Gaga wants to do is hang out with the alt lit kids who are cooler than she’ll ever be. You see coolness has nothing to do with money and everything to do with passion. Alt lit types are passionate, totally poor, fucked people. That’s alt lit’s greatest asset: its total fucked-ness. 

                In the video Gabby Gabby points to this fucked-ness problem. First we see a camera. The camera is symbolic of a real camera. Gabby is in the clouds because that’s where her head’s at, to answer the call of the Basement Jaxx. 60 minutes plays in the background. It represents the interest mainstream media is beginning to have in alt lit (see the Wall Street Journal’s article about the Muumuu House reading at St. Mark’s Bookshop). Then she rolls her eyes back to represent Satan’s power over the alt lit scene. 

                Most of the video takes place in what I assume is Gabby’s dorm room. Dorm rooms are centers of alt lit activity. She takes some pills but doesn’t swallow them. The pills represent our self-medication. Gabby Gabby rises above this culture. She wants to live in the present, in the dorm room, studying, learning, living in poverty, eating pasta. Ah yes, I remember college fondly. Back then I didn’t have three kids to support. Life seemed so much simpler then. 

                Gabby read one of her poems over Lady Gaga’s interview. Her microphone makes her sound distant. An ambient trance song plays in the background. Gabby laughs at the word ‘Honeydew’. ‘Honeydew’ was the first sled Gabby ever had, representing her innocence before she started throwing around Snow Globes. 

                She has a ‘director’s commentary’ on the video. Lady Gaga paid Gabby only a small sum of money for the promotional material about $950,000. Hope Gabby can live off of this money. Hope Gabby can afford something better than pasta with the money.