Ding ding ding! I do believe we have a winner. I saw King Crimson a couple years ago at a small outdoor concert (maybe 500 people or so) in Budapest. Before the gig Robert Fripp asked the audience—an outdoor audience, mind you—to please refrain from smoking and not take pictures during the show. That’s not very rock and roll. He also spent the entire concert sitting down in a chair and looking extremely serious and important. Thank God Adrian Belew was there to balance out Fripp’s pretension.
All right then! Thank you.
Donnie Iris
Donnie Iris! Now that’s a name I haven’t heard since I left Pittsburgh…
And what on earth are “emo” frames. I’ve heard this term before, but I don’t know what it means. And I really want to know, because I think I might have 'em. If I have a laughable stereotype on my face, I wanna know, dammit!
Those rectangular thick black plastic glasses frames. Buddy Holly wore older-fashioned ones, but the new ones are usually favored by “hipsters,” art schoolers, and people into indie and emo music. I think they look cool, but that is definitely the connotation associated with them.
Steve Turner (Mudhoney)
Here’s Rivers with his glasses.
Here’s your loveable pal AwSnappity in hers.
Here’s Queer Eye’s Ted Allen in his.
And here’s another example of female “emo” glasses on Lisa Loeb, whom I find absolutely adorable and I wish I looked like her.
It seems to me that these popular frames are the kind that nerds in the 1950s would have worn. And like secretaries and stuff. Personally, I like the trend. Anything to play devil’s advocate to “Boys seldom make passes to girls who wear glasses” line. If you’re younger, like mid-30s or younger, you can probably get away with it. If you’re a bit more advanced in years, you might look a bit like a poseur, or you might look cool. That’s a general rule, and of course there are exceptions.
Ian Paice, drummer for Deep Purple. Much as I love the Purp, however, no-one has ever mistaken them for being “intellectual and deep”, Concerto For Group And Orchestra notwithstanding.
Maybe Chris Carraba of Dashboard Confessional? I’m not sure that he’s ever been seen sporting the glasses, but the glasses are considered “emo” and he’s the clown prince.
Moby.
Does Elwood Blues count?
AwSnappity, it says we need a password to view YOUR picture! For all we know, you do look like Lisa Loeb, or even more adorable!
And I dig girls who wear glasses.
Whoops! Here we go. P.S. My hair’s not normally that weird…
OK, even more adorable.
Elton John,
even if they didn’t have corrective lenses in them
Swoon
I am most certainly in extended infatuation.
Hey, Rilchaim, if you feel the urge to make a rather geeky inside joke, Weezer (Rivers Cuomo’s band) had a song called “Buddy Holly,” where one of the lines in the chorus was “I look just like Buddy Holly…and you’re Mary Tyler Moore.”
No? Okay.
I’ll be leaving, then.
No, that’s a good suggestion. If my story were longer, I might use it.
Snappity, you rock!
My first thought was Rivers Cuomo but clearly I was beaten to it.
So instead, since AwSnappity’s gonna be a photo whore in here, I will too (the one in glasses, obviously).
These made me feel good. 
Heh, whenever I hear Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”, I sing my own name (it fits right in with the meter). Because I do look just like me.