I’m totally obsessed with this right now. The song is an old favorite, but I’m just seeing this live performance for the first time. It’s unbelievably cool. Go Jerry go! …CONTINUE →
Daisies: A 1960s Czech movie about two girls who are constantly bored, hungry, and worried that their lives mean nothing. They do things like eat food with scissors, dance with chairs, and set their apartment on fire for fun. In other words, they know how to be very annoying.
This film is extremely 60s, meaning it wanders aimlessly, it looks like it was edited by a coke head on acid, and its message is …CONTINUE →
Dita von Teese shows are magical.
Last year, my husband Jordan took me to see her perform at the Roxy for my birthday, and I had one of the most fun nights of my life. So when he bought us tickets again to go see her over the weekend, I was thrilled…but also skeptical. Could it possibly be as much fun as it was the first time?
The answer turned out to be no. It wasn’t as much fun; it was Way More Fun.
Dita’s numbers seemed bigger this time, more beautiful, more spectacular—possibly because of a larger stage than the Roxy. It was like being transported back to the Moulin Rouge. The entire night was incredible. I have a longtime love of burlesque (proper burlesque, that is), stemming from my childhood obsession with the Natalie Wood movie Gypsy. When I was younger, I got so excited when I found out my local playhouse would be staging a production of Gypsy, and I even went to audition for a role as one of the …CONTINUE →
“There were only twelve playboys—not more—in the world. They were charming, and spoke languages, and behaved well with women. This generation can do anything, but it’s less fun.” —Gunter Sachs
I’m a fan of the three-year love affair between Gunter Sachs and Brigitte Bardot because it was just so classically romantic: the rich, well-bred man about town falls for the beautiful blonde movie star. The Jaqueline Susann part of my brain adores this.
Both Gunter and Brigitte had been married before by the time they found each other. They met—“When we first spoke, it was as though lightning had struck; I knew the minute I saw her that I was going to marry her,” …CONTINUE →
I recently re-watched an old favorite, Little Darlings, on a plane trip.
Don’t be fooled: I know it looks like your regular run-of-the-mill 1980s summer camp movie. But Little Darlings is a bit different. Yes, it’s all braids and bubblegum and brattiness, but it also cracks the hard outer shell of a tough girl and exposes the fears of an insecure one.
The girls here look like real girls—they’re not disturbingly plastic and color-coated as they are in today’s teen movies. I love how, over the course of the film, their style becomes more and more experimental: complex hair, too-bright makeup, and clothes that …CONTINUE →
Gotta love an artist who changed his name in order to take up more room on his works.
Maybe it sounds nerdy. Maybe it sounds unimportant. Maybe it sounds flat-out silly, but vintage has been a big, big part of my life. Somewhere between playing dress-up in my grandmother’s clothes, stealing my dad’s amazing 70s collegewear, thrift shopping with my friends as teenagers, and—yes—stealing ancient costumes from my church’s drama closet, the feel, smell, and aesthetic of vintage clothing has become as familiar as my childhood home. In vintage, whether it’s an entire dress or as small as a ring on my finger, I feel comfortable. I feel safe. I feel like myself.
Here’s a little history of my …CONTINUE →
Thanks to Swedish artist Jesper Waldersten for creating truly incredible artwork.
It’s almost like those doodles I used to draw in math class, only Jesper’s stuff is actually good. I love how the work is just simple lines, almost like a wire sculpture at times, but the faces/figures have so much character, originality, and detail. Some of the illustrations remind me of …CONTINUE →
You will be so missed, MCA. A little piece of my musical life just dropped away. I can’t remember exactly how or when I began loving the Beastie Boys, but I do know it’s been a long time, and these guys mean a lot to me. This news is 100% a drag.
Above is one of the world’s best music videos (and songs!), “Sabotage”. RIP, Adam Yauch.
