My head is pounding, my mouth is dry | My eyes are burning, oh I can see you lowering | Seraphim, please don’t pull me down | It’s just a drowning man reaching for me now | Seraphim, please don’t pull me down | It’s just a drowning man reaching for me now
Recently I’ve been enamored with the book Wedding by Barbara Norfleet, an archive of wedding photographss ranging from the late 1800s to the 1970s. I have a thing for old photos anyway, and these particular pictures have all sorts of things that make them…
I’m so in love with Melanie Safka. This has always been my favorite of her songs: “While walking though life I would never fall | If I could be close to it all and all | If I had my dream it would not fall down | If I could live high on the ground…”
Billy Jack—an old favorite. This movie has everything: it has karate, cowboys, Indians, and hippies. There’s rock music, love stories, classic cars, and ice cream parlors. It’s got a talent show, an improv show, and a street show. It has a…
Today I got the greatest present in the mail. My husband Jordan ordered a book for me that I’ve been wanting for about a year: Firebrand, Push Your Hair Out of Your Eyes by Natalie Scott. It contains some of the all-time most amazing 1960s illustrations I have…
Adriano Celentano and showgirl Raffaella Carrà’s music video for “Prisencolinensinainciusol” from 1972. The choreography is insanely entertaining, and the American-English sounding lyrics are actually pure gibberish.
With Pinterest picking up, I’m seeing more and more of my friends falling in love with it. They Roared Vintage has an account which we’ve had for awhile where we have, of course, been posting vintage—and awhile back, it just seemed like this little site where…
HOW did I not know that Amanda Seyfried did a cover of “Little Red Riding Hood” by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs?!? Maybe it’s because I never saw her Red Riding Hood movie…but still, I can’t believe this one got by me. The Pharaohs version has…
The New York Times is celebrating wide-brim hats this season. I’ve always loved hats like these. In fact, the one below was once mine. I’ve given it to our shop since I’ve gotten a few more and no longer have room for all of them. These hats are so boho, and they always make a statement. They’re…
A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing an original Bill Owens photograph at the Getty Museum here in Los Angeles. I hadn’t even known that the photo was there, so it was a great surprise, because Bill Owens just happens to be…
Farewell to a legend, Etta James. Nearly 74, Ms. James had been unwell for awhile. We will never forget her beautiful, strong voice and attention-demanding presence. “Never My Love” is my favorite that she did, a cover of the Association song…
I’m out here a thousand miles from my home, walking a road other men have gone down. I’m seeing a new world of people and things, hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings. Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men that come with the dust and are gone with the wind…
Several years ago, I found Israeli illustrator Ruth Gwily. Her work is amazing: she usually focuses on controversial news items, which has gained her a bit of notoriety in the last decade. Her style is playful, almost like a comic book, but the images are unsettling and dark because her viewers know that the illustrations portray a disturbing…
I don’t even know where to begin. My heart can barely stand this video. So much going on: Tom Jones’s truly awesome dance moves, Janis fist-pumping as always, a swingin’ shindig going on all around them. I love Janis shaking her little bootie…
I’m currently reading The Love Machine, the only book by Jacqueline Susann that I’ve never read. I think subconsciously, I was holding off so that I would always have one more Susann novel to read. But finally, I’m giving in…and it’s yummy. You may know Ms. Susann from…
