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phantom-mover: Alice Cooper, Ray Manzarek, and Iggy...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:19:19 -0400

phantom-mover:

Alice Cooper, Ray Manzarek, and Iggy Pop

YEEESSSSS.

snowce: Vangelis - Tears in the Rain

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:17:03 -0400

snowce:

Vangelis - Tears in the Rain

tomatoesareforwinners: mudwerks: Captain Beefheart & The...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:10:44 -0400

tomatoesareforwinners:

mudwerks:

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | Clear Spot

Man, this song grooves along like no other.

Back when Richard Hell was in the band. Nice.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:38:11 -0400

Back when Richard Hell was in the band. Nice.

Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky_______ “It falls apart at any...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:32:46 -0400

Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky_______

“It falls apart at any attempt of touching it.”

awkwardsituationist: cambridge university students were asked...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:27:06 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over 600 more.

vintagegal: Faye Dunaway in publicity photos for the film...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:20:45 -0400

vintagegal:

Faye Dunaway in publicity photos for the film Bonnie and Clyde by Milton Greene,1967

Savages - “Shut Up” (by SAVAGESBANDLONDON)

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:57:00 -0400

Savages - “Shut Up” (by SAVAGESBANDLONDON)

rustbeltjessie: (via seeakear) Dresden Dolls - “The Perfect...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:03:29 -0400

rustbeltjessie:

(via seeakear)

Dresden Dolls - “The Perfect Fit”

I do not love Amanda Palmer, these days. But I still love this song.

I’m not exceptionally shy
But I’ve never had a man
That I could look straight in the eye
And tell my secret plans

I can take a vow
And I can wear a ring
And I can make you promises but
They won’t mean a thing

rustbeltjessie: (via suicidewatch) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:01:14 -0400

rustbeltjessie:

(via suicidewatch)

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - “From Her to Eternity”

Ah read her diary on her sheets
Scrutinizin’ every lil bit of dirt
Tore out a page’n’stufft it inside my shirt
Fled outa the window,
And shinning it down the vine
Outa her night-mare, and back into mine

suicidewatch: Fugazi “Shut The Door”

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:18:49 -0400

suicidewatch:

Fugazi “Shut The Door”

ravenwitch: “There are aspects of his personality that...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:16:54 -0400

ravenwitch:

“There are aspects of his personality that surprises and confuse us, mainly because they are apparent contradictions. Was he shy and withdrawn from society or gregagious and comfortable with others? Was he always witty in his conversations and correspondance or did he have a serious side? Was he conventional by Victorian standars or did he sometimes act in an unconventional manner? Did he follow the moral and ethical codes of his day or did he rebel against the norms of Victorian society? Was his personality gentle and easy-going, or was he strong willed or pedantic? […] Lewis Carroll’s personality is many-faceted and complex.

Mabye this is what attracts us to him - he is a very interesting person. “

-

Edward Wakeling, preface to Jenny Woolf’s “The Mystery of Lewis Carroll” (2010)

Queen Adreena - Pretty like Drugs (by Adrien...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:43:13 -0400

Queen Adreena - Pretty like Drugs (by Adrien L’Americain)

(Stupid image, but best quality version I could find. Tonight is for Queen Adreena.)

thecouscousqueen: British-Somali songwriter, feminist, and...

Thu, 30 May 2013 19:30:38 -0400

thecouscousqueen:

British-Somali songwriter, feminist, and musician Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, also known by her stage name Poly Styrene, is most notably known for being the founder of punk rock band X-Ray Spex.

She was born in Bromley, London, and ran away from home at the age of 15 with just £3 in her pocket, hitchhiking from one music festival to another. This adventure ended when she stepped on a rusty nail while bathing in a stream and had to be treated for septicaemia.

After seeing the Sex Pistols performance at the Pier Pavillion Hastings on her 19th birthday she thought that anyone could do what they were doing and so decided to form her own Punk Rock band, putting an ad in the paper calling for ‘young punx who want to stick it together’, and that was the beginning of X-Ray Spex. She eventually became a passionate feminist and posted a blog dedicated to women’s rights and defense of women.

She was described by Billboard as the “archetype for the modern-day feminist punk”; because she wore dental braces, stood against the typical sex object female of 1970’s rock star, sported a gaudy Dayglo wardrobe, and was of mixed race. She was “one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history, male or female”.

Needless to say, she was a total bad ass.

idg why this post doesn’t have more notes

hello

it’s poly fucking styrene omg

vintagegal: Identical Twins Cathleen and Colleen, Roselle,...

Thu, 30 May 2013 19:27:01 -0400

vintagegal:

Identical Twins Cathleen and Colleen, Roselle, N.J., photographed by Diane Arbus, 1966

<3 Diane Arbus. Always.

Favorite Films...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:39:00 -0400

Favorite Films | Vertigo (1958)

I made a mistake. I fell in love. That wasn’t part of the plan. I’m still in love with you. And I want you so to love me. If I had the nerve, I’d stay and lie, hoping that I could make you love me again as I am, for myself, and so forget the other and forget the past. But I don’t know whether I have the nerve to try.

HAWT.

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:35:12 -0400

HAWT.

nprfreshair: Over at The New Republic, our book critic Maureen...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:33:31 -0400

nprfreshair:

Over at The New Republic, our book critic Maureen Corrigan has a truly wonderful defense of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby as “America’s greatest novel about class.” Because of the new Baz Luhrmann film (which David Edelstein reviews on today’s show), Gatsby has been getting another moment in the media spotlight lately and part of that has included some Gatsby backlash (“I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent.”). Maureen thinks these contrarians are missing some of the finer points that make the novel so complex:

Simultaneous with Fitzgerald’s delight in fine commodities, however, there’s always a vigorous resentment of those who don’t have to work hard to acquire them. Throughout his writing, Fitzgerald betrays the scorn of the poor relation, the self-made man, railing against—and envying—those trust fund babies who take their privilege for granted. Nick cautions readers against identifying with this smugness on the very first page of the novel, telling us that his father always reminded him of the obligations of the rich to the less fortunate. Fitzgerald may not have been overtly political in his life or writing the way that contemporaries like Hemingway, Dos Passos, or Edmund Wilson were—he quietly voted for Roosevelt and privately recommended Das Kapital as extracurricular reading to his college-aged daughter, Scottie—but his class-consciousness was intense and enduring.

Image of Fitzgerald and Scottie via Lists of Note

Good busy-with-designing playlist.

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:34:26 -0400

Good busy-with-designing playlist.

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:57:03 -0400

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

- Carl Jung (via samsaranmusing)