Same day same club

Brownie, long hair, long legs and with a heart of gold.


(This would have offended me 10 years ago. But today, she'sa beauty)

Monday at El Ritmo

Untied converse, yesterdays t-shirt and a hang over. John Cusack in a bottle.

The Duke

For my Grandpa. I love you.

SF

Steez.

The Band

I love when things come full circle. I love The Band because of the good music, their story as a band and their going out with a bang attitude. They are the perfect fix when your jonesin for some heavy twang....on a Friday night perhaps. They were the back up band for some heavy hitters in the 60's. Point. Bob Dylan loved jammin with them. Point. Joan Baez covered their song. Point. Little Marty Scorsese did a movie about them. Game. It seams that all of their admirers are in my all time favorite people category. In a perfect world Danko,Helm, and Richard f-in Manuel would be in a glass box on my shelf somewhere (like my little ponies) so I could play with them when I got the itch.

Dillinger

I have nothing clever to say about this. This is just plain ill.

Leafy

Best hat, ever.

Across a moonlit mile

DON'T GET ME WRONG
IF I'M LOOKING KIND OF DAZZLED
I SEE NEON LIGHTS
WHENEVER YOU WALK BY

DON'T GET ME WRONG
IF YOU SAY "HELLO" AND I TAKE A RIDE
UPON A SEA WHERE THE MYSTIC MOON
IS PLAYING HAVOC WITH THE TIDE
DON'T GET ME WRONG

DON'T GET ME WRONG
IF I'M ACTING SO DISTRACTED
I'M THINKING ABOUT THE FIREWORKS
THAT GO OFF WHEN YOU SMILE

DON'T GET ME WRONG
IF I SPLIT LIKE LIGHT REFRACTED
I'M ONLY OFF TO WANDER
ACROSS A MOONLIT MILE

ONCE IN AWHILE
TWO PEOPLE MEET
SEEMINGLY FOR NO REASON
THEY JUST PASS ON THE STREET
SUDDENLY THUNDER, SHOWERS EVERYWHERE
WHO CAN EXPLAIN THE THUNDER AND RAIN
BUT THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE AIR

DON'T GET ME WRONG
IF I COME AND GO LIKE FASHION
I MIGHT BE GREAT TOMORROW
BUT HOPELESS YESTERDAY

DON'T GET ME WRONG
IF I FALL IN THE 'MODE OF PASSION'
IT MIGHT BE UNBELIEVABLE
BUT LET'S NOT SAY "SO LONG"
IT MIGHT JUST BE FANTASTIC
DON'T GET ME WRONG

Written by : Chrissie Hynde and her pretty bangs

Coppola Crawford

Zing zing zing! Again someone is making my eyes so very happy. With the color palette of a Sofia Coppola movie aka macaroons, and the creepy controversial topic of an abusive American movie starlet all rolled up into one, I have no choice but to drool.

Jetty Jett

Yes I saw The Runaways. Yes it was kinda bad. Yes I feel 13 for posting this. Yes Joan Jett and Lita Ford are bad ass. Even though Joan went down the "punk" road after the band split and Lita went down the scary wet dog smelling metal road, they remain cool as hell. The whole time I was watching I couldn't stop saying..... Daaakkkooota. What is wrong mama? This is no way to do "your break out sexy movie". Making out with twilight vampire chick and not having a lick of coordination is not the road for you. Surprisingly twilight chick was a pretty good Joan Jett. Ehh

Cherry Bomb has been stuck in my head for a good two weeks now. I was embarrassed of posting this because it borderlines whitetrashish and I like to keep my blog pretty. With that said, here are The Runaways..

Smiles

Sunshine
Amelia Bedelia
Fabric Softener
French Toast
Live Reggae
Marylou Cookies
My Cowboy Boots
Gold
Baby Powder
Big Hair
Talking to My Food in the Kitchen
Allen Ginsberg
My Family
A Good Manicure
Big Sur
Mochi Ice Cream
Charlie Parker
The Idea of The Huxtable Family
Ginger
NY

I'm talkin about LIFE

Drink up Billy. I love you.

MASH

As I said earlier in an IM with Sunny Day:

Do you remember that game MASH that you would play when you were a kid in class, when you were suppose to be learning something? Or CAMASH for greedy kids. The C is an option for a chance to live in a castle. Really? Sorry kiddos but the chances of you living in a castle is just as good as finding a white hair on Elvis in the 60's. There should have been a fictitious (a la Pirates of the Caribbean style dummies) Michael Scott or Michael Jackson for that matter standing behind the group of little dreamers singing, "You gotta know when to hold em...know when to fold em... know when to walk away...know when to run...You never count your money....when your sitten at the table....they'll be time enough for countin...when the dealin is dooooone. Thank you Kenny Rogers. He knew what he was doing. Roast on.

Uhhhmmm..

Blow up dolls were only $1.98? I bet gas was only 5 cents too.
Ahh the good ol days...

Speaking of Brooklyn..

I miss it. Don't get me wrong, it was hotter then bacon grease when I was there. But I would do it all over again in a New York minute. Zing! (Lame I know)

Photo taken by: Box Car Betty

Smellsson

For a nerdy, brooklynite that didn't have a dime to his name and left home at 15 because there wasn't enough food to go around, he lived quite the life and was an amazing song writer. He was lyrically, the envy of John Lennon.(my opinion)Enough said.(fart noise) Una his last wife was a very lucky woman. They were inseparable. His first wife was not so lucky considering he wrote the song ..."Your breakin my heart.. Your tearing it apart.. So fuck you..." about their break up. Hhaha! As you can see he was a (in a Frank Zappa creepy voice) I'll paint you a picture if you lend me your ear kinda artist. He was pretty cool for being wonder bread.

Goldie Goldie Goldie!

God movies suck now...

Dr. No

Dr. No is by far my favorite Bond film. Ursula Andress and that knife strapped to her leg? Swwwweeeeeeetttt. Plus Dr. No is a hospitable villain with an amazing rock house I would love to borrow for a day.

Twice is nice

An intro to tell the kids about

James: "You're one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen."
Tatiana: "Thank you, but I think my mouth is too big."
James: "No, it's the right size...for me that is..."

Tell em Len ol chap!

“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.” -Lenny Bruce



Arrested in 1951 for "Impersonating a priest". He was soliciting donations for a leper colony in British Guiana. Sounds about right from this potty mouth.

I was telling my Pops one day about my Abbie Hoffman itch and he responded with "..If you like him you should check out Lenny Bruce. He makes Abbie look like a puff..." (for lack of a better term) Well I finally did. Very different walks of life but they both had the same purpose. They shook things up a bit and threw American values right back in the face of the Americans that were playing the luke warm game. Using the word Jackoff is offensive but posting pictures of women and young children slaughtered in a newspaper or magazine isn't? They forced America to look at themselves. He was crude, an addict and married to a stripper. That kind of train is bound for madness not glory (sorry Woody Guthrie), but I believe in his methods for shoving peoples hypocrisy right back in their face. I respect that. Dead at 40 from an over dose is unfortunately the norm for these types of lunatics but at the same time that is how you leave behind a legacy.

Thanks Pops, you are just as crazy as Lenny but in a much cooler James Bondish kinda way. Love you.

Ron the Flasher

Many moons ago I got a book called the Disco Years from a dear friend on my birthday. We will call her Sunny Day Moore. Sunny had trumped all of my other gifts that year because A. I have obsessed over the Studio 54 scene for, it seems like forever. B. The photography was amazing. And C. It was just a really thought full gift, unlike the Nag Champa incenses that I got from another friend. Moving on.
The beautiful coffee table book is filled with photos that Ron Galella took back in the day when hair was big and boobs were real. My kinda era. Ron became infamous for taking The Wind Blown Jackie shot. He was the paparazzo who got the shot whatever it took. He was invasive, court bound and bold, best part was he wasn't shy about it. Fellini used the term in La Dolca Vida, Paparazzo. In Italian, Paparazzo means mosquito or little buzzing thing. Sure. If the shoe fits right? The film in a sense glorified the Pap world and showed them moving the face of a man passed out in his car just to get a better shot. All of this can be found in the documentary, Smash His Camera. There is great footage of him still in action, sneaking into events, his trial (for invading Jackie O's privacy) and my favorite, his mafia style home and artificial garden that he proudly states, "I put those in myself". He is like the crazy uncle that I never had! It's official. I'm adopting him.

Runway Trot: Part trois

Not so much a trot but more of a glide.