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Archive for October, 2009

Femme Fatale
October 31st, 2009

“Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else’s Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico’s was real.”

- Peter Murphy, Bauhaus

Hong Kong Garden
October 31st, 2009

Totodo
October 31st, 2009

books

Came up on some amazing inspiration courtesy of Totodo Books in Daikanyama. My new favorite bookshop.

New Items
October 28th, 2009

New items from Neighborhood & Wtaps.

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USELESS Fall Winter 2009

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Performance
October 25th, 2009

perf-1Performance, masterminded by Donald Cammell and starring Mick Jagger, James Fox and Anita Pallenberg in a heady psychosexual brew of mixed identities, narcotics, sex, sadism, gangsters and reclusive rock stars. The film was infamous not just for its risque content, but for the intense psychic drama that the cast weathered. Some left the film with drug habits and psychological scars, while some, like Mick Jagger, emerged mostly unscathed. Marianne Faithfull: “In the same way that some actors get to keep their wardrobe, Mick came away from Performance with his character. This persona was so perfectly tailored to his needs that he’d never have to take it off again.”

Shimmy Shimmy Ya
October 19th, 2009

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Last Gang In Town
October 16th, 2009

clash-backstageJoe Strummer and Paul Simonon, by Janette Beckman, “before a concert in a bicycle stadium in Milan. We were in an underground tunnel which served as a makeshift dressing room. Everyone was very stoned and the atmosphere was intense.”

The Clash was a dirty job, but someone had to do it.

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Varga
October 14th, 2009

Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was a painter of pin-up girls and was most famous for his iconic World War II era pin-ups for Esquire magazine known as “Varga Girls”.

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