Laisser Tomber Les Filles

"Laisse tomber les filles" (English: "Leave the girls alone" i.e., "stop messing around with the girls") is a French song composed by Serge Gainsbourg and originally performed by France Gall in 1964.

France Gall is best known for her contributions to the 60's French pop music movement known as "Yé-yé" and released her first pop single "Ne sois pas si bête" ("Don't Be So Stupid") by the age of 16.

Into Your Dreams

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."
Laurie Anderson, Language Is A Virus




Laurie Anderson: Avant-garde musician, film maker, performer, visual artist, inventor... wife of Lou Reed.

In 2007 she received the Gish Prize award for her "outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life." At age 63 she continues to create, perform, and inspire with a unique and refreshing approach to art.

Lauries new album "Homeland" is now available on Nonesuch Records and itunes.
http://www.laurieanderson.com

On the Flipside of Happy

"On the flipside of happy, the Nico net caught me early. Her voice equalled the sound of a body being thrown out of a window - entirely with out hope, of this world, or the next, or the previous. Onstage, she moved like a big bleak creaking house, never once altering the direction of her eyes. I am in love. Her harmonium heaves and swells like crashing waves answering each other. If Nico could've laughed, she would've. But she couldn't, so she didn't."

-Morrissey On Nico: (From Under The Influence liner notes)

Mick Rock: Mick Rock Exibition

Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter from the Rocky Horror Show

David Bowie

Madonna

To read more about Mick Rock by Natalie Wardle on his current exhibition, click the link below

Mick Rock Exhibition: Mick Rock Exibition: "Over the remaining bleak weeks of 2010 and the New Year, the Idea Generation Gallery are providing a welcome form of visual escapism, payi..."

Belts and Bags

DRAWSTRING MINI DUFFEL

Eight hole draw string bag

with hip length across the body strap

Cotton lining

Www.faggedandfrowzy.com

DIE YOUNG, and stay pretty

The Many Faces of Cindy Sherman

I was 16 when I first heard the name Cindy Sherman, referenced in the lyrics of a Chicks on Speed song ('deep down they say I'm vermin/ got more faces than Cindy Sherman'- Yes! I Can.) Not long after, thanks to the wonders of internet search engines, I was able to see her many faces first hand and instantly fell in love with each one of them. Sherman's untitled collection of self-portraits and dream-like images evoke the eerie sense of dark atmosphere that could easily pass them off as film stills from a lost early David Lynch or Polanski film. She captured her emotions and tone so well in the self portraits, Andy Warhol was quoted as saying "She's good enough to be a real actress."

"By turning the camera on herself, Cindy Sherman has built a name as one of the most respected photographers of the late twentieth century. Although the majority of her photographs are pictures of her, these photographs are most definitely not self-portraits. Rather, Sherman uses herself as a vehicle for commentary on a variety of issues of the modern world: the role of the woman, the role of the artist and many more. It is through these ambiguous and eclectic photographs that Sherman has developed a distinct signature style. Through a number of different series of works, Sherman has raised challenging and important questions about the role and representation of women in society, the media and the nature of the creation of art." (source)


"I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up." - Cindy Sherman - Black and White Magazine

David Bailey

THEN

NOW

Blow Up

The 1966 film, Blow-up.

The sexiest cinematic moment in history?

Portrait of the Artist as a Consumer: Lydia Lunch

Image above from No wave: Post-punk, underground New York 1979-1980 bookBy Thurston Moore and Byron Coley

Click above photo to a read few of the artists favourite (and not so favourite) things from an NME article clipping circa 1982.
In addition to fronting the highly influential No-wave band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia also acted in, wrote and directed several underground films, recorded and performed as a spoken word artist and started her own recording and publishing company called "Widowspeak."



She is currently on tour promoting a new album with long time punk partners in crime Terry Edwards, James Johnston & Ian White called "Big Sexy Noise." For tour dates and other info see here.

15 year old Brooke Shields 1980

Love Courtney

Courtney Love

By Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot

For Pop magazine, issue 14

Buried Alive in the Blues

"You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow."

Janis Lyn Joplin (1943-1970) her powerful and intensely bluesy vocals saw her to become a leading female star of the late 60's, she represents freedom and social rebellion. Janis was an outcast at school, "laughed out of class, out of school, out of town, out of state."

Joplin styled her self after Blues Heroines and Beat Poets. She died of a Heroin over dose the day before she was due to record the vocals for the song 'Buried Alive In The Blues".

"People expect Janis Joplin to be a tough bitch, and say I start talking to them like a lonely little girl-that's not in their image of me-they don't see it. Say you meet somebody you've heard about, you don't ever see them, you don't see who they are and who they need to be recognized as, you see who you need them to be."

FAGGED AND FROWZY Crochet

FAGGED AND FROWZY: Pre-loved and Vintage Crochet

Www.faggedandfrowzy.com

Courtney Love on Andy Warhol's 15 Minutes - presented by Debbie Harry.

Courtney discusses what inspired her iconic style ("glamourous bag-lady", as she puts it) diamonds, and boys in this 1987 clip from Andy Warhol's 15 Minutes.

See what the original princess of grunge is up to these days @ http://twitter.com/courtneyloveuk

VOGUE 1980

THE VOGUE Book of Diet and Exercise.
1980

1984 The Cramps live punk preformance in Mental hospital

Pretty Day

'It's a pretty day to die.
My blue eyes in your black eyes.
It's a pretty day to die.
It's a pretty way to lie.'



Marie Möör
1980's
Little is known about this French singer and songwriter aside from the fact that she collaborated with fellow French musician Barney Willen on some new wave 45s during the 1980s, and together founded the label 4As a.k.a. AAAA. This haunting track can be found on a few various 80's punk and new wave compilations, including the excellent "B.I.P.P.P." compilation by Born Bad records.

Coffee and Cigarettes

Tom Waits and Iggy Pop

GZA, RZA and Bill Murray

Coffee and Cigarettes
Director Jim Jarmusch
consists of 11 short stories

POP Art

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his giant reproductions of banal objects. Some critics view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons himself has stated that there are no hidden meanings in his works.
There may be no hidden meanings, the work may be kitsch, and definitely self merchandising, but there are collectors, and this in it's self says some thing about the society we live in.
In 2007, a magenta Hanging Heart sold for $23.6 million becoming, at the time, the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned.

"A viewer might at first see irony in my work... but I see none at all. Irony causes too much critical contemplation." -Koons

F.C Gundlach

F.C Gundlach, Photographer
16/07/1926-

Franz Christian Gundlach is regarded as the most important fashion photographer of West Germany’s early post-war period

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”-Morrison

Jim Morrison & The Doors
1943-1971

The Doors took their name from the title of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception (a reference to the 'unlocking' of 'doors' of perception through psychedelic drug use), Huxley's own title was a quotation from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in which Blake wrote that "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." (-Wikipedia)
In 1967, photographer Joel Brodsky took a series of black-and-white photos of Morrison, in a photo shoot known as "The Young Lion" photo session (third image down). By 1969 he grew a beard, and began dressing more casually. Pictured above is Morrison's long term companion Pamela Courson, they met well before the Doors gained there fame. There relationship was considered a common law marriage by the california probate court, though it was an open relationship. Morrison had many flings, with fans and female celebrities, including Nico (The Velvet Underground), Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.
July 3rd, 1971 Morrison's body was found in a Paris apartment bath tub by Courson. No autopsy was preformed, the medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. Morrison's death continues to be a mystery, Courson's story is often contradictory and has lead to many rumors surrounding the death. Though most lead to a Heroin overdose.
Three years later Courson also died of a heroin over dose, like Morrison, she was only 27 years old.

Film Nostalgia

Desperately Seeking Susan

1985
From the Material Girl's prime, Madonna stars as the 'bad-ass', 'sassy' Susan (I can use cheesy words like this as it was the 80's) This film is rad! (but not in the cultured intellectual kind of way, films buffs will be appalled and disgusted).
A definitive 80's Film