Black and white beauties

Frida Kahlo, dynamic in pictures! What a life!

Audrey Hepburn (above and below) and her beloved deer Ip

Anna May Wong, breathtakingly beautiful!

Ziggy and Iggy

Martha Graham

Mia Farrow

Ingrid Bergman and Isabella Rosellini

Lady Ottoline Morrell

Theda Bara

All pictures sourced from Pinterest, just type in the name!

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Step back in time

SJP

Bianca Jagger

Winona Ryder

John Waters and Iggy Pop

Mariannae Faithfull

Bjork

Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr

All pictures via Pinterest

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Alice in Wonderland, The Cramps and John Waters: what more do you need?

Above, an anti-drug Public Service announcement from 1971, which is so brilliant

The Cramps giving a tour of their house (kinda) and a quick look inside their world

And everyone's favourite pervert, the marvellous John Waters giving a graduation commencement speech, 12 minutes of sheer brilliance

Stay Sick!

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Nibbled to death by an Okapi

The first time I listened to the entirety of Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned, the track loop at the end of Smash it up confused the crap out of me, but I knew I'd hear it somewhere before

The above animal is an Okapi, Arthur Dent brother was nibbled to death by one in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy!

Well arthur isn't talking about his brother in the GIF below, but who doesn't love the Hitchhickers guide! What a series! (book, radio, tv and movie)

Culturally, I think I should just start identifying as British! 

All pics and gifs from Tumblr

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Listen below!

Evidently Chickentown- John Cooper Clarke

Evidently Chickentown

The fucking cops are fucking keen

To fucking keep it fucking clean

The fucking chief's a fucking swine

Who fucking draws a fucking line

At fucking fun and fucking games

The fucking kids he fucking blames

Are nowehere to be fucking found

Anywhere in Chickentown

The fucking scene is fucking sad

The fucking news is fucking bad

The fucking weed is fucking turf

The fucking speed is fucking surf

The fucking folks are fucking daft

Don't make me fucking laugh

It fucking hurts to look around

Everywhere in Chickentown

The fucking train is fucking late

You fucking wait you fucking wait

You're fucking lost and fucking found

Stuck in fucking Chickentown

The fucking view is fucking vile

For fucking miles and fucking miles

The fucking babies fucking cry

The fucking flowers fucking die

The fucking food is fucking muck

The fucking drains are fucking fucked

The colour scheme is fucking brown

Everywhere in Chickentown

The fucking pubs are fucking dull

The fucking clubs are fucking full

Of fucking girls and fucking guys

With fucking murder in Their eyes

A fucking bloke is fucking stabbed

Waiting for a fucking cab

You fucking stay at fucking home

The fucking neighbors fucking moan

Keep The fucking racket down

This is fucking Chickentown

The fucking train is fucking late

You fucking wait you fucking wait

You're fucking lost and fucking found

Stuck in fucking Chickentown

The fucking pies are fucking old

The fucking chips are fucking cold

The fucking beer is fucking flat

The fucking flats have fucking rats

The fucking clocks are fucking wrong

The fucking days are fucking long

It fucking gets you fucking down

Evidently Chickentown

Did anyone else grow up in a place that reminds them of Chickentown? I was about 16 when I first came across this poem, John Cooper Clarke is a rarity to be treasured! Teenage angst was soothed by his words for sure!

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Buy Nothing Day Australia 2014

Saturday November 29th, for 2014.

Before it is dismissed as some leftist junk, read this

Working on the guilt cycle will only reduce people to further apathy. If only more people were worried about conscientious consumerism.

 I think the markets have infiltrated most aspects of life so well, anyone that labels themselves an anti-consumerist living in any kind of city dwelling is probably kidding themselves

but these things are worth considering with genuine thought and research

Pic from Adbusters I believe

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Bowie style

Prince among men, one of the best musicians on the planet

Just LOOK at the colours and patterns with that shock of red hair

A young Sid Vicious on his way to a Bowie concert

Pics from Tumblr

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Babing!

Debbie Harry

Brigitte Bardot

Paulina Porizkova

Sharon Tate

Angelica Huston

Bianca Jagger

Pics from Pinterest

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Reading!

Tristram Shandy is brilliant! everything I heard and knew about it= expectations met, heavily recommend. Midsummer Night's Dream is my favourite Shakespeare work apart from the sonnets, I re-read it every few years, magical and hilarious. 

As for Tom Hodgkinson, I'm kind of obsessive about his work. How to be Idle, How to be Free, Brave Old World and the issues of the Idler I have delved into are brilliant. I have an almost cult- like obsession with his work. Him and Alain de Botton are some of my favourite thinkers.

Hodgkinson's views on how fast modern pace and the distance between us and the old world is something that will resonate with anyone with a fondness for flights of fancy away from our world. He references everything and everyone, from the romantic poets, to Samuel Johnson, to Punk lyrics and ideas, more on him to come, I better leave it here or I won't shut up

Have  look at the Idler here

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Siouxsie Sioux

Siouxsie Sioux, your pants are wicked, just like your music and killer make up skills. I wish i had friends who would cause national scandals to defend my honour, even if it was over something as silly as an F-bomb, to think the power that one word has? But when you are a talented singer and performer, i suppose them words come in handy. Your topless fetish BDSM-esque outfits slightly frightened me when i was a young impressionable whipper snapper, but i suppose people think it's arty or ironic when they wear a t shirt with a photo with breasts instead of going the full monty? Still confused with that 'tit top' trend, but, no judgement, each to their own. Thanks for cool threads (you know, when you're wearing them) and awesome music, props to them Banshees and their killer hair do's (or hair dont's, who knows?)

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