tin machine promo -part I : video

here is part one of two, of the rare promotional video released for the first album by tin machine. an excellent hard rock effort with david bowie on lead vocals. this is one half of a promotional video released at the time. enjoy.

tin machine promo - part II : video

here is the rare promotional video for the first tin machine release, featuring david bowie on lead vocals.

nine five seventy-two

i made this collage in class one day... in my lap, when i was supposed to be paying attention; back when i was in class. i just had a black cardboard background, and started gluing things down. i didn't plan on anything, i just let the colors and the shapes lay where they wanted to. its pretty enough, isn't it? of course, this is the final image, after jean-lucien lent it that 'fish-eye' distortion treatment. let's see, clockwise, we've got... georgina hale as alma mahler at about 11:57... then, at 12:01 and :02, we've got the wild glam rock duo of ewan mcgregor as curt wilde and john-rhys myers as brian slade in 'velvet goldmine.' then, at 4:45, we've got georgina as alma mahler again, then a big, important number five (taken from the richard lester film, 'help!') , and then finally, at 9:45, a somber shot of my darling ian holm as tom frost in david cronenberg's 'naked lunch.' i think its groovy. amazing what an idle mind and a bit of technology can come up with. (click to enlarge)

miss eddie

yes, this is eddie izzard, in full-out 'realistic' 1940's drag for the lesser-known 2001 film 'all the queen's men.' its about a bunch of guys who go in drag during world war II in order to... infiltrate some spy thing or something, i don't know. it wasn't the best movie in the world. (matt 'friends' le blanc in is in, in drag, if you can believe it.) well, mr. le blanc doesn't 'cut it,' in drag, but not surprisingly, eddie really does. i mean, he doesn't change much... he doesn't change his voice at all, but his costume and manner works for him. he really is an effective female impersonator... and he's the only one in the movie that you actually believe could 'get past' the nazis without being 'discovered.' ( i mean, 'joey' from 'friends' in a dress? it looks like exactly what is sounds like.) if you ever have the opportunity to roll 'all the queen's men,' AND you have the facility to fast-forward though the many 'boring parts,' then i guess its worth a look. eddie is fun to watch.

john and yoko: thoughts

hey, did you ever look at a picture of the rapt and 'deeply-in-love' john lennon and yoko ono and wonder what in the world they were thinking? well, i gazed at this picture for quite a while one night, and i think i've solved the mystery.

much needed georgina

yes, it's been a little too long since i paid tribute to my silky blonde muse, miss georgina hale. i wonder if she has a middle name? and if so, i wonder what it is? (i've never had a middle name come up in any of my searches.) anyway, she's incredible. umm, yeah, this is a shot from the 1975 film 'mahler' directed by the great ken russell. wow, i love this movie. i realize its an acquired taste, but what can i say? i dig the dazzling strange caviar that IS a ken russell classical music biography. i really should own a copy by now, but my life just hasn't gone that way. yet. so, just for the sake of celebration, enjoy this frame. in the movie, its right before she bounds around the countryside, silencing all of nature so her moody husband gustav can get some 'tortured artist' writing done.

jack, serious

i can't ever remember not liking jack lemmon. i also can't remember a time in my life when i wasn't aware of him. somewhere along the years, i fell in love with him. he's got it all. style, talent, humor, and unexpected sexiness. in movies like 'the apartment' and 'the china syndrome' he was so foxy i couldn't stop myself from what it must've been like to know him romantically. (wow, that sounds really flaky, but whatever.) and in 'some like it hot,' he's a perfect example of a comic-relief part that gets laughs without losing his dignity or class. that couldn't have been easy to do. i heard a lot of his leading ladies were crazy about him. i think he was infinitely sexier than cary grant. don't get me wrong, cary grant is excellent, but i can't remember him ever 'turning me on.' i think i can honestly say i've never once wondered about taking cary grant's shirt off. or thought about kissing him. but i have thought similar things about jack lemmon. he's just a treasure. and in this shot? woof! i think need to juice up that time machine again. sigh.

another van, man...!

yeah, i was looking through my old files and came across this. and i thought since my last posting of a van advert was a hit, i thought i'd throw this one out there. i love the swirly, late 60's artwork. and i dig the fact that it's advertised as a 'street van.' like, is there any other kind? i mean, i don't see too many vans out there burning up the 'dunes,' or like, rough-ridin' it through the rocky mountain areas. no, a 'street' is where you see the vast, vast majority of vans. its like saying 'mouth toothbrush.' so yeah, i dig this for so many reasons. since i've studied advertising, i dig it on that level. and i also can relate on a personal level... for most of my childhood, my dad drove a chevy van. and i love vans. i love the space, the high ride, etc. of course, these days, they're not as cost-effective as they used to be. let me take a closer look at this ad. hey, 'click-to-enlarge' and check out that dude sitting down on the far right. in case you can't read it, he's saying, '...did you know Street Van spelled backwards is Teerts Nav...?' ummm, how is that a selling point? i wish i could tell you who the artist is, but i don't recognize the work. the small print in the lower left quadrant is pretty funny too. so rock on, Street Van! roll!

shady

man, i'm still not feeling so great tonight. i don't really feel like posting too much, but... just to mark my place, here's a groovy shot of a teenage girl shoplifting sunglasses!! lift it, girl! lift it!

real young duran

alright, i'm getting sleepy. but i just ran across this real early shot of three of the original durans. in fact, the three original durans. umm, from left to right, we've got simon le bon, john taylor barely visible in the shady background, and the slim and brilliant nick rhodes to the far right, looking pretty nice if you ask me. then again, i have always been a 'nick girl.' its a nice shot, and makes me want to roll some early duran. good night and honest love to you all.

the who : a quick one while he's away - video

one of the who's finest live performances caught on film. and one of my favorites. keith is a killer. no wonder the rolling stones felt dejected about following their number. they were an absolute avalanche.

artful dodge

man, what can i say? this ad seems to exemplify that old saying about: '...gas, grass, or ass... noone rides for free.' i mean, it looks like we've got the 'grass' and the 'ass' covered. but in these economic times, it looks like its 'every man for himself ' where the 'gas' is concerned. as i've said numerous times; i think i picked the right time not to own a car. and hey, dig that sweet van in the back! did they really sell them 'on the lot' all tripped out like that, paint-job-wise? the girl is cute though. i love the denim. all that deelish friction... but hey, i don't wanna sound too lesbo. (mm, at least, not more 'lesbo-than-usual.') and the ad slogan... i mean, anything about putting something 'in your garage' seems to have 'sexual innuendo' written all over it. then again, i do have a dirty mind... that's been well-documented. for historical reasons though, i love the ad. you'd never see anything like it these days.

john lennon is f***ing around

yeah, anyone who's ever flirted with the idea of being a beatles fan, has probably learned that they, (particularly early in their career) were encouraged to f*** around! often it was with props... like umbrellas, fake moustaches, canes, hats, coathangers, fruit, or in this case, naked broken baby dolls. yes, before the fab four realized that they, and not their publicity machine, had the 'power,' they were often subjected to the lamest of awkward photo opportunities. this shot is a good example. it looks like an outtake from the infamous 'butchered babies' cover... which i've never seen one of. i mean, i've never seen a real one, like one that was mid-60's released-before-it-was-banned. i think its hilarious that john has obviously put his own little rectangular stoner shades on the weirdy plastic baby. man, it gets more surreal the more i think about it. like, when john was brushing his teeth that morning, did he know he was going to be posing with busted naked dolls? the world is weird.

spooky bootleg

yeah, you know i love bootlegs. (mainly where records and videos are concerned.) there used to be these great record and video conventions held in local hotels in the greensboro, high point, winston-salem area in my fond home of north carolina. jean-lucien and i would fill up our sky blue honda accord and head out with cash in hand to see what we could 'score.' and we snagged some good stuff. but ultimately, that's really not the point. the point is bootlegs. japanese, dutch, italian, you name it... some of the coolest stuff seemed to be floating around out there at all times. here's a japanese bootleg i found a picture of. i assume its the 'exorcist' soundtrack, but since i don't read japanese, who knows? it could be some release from damn 'soundgarden' or something. (i don't own any soundgarden... in fact, at the risk of seeming ignorant, i'm not sure what they sound like. metal? mmm, who cares?) anyway, i like this image, so i saved it. linda blair was really a beautiful girl. oh, if you click to enlarge, you'll see i've added my own 'translation' to the japanese script in red white and blue.

dangerous letter

ummm, i don't have a lot of ideas tonight, but since i've had 'dangerous liaisons' on semi-heavy rotation, i thought a sexy picture of john malkovich as valmont couldn't hurt. here he is writing a sly, manipulative letter on a concubine's ass. but man, he looks good doing it. i know the long hair is a wiggety-wig... john hasn't had a full head of hair since he was like, nineteen years old. but yeah, if john actually walked around looking like that, he'd be dragging girls clinging to his ankles through the new york-and-LA-streets. but not only would i need a wig and costume, but a time machine. (...mmm, story of my life.) yeah, after all these years, john-as-valmont has a place in my drastically romantic, almost-self-destructively romantic heart. he would sooo 'have me.' and its also a fun movie for me because michelle pfeiffer's character doesn't have the easiest time. which is cool, because she gets on my nerves. if you ask me, out of the three principal player's fates, i think valmont's is the easiest. in short, i think he wins 'the war.'

neil innes : frontloader - video

hey wow, so it looks like i have the ability to post videos again. (this sweet machine is so fickle.) so here's one i've wanted to post for a long time. and since thursday is my laundry day, and since i've neglected it two weeks in a row, i really need to 'no excuses' get my clothes in there, i thought i'd let the witty neil innes and his mona lisa leather jacket take us to the laundrette. groovy. (there's a bit of rwt in the beginning, the music starts at about 20 seconds, so let it roll.)

blue, but i love you

i'm a little blue and worn out tonight. but i love you all and hope to be back in form tomorrow.

kisses and hugs.

ann in leather

hey, you can't go wrong with a cool, groovy, rare-to-the-eyes shot of the firecracker that IS miss ann margret. as you can see, here she is posing in some skin-tight, fringey black leather cowgirl gear. she looks amazing, as usual. i added the colored dots in photoshop for the hell of it. man, out of all the shots i've seen of ann in my entire life; like if you added up all the pictures i've seen of her like, ever... i think there'd only be less than three 'bad ones.' i have no idea if this was for a movie or what, and i really don't care. she's just like, butterscotch-and-or-tangerine eye candy. she looks great for october. crack your whip and ride on, miss ann... you are the crucialest.

caine smokes

yeah, i haven't posted a celebrity smoker in a while. so i thought i'd post this shot of the man who gave

'cockney' class, mr. michael caine, going all 'dragon' on a big cigar, whilst his dishy cockney mate bob hoskins stands by, very successfully rivaling mr. caine's hotness. hey, if i was playing a hot game of 'who would you rather f***, then i gotta admit, for me, its a hands-down blow-out. i'll take hoskins every chance i get. yeah, you might disagree, but i've just got a wild thing for hot bob. i love this shot... it's got that kray-brothers british gangland thing going for it. and if you click to enlarge, and look closely, i think it says something about 'erotica' and 'striptease' on the wall behind them. mmmm, i think i'll take 'em both, and proclaim monday night as 'slut-night.' (mmm, what the hell am i talking about?)

mystery girl

we're all beatle fans here, right? i mean, lucynell... you love the fab four, so i'm sure you're very familiar with this. yes, its the back cover of their ...last? second-to-last? record, 'abbey road.' i have to admit, i never wondered who the chick breezing by in the blue skirt was. but i found out. reportedly, the shape belongs to none other than my darling, miss sylvie vartan, who served as the opening act for the boys when they toured europe... back before they stopped touring. apparently, they kept in touch and everything over the years. and rumor has it she was hanging around with them when the album photography was going on, and managed to jump into the frame. so yeah, it seems i 'knew sylvie,' before i knew sylvie. hey, looking at this picture puts me in the mood... to do what, you may ask? it puts me in the mood to roll 'abbey road!' the b-side to that record is amazing. (mmm, no 's' .)

hey, hey...whatever

okay, i know all of you are aware this hasn't been a great week for me, so be kind when you think about how the postings suck recently. like, i found this a while ago, and it struck me funny. i think lucy and atarieyes both know jean-lucien and myself are, and have always been, huge Monkees fans. in fact, i'd be amazed if they'd since met two people more keen on the Monkees that jean-luc and i. still... this is frickin' hilarious. as i said, i am a huge, very loyal Monkees fan, but even i have never heard of this release. and i am very unclear. yes, its 'the Micker,' all mid-eighties solo with his chart-topping hit, 'love light.' i've never heard it. and who is he kidding with his smarmy eye-contact facial expression? does he think he's sexy or something? and what's with the hand half-down the waistband of his pants? its almost like the camera 'suprise-clicked' on him just when he was about to scratch his 'goods,' and he was all like, "...oh, hey...hi there, i um..." (gulps real hard) "...i didn't know you were gonna take the picture, i was um..." (long pause) "...just about to scratch the ol'... ballsac." long awkward pause. CUT. anyway, i hope you guys can see the humor in it.

deelish-ishness

man, i'm having trouble posting videos and some other stuff. and i still feel kind of blue because of the kitty-puss. so i figured a little puss-cake would be easy on the eyes and all that. so i found this shot of some chick posing in her sexy lingerie. that shade of almost-purple pink, it seems like that exact shade went out with the 80's. i love it... that barbie-pink shade. i love the way you can see the tiny details and wrinkles in the fabric. i haven't worn something like that since the late 1980's myself. i have no idea who this chick is. i assume she was in playboy. i love her dreamy pose, and the fact that you can see the door to her front yard or whatever. real cute stuff. enjoy.

jane

for some reason, there's been a lot of james bond stuff on tv today. i guess there's a new bond movie coming out or something. i haven't really been paying attention. but i love 'bond girls' as much as the next guy. so here's a slinky windswept shot of a young jane seymour i found whilst pearldiving one night. actually, i don't think this shot was from the bond film she was in. i'm not even sure i know which one it was. i think it was the one with like, tarot and voodoo undertones, with yaphet kotto. i don't feel like looking it up right now. but i figured a little cheesecake wouldn't hurt. if you ask me, jane is sort of like, a hazelnut cheesecake. (if that makes any sense.) i know her best from the christopher reeve film 'somewhere in time.' but she looks great here, doesn't she? so dig on jane. i actually really love this photograph. i mean, even if she wasn't famous or anything, the picture is great exotic cheesecake. she's mysterious-deelish. (click to enlarge)

berg for the heck of it

hey, we can all use a little shot of humor. god knows i can this week. so i found this classic dave berg strip i haven't posted yet. it's from vintage MAD magazine, of course. and its a short joke, but one i think we can all relate to in one way or another. i love the attention to detail... like the suburban house the kid's running in front of in the first frame. i love the bitchy look on the mom's face in the second frame. and in the third frame, well, first, i love the stick-lamp living room lighting-pole thing off to the side. i'm pretty sure my house had some lights like that at one point. and the icing on the cake is the way the kid invites us in, via looking straight out of the frame to make eye-contact with the reader. and he doesn't have a caption; because he doesn't need one. the drawing says it all. i just love it. (click to enlarge)

arlena

you'll have to bear with me for the next few days. i'm giving myself a pass as far as being too 'deep' or meaningful. i just want to get my skates back on, lace them up tight, and start moving again. so here's a shot i captured and tricked myself of the lovely, leggy miss diana rigg as the doomed diva arlena marshall in the great agatha christie film 'evil under the sun.' here she is checking in to the hotel. her diva rival (maggie smith, playing the hotel proprieter) has just said, referring to mrs. marshall's vacation; "...do have a good, long, peaceful rest...arlena." mmm, the foreshadowing-of-death is palpable. i think the costume is hilarious. she's on this tropical island where its apparently supposed to be 'summer hot,' and she's in this heavy, zebra-striped get-up with a tight skirt, long sleeves, black hose, gloves, and a damn hat with glam netting on it. man, she's a 'bitch on wheels' in this movie. i love it. bitch on, arlena. well, until you get killed.

ragged

i want to start by thanking my friends for saying such nice things about milkyboots. you would've dug her, she was a very great, calm, expressive, affectionate cat. now, i have to somehow pick my chin off the ground and move on. understandably, i had no idea what to post next. (milkyboots is an impossible act to follow.)

but you've gotta put one foot in front of the other and go on. so i thought i'd post this photo jean-lucien sent me a few days ago. hey, its a duran duran 'fan scarf!' hey, i'll bet that's real silk folks, what d'ya say? born in britain, but mmmade-ity-made, made in china. (fabrique au chine) (?) i think i can say with certainty that i never had one of these jive-ass scarves. but at least it was a photo screened on there instead of a 'photo-like drawing.' (atarieyes, you know what i'm talking about.) and i'm not surprised the owner of the scarf didn't iron it first. it was probably comprised of such highly-plasticized fibers that it would melt into some kind of bastardized toxic 'pancake syrup' if it came in contact with a hot surface. they all looked pretty great in that photo shoot though. even andy. (ouch.)