that is a beautiful cape

This velvet capelet was £1 from Chiswick car boot. It probably needs a steam and my outfit was a bit shit but £1, wow, yeah, impressive huh? #humblebrag

I've been wearing stars a lot lately. I actually had a full on mink velour party dress and sparkly reindeer antlers planned for the night but with various effing and geffing the night got downgraded and I didn't feel that a party dress was appropriate. I managed to cobble together this as a back-up outfit. Pretty similar to the one I wore out last week, woops. 

star print top, pleather bottoms, scary lipstick shade, draggy false eyelashes - check, check, check, check.

In other accessorising news, last night I used an old clutch bag of my grandmas and bearing in mind that we went on a Christmas night out to a 1980s theme night I though it was pretty spooky to find these inside...

We partied like it was 1988.

whatever makes her happy, on a saturday night

Alriiiight, last night I went to see Suede perform their album 'Coming Up' (+ mammoth encore) at Brixton Academy. Before you judge me for going to see their most mainstream album, I did have tickets to all three nights but couldn't find anyone to go with so sold them, ha. Yes it was a shame that this album was sans Butler, but last nights gig wasn't so winwinwinwin. Now Suede are not my usual music tastes in so much as I guess they are Britpop/Indie, but aside from them and The Smiths (you can draw a direct link from The Smiths to Suede - poignant, gloomy lyrics, indeterminate sexuality... iconic hair...) I am not a fan of 'indie', which is a bullshit meaningless term now anyway but you get me bruv? I obviously like the thowmping electric-ness of Suede, but also, like The Smiths, they have some great lyrics. I thought the impressive and I'm so glad to have finally seen a band I've loved since I was too young to know what the song 'Animal Nitrate' was about. I watched the Butler/Anderson reincarnate band The Tears at Reading festival in 2005 and was touched by how lovely the fans were and what a great atmosphere there was in the tent, so it spurred me on even more to see Suede. They played the entire album last night but also played a juicy encore of besties from other albums and releases so you got more bang for your buck. This is by no means their best song and I could be here all night trying to play favourites, but for some reason this one really stood out for me from last nights set :



This is obvv not footage from last night, that would shit because a) it would be shit quality and b) I think its shit when people go to gigs and spend the entire time trying to film and photograph it on their camera phones, just enjoy it man, live in the now. I remember seeing a picture of Pink in concert and the whole crowd looked like they were trying to film it, it made me feel a bit sick.

Theeeeen today I went to New Cross to celebrate my sisters 21st birthday with the fam (minus Gregg but plus Furr). We went to the amaaazing New Cross House and ate so much food and it was great, I had such a nice time and hope everyone else did too.









I look like a crim with my hair up like this, but note the reduction in ridiculousness when we are sat down together, and I wanted to give this dogtooth check and with velour collar, jacket a mention as it was £3 from Sue Ryder charity shop in Woodley, it is 90s Miss Selfridge so a bit boxy, although, interestingly, winter just gone they had a more modern silhouette reworking of this jacket in there, must have revisited the archives. Wore it with a pleather mini skirt (copied from Amy, Asda bargains) so the overall look was hopefully less horsey.

yes please

House of Holland star print flares. Picture by Pamela Hanson for Glamour

second hand things for six pounds

star print and silver buckles





star print dress was £6 from a charity shop a few months back. The boots were £6 from Chiswick carboot yesterday. I bought a few gems from there but I think the nicest way to show them off will be when I actually wear them. The mirror I used to take the clevage/dirty clothes basket picture was also £6 from a charity shop, bit of fun trivia for you there.

under a red hot moon

BBC4 have been doing a great series of music docs and re-showing old shows like The Old Grey Whistle Test. Well done, BBC4. Particular highlights have been Flight 666, the Iron Maiden documentary (am now a little bit in love with their drummer, Nicko McBrain) 'Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation' (Elle's a big fan but I didn't know much about them before watching it, very informative) and 'Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop' - which my boyfriend in particular was hooked on... bit suprised by that but don't blame him, it was compelling.

Now I really want a crescent moon Stevie Nicks necklace. I loved how she was always wearing it in the old footage and then they went to her nowadays and she was still wearing it, raaaad. Oh and the triangle pendant too, agh so good.

suck me beautiful

Now that I don't have to dash home to Reading every Friday night (nothing wrong with the 'ding, but waiting at Paddington station for an hour or cramped on a slow train for over an hour is a bit of a buzz kill after a working week) I like the idea of watching a film and eating treats so tonight it was....'Suck' and Baklava.

As mentioned in a previous post it is something I've wanted to watch and it was only a fiver so its ended up in my life. I actually enjoyed it. On first watching, or to the untrained eye it might look like a pile of wank but when you notice the clever camera use and the effective stop motion animation, plus the fact that they managed to get Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop (forgetting the insurance adverts, not very Godfather of Punk...), Henry Rollins, Moby and Malcom McDowell you realise that something pretty good is going on here. Rob Stefaniuk wrote, directed and acted in the film, as well as writing and performing all of the fictional band 'The Winners' songs - and they're not bad.

As with 'Scott Pilgrim' here is a bullet point list of the films high points (in my opinion):

• 
  Iggy Pop - he is my current crush and obsession thanks to reading a lot of Nick Kent who was a friend, fan and life saver of Iggy's in the 70s - more on this subject in another post with some great pics. Also Iggy's star print shirt in the film is rad, will be ebay hunting one out.
• Someone dies in a burst of flames after being stabbed through the heart with a flying 'V' guitar. Excellent.
• They have cleverly used old footage of Malcom McDowell from films he did in his youth to use in a flashback sequence; this is another great example of how the film is subtely smarter than you think it will be.
• The Hugo character, played by Chris Ratz is amusing. At first you think he's going to be an ineffective caricature but noooo.
• The classic vampire slayer role of Van Helsing is reprised as Eddie Van Helsing. I love a pun.
• The female lead character is kind of a babe and she has some good make-up and clothes looks, namely the black glitter eyes, and the leopard print floppy hat and mac combo.
• Henry Rollins, who is a joy to listen to anyway, is very convincing as an irritating radio DJ.
• Dimitri Coates of the band Burning Brides plays one of the head vampires Queeny and he looks fucking cool. He lip synchs to some of his bands songs in the film and it works brilliantly and the songs aren't bad. 

 


So 'Suck' did not suck.











I also bought 'Boogie Nights' at the same time, which I'm sure people who know me and my 'no boobs, no nudity' film policy will be suprised by, but I saw it a few years back and loved it, so expect a boring, rambling blog on that soon!
Oh Iggy's Swiftcover ad where he's in bed with his doppleganger puppet has just been on... oh dear...