Happy Birthday Tom Waits

Happy 62nd Birthday to Mr Waits! The king of the gravely voice, dirty guitar and scary spoken word combo. A man made to be captured in black and white.

All photos from here

It was hard to pick a song to post here, but I thought I would just go with a popular classic...

Natalie Wood & Ken Done

 I have been a fan of both Mr Done and Ms Wood for some time. Done for being an icon of kitch Australian 80's awesomeness. I admire his unrelenting push for Australian iconography in art/ commercial art and design. His bold use of colour and relaxed painting technique sum up my home town for me. So much so that when I was on the search for a new pair of togs last summer and found my self unable to find a print that appealed, I jumped on my bike and gunned it down to his shop in the Rocks and bought myself his Coral Reef one piece.


So you can imagine my delight when I saw that Natalie Wood had joined forces with Ken for the SS12 collection for her label Something Else. I love Woods interesting cuts and have admired her choice of prints in the past so I couldn't resist donning this Done (or that pun.)

I would also LOVE to get this combo, but it may be a bit over the top for my wallet...

Riikka Sormunen

Absolutely obsessed with these works by Finnish  illustrator Riikka Sormunen. Would LOVE one on my wall.....Santa?

sourced via Miss Moss

Stevie Nicks

I have a slight obsession with old Stevie, or as one house mate once put it "Nicki, I think Stevie Nicks is your power animal". Yes she is. If only I could belt out a tune like she can....sigh.  I do make up for my lack of singing ability with my enthusiastic kitchen (/any where) dancing to the Mac. Rock on  Nicks!

 This is a great little candid clip of Stevie singing along to an early version of Wild Heart. Its so natural and you can really feel what she is singing. Plus she has sweet feathers in her hair!

Manning Cartell swimmers featured in Cosmo

I meant to put this up a few weeks ago but check out the smoking hot babe in  Cosmopolitan Magazine wearing Manning Cartell togs that I did the print for while at Karolina!

Sunday Cover Time

The reason this cover is so awesome is right at the end....keep listening.

Cover Time - Cat Power doing Wonder Wall

Reasons why I love Cat Power:
- she can sing REAL good
- she can song write REAL good
- she loves doing covers and does them REAL good
- she adores Bob Dylan
- WAS an alcoholic
- her real name (Chan Marshall) is as good has her 'artist' name
- was a muse for Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
- is generally just a babe
- is The Greatest.

Imaginary America Trip

  I want to jump on this horse

and ride here....

and here.

Listening to this...

Dudes With Moves

Dance of the Week

Sam  Rockwell as Eric Knox in Charlie's Angles doing a bad ass villain groove

Tuesday Cover Time

Patti Smith covering Nirvana, covers dont get much more rockin' or awesome.  Her little 'Patti Smith' spoken word mark on it is perfect.  I love that she once told Debbie Harry to "get the fuck out of rock n' roll". She is the quintessential rock n' roll goddess.

 

I cant help but post one more Smith song, this is one of my absolute favourites...

why must we pray screaming?