Icon-Tura Satana

Tura Satana kickin' ass in Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Satana's father was a silent movie actor of Japanese and Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of American Indian (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background. After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, she and her family moved to the Westside of Chicago. She developed breasts very early and, despite being an excellent student, was constantly harassed for her figure and Asian heritage. Walking home from school at the age of nine she was gang raped by five men. Her attackers were never prosecuted and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off. [1] This prompted her to learn the martial arts of aikido and karate and, over the next 15 years, track down each rapist and enact revenge. "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them." Fierce.


To prove this lady's the real deal, in 2007, she's still kickin' ass.

Epic Leather

I gotta kiss it goodbye. This leather baby's off to a country beloved to me, sweet sweet Japan. I love you Japan. I do. Everyday more and more. sniff, sniff. Makes me misty.



I can just picture it now, a mini motorcycle mistress cruising in Langlitz Leathers duds down the streets of Tokyo. I wish I wish I wish.



I really hope to be able to use this money to go back to Japan this summer. Fingers crossed on the economy! Until then I'll hunker down and watch stupid youtube vids until everything settles down.

House of Vintage Blog Launch

I've mentioned House of Vintage many times before. It's the place where I hawk my vintage finds. I absolutely adore being one of the 55 vendors who sell there. It's a great hobby that fosters community and provides a few extra bucks on the side.



The only tinsy tiny drawback was the lack on presence online. A few weeks ago I asked the owner if I could start something up to get us more visability. After a few meetings and many hours, houseofvintage.net is finally up and running.

If I'm not plugging away on wetbones, I'll be at HOV spilling my heart out. If you want a peek into the most insane vintage store you've ever been to, srsly...pay us a visit.

Seckington+Danny=Sedan

OMGWTF. I'm so freakin' excited. Sedan is playing in Portland tomorrow night at Dante's Inferno. These fellas were in other killer bands. Danny's a crazy good drummer and played in Enemymine, Jackie O. Motherfucker, LLP, Mocket and Mirah. Scott's in two of my other favorite bands ever, Two Ton Boa and Verticleville.

These guys are so super rad. And I love them much so much. I've included Sedan in every mix tape or playlist I've made in the past 4 years or so--including my friend Sophia's birthing mix tape (yeah, I still make mix tapes).

Hardcore XXX Thrift-score

I'm a thrift junky and will never go to a store without fully pillaging its racks. And I'm soooo glad I stayed at Goodwill after I found my project leggings.

I found the most killer Jil Sander backless dress for $9.99 (!!!)(--plus my 10% Goodwill discount, of course.)



I'm not a part of the typical Jil Sander demographic, it's true. I mean I'm a young lady, but I have a penchant for the matronly. I've been really into the angles of bandage dresses. This is a deadly hot open back dress and it fits like a glove.

Today's just the day to prove I've really got a thing for old lady gear. Here's an Andrea Jovine purple wool coat that's tailored so perfectly. It'll look rad with new dress or just with t-shirt, scarf and leggings.

+---Holy Leggings ---+Wang Style

Today while I was browsing my obsessions, I found a pic of Alexander Wang's Fall 2009 collection with the cut-out legging pants I love so. I tried to duplicate these before and got a little cut crazy. I took a tip from Wang and just sliced 4-5 good ones up the slides.



At to the Goodwill by my house on the soul mission to get some black leggings. For $2.99 I found some heavy duty Danskins (which are the best cuz their really for dancers).

Here's how I did it.
Danskins are great, no bunching, no super tight pinchy elastic and durable. These are a little big, but hey, they're comfy.

I cut a piece of cardboard in a wedge shape with my razor switchblade (also very handy for haricuts)

I shoved the cardboard wedge in the leg hole sideways, not front-on because I wanted to cut the sides only. (Note: cutting around the knee area of knit/elastic fabric creates big gaping holes your knees pop through. I suggest avoiding the knee area)

Cut holes in any pattern. I tried to follow 4 basic slashes down the side.

Here's the end result.

Dawn of the Living Dead + 8===D

There's no doubt, I'm a huge zombie movie fan. I'm obsessed. In extended conversation, I'll most likely bring up zombies once--maybe twice, more likely five times. Somehow everything seems related to the living dead. But perhaps it's my lingering punk rock/goth ethic that makes me really think about the morbidity of it all.

Jules and Darrin started a new project to come out later next month on imputor? records whose namesake recalls a part of the human body, 8===D. The boys expressed interest in remaking/deconstructing 70's and 80's zombie scores with heavy, heavy scary stuff. Like these delayed and tripped out zombie voices from Dawn of the Dead.

And this classic Italian remake of the of the movie by director Dario Argento and the score by Goblin.

Rad! I want to help. I think they need a little (.)(.) with their 8===D

Health Club Music

First of all, I love the name of Kaori and Travis' handmade synth instrument company "Health Club Music". I feel healthier listening to the blips, blops and yummy distortion coming from their synths. I had the pleasure of having dinner with these two circuit board geniuses a few nights ago. My fella, has a few of their synths and I just adore how each custom piece is hand labeled and spray painted. Aesthetically, they are little pieces of craft technology gold.


I love this theramin made from a toy doctor's case.


Kaori and Travis sell these one of kind instruments through their website and have premade custom pieces for sale on ebay.

Hawking Leather

I've finally posted the Langlitz Leather Columbia motorcycle jacket on ebay.

Let's see how it turns out.

Mix Tape in Spanish

A Spanish language magazine, Tendencias, apparently the "Nylon magazine of Spain" published a story about the mix tape article I wrote for Found Magazine. Here's the article, "Nostalgia of Young Love" is about all I can translate.

My tape is the blue one on the bottom left corner with the "1111111111 <3". It was made for me by my ex-boyfriend a bazillion years ago but it's still really sweet to listen to. And you can listen too!