Robbery on the Strand

I totally lifted this from from Bleach Black. Gonna rock it with different lace colors. Just wait.

Dig the new layout...

Icon-Aretha Franklin

Really feeling the divas today. Just found this hat at House of Vintage today. I mean, the bow kills it but the ivory number is pretty fierce, too.

Icon-Cookie Mueller

Crazy inspired today and in a nostalgic whirlwind for John Waters' Dreamland Girls. I like 'em tough, and I like 'em real. Cookie was so goddamn hot and real. She was also a writer for Details and wrote a book called "Ask Dr. Mueller". She was one of Nan Goldin's close friends/photo subjects. Cookie was an AIDS activist in the 80's, who passed away due complications of AIDS in 1989.

Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free. -Cookie Mueller

I can't stand it, I love her so much.

Icon-Divine

Speaking of makeup: Divine and John Waters/Van Smith aesthetic is the soul reason I'm obsessed with makeup today. If it wasn't for them I'd still be in makeup diapers, in a crib, eating eggs with Edith Massey.


Divine here with another style icon, Cookie Meuller (right) in Female Trouble.

Eat Your Makeup

Yeah, I have a little makeup issue. A hording thing, I don't know. Call it whatever. All I know is I'm packing enough junk in this case to afford a Yugo or a trip to Spain. Minorly twisted for sure.

It turns out I wasn't quite prepared to do a photo shoot with a male model for the cover of the Portland Mercury's Sex Issue. Off I went to figure out how to make a man hot and radiant. I found 4 products I'm very stoked on (and only 1 of them MAC, crazy!)

1. Make Up Forever's Concealer Pallete for mixing and matching for different skin tones. I so didn't have products for darker skin tones.


2. MAC Skinfinish Natural in Medium Deep for contouring all shades. The counterperson told me this product is the most popular with male clients. Had to snatch it up. p.s. I've used it everyday since and I'm at least 2 shades lighter. Looks great on cheeks!


3. Bare Essentials Bare Mineral Starter Kit. Okay, I usually never go this direction. Light, airy, healthy. I'm usually a spackle and paste kind of gal coming out of the "accentuate the negative" John Water's school of makeup. But, hey they want me to make the models look healthy and radiant instead of skeezy. Can do. It turns out I love this shit:


4. Johnson & Johnson Baby Oil. This must be a photographer's secret because he whipped out a bottle of the stuff and was like, "Rub 'em down". And sure 'nough I was elbow deep slathering the models in baby oil, head to toe. Needless to say, I felt a special connection with both models after we were done with the session. They looked fabulous.

Icon- Cosey Fanni Tutti

Artist, non/musician, and sex worker Cosey Fanni Tutti (from Mozart's opera Cosey fann tutti= Women are like that). Cosey most famously played in Throbbing Gristle. But I'm really into the work she did as a sex/worker/artist for Prostitution exhibition.

Chris and Cosey "October Love Song"


People have their wieners in a twist about the Kanye/Chairlift pixel melting debacle. Cosey ruled the video tape-scape, dudes. Get over it.

I <3 <3 <3 This

Dear bleedingheartvintage,

Hello.
Thank you for sending your messages and telling me the tracking number and your blog address!
I can read your blog!
I am interested in your articles.
They are interesting.
I am interested in fashion and vintage.
And, I can also study English by reading your blog.
After I receive the Langlitz jacket. I'll send you my picture in Langlitz jacket.
I'm looking forward to that.
Thank you.


I love this with all my heart! I'm so excited to get pictures of the new owner in that amazing leather jacket.--wetbones

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.