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DANIEL KAY

There is a sort of melancholia which I find quite elegant after the 'bimbo years'.” -Karl Lagerfel

About Me

World weary guy who loves to wash dishes and who is distressed by the demise of Hollywood and its star system.

My Interests

Mustard, Jews, revolving doors, USA

The DrudgeReport

Jabberwocky, caustic ventriloquist dummy acts, CAMILLE PAGLIA, silk-stocking crowds ($$$), spider monkeys

Lady Elaine Fairchild, Laura Ingraham, Martha Stewart, vicious chihuahuas

Anna Magnani's laughter

Isabelle Huppert

Dubuffet

Mae West

chocolate, carrot juice, Otto Dix, Soutine, Avedon

scrapbooks, Stephane Audran

organizing closets, Joan Rivers, Anne Coulter, knickerknocking, kukicha tea, dyed ostrich feathers, MUTE CHILDREN, assisted suicide, water balloons, Nancy Walker, Totie Fields, Pat Buckley, vintage stores, Snagglepuss, Perry King, Gene Tierney, Bette Davis, rare meat (bleu), scarves, colorful argyle socks

I'd like to meet:

Men who laugh like Mutley

capitalist cuties, feeble/languid tarts, FuManchu Lesbians, gap-toothed gents, wizened hysterics, drag queens with webbed feet, body dysmorphic twins, the obese drunken pill-popping Liz Taylor, Swiss Miss, melancholy mamas, Raquel Welch

Music:



Grace Jones

Haysi Fantayzee

Mary J. Blige, Joy Division, Dolly Parton

Hank Williams Sr., Ella Fitzgerald, Sammi Smith, Klaus Nomi

Kylie Minogue, Dead or Alive

Serge Gainsbourg

Juliette Greco

Marilyn, Malcolm McClaren, Kay Starr, Dinah Washington, Maria Callas, classic David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, X, The Cramps, Bow Wow Wow, Cole Porter, Chet Baker, Josephine Baker, Miles Davis, Artie Shaw, Nico, The Velvet Underground, Erasure, The Rolling Stones

PIL, Jeanne Moreau, Robbie Williams, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stephen Tin Tin Duffy, Altered Images, New Order, Edith Piaf, T. Rex, Joey Heatherton, classic Cher, Sylvester, Sergio Mendes, the B-52s, Xavier Cugat, Charo, Paris Combo, Najma, Lou Reed, Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, Sisters of Mercy, Devo, Lena Horne, Elvis Presley, Billie Holiday, George Brassens, Liz Phair, Diana Ross, Tina Turner,

Lene Lovich, Cat Stevens, Sly and the Family Stone, Amy Winehouse, Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Foetus, Lene Lovich, The Slits, Adam and the Ants, Visage

Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures

Eartha Kitt, Shriekback, Trio, Jimi Hendrix, Strawberry Switchblade, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Blancmange, Sex Pistols, Boy George, Julie London, Brigitte Bardot, PJ Harvey, Minnie Riperton, Daniele Silvestri, Marianne Faithfull, Boy George, Erik Satie, Kissing The Pink, Loretta Lynn, Dalida, Wide Boy Awake, Johnny Cash, Madonna, Peggy Lee, Echo and the Bunnymen, Sergio Mendes, George Michael, Heaven 17, Trio, Fischerspooner

Movies:

Les Biches / Merci Pour Le Chocolat / Mata Hari / Killing of Sister George / The Anniversary (Bette Davis) / Madamoiselle / The Bride Wore Black / La Rupture / The Piano Teacher / Madame Bovary (Chabrol) / Betty Blue / Suddenly Last Summer / Myra Breckenridge / Tatie Danielle / Darling / Cleopatra / X Y Zee / Interiors / Camille / Belle de Jour / Devil Is A Woman / Swept Away (Wertmuller) / Heavenly Creatures / Marnie / Happiness / Stella Dallas / The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield / Boom / Grey Gardens / Auntie Mame / Spellbound (Hitchcock) / 400 Blows / Persona / Scarlet Empress / Desire / Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Gary Cooper) / The Birds / Bread and Tulips / Women in Revolt / Secret Ceremony / Ash Wednesday / Whatever Happened to Baby Jane / Humoresque / Beyond the Forest / The Star / All About Eve / All About My Mother / The Owl and the Pussycat / Female Trouble / Desperate Living / Murmur of the Heart / Marlene / Berserk / Morocco /Imitation of Life (Lana Turner & Claudette Colbert versions) / Queen Bee / Rear Window / Frances / Harriet Craig / Queen Margot / Craig's Wife / The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Ma Vie En Rose / Amelie / Baxter / Leave Her To Heaven / Laura / Strait-Jacket / The Damned Don't Cry / Abigail's Party / Naked / Nuts In May / Educating Rita / Wish You Were Here/ Personal Services / What Ever Happened To Aunt Alice / La Ceremonie / Innocents With Dirty Hands / School of Flesh / The Unfaithful Wife / Career Girls / Private Benjamin / Bad Education / Night of the Hunter / See the Sea / Rise and Fall of Susan Lenox / Outrageous Fortune / L'Enfer / Ladies In Lavender/ Boys In The Band/ Friends With Money / Funny Games / Time To Leave / Cries and Whispers / The Passion of The Christ / Apocalypto / La Vie En Rose / FARHENHYPE 911

Television:

Anytime Diane Von Furstenburg is on QVC, The Paul Lynde Show, Rhoda, Sanford and Son, Sonny and Cher Show, Absolutely Fabulous, Mary Tyler Moore, Bewitched, I Love Lucy, Shields and Yarnell, The Muppet Show, Melrose Place, Maude, Mothers InLaw, Martha, Nighty Night, Cracker (BBC), Fox News, Footballers' Wives, The Comeback, Ali G, ROME, The O'Reilly Factor, McLaughlin Group, Chef!

Books:

Myra Breckenridge / Madame Bovary / Wuthering Heights / Joan Crawford's My Way of Life / Frank O'hara's Lunch Poems / Vamps and Tramps / Kalki / Martin Eden / Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady / DV / Marlene Dietrich's ABC / Against The Grain / Howard's End / Linda Goodman's Love Signs /Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections / The Group / Naked Civil Servant / Alice In Wonderland / Franny and Zoey / The Painted Word / The Cat / Sexual Personae / Shock Value / My Face For The World To See / Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye / With Charity Toward None / Lump It Or Leave It / Hollywood Babylon / Rebecca / Auntie Mame / Palimpsest / Sex, Art and American Culture / Memories of a Catholic Girlhood / Confederacy of Dunces / The Memoirs of Mason Reese / Philosophy of Andy Warhol / Jerry Hall's Tall Tales / Conversations With Capote

Heroes:

                    

                    "Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade. "-Noel Coward

My Blog

PRIVATE LIFE

Lyrics are by Chrissie Hynde, but AMAZING version sung by GRACE JONES! Download it now! Private life, drama baby leave me out.Private life, drama baby leave me out.Private life, drama baby leave me ...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:13:00 PST

"...Any dames that truly matter will brain the roaring lion with the nappy lamb's paw."

Articles by some of my favorite ladies:Camille PagliaFlorence King...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:19:00 PST

I AM THE WALRUS

What the bloody hell is McCartney's face doing all over Starbucks' windows throughout the country? Please refrain from plastering your mottled visage on your cds/advertisements! You, soon-to-be septua...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:28:00 PST

Joan vs Brigitte

Christ! So damned funny! Hail! Hail! The Mighty Joan Rivers! ...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:38:00 PST

Buckley & King

"The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic." -...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:07:00 PST

Friends.

Even though we are friends, I probably disagree with you a whole lot. I don't always spout my politics. I don't always divulge my feelings. Should I? Will you dislike me for thinking the perky blond o...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Thu, 31 May 2007 09:42:00 PST

Charles Nelson Reilly

Charles Nelson Reilly has died. The gay aesthetes are disappearing one by one. What will happen when the world has rid itself of Karl Lagerfeld and... the list is so small now I cannot even conjure up...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Mon, 28 May 2007 01:54:00 PST

Carpenter

The desecration of Catholic imagery!I am so bloody sick of the lack of respect given toCatholicism. If I see another piece of art depictingChrist as a piece of chocolate, or someone using thename of J...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Mon, 28 May 2007 11:37:00 PST

TWEETY LOHAN

SEPARATED AT BIRTH...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:19:00 PST

Strollers!

STROLLERS! If I were Commander In Chief I would outlaw thisblockage in the streets. Mothers use their children asweapons of retaliation against those of us who choosenot to spawn. I feel their resentm...
Posted by DANIEL KAY on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:58:00 PST