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Vanessa

Nothing is more delightful than to confuse and upset people

About Me

You'll have to wait for the book...


"Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."

My Interests

1960s las vegas, 1960s mod fashion, antique furniture, cocktails, collecting old records, dada, filmmaking, paranormal, photography, steampunk, surrealism, theremin, tiki culture, turn-of-the-century spiritualism, vaudeville, victorian medical curiosities, victorian mourning customs, vintage clothing, wwii history

I'd like to meet:

Those with a dark and absurd sense of humor, swanky people, lounge lizards, boys with shexy accents, eccentrics, cynics, sideshow freaks and misanthropes.

Music:

Frank Sinatra and the rest of the Rat Pack, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Arthur Lyman, Doris Day, Serge Gainsbourg, 1940-60's music, Exotica and Lounge, Old Country, Outsider Music, Spy Music, Tango, Neofolk, Old Industrial, Martin Denny, Coil, Les Baxter, Psychic TV

Movies:

Blue Velvet, Fight Club, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cemetery Man, Heathers, Secretary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Suspiria, Shaun of the Dead, Donnie Darko, Ghostworld, Shallow Grave, Santa Sangre, Rubin and Ed, Spellbound, James Bond flicks.

Cinematic Inspirations: David Lynch, Tim Burton, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Leni Riefenstahl, Brothers Quay, Kenneth Anger, Dario Argento, Federico Felini, Alfred Hitchcock

Television:

Carnivale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, X-Files, Twin Peaks, Doctor Who, Torchwood

Books:

Lots....however, I really dig Hunter S. Thompson, Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Jim Goad, Ian Flemming and Nancy Drew Mysteries.

Heroes:

All my heroes are dead.

My Blog

Robot Mandala pictures

Uploaded pictures from the Robot Mandala show at Backwards Records Night last night. They can be found HERE and HERE....
Posted by Vanessa on Sat, 31 May 2008 12:23:00 PST

Fun Songs for the Family!

Funny record I bought @ Wax Trax last Sunday.
Posted by Vanessa on Sat, 24 May 2008 08:08:00 PST

The Phonautograph: Hear Sound Recorded in 1860

An eerie fragment of song by an anonymous vocalist: Au Clair de la Lune [mp3].Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before EdisonBy JODY ROSENPublished: March 27, 2008For more than a century, since he captur...
Posted by Vanessa on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:09:00 PST

Godspeed

RIPSir Arthur C. ClarkeDecember 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008...
Posted by Vanessa on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:04:00 PST

RIP Vampira

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Posted by Vanessa on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:59:00 PST

All I want for Christmas is a Bulldog


Posted by Vanessa on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:59:00 PST

A Thanksgiving Prayer


Posted by Vanessa on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:54:00 PST

Marlene Dietrich - Falling in Love Again

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Posted by Vanessa on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:21:00 PST

Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg’s Bonnie & Clyde

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Posted by Vanessa on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:14:00 PST

Sweeney Todd trailer

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Posted by Vanessa on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:00:00 PST