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Betty Bombshell

We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we, honey?

About Me


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Where Highbrow meets Lowbrow....
Hakol Beseder B'Eli Haseder.....

"Ring the bells that still can ring/ Forget your perfect offering/ There is a crack in everything/ That's how the light gets in....." ..

My Interests

Further blog can be found at The Honey Void .Music, Literature/Prose, Animals/Pets, Fashion (present and past), Travel, Art, Film, Skateboarding, Spoken Word/Performance Art, History, Society, People, Etiquette, Feminism, Philosophy.

I'd like to meet:


Storytellers who would like to weave their stories for me and some sweaters.... Maybe some sweaters woven with stories. Yessah!
And this type of thing with my name on it soon-----

My Photography and some snaps-----

Music:

In no particular order: The Duke Spirit, The Runaways, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Verve, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Julie London, Benny Goodman, The Andrews Sisters, Paul Whiteman, Jeanette MacDonald, The Swans, Ella Fitzgerald, Chava Alberstein, Theo Bikel, Gershwin, Jospehine Baker, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull, Jobriath, Klaus Nomi, Roxy Music, Bel Biv Devoe, Lena Horne, MC5, Modern Lovers and Jonathan Richman, Otis Redding, Patti Smith, Duke Ellington, Echo and the Bunnymen, Maria Callas, Howard Devoto, Elastica, Tochnit Aleph ..

Swans, Princess Superstar, Melt Banana, Deerhoof, Guitar Wolf, Mainline, Aube, Hafler Trio/Cabaret Voltaire, Keiji Haino, CCCC, Kool Keith, The Roots, Musiq, Erykah Badu, Marvin Gaye, Angie Stone, Aaliyah, Outkast, Madonna, Queen Adreena/Daisy Chainsaw, New Order, Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle, Big Black, Bikini Kill, The Smiths, Coil, Foehn, Machine Gun TV, Minit, Holy Hail, Xerox Teens, Khan, Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Sleater Kinney, Mudhoney, Terre Thaemlitz, Foetus, X and Ms Cervenka, Lydia Lunch---

, Henry Rollins, Tocotronic, Suede, Pulp, Julie London, Helmet, Kyuss, Zoviet France-----

, Voice Crack, Kylie and Danni Minogue, Serge Gainsbourg, Bobby Conn, Robbie Williams, Public Enemy, Y-Ton, Temple of the Dog, Microstoria, Violent Onsen Geisha, Soundgarden, Rudolph E.Ber (Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock), Killout Trash, The Vaselines, stuff with Christina Martinez in it..innit?!, Jeff Buckley, Old Obscure Hamburg Experimental and Punk Music, Wire-----

, Saul Williams, Television, The Style Council, Death from Above 1979, Suicide, The Stooges and Iggy Pop, The Dead Boys, Flipper, GG Allin, Scarling, The Slits, The Raincoats, Cat Power, Blumfeld, The Verve, Chava Alberstein, Tanja Ries, Medicine, Lush, Ocean Colour Scene, Cast, Xavier Naidoo, Echt, Praxis stuff, Hole, TBC, Diamanda Gallas, Silver Bullet, various Brit Hardcore Rap from the early 90-s. Lotte Lenya----------

Movies:

I love silent films-Clara Bow, Louise Brooks-----
, Douglas Fairbanks. Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Conradt Veidt, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Norma Schearer, William Powell,The Korda Brothers, The Strange Lives of Martha Ivers with Barbara Stanwyk, The Gish Sisters,Carl T. Dreyer especially Joan of Arc-------
, Gloria Swanson, Expressionist and experimental stuff. Fairbanks in The Mystery of Leaping Fish. Movies from the 30s with Constance Bennett-----
, Carole Lombard, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence Olivier, Leslie Howard.... Of Human Bondage, Dark Journey, Waterloo Bridge, I Like some Fassbinder especially The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Goddard, Herzog, Polanski, Georg Wilhem Pabst, Josef von Sternberg, Alex Cox, Maya Dorin, Mike Leigh (Naked, Secrets and Lies..etc), Shinja Tsukamoto, Almost Everything in the Tartan Asia Extreme Series (no, its not porn---its horror) including Koma----
, Snake in June, Tetsuo 1 and 2, Abnormal Beauty, etc... Kurosawa, Alain Resnais especially Hiroshima, Mon Amour, The Night Porter, Shallow Grave, Ingmar Bergman, John Waters, Theatre of Transgression stuff. The Weather Underground, Malfunkshun: the Andrew Wood Story, 24 Hour Party People, Me without You------
The Suicide Club.... No Anime! Yuck! Russian Reconstructivist Silents...

Television:

Documentaries......PBS. Arte. BBC4. Little Britain. Deutsche Welle. Wow. Don't I sound like a real laugh?! ;) Wonder Showzen..hands down!

Books:

Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, Collected Poems of TS Eliot, Klaus Kinski's Ich bin so Wild nach deinem Erdbeermund-----
various Alan Ginsburg, Antoine de Saint Exupery: Wind, Sand, and Stars, various John Keats, bell hook's Feminism is For Everybody, Collected Poems of Byron...Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Der Wetterfleck by Thomas Bernhard, Homo Faber by Max Frisch, various Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, some Evelyn Waugh, James Joyce's Portrait...., Darius muthafucking James!
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Tristesse Royale by Joachim Bessing, Faserland and 1979 by Christian Kracht, No Logo by Naomi Klein, Foucault, Sartre: Der Ekel etc., Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, Henry Miller--especially Letters to Hiroji Tokuda Miller, Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Lunar Baedecker by Mina Loy, Gold by Sybille Berg-----
Fugitive Days by Bill Ayers, Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Anarchy and other Essays by Emma Goldman, London Fields by Martin Amis, Evelyn Waugh, Please Kill Me: Legs Mc Neill and Gillian Mc Cain, Tucholsky, Die Wilden Jahre by Birgit Haustedt, various books regarding history/womens history in Berlin (especially the 20s) G.L.A.M. by Elke Naters, DH Lawrence: Women in Love, Steppenwolf: Hesse, Boell, The Event and Its Terrors: Stuart Mc Lean, various Voltaire, The Fear Culture, not a book but Datacide----
Stuff by Howard Slater-http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/slaterbio. html, Stewart Home, Sylvia Plath various..., Ted Hughes various poems, Arundhati Roy, Cafe Europe: Waking up from Communism, Noel Coward: A Design for Living. Wlm Blake, Rosetti, SHelley, Byron, Baudelaire, Bleed (aka Totem of the Depraved) by Nick Zedd, Photography by Cindy Dall (also, not a book but Im too lazy make another box for it..), Bertrand Russell (His essays especially those on Religion and Biography).

Heroes:

My Gran.