supporting local (Adelaide) & Australian bands, retro acquisitions, burlesque shimmy tassle action, pop & low brow art/culture, wahines, Keith Weesner, tiki-riffic treasures, Jayne Mansfield, fishnets, art-deco architecture & design, Norman Lindsay nudes, Nallyware, pinup, rockabilly stylings, writing & reading, Mamie van Doren, making puddings, tattoos, rockin' heels, vintage men's magazines, alleys, baths, flamingos, cacti, martini glasses, kewpie dolls, cleavage, pineapples, Richard Brautigan, seeing places I've been in films, shrunken heads, scrabble, coconuts, freckles, sleeping (I could sleep for Australia), the magic pudding, Bill Henson's photography, animal print, Bettie Page, cheese (musical and edible), Leisure Suit Larry, Niagara, holidays, truffling, word play, Derek Yaniger, zombies, Violet Cooper, the Grace Emily, pink, milkshake mademoiselles, apricot delight, vino, bras, reading the birth notices each Saturday and identifying the most the appalling names, stylish bed linen, coming undone...
I'd like to meet:
You. And your record collection
Eartha Kitt
Marawa...
And the Wet Spots
Music:
Last show: Monday 16th June 2008 - Suzy's solo show - Avian theme
The Eels: I like birds/ Belle and Sebastian: I’m a cuckoo/ Violent Femmes: Flamingo Baby/ Molting Vultures: Surfin’ Bird/ North Mississippi Allstars: Eaglebird/ The Beatles: Blackbird/ Roadtrippers: Cassowary (Kurranji song)/ Laura Veirs: Nightingale/ Magnetic Fields: Chicken with its head cut off/ Blue Katz: Me and my fine feathered friends/ Nat King Cole: When my sugar walks down the street (all the little birdies go tweet-tweet-tweet)/ Bobby Day: Rockin’ Robin/ Electric Coconut: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep/ LaVern Baker: Tweedle Dee/ Bonzo Dog Band: Mr Slater’s parrot/ John Baker Duo: Riverbirds/ Rufus Thomas: The funky penguin/ Ike and Tina Turner: Shake your tailfeather/ Antony and the Johnsons: Bird gerhl/ Smog: Blood red bird/ Commie Trash: My canary has circles under his eyes/ Angie Hart: Kiwi/ Alice in Chains: Rooster/ Jose Gonzales: The nest/ Sean Kelly: Two cabs to the Toucan
Played on ThreeD Radio circa last month:
Saturday 14th June 2008
Arturo Sandoval: Mambo caliente/ Snowboy feat. James Hunter: I've got to learn the mambo/ Lucifer's Lounge: Papa loves mambo/ Ruth Brown: Mambo baby/ Billy May: Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer mambo/ Dirty Three: I remember a time when once you used to love me/ Nick Drake: Been smoking too long/ The Charioteers: Wade in the water/ Robert Johnson: If I had possession over judgement day/ Ralph Stanley: O Death/ The Triffids: Save what you can/ The Whitlams: Don't love too long/ The Blackeyed Susans: You're my thrill/ Elvis Costello: I want you/ Lead Belly: Where did you sleep last night/ CW Stoneking: Don't go dancin' down the Darktown Strutter's Ball
Monday 9th June 2008
Isaac Hayes: Theme from Shaft/ Tom Hatred & the Angry Band: From here it's hard to tell/ The Prisonaires: Just walkin' in the rain/ Don Tiki-Perry Coma's Comatose Mix: Terminal/ The Louisville Sluggers: Dolores the unstoppable/ Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Maddest kind of love/ Ella Fitzgerald: Mack the knife/ Hummingbirds: Two weeks with a good man in Niagara Falls/ The Grates: Trampoline/ Dennis Coffey: Whole lotta love/ Souzi & the Coolmints: Daddy daddy/ The Detonators: Top night out/ The Deadcats: She Devil/ Custard: Cool world/ Ruth Brown: Please don't freeze/ The Sugarcubes: Coldsweat/ Bakelite Radio: Ice/ Blind Blake: Gin & coconut water
Monday 2nd June 2008
Elvis Presley: Double trouble/ The Bristols: I'm not a bad girl/ Beck: Strange apparition/ Krista Polvere: War all the time/ She & Him: I was made for you/ Boo Radley: I hang suspended/ Barbara Feldon: 99/ Slingshot Dragster: Agent 0069/ Southern Culture on the Skids: House of bamboo/ The Vaudevillains: Devil drives a valiant/ Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers: Sock it to 'em J.B./ Green Circles: Colour me there/ Love: She comes in colours/ The Rolling Stones: She's a rainbow/ Ursula 1000: Kinda kinky/ The Stems: Undying love/ The Flairz: Rock and roll ain't evil/ The Bodgies: Therapy time/ The Hoodoo Voodoo Dolls: Too fast for you/ Reckless Haze: 12 years of hell/ The Gels: Let's go down the pub
Monday 26th May 2008
The Cruel Sea: Delivery man/ Archers of Loaf: Web in front/ Eartha Kitt: If I was a boy/ The Barbarians: Are you a boy or are you a girl/ Legless: Special place/ The Sailors: Girls that look like boys they are the shit/ Harvey Danger: Elvis, I don't love you anymore/ Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Come on over (turn me on)/ Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens: What have you done/ The Action 13: More bread to the people/ Alabama 3: Monday don't mean anything/ The 5,6,7,8's: I walk like Jayne Mansfield/ 16DD: Gimme gimme gimme/ Orson Family: Pointed bra/ GT Stringer: Boobytrap/ Icecream Hands: Nipple/ The Merrg: These little things/ Archie Roach: Cannot buy my soul
Movies:
Amphibian Man/ Love me if you dare/ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/ Pride & Prejudice/ Bond, James Bond/ Calamity Jane/ L'Apartment/ Bedazzled (both versions)/ Movin' with Nancy/ The Time Machine (original)/ Girl on the bridge/ Bettie Page: Teaserama & Varietease/...anything Jeunet/ 8 femmes/ Irma la douce/ Jason & the Argonauts/ Gone with the wind/ The girl can't help it!/ Alice (Svankmejer)/ Russ Meyer - hubba hubba!/ The Prisoner tv show - I'll be seeing you!/Who framed Roger Rabbit/ Bachelor in Paradise/ Night of the Hunter/ Down with Love/ Happy Gilmore/ Bridget Jones' Diary/ Pan's Labyrinth/ Sex Kittens go to College/ L'Ultimo Baccio/ Et Dieu... créa la femme/ Seven faces of Dr. Lao/ Some like it hot/ Gidget ..
Books:
Read them...Love them...Loathe them...Leave them...
See the books I've set free at:
BookCrossing.com
Reading in 2008
James Chapman: Licence to thrill - A cultural history of the James Bond films
Janelle McCulloch: La Vie Parisienne: Looking for Love - And the Perfect Lingerie
Jonathan Biggins: The 700 habits of highly ineffective people - and how you can avoid falling into them
Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad
Jenny Angell: Callgirl - Confessions of a double life
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
Evelyn Waugh: Vile bodies
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
Sarah Waters: Tipping the Velvet
Julian Fleetwood (ed): The SEX Mook
Edward Dolnick: Stealing the scream: The hunt for a missing masterpiece
Angela Carter (ed): Angela Carter's book of fairy tales
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
Sarah Waters: The night watch
Larry Writer: Razor - A True Story of Slashers, Gangsters, Prostitutes and Sly Grog
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Ariel Levy: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
Frank Moorhouse - Martini: A memoir
Mark Phillips - Radio City: The First 30 Years of RRR
I'm in books!
“Playing Scrabble Naked†- poem & interview
Dempster, Lisa (ed), Scrabble freaks, Vignette Press, 2007
Vignette Press
Vignette Press myspace
“Playing Scrabble Nakedâ€
Winner, Big Stick Art & Literature (The Perfect Diary), quarterly competition, May 2004
http://www.bigstick.com.au
“Super-Megaâ€
Carvan, A (ed), Noise: Words and Pictures, October 2003
“Freeway Loveâ€
Fingers and Tongues, Paroxysm Press, October 2002
Paroxysm Press
“Shrugâ€
Carvan, A (ed), Anthology, Pluto Press, October 2001
“Fluorescentâ€
Voiceworks #45: Visual Language (Winter Edition 2001), Express Media
“Pinkâ€
Voiceworks #44: Body (Autumn Edition 2001), Express Media
“Vegemite Jarâ€
Voiceworks #44: Body (Autumn Edition 2001), Express Media
Express Media: Voiceworks
Heroes:
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