hobbies = Art Deco - the style, the fashion, the era *~ 1930s films *~ swing dancing *~ WWII/1940s events *~ Surrealist art + photography *~ New Wave/electro music + concerts
Check out photos from the 2005 Art Deco vintage fashion show I produced. First half. Second half.
flappers, swells, dandies, vamps, sheiks, dilettantes, crooners, hoofers, sirens, sophisticates, New Romantics. Generally, people interested in the ART DECO ERA and/or NEW WAVE/electro music (I know, I know...that seems rather disparate).
1920s-40s jazz, swing
Check out RADIO LULU !
VIEW VIDEOS OF THE FABULOUS CAB CALLOWAY *HERE*
PALAST ORCHESTER and Max Raabe
VIEW VIDEOS BY THE PALAST ORCHESTER *HERE*
New Wave/synth/electro (mostly)
The Human League * ABC * Duran Duran/Arcadia (most beautiful pop album ever = So Red the Rose) * Culture Club/Boy George * Depeche Mode * Eurythmics/Annie Lennox * Gary Numan * Covenant * And One * Japan/David Sylvian * John Foxx * Absurd Minds * Kraftwerk * Joy Electric * Devo * Starbase 109 * Erasure * New Order * The Smiths/Morrissey * Gene Loves Jezebel * Dead or Alive * Yaz * Art of Noise * Ute Lemper * Siouxsie and the Banshees * Blancmange * The Police/Sting * Blondie * The Pet Shop Boys * The Cure * VNV Nation * Wolfsheim * the rorschach garden * dAdA YakUza * Melotron * The Junior Boys * The Pleased + loads of others (see my music-friends section @ right). Also *Barry Manilow* (he's so romantic!). Also *The Monkees*. Also like rockabilly - Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, Bill Haley.
You can visit me on LastFM: http://www.last.fm/user/decophile/
See REGENERATION TOUR DATES - Human League, ABC, Flock of Seagulls, Belinda Carlisle, others!
LINK TO REGENERATION TOUR DATES IN THE US
This is ABC's new album, "Traffic"!
Here's a stunning Human League video, "All I Ever Wanted."
Here's some some *hilarious* renderings of the Human League by a graphic artist named Stig Olsen.
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Remains of the Day,
Dark Blue World,
Life is Beautiful,
Moulin Rouge,
Metropolis,
Casablanca,
Gilda,
Judgment at Nuremberg,
Stormy Weather (and anything with the Nicholas Brothers),
Queen Christina,
Dinner at Eight,
Grand Hotel,
Vogues of 1938,
Gold Diggers of 1933,
42nd Street (okay, anything by Busby Berkeley), The Gay Divorcee, Swing Time, Top Hat, Broadway Melody of 1938 & 1940 (love Eleanor Powell),
The Women (1939), The Awful Truth, Algiers,
Now Voyager, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story,
Lord of the Rings, I Robot, Gattaca, Ridicule,
Victor Victoria, Clue, Rocky Horror (all the bits with Tim Curry!),
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MOVIE STARS: Joan Crawford (formidable), Greta Garbo (ethereal), Hedy Lamarr (luminous), Jean Harlow (sassy), Katharine Hepburn (regal), Cary Grant (debonair), Paul Henreid (romantic), Humphrey Bogart (fine), Charles Boyer (passion), Fred Astaire (utterly endearing), Ginger Rogers (tenacious), Gene Kelly (graceful), Gail Patrick (sophisticate), Billie Burke (delightfully daffy), Irene Dunne (superb), Rosalind Russell (scene stealer), Bette Davis (extraordinary), Robert Montgomery (expressive), Gene Tierney (enchanting), Tim Curry (riveting), William Daniels (the definitive John Adams), Julie Andrews (forever lovely).
The greatest hoofers who ever were --- the Nicholas Brothers!
Remember WENN, Seinfeld, Turner Classic Movies, the Monkees, Star Trek (original and TNG), MAX HEADROOM, Band of Brothers...I'm not much of a tv watcher except for TCM. I liked 1940s House, American Idol, Project Runway but nothing I'm really devoted to anymore.
Sunkissed: Sunwear & the Hollywood Beauty 1930-1950 * Art Deco Fashion * Hot Shoes: 100 Years * * Walking Dreams: Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960 * Collectible Fashions of the Turbulent 1930s * Fashions of the Roaring '20s * Night Club Nights: Art, Legend, and Style 1920-1960 * Everyday Fashions of the Thirties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs * Cubism and Fashion * Madeleine Vionnet
Barry Goldwater, the Founding Fathers, WWII veterans, Margaret Thatcher, Ayn Rand