Whither the Cult Band?
Current mood: curious
Category: Music

Or rather: Wither the Cult Band?

The ole ball 'n chain alerted me to this recent article in the Guardian that asks the musical question "In the age of the internet, is it still possible to be a true cult musician?"

Of course the answer is OF COURSE. I'd say that in this day and age, any person making any sort of music (or kind of artistic expression) who isn't Miley Cyrus or an American Idol is 'cult' ....certainly in the good ole U.S. of A. And, evidently, in the U.K. (where we used to always turn to find the newest of the 'new'..i.e. "What's Big in England Now?")

British journalists love to pontificate about this sort of thing and, bless their pasty-white, Guinness-soaked hearts, they do it well.

I always learn a lot reading these sorts of pieces. For instance: Wow, I love those lyrics from The Fall. I have to listen to more of their stuff. Or: I love the mythology of Vashti Bunyan but late 60s/early 70's British folk music is best taken in small doses. Or: this is the kind of thing obsessive-compulsives do instead of getting out into the fresh air.

Which is what we are about to do by hitting the road and going to Joshua Tree until Monday. (And thus avoiding the unbearable madness that has become the Sunset Junction Street Fair. And with Issac Hayes gone, why stay? God I am SOOOO HAPPY I saw him live at an open air festival in West Virginia a few years ago. He was FANTASTIC! Remember kids, go see the legends when you can. There very often is never a 'next time'!)

But back to cult bands. What DOES make a cult band? And why should we care?

We should care in the country because the state of what some call Culture has become some staid, predictable and money-driven that it reminds me so very much of the mid-70s..which at least gave rise to Punk and folks like Devo who, back in the day, were our heroes and oh-so-uber-cult!

I also think there are presently thousands if not millions of 'cult' musicians and artists in every nook and cranny of the world. Especially in West Virginia when you consider the likes of Hasil Adkins, Jessco White and The Amazing Dolores. Hell, you get south of the Mason-Dixon line and country is lousy with cult artists!

I love the Bithday Party but who is Nick Cave anyway but a punk/hipster re-working of Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings and Robert Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter". Mixed with a lot of Aussie outback weirdness.

Scripture (either with praise or damnation..preferably the latter) + booze (or heroin) + manic depression + sexy-wild-charimsa= catnip to cultists in search of their own personal hip Jesus.

The Brit journo who wrote the article takes issue with Mr. Cave's new facial hair. Says it looks like he's trying to hard to be "weird". I had to Google that to see as my Nick Cave Doll is clean shaven. Oh yeah. Well, it is very Morgan Spurlock, a West-By-God native who is no doubt cribbing from Cave's sources as well....all those truckers and assorted maniacs we all remember fondly from the CB radio days. But wasn't' that a Nineties craze? I seem to remember the waiters at that retro-diner Swingers on Beverly Blvd. pulling that look with their mechanic overalls.Or is it more John Carradine in John Ford's original "Stagecoach"? Or Jesse James? Now we're getting kinda Steampunky. Or...oh to hell with it. Any kind of facial hair these days tends to scream Transgressive. Or retro-gay-clone. Or maybe it's already old hat. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to be hip!)

Of course mental illness will automatically insure one cult status. I'm thinking specifically of the brilliant but tortured Daniel Johnston. MySpace pal "Steve" told me they caught a glimpse of me in that movie "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" (which I have yet to see...gotta get that in the Netflix queu.) Apparently I'm in the crowd at some New Jersey in-store appearance in the late 80s/mid-90s. I do remember being there and I do remember feeling very uncomfortable being part of a 'hipster retinue' finding someone's schizophrenia, though racked with genius, 'entertainment'.

It's a fine line I reckon. What musician or artist or actor or whoever captures our attention who isn't slightly (if not very) nuts? I know that when I was performing in Seattle last week the audience really perked up when I became unhinged during "Dazed and Chinese". And thus, so encouraged, I became more so.

But that's show biz.

Anyhoo, I enjoyed this article...for a while. Then I just started to skim it. I don't have time to obsess over these bands... I gotta get out in that fresh air after all! So off to JT. Have a great weekend everyone!!!

P.S. There is a fun added feature that asks readers to name their favorite "cult" bands. Hubby tells me "The Power of Pussy" was listed by one. HOT DAMN! YEAH! Was just wondering who some of you might nominate..and thus expand my musical library. As some crazy American chick in a cult band once-beloved-by-British-journalists-then-inevitably-trashed sang, "I need a new tape."

Oh.. btw, at the top of my list would be Robbie D (and his alter ego Jer Ber Jones.) Robbie is without a doubt a true original who, the moment I saw him perform, I knew "got the goods. He's the real deal!" And he's young and alive and creating great stuff as we speak. (I'm a little prejudiced since we've collaborated a few times...most recently on a cover of Bowie's BEWLEY BROTHERS..which is so cult you can't even find it ANYWHERE! HA HA! That's the measure of true cult status...when you can't even bother to make your stuff available!!! I always said ' a real anarchist doesn't even show up.'

But I am not that. I'm just lazy. We do need to post that song back up on one of our sites again.

Go to Robbie D's MySpace page and listen to his music! I really am loving his cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights." Which leads me to finally end this lengthy post with the question:
Wuther the Cult Band?

Nominate Your Cult Band link here:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/08/nominate_your_favourite_cult_a.html

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Steampunk? It’s Deja Vu All Over Again!
Current mood: amused
Category: Art and Photography

Okay, color me old-fogey but I've just heard about this Steampunk movement (from my pal Jodi who, appropriately, recently relocated to Port Townsend in the Pacific Northwest). Well, I guess being colored old-fogey (in rich sepia tones, of course) is wholly appropriate.

I'm curious to hear thoughts regarding this *new* design movement.
If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about check it out here:
http://www.boingboing.net/steampunk/

Personally, I feel a little deja-vuey over it all.

I mean LITERALLY "Deja Vu". As in CSN&Y.

As in all the beautiful young folkie-rock-folks-on-the-cusp-of-glam photographed in ye-olde-tymey mushroom-taking-bread-baking-hippie-wild-west-style in the album art for Elton John's "Tumbleweed Connection."

Photos that personally recall when I met the great, sadly deceased filmmaker Bill "Parting Glances" Sherwood. He and I got our olde-tymey faux-deguerrotype picture taken at the olde-tymey photo booth at the olde-tymey-western-tourist-towney near Redford's beloved Sundance Institue (where I was acting in Bill's film project, circa late 80s). Since Bill was sporting a beard he looked very dashing and most authentic in his top hat and satin Artemis Gordon waistcoast. I looked like a closeted-lesbian Mormon wife in my Little House on the Prairie calico dress and Sara-Plain-and-Tall sun bonnet. I treasure that photo. I must dig it out and scan it before it fades away to nothing. Those faux deguerrotypes don't last as long as the real thing.

As for the resurgence of this olde tymey trend:
Seems like a natural backlash to the sterility of the over-hyped mid-century modernism that has dominated fashion, style and shelter-obsessed media for too long and I'm all for it. (Maybe it will push prices down for some of those Eames chairs I like. Wait a minute! This means I better sell all my mid-20th-century stuff now while the market is still high!)

Actually, in true artistic/parasitic fashion, I plan to exploit this *new* mid-19th-century trend in my next performance for Andrea Zittell's High.Desert.Test.Sites. art event in Joshua Tree this fall (more info on that later). I mean, what is more Steampunk than Pioneertown?!

I gather the trend is inspired by Victorian/Edwarian sci-fi (H.G. Welles, Jules Verne, et al) and I'm TOTALLY down with that. Especially the 1950s/1960s interpretation as seen in movies like THE TIME MACHINE, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and one of my all time faves (which was just on TV recently) FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (not 'on' the moon but 'in' !!!)

It's also very David Lynch's DUNE. Although my first thought upon viewing some of the lighting fixtures-as-art on display in that first BOING BOING post (see link above) was:

Hmmmmm...looks very Restoration Hardware.

But I love that the kids are reaching back into time and using that collective noggin' of theirs to treat us to some (relatively) new eye candy.

As Steven Stills (or was it that cokehead Crosby?) sang, teach your children well......

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Back in LA and Randomizing Top Friends
Current mood: hungry
Category: MySpace

Very HAPPY to finally be back home and back to the familiar. Just checking in to ask if Randomizing my Top Friends is a good idea or not? I started to fool with the order of peeps, wanting to put some fresh faces up there and then thought...oh to hell with this, it's too much work. And someone is bound to get pissed off. So why not Randomize? Since I tend to add (almost) everyone, I know I'm in danger of inviting judgment but.....to hell with that too!

No less than the trees and the stars, each and every one of you MySpace pals have a right to be here! And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe - and my Top Friends list - is unfolding as it should.

And now...off for some Mexican food!

Back soon with updates, round-ups, recaps 'n such!

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Seattle Bound!
Current mood: chipper
Category: Music

Well, I wish I could say I'm engrossed in the Olympics but we got rid of the cable TV in early Spring. I just could not stomach one more gasbag political pundit - from either side! To say nothing of the current crap culture. But I do miss Intervention and American Movie Classics. Thank Goddess for YouTube and Netflix.

But more about our recent Netflix obsessions when I return from Seattle. I gotta pack up and get ready to zip off to the Pacific Northwest for my gig this Wednesday at the Triple Door.

I just sent out a bulletin on it but shall also post the text here. I kinda hate to give away the set list but I thought...hmmmm, maybe the promise of NICK CAVE DOLLS will sell a few more tickets? Surely all those Bongwater fans have grown up and have real jobs (and *GASP* families) now. Line up the babysitters now! Or wait...maybe their kids are already grown up? Lord how time flies when you're busy putting on shows!

I do hope those of you in Seattle will come see me play and hope those of you who know people there will impress upon them to show up. Chances are I won't be up there again for a very long time (and unlikely to be doing any of this material again.)

I'll be spending the entire week up there and really look forward to not only cooler temps than down here in L.A. but what I hear are VERY long and VERY dreamy Swedish-like midsummer nights. You know, the ones where it's still dusk at 10 PM!

Hope everyone has a great week....and fill me in on any Olympic highlights. Oh wait! There WILL be a TV in the hotel!!!! YIPPEEE! Maybe I can catch the gymnastics! And find out who this Olympic swimmer named Magnuson is!

Summer Love to all!!!!
ann

Hey Ya'll!

Calling all Pacific Northwesterners .....and/or their friends and family who live there!!

I'm performing in Seattle at The Triple Door this coming Wednesday, August 13th at 7:30 PM. (for details see links below)

Expect a rich musical buffet that includes something from Column A (my two solo albums PRETTY SONGS & UGLY STORIES and THE LUV SHOW), Column B (Bongwater) and Column C (fun-lovin' covers).

Honoring the requests of several MySpace fans I will be doing Bongwater 'hits' TALENT IS A VAMPIRE (from "Too Much Sleep"), DAZED & CHINESE (if the pick up band can handle those satanic riffs) and the beloved classic NICK CAVE DOLLS (from "The Power of Pussy".) Oh yes, I will pull FOLK SONG out of mothballs if demand requires an encore! (I have been working on it. Think I got the YES intro down. I hope.)

There will also be SEX WITH THE DEVIL from "The Luv Show" as well as SEX IN HEAVEN (we're bipartisan when it comes to sex) from Kristian Hoffman's CD of duets simply titled "&".

Kristian is the producer/arranger and co-songwriter on PRETTY SONGS & UGLY STORIES and he will be coming to Seattle with me to led our fabulous Seattle band hired by our wonderful producer The Swedish Housewife.

Plus I got a fab new costume from one of those nutty bridal shops in Downtown LA which you simply must see!!! Hope to see you (or someone you've sent) there!

Venue info here:
http://www.thetripledoor.net/

Show info here: http://www.thetripledoor.net/event.aspx?eid=3261&venue=mainstage

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Showroom Dummies
Category: Life

Subtitled: One of the Best Compliments I've Ever Received

Yesterday we were in St. Vincent du Paul, the last-stop-before-the-dump thrift store here in LA (Highland Park I think..or at least Highland Park adjacent) picking out an ultra-cheap, faux blonde-wood 60's dresser to use as a work table/storage space in my new office (the newly renovated garage! FINALLY! HIP HIP HORRAY!).

As the hubby went to bring the Pathfinder around for pick up I stood a few feet from the entry way register. I was standing near the old upholstered chairs (the ones I'm convinced will give you crabs if you dare to sit in them) staring, no doubt, glassy-eyed into the middle distance.

A somewhat fey, middle-aged Latino fellow (with his partner, I think) walked in and up the pathway through the detritus. I noticed that he had been looking at me. After a few seconds (you know - that awkward time that seems to last forever when two strangers are looking at one another but say nothing) I finally smiled and said HI.

He registered a faint start and then blurted out: "I thought you were a mannequin".

I instantly struck a pose, Kraftwerk-like. He laughed and struck a similar one.

Then I thought of that great Twilight Zone episode with Anne Francis as the mannequin who doesn't know she's a mannequin. I also think of that episode whenever I'm in an unpopular department store or mall. One of those in a forgotten town or area where no one shops anymore. I love being the only one on a huge department store floor. OH MY GOD! WAIT! Maybe I'm really a MANNEQUIN!!!!!

Even worse....now I'm remembering that Kim Cattrall movie that came out in 1987 which was a hit when "Making Mr. Right" was not. I saw then and there the writing on the wall.

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Damn, I Wish I Were in China for the Solar Eclipse!
Current mood: impressed
Category: Travel and Places

I've been mesmerized by the real time video from Exploratorium of the total solar eclipse as seen from northwest China today.

You can see it here:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/2008/


And I srongly suggest you do! I watched it from the beginning and there's something to be said for the dramatic built up but if your A.D.D. is in overdrive skip to around minute 25 or so when the giddy fanboy-looking NASA sun-specialist in the cowboy hat explains coronas and hot spots!

It's crazy that our entire existence hinges on the emission of heat and solar gases from this massive ball of fire in the sky. No wonder there was so much bloodletting in our pagan past to insure it's continued rise in the east!

The excitement of the scientists is matched by the bizarre stirrings and cheerings from the crowd. Image Burning Man for science nerds. The topography does remind me a bit of Black Rock City....or Palm Springs.


After the dazzling "diamond ring" moment of climax I got a call from Mark Murphy at REDCAT (to finalize the plans for the DUELING HARPS show there in October.) I told him what I was watching and he then told me about seeing a total solar eclipse in British Columbia a few years back. He described as one of the most amazing experiences of his life. It occurred around 8:30 in the morning and he said there were: "a group of Peruvians there who had made these elaborate party masks to wear; witches and druids were sacrificing vegetables; the eclipse created a ten mile shadow that crept towards us and when it got dark all the cows and animals started freaking out."

I MUST go to whatever exotic locale is best for the next one!!!!! And I want to see photos of this 360 degree sunset the folks from the Exploratorium crew were describing! Hopefully they'll come through on their promise that they'll have photos on their website.

It really is a thrill to see this eclipse play out in real time. (There is even a Hollywood -style bit of dramatic tension when the cloud cover threatens to block our view of the blessed event.) Check it out! And tell me if you can't easily picture virgins being sacrificed right at the point of Totality.

Totally!!!

FYI: We were alerted to this site via this blog on WIRED:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/total-solar-ecl.html

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Back in L.A. Just in Time for The Earthquake....
Category: Travel and Places

...and I didn't feel a godamned thing!

I first heard about it around 1:45 PM PST....while glancing up at the TV that was on at the Silver Lake eatery The Coffee Table. Well, I didn't hear anything as the sound was turned down (why on earth do all restaurants, bars and even many stores insist on having that evil Orwellian machine on 24/7?) But I did see the BREAKING NEWS words on CNN - Earthquake in Los Angleles/5.4 Magnitute.

Huh? WTF? When?

I asked my pal Paul who met me there for lunch if he felt it. He said he did. But I swear I didn't feel a thing. I guess I'm so numbed out from dealing with my father's death and dealing with the estate and being awash in memory for the past two months in WVa as well as the deep realization I'm the only surviving member of my nuclear family left on this siesmically sensitive planet that one silly little earthquake didn't register so much as a blip on my Richter Scale.

I also think I was driving at 11:42 AM PST and less prone to feeling a little shake & bake. I was picking up the car from the shop AGAIN!!! Forget earthquakes. The real horror of living day-to-day in L.A. is the endless cost of endless car maintainence.

But it is always interesting to see what a fuss the media makes over things when you are in the town where such things occur in. Such drama queens! Mary, please! Wake me when we hit a 7.

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Desperately Seeking Suggestions for Seattle Set List
Current mood: inquisitive
Category: Music

Okay, maybe I'm not all that desperate but I could use some help whittling down this enormous list of potential songs and spoken word pieces from my 'oevre' of *gasp* 20-plus years.

Just to remind one and all, I will be performing in Seattle at The Triple Door (see Calender for details) on August 13th. The ultra-talented Kristian Hoffman will be coming up from LA with me to act as musical director and our producer, that luscious Scandanavian minx The Swedish Housewife, is providing us with a crackerjack band culled from a pool of local Pacific Northwest talent. We are itchin' to ROCK and ROLL.....and whatever else the occasion requires! (Hmmmm...what cover songs should we pull out of the hat? I do remember being there in the early Nineties and getting all flustered seeing Ann and Nancy Wilson sitting a few tables away from me at a local eatering. But Damn, Girl....those Heart songs are hard to sing.)

So if those of you in Seattle (and those of you who can't be there but if you were there would have your druthers) can please submit your wish list of selections from Bongwater, The Luv Show and/or Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories (along with any other various and sundry) ASAP I'd be most grateful.

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Absence Makes The Hippie Chick Heart Grow Fonder (and Alleviates Back Pain and Despair)
Current mood: distractable
Category: Blogging

Good Lord Almighty, I haven't been on this here computer in weeks! And, not suprisingly, my upper left shoulder and lower back haven't been hurting as much. But no sooner do I get on this damnable 'ole thang than the ailment returns. Better move this here keyboard to a more ergonomic-friendly position.

There, that's better! I am back on the mountaintop...but am still looking for the Promised Land. Actually, it's right here. Almost Heaven...yeah, I know, it gets to be a bit tired as a catchphrase after a while but still holds. I was in my hometown of Charleston (state capital) for ten days enjoying their big "FestivALL" (ALL the arts involved!) and seeing friends and getting much needed distance from deceased Dad's condo cleaning.

Had a spectacularly gorgeous drive back here to Pocahontas County which is really one of the most beautiful counties in the state! (If not the nation!) After a few spiritaully minded podcasts (Joseph Goldstein on Buddhist "happiness building" and our own Rev. Ed Bacon from Pasedena's All Saint's Church on "accepting the acceptance") I went back to one of my teen faves - Elton John (his Madman Across the Water/ Tumbleweed Connection phase). Music can indeed whisk you back to seemingly happier times but with each passing decade it gets harder and harder to truly remember what it was like to be young, dumb and full of wayward serotonin (and the pharmaceutical enhancement/depletion thereof).

But I did have one revelation: All this time I thought I was in love with young Elton John (a folly to be sure considering his sexual orientation and a possible explanation for my previous attraction to the terminally unavailable). But now I realize....in reality I was in love with BERNIE TAUPIN!!!!!!

Since I am currently free off all mind-altering inebriations I decided to go whole hog with the original and always available drug of choice- FANTASY - and wove a sepia-toned, psychedelic hippie chick tapestry of Taupin-centric love scenarios into my brain while navigating the twists, hairpin turns, peaks and valleys of wild and wonderful West Virginia (more wild wonderful when a girl named Amoreena is in a corn field, living like a lusty flower, rolling in the grass for hours while basked in the golden light of an Indian Sunset, sans the Rotten Peaches).

When I finally arrived I HAD to go trawling the internet but was slightly shocked to confront reality and see BT has been married FOUR TIMES! That rake! So it turns out fantasy IS the preferred drug of choice. And the preferred Taupin of choice is not that old guy talking about Lestat the Musical with Matt Lauer but, rather, the early 70's Taupin- the handsome, slightly-thin on top, long-haired hottie clad in tight, worn denim. Exhibit A:

www.eltonjohn.no/images/bernie_taupin.jpg

That kept me busy for a chunk of the evening - and assuaged any despair and loneliness that comes when you find yourself alone in a place that bears more than a passing resemblance to the location from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. (Someone send help when I start blogging "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.")

All this Taupin-swooning is probably lost on our straight male readers. If so check out Carly Simon during her NO SECRETS album-cover-art-era. Or nubile Kate Hudson singing "Tiny Dancer" in ALMOST FAMOUS. I didn't see that movie but I looked at clips on YouTube (while watching anything I could find of 70's era Taupin/Elton). I respect Cameron Crowe but what I saw in that clip wasn't anything like the early 70's I remember. (Robert Frank's "Cocksucker Blues" was more like it.) AT LEAST SHOOT THE DAMN THING IN FADED SEVENTIES FILM STOCK! They NEVER get the 1970's right (except in the 1970s). And the styling is ALWAYS overdone. I was there (admittedly, sometimes barely) and I recall a blessed LACK of styling. Sure we had our vintage moments but it was usually just boring old Landlubber jeans with a pair of chunky, club-foot-looking platform shoes and maybe some bland (occasionally freak folkie ) halter top. It sure as hell was never as pre-meditated, self-conscious and mall-available as the 'counterculture' looks of today.

But I must stop myself before I delve into an Oil of Old Lady rant about the younger generation. Maybe being absent from teenage wildlife for so long DOES make the heart grow fonder but when parents die you do tend to wax nostalgic about the past. Please forgive and hopefully indulge.

At present, I do know that good ole country comfort is in my bones...and frequently yearn for the days before all those funerals for my friends left love bleeding in my hand.

But for now....let's burn down the mission and get back to the howling old owl in the woods, hunting the horny back toad. Despite current sad circumstances, it is awfully nice to be beyond the yellow brick road.

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THE HUNGER at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA Tonite!
Current mood: nostalgic
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

As I sit here on top of a remote mountain in West Virginia (relieved to finally have figured out how to get internet connection!) I am told that my major motion picture debut will replay in perhaps the most appropriate of settings.

THE HUNGER is screening tonight at one of my favorite cemeteries (second only to Highgate in London!) The Hollywood Forever Cemetery is probably the best place this movie could be seen, what with the glamorous dead mixing with what I suspect will be hoards of glamorous (and tres gothy) undead! More info on Cinespia can be found here: www.cinespia.org/

I also want to thank my pal Matt Amato for blogging about it here: http://blog.wearethemasses.com/

I'm thrilled this movie has become such a cult classic as it was hardly appreciated when it opened in 1983. What a life changing event it was for me to be flown to London First Class to be killed by my teen idol in my first major motion picture!!!! I recently unearthed a scrapbook I kept of the entire process from the minute I arrived til the movie opened....yes, including all the one-star reviews! I did have a feeling it would be appreciated more further down the road and VOILA! here we are! The scrapbook was made out of a Royal Wedding souvenir - with Prince Charles and the fetching young Lady Di on the cover! Bet that could fetch a nice price on eBay!

I'm "dying" to hear how the screening goes and what people were wearing!!!! IF there aren't some baby-faced twentysomethings dressed in retro-80s French VOGUE versions of Punk Rock then I'll eat my five-inch patent leather stillettos (the ones that were MURDER on my feet and you never even SAW in the final product!!!) Gosh, I remember how embarrassed I was being dressed up the way we were since my idea of punk was decidedly more CBGBs than Yves St. Laurent (R.I.P.). Even so, how stunning it all looks now!

Speaking of stunning, I also remember continually staring at Catherine Denueve in utter disbelief. I kept thinking, this is so rude how much I'm staring at her and I'm sure people must be noticing but I can't help it! I've never seen anyone more beautiful in my life!!!

And Bowie....ah, well. Bowie. Yum.

I may have carped about the 'look' at the time but how I wish I had that black leather mini-skirt today! (Someone stole it out of my NYC apartment when I used to let 'friends' stay there when I away.) Three cheers to Milena Canonera for the great costumes! (she has won three Oscars - one for the spectaculr 'BARRY LYNDON'! PLUS SHE WORKED ON 'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE'!!!!) And Tony Scott who can be hailed - or blamed - for ushering in a new style of telling/editing a story. Oh yes, and to BAUHAUS for being BAUHAUS (although when we were shooting it I thought they were slightly ridiculous...you know how us snobby New Yorkers could be!)

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