Beauty & the Beat
I'm an amateur groupie… I hope to go pro one day
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“cause it’s a bittersweet symphony this life… trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die”
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It is my dream to do a flying semi-roll stage dive into a crowd of people.. that brief moment of will they, won’t they as your flying through the air, the pure adrenaline.. hey if you want it bad enough it might just happen. I think that is one of the coolest things about being a musician.. getting to stage dive magnificently
“I wanna fuck you like an animal.. I wanna feel you from the inside.. I wanna fuck you like an animal.. My whole existence is flawed”
Raunchy, controversial, exciting.. ..
This is a shoot for Tom Ford by Carine Roitfeld, enhanced lighting to accentuate the wrinkles NO Photoshop and uses senior citizens to sell sex instead of prepubescents. Does it offend you? Are you repulsed?.. don’t judge.. this will soon be you, and that day is definitely going to come no matter how much you moisturise, suck, tuck, trim, slice, add-on and take-off. Deal with it, embrace it, love it.. sex isn’t just for the young, desire knows no boundaries and your libido isn’t going to just switch off the moment you’re over 50..
“For me, I believe this shoot is expressing that beauty shouldn’t be perceived in such a small scope, that sexuality isn’t just for the young and pretty and again it is a comment on the fantasy constructed around fashion to sell. I love that the images show wrinkles and accentuate the textures of the models skin. It’s about reality.” ~ Carine Roitfeld
“Cruising down the highway, with my friends top down and we’re all on our way to the beach..and everyone keeps laughing at those cars we are passing as we’re sucking down that funny bonnie weed”
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Saudades.. .. ..
“Just like the white winged dove, sings a song, sounds like she’s singing.. woo woo woooooo”
There’s nothing more embarrassing then going to a gig saying “I’m on the guest list” and them not finding your name. Let alone at a big venue like the Entertainment centre and the gig in question is the Stevie Nick’s concert. I never like to get my hopes up especially when someone like Dave Stewart says casually during an interview that he’ll put my name on the guest list you kind-of take it with a pinch of salt but with two follow-up phone calls from his PR people double checking how to spell my name I guessed it was a sure thing. Then comes the night in question and I’ve invited my mum along because she deserves a night out and because she’ll appreciate it the most (plus I’ve given her hell for most of my teenage years and god knows I owe her). So there we are “sorry you’ll have to come back later maybe they’ll be here in half an hour”.. cue concerned look on my face and the walk of shame back to the pub for half an hour. But his PR team just have poor time management because on my return a white envelope with my name written on the front was handed to me.. I slipped my finger into the little crevice and sliced it open revealing my golden ticket!! Actually it was two yellow venue tickets and two purple GUEST PASSES BACKSTAGE! Yes it was amazing.. like Charlie Bucket on his way to see Willy Wonka but I wasn’t as humble, grinning like a Cheshire cat and telling myself to calm down wondering if I was going to have a groupie moment when the time came…
She was amazing all blood-red suede and sequined scarves, platform boots, voice breathtakingly incredible I was completely blown away.. fantastic, inspiring, strong, ethereal, wicked, humble, story-teller.. ..
.. .. the last song (before the encore) was my personal favourite ‘Edge of Seventeen’ Stevie disappeared out the back for a while and guitarist Waddy Wachtel had an extended guitar solo and intro that was spine-tingling. AMAZING and boy was I excited to meet her and Dave.. I had everything planned out all I wanted was a handshake and to take a photo with them both mimicking the hear the evil, see no evil, speak no evil pose.. .. because how cool would that be and a lot more fun for them than your average fan photo..
So waited around with a few other people who were chatting to Dave’s main back-up singer Amy (lady in the fro who has an amazing voice filling in for Annie Lennox’s parts) and by the way she is really nice.. and then I hear “Is anybody here to see Dave Stewart?” and I spin around and see the PR girl and some guy and I come over to them all excited with saved battery life on my camera awaiting this amazing moment to have her say.. .. “oh I’m sorry they’ve packed up, they didn’t set up a green room here so there was no space, I’m so sorry” with this pitying smile on her face and the tone of someone who obviously doesn’t realise how much this opportunity meant to me, who see’s these people everyday and doesn’t realise the impact this has on normal people like me. Then comes the final blow… “You should’ve come before the show“.. you know that information would have been a lot more useful to me yesterday when she called me personally to double-check the spelling of my name.. just thrown in a “by the way come before the gig Dave will be able to spare you a few minutes before the show”.. =( Just a HEADS UP! I didn’t need red carpet treatment and I’ve never heard of people seeing stars before their show, never had this happen before with a big star so I’m not at all down with the protocol so SHE SHOULD”VE TOLD ME.. least to say I was pretty upset during that cold walk to the car. Not everyday that you get backstage passes to see Stevie & Dave.. .. would’ve like a photo with Dave it was such a good interview I imagine it would of looked something like this..
Hey not bad for fifteen minutes with Photoshop.. but anyway I was happy enough after the initial shock I got a great interview and a free gig that was amazing BUT BUT BUT.. got a message from my editor telling me to look on Dave’s twitter.. ..
A shout out to moi.. that’s consolation prize enough =D
P.S. Miss PR lady I’m still waiting for the new Stevie Nicks album you promised me if you want to throw in a signed picture of Stevie with Dave.. you’d make my year =P
“Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys..always should be someone you really love”
Had to share this.. please watch it.. inspiring, real, moving.. and about time!
Eclectic collection today.. the above model Rick Genest otherwise known as Zombie Boy is breaking the mould having modelled for Thierry Mugler, Nicola Formichetti and appeared in Lady Gaga’s video for Born this way.. I think it is AMAZING that someone would do that to themselves… it is really confronting. Personally looking at him makes me feel a little nervous and I don’t like feeling that way it kind of shows the hold mainstream conservativeness still has on me. Maybe it is from all the horror movies I watch, or the realism in the fantastic tattoo work but he freaks me out slightly.. I’m not sure I could handle waking up next to him in the morning without getting a fright every.single.time. God that must get tiring coming out of the toilet stall, coming around the corner, entering a room and either scaring people or getting a million double-takes a day. Can you imagine what kind of prejudice he has to deal with on a daily basis? He will be judged worse than Blacks, Asians, White’s, Gay’s, Lesbian’s, transgender you name it.. everywhere he goes he will be bothered incessantly, stared at, pointed at, talked about.. I’d love to interview him!! You know what I love it.. in a world that I feel is getting more and more conservative this gets people talking, gets people discussing and gets people learning, appreciating (hopefully) and maybe not so judgemental & prejudice..
I’m still working on my own photos ready for tomorrow..
“People try to put us down, just because we get around, things they do look awful cold.. I hope I die before I get old”
So before my post about the Dave Stewart & Stevie Nicks concert and that infamous backstage pass.. (as I left my camera at work with all relevant photos) thought I would share my latest inspiration and fellow Anglo-Brasilian….
I had an urge a year and a half ago to pop the cherry and get an undercut with my long never been chopped hair.. I let someone superficial and un-cool talk me out of it.. that urge has come back and before the summer is out I’m totally going for it.. .. Bowie-style
