Art Deco, hot jazz, dandyism, monocles, accessories, eccentrics, jokes about animals in bars...
The Art Deco Society of California ~ my obsession? ~ my club. And here's my magazine (labor of love since 1997...):
(cover by the fabulous STEPHAN)
Music
Tiny Parham, Sam Wooding, Fletcher Henderson, Thomas Morris' Past Jazz Masters, Mr. Jelly Lord, Hot 5s+7s, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Empress Bessie Smith, Chocolate Dandies, Johnny Dodds, Bagelman Sisters, Original Klezmer Jazz Band, Bonzo Dog Band, The Monochrome Set, Grandmaster Flash, Baguette Quartette...
and Max Raabe!
Movies
Affairs of Anatol, Madame Satan, Pandora's Box, Blonde Venus, Shanghai Express, Deadly Snail Meets Kung Fu Killers, The Women, The Group, The Moderns, White Countess, White Mischief, Mystery Men, Wings of the Dove, Bride of the Wind, Bullets Over Broadway, Sweet and Lowdown, Idlewild, Man of the Century, Mr. Hulot's Holiday...
Au Bonheur des Dames
Television
Metalocalypse, Venture Brothers, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, The PJs, Homeboys in Outer Space, Babylon 5, Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel, Xena, Poirot, Jeeves + Wooster, Blackadder...
Books
Orlando, Vile Bodies, Private Lives, Tart Noir, the Aubrey-Maturin books which I'm trying to stretch out for a decade or so, Jonathan Ames's neo-Wodehouse-isms, Paris-in-the-20s memoirs, Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty', Edith Wharton's 'Glimpses of the Moon' and my new favorite psychedelic wiccan, Graham Joyce...
About me: Here's my button from www.ViaDelia.com:
Cocktails with my beautiful friend Miss 1929 - always the best.
Who I'd like to meet:
Flappers, dandies, androgynes, artistes, Bright Young Things, socialites, socialists, comediennes, eccentrics, raconteurs, litterateurs, boulevardiers, flaneurs, ragtime millionaires, ladies who lunch...
Happiest of holiday wishes to you and yours darling! I hope to pop up to your neck of the woods sometime in the very early new year. Keep a candle burning!
Come see our all Gorey goodies! Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Ryden, Alice in Wonderland, Gris Grimly, Emily, Coraline, Lenore, Twilight, Tattoo & Pin-up Art, Dark Décor, Haunted Portraits, Vintage Halloween, Classic Horror Monsters, Vampires, Skulls & Gargoyles, Pirates, Zombies, Alchemy Gothic Jewelry, Villainess, Rubber Stamps, T-shirts, Postcards, Toys, Books, Posters, and much more!
Thank you very much for accepting my request! Indeed a pleasure to make your acquaintance!
I must say you are very well dressed! And that monocle sure is beautiful.
Nowadays a lot of people are wearing the new kind of monocles, did you notice? They wear two at the same time put together in one frame But luckily there are people like you and I who still wear the originals! Even in eyewear there was so much more class in the days gone by!
Thank you again and have a wonderful evening!
All the best and greetings from The Netherlands Klaas
More paraphrasing than quoting, I think. But a damned-fine cover none the less! You must tell me how the rest of the book is (not that I don't love judging a book by its cover).
I smell a fad!!! Hooray! Did you see Dolce & Gabbana's Fall collection? Schiaparelli Shocking Pink suits with coral branch buttons, scarves made of gloves, and headbands with gloves on them! DIVINE!
hot jazz, dandyism, monocles, accessories, eccentrics, jokes about animals in bars...
The Art Deco Society of California ~ my obsession? ~ my club. And here's my magazine (labor of love since 1997...):
(cover by the fabulous STEPHAN)
and Max Raabe!
Au Bonheur des Dames
Cocktails with my beautiful friend Miss 1929 - always the best.
Flappers, dandies, androgynes, artistes, Bright Young Things, socialites, socialists, comediennes, eccentrics, raconteurs, litterateurs, boulevardiers, flaneurs, ragtime millionaires, ladies who lunch...
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