"Imagine All the People living Life in Peace, You may say I'm a Dreamer, but I'm Not the only One, I Hope someday you'll join us, And the World will Live as One" - *John Lennon*
Dreaming, Art, Music, Singing, Dancing, Reading, Writing Poetry and Prose, Fashion, Glamour, Make-Up, Retro, Vintage Clothing and Furniture, Collecting vintage mags on Ebay,(especially 40's & 50's pin-up, and british 60's/70's fashion mags) records, shoes, etc. Romance, Love, Sex, Passion, Psychology, Yoga, walking, working out, Traveling (especially Europe i.e England. Yeah Baby!), and Karaoke.
Music
Madonna, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis, Annie Lennox, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Abba, Rilo Kiley, Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, B-52's, Amy Winehouse, SpectAngela, Courtney Love, Pink, Duffy, Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Beatles, Kinks, Who, Scissor Sisters, Jet, Oasis, U2, Eagles, Three Dog Night, The Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Julie London, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Keely Smith, Lena Horne, Billy Holiday, Donna Summer, Alicia Keys, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Teena Marie, Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Queen, Missing Persons, The Motels, Berlin, Blondie, Romeo Void, Hole, The Ramones, T-Rex, Rod Stewart, Joan Jett, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, CSN&Y, The Band, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Gwen Stefani, Fergie, Heart, Aretha Franklin, Akon, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sarah Brightman, Nirvana, Judy Garland, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Peggy Lee, Bette Midler, Police, Sting, Motown, Soul, Blues, Jazz, Country, Rockabilly, John Coltrane, Edith Piaf, Leonard Cohen, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Joan Baez, Janis Ian, Pat Benatar, Go-Go's, Eva Cassidy, Cyndi Lauper, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Grace Slick & the Jefferson Airplane, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, the Rat Pack, Rosemary Clooney, Steve and Eddie Gorme, Vicki Carr, Anita O'Day, and the list goes on, and the list goes on......Just Damn Good Music!!!
Movies
Picnic, Splendor in the Grass, Strangers When We Meet, Casablanca, From Here to Eternity, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Lover, Lust,Caution, Bad Timing, 9 1/2 Weeks, Damage, Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful, Secretary, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Dangerous Game, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Seduction, Crash (1996; 2005), Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, The Bridges of Madison County, Far From Heaven, The End of the Affair, The Misfits, Wings of Desire, Faraway So Close, The Red Shoes, Metropolis, Great Expectations, Saturday Night Fever, Cabaret, School of Rock, The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Grease, Sunset Blvd, Lolita, This Property is Condemned, Love With a Proper Stranger, Urban Cowboy, FM, An Officer and a Gentleman, Easy Rider, Clockwork Orange, Love Story, Romeo & Juliet(1968), American Graffiti, Pretty Baby, The Bad and the Beautiful, Velvet Goldmine, Across the Universe, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Last Waltz, Woodstock, Monterey Pop, A Hard Day's Night, That Thing You Do, The Doors, In the Heat of the Night, Save the Last Dance, Freedom Writers, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Jackie Brown, Jungle Fever, All Spike Lee movies, All Sidney Poitier movies: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lilies of the Field, A Patch of Blue, A Raisin in the Sun, To Sir, With Love, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Notorious Bettie Page, Frida, All the Austin Powers movies, Cat People, HollywoodLand, Kinsey,
Basquiat, Run Lola Run, La Vie En Rose, Moulin Rouge (2001; 1952), Boogie Nights, Pollack, Grace of My Heart, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rebel Without a Cause, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Graduate, Butterfield 8, The Sandpiper, A Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, All About Eve, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mildred Pierce, Mommie Dearest, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Imitation of Life, Blow-Up, Alfie, Factory Girl, American Gigolo, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Waitress, Sylvia, Hilary and Jackie, Barbarella, Klute, An Affair to Remember, Love Affair, Bugsy, Shampoo, Same Time, Next Year, Tommy, Barry Lyndon, The Boyfriend, Viva Las Vegas, Carnal Knowledge, When Harry Met Sally, Something's Gotta Give, Pretty Woman, Never Been Kissed, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Niagara, The Seven Year Itch, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, The Girl Can't Help It, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, Ed Wood, Valley of the Dolls, Requiem for A Dream, Blue Hawaii, Beach Blanket Bingo, The Swimmer, Thelma & Louise, Almost Famous, Performance, John Waters movies: Hairspray, Cry Baby, Polyester, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, All Woody Allen's movies i.e., Annie Hall, Hannah & Her Sisters, Alice, Deconstructing Harry, Mighty Aphrodite, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Manhatten, etc.,
The Banger Sisters, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, Portrait of Jenny, The Last Picture Show, The Summer of '42, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, Aloha Bobby & Rose, Gilda and one of my very fav's - To Kill a Mockingbird - Whew!!! Did I gettem' all
Television
Mad Men, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, American Idol, VH1 Classic, MTV, Music Videos, TCM, IFC, Project Runway, Rock of Love, America's Top Model, Desperate Housewives, Will and Grace, Sex and the City, Absolutely Fabulous (BBC) Austin City Limits, Soul Train, American Masters (Public TV).
Books
My Favorite American author from L.A. is Kate Braverman. List of books: Palm Latitudes, Lithium for Medea, Squandering the Blue, Wonders of the West, The Incantations of Frida K., Frantic Transmissions to and From Los Angeles. Poetry: Lullaby for Sinners, Hurricane Warnings, Postcard from August and Milk Run. Merrit Malloy, poet, her books: My Song for Him Who Never Sang to Me, Things I meant to say to you when we were old, We Hardly See Each Other Anymore and the People Who Didn't Say Goodbye. Other poets/books: Anne Sexton, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, William Wordsworth. Marguerite Duras, french author, The Sailor From Gibraltor, The Lover, all her books. Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Sara Davidson: Loose Change, Friends of the Opposite Sex, Real Property. Jack Kerouac, On the Road, all his books, poetry. Sylvia Plath, The Belle Jar, Ariel, all her books, poetry. Pamela Des Barres, I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Let's Spend the Night Together. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter. Leonard Cohen - Stranger Music - Selected Poems and Songs, Jim Morrison - An American Prayer, Patti Smith - The Coral Sea, Ray Davies - Waterloo Sunset, Dave Davies - Kink. Marilyn Monroe books - some are: The Last Sitting by Bert Stern, Marilyn by Gloria Steinem, Marilyn - Norman Mailer, etc. And lots of art books, one of my favs: Olivia De Berardinis - Let Them Eat Cheesecake, Second Slice, Bettie Page. Bettie Page - The Life of a Pin-Up Legend by Karen Essex. The Bare Truth...Stars of Burlesque from the 40's & 50's by Len Rothe. A fav. N.Y. photog: Nan Goldin - book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Bram Dijkstra - Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Culture. Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, John Singer Sargent, Toulouse Lautrec, Picasso, Degas, Mary Cassat, Robert Longo, Basquiat, just to name a few.
Heroes
Jesus, Farrah Fawcett, who lost her battle with cancer, for her strength, courage, humor and positivity will continue to be an inspiration to me!, John Lennon, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Mother Theresa, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jeanne Carmen, Mamie Van Doren, Diana Dors, Jean Harlow, Kate Braverman, Orson Welles, JFK, Martin Luther King, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Walt Disney, Bettie Page, Olivia de Berardinis, Yves Saint Laurent, Ossie Clark, Zandra Rhodes, Mary Quant, Biba, Jean Paul Gautier, Coco Chanel, Edith Head, Adrian, Betsey Johnson, Anna Sui, Alexander McQueen, Sonya Rykiel, Andy Warhol, Wonder Woman, Greg (my husband), Ray Davies, Mum and Dad, Grandma Leah, Sheryl Crow and my friend and ex-coworker Sherry Bowler who is battling breast cancer, who is a brave soul, with spirit, courage and grace! And last but not least, my nephew Joel Dolphin, who is serving in the Army as a soldier for his country, in the War in Afganistan - God be with him and all the others fighting in this unjust war.
I'm a native Southern Californian, baby-boomer currently living in Juneau, Alaska for 25 yrs. I have family living here, and that's why I came up, initially for a summer vacation back in 1982. Decided I might want to move to Alaska, so I did in 1983. Met my future husband in '84, he was a commercial fisherman. And as they say, the rest is history.... It took me a while to get used to the weather and social climate of Juneau, which is a small town, than where I had been used to living in San Diego, before that Hollywood, Calif., where I was born and grew up. I, too was a Groupie in my younger years, and frequented the Sunset Strip and the Whisky, Rainbow Bar & Grill, the Roxy, Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, E Club, Starwood, Gazzari's, the Troubadour, Granny Takes a Trip English Clothing store, Fred Slatten Shoes (was the most Fabulous shoe store in the world specializing in 5" rhinestone platforms & snakeskin shoes), Fred Segal, The Pleasure Dome, which was a really groovy 60's/70's boutique specializing in rich-hippie, antique/vintage looking clothing in velvets, satin, chiffon, lace, paisley prints, fringe & crochet shawls, beaded jewelery, etc., which used to be on the Strip, not too far from the Hyatt House, I believe, where Rock Musicians of the day like Janis Joplin, and myself would occasionally shop, Tower Records (now defunct)and many other groovy places that used to be up on the Strip. Of course we can't forget the infamous "Riot House" where the English bands used to stay. My favorite band was the Kinks, and they stayed there quite a bit. I remember a pool party on the penthouse floor for the Kinks, given by their record company. It was really a gas! Also, remember seeing Led Zeppelin in the coffee shop restaurant, right off the ground floor lobby. Girls wanted to get in, but they had it roped off, as it was a private party. Ah...those were pretty amazing times I'll never forget! Who knew that we'd be making history, and the culture of our generation would be admired and popular today.
I am a visual/freelance artist, working in various media, including acrylics, oils, water colours, pastels, charcoal, graphite, and mixed media. I have been in countless group shows, and a few solo shows here in Juneau. I am also a singer, and have sung at the Alaska Folk Festival, JAHC, Concerts in the Park, and at Karaoke.
Upcoming Plans and Goals include my own Artist Webpage, more art projects, shows, and possibly a singing duet, engagement with a local friend/musician at various nightclubs in Juneau.
All Artwork Copyright(c)2009 - Diva T.
Who I'd like to meet:
Really groovy people, eccentrics, artists, models, photographers, musicians, writers, actors. Madonna, Linda Ronstadt, Ray Davies, Kate Braverman (Oh, wait a minute I did meet Kate here in Juneau, in the late 80's!), Miss Pamela Des Barres, Olivia De Berardinis, Bettie Page, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Kim Novak, the late Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Billie Holiday, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson to name a few.
Ray Davies - Working Man's Café http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12j1yAWFMPA
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I'm a native Southern Californian, baby-boomer currently living in Juneau, Alaska for 25 yrs. I have family living here, and that's why I came up, initially for a summer vacation back in 1982. Decided I might want to move to Alaska, so I did in 1983. Met my future husband in '84, he was a commercial fisherman. And as they say, the rest is history.... It took me a while to get used to the weather and social climate of Juneau, which is a small town, than where I had been used to living in San Diego, before that Hollywood, Calif., where I was born and grew up. I, too was a Groupie in my younger years, and frequented the Sunset Strip and the Whisky, Rainbow Bar & Grill, the Roxy, Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, E Club, Starwood, Gazzari's, the Troubadour, Granny Takes a Trip English Clothing store, Fred Slatten Shoes (was the most Fabulous shoe store in the world specializing in 5" rhinestone platforms & snakeskin shoes), Fred Segal, The Pleasure Dome, which was a really groovy 60's/70's boutique specializing in rich-hippie, antique/vintage looking clothing in velvets, satin, chiffon, lace, paisley prints, fringe & crochet shawls, beaded jewelery, etc., which used to be on the Strip, not too far from the Hyatt House, I believe, where Rock Musicians of the day like Janis Joplin, and myself would occasionally shop, Tower Records (now defunct)and many other groovy places that used to be up on the Strip. Of course we can't forget the infamous "Riot House" where the English bands used to stay. My favorite band was the Kinks, and they stayed there quite a bit. I remember a pool party on the penthouse floor for the Kinks, given by their record company. It was really a gas! Also, remember seeing Led Zeppelin in the coffee shop restaurant, right off the ground floor lobby. Girls wanted to get in, but they had it roped off, as it was a private party. Ah...those were pretty amazing times I'll never forget! Who knew that we'd be making history, and the culture of our generation would be admired and popular today.
I am a visual/freelance artist, working in various media, including acrylics, oils, water colours, pastels, charcoal, graphite, and mixed media. I have been in countless group shows, and a few solo shows here in Juneau. I am also a singer, and have sung at the Alaska Folk Festival, JAHC, Concerts in the Park, and at Karaoke.
Upcoming Plans and Goals include my own Artist Webpage, more art projects, shows, and possibly a singing duet, engagement with a local friend/musician at various nightclubs in Juneau.
All Artwork Copyright(c)2009 - Diva T.
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