Irony Maiden

Monday, July 15, 2013

Good stuff.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Pretty proud of this guy actually. I mean it's too bad that we had to call it "Indie Magazine" but I'm glad I managed to make something good out of what I had to work with.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Violet Horizon by Psychic Ills

It's a song. Look it up.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Required field must not be blank, apparently.

Got to hang with this guy the other day. It was pretty fucking cool.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Work work work.

So much work this week! I have to write pieces on every single one of these by Tuesday.

Boolean Taxidermy by Zeitguised, 2013

Counter Cosmo by Jen Stark, 2011

Farm by Daniel Danger, 2013

Someone Saw It by Eujung Shin, 2013

Boreas by John William Waterhouse, 1903

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Michelangelo Caravaggio, 1598-99

Lady of Shallott by John William Waterhouse, 1888

The Red Room by Henri Matisse, 1908

Portrait of First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes by Daniel Huntington, 1881

Atlantis by Yvonne Todd, 2004

Bo-Drene by Yvonne Todd, 2004

Romanian Orphan by Yvonne Todd, 2005

Friday, June 28, 2013

Sometimes it's fun to be hollow.

From

http://nastaciachubinsky.tumblr.com/

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Monday, June 24, 2013

Friday, June 21, 2013

Favourites, old and new.

Cosmic Distortion by Jen Stark, 2012.

I discovered her work a few years ago, really glad to see that she's still making art.

And a new favourite that I just discovered.

Boolean Taxidermy from Zeitguised.

i always thought that if i loved, i would be loved back.

how wrong i was

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Posting this here because fucking Pinterest won't let you go over 500 characters.

This is the first Elizabeth Wurtzel book I ever read - I think I was 15 or 16 at the time and obsessed with Courtney Love, Riot Grrrl and feminism. I hadn't even heard of Prozac Nation - that chapter of my life was to come later.

This book reminds me of a time of relative innocence in my life, but I always knew that I wasn't a typical good girl. I picked this book up because of Courtney Love but ended up by coming away with a different and better understanding of "femininity" and the type of woman I would probably grow up to be like.

Wurtzel writes about Delilah, Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, Nicole Brown Simpson, Courtney Love, Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, Marilyn Monroe, and many more women whom I came to see as role models after reading this book. These are women who broke the mould and did everything for themselves.

I still think that Elizabeth Wurtzel is one of the best and most important writers of the last 20 years; I'm not really sure what she's doing now but I'm prompted to find out. I know a lot of people don't like her (they think she's whiny or something? Try having clinical depression, we'll see how you like it), but she was a huge inspiration to me when I was a teenager. Her writing continues to be important to me and I'd say that this book is a very good introduction to her work.

I would say that the masculine counterpart to this book would be Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon by Pamela Des Barres, which I read around the same time as Bitch and can also highly recommend. Des Barres writes about Syd Barrett, Marc Bolan, John Bonham, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Cochran, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Rick James, Brian Jones, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, Ricky Nelson, Gram Parsons, Johnny Thunders, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Sid Vicious, Dennis Wilson, and most fascinatingly, G.G. Allin.