Choo Choo la Rouge, Here Come the Guns. From the record, Black Clouds, out on Kiam Records of Brooklyn, NY.

Choo Choo la Rouge hails from my home base, a planet named Boston, Massachusetts.

More on Choo Choo and their one woman army record label, Kiam Records here.

Thanks!: WOW.

Frehley’s Comet live in London doing the Rip it Out from Frehley’s KISS 1978 solo record.

Friday night nostalgia has taken hold of me. Hey, at least I didn’t have to dig through all the toys in the attic for this piece of vinyl.

Ace’s gig on September 12th at LA’s Viper Room is sold out. Lucky you LA…

*Programming note: Bumbershoot, Davilla 666 and Labor Day have arrived. Posts will be slowish as I plan to be drinking and annoying my eardrums…*

Mickey Rourke and a member of London’s finest.

My mind goes to every gutter imaginable every time I look at this photo. Mostly because the photo was taken in a gutter in London that Mickey Rourke happened to be taking a ciggy break in. But don’t worry. Mickey isn’t trading his precious cancer sticks for the upper-bunk in some London jail cell. Rourke asked to be cuffed in front of the paps because that’s what you do for fun when you’re out for a night in London. If you’re Mickey Rourke that is. All pointy-toed shoes, ciggy mouth and sweaty moobs aside, I’d still hit it.

More photos via my favorite blog, Dlisted.

All the Flowers of a Sydney Garden body tattoo on Austraila native, Geoff Ostling. Tattoo art by eX de Medici.

This is a sort of NSFW shot of Geoff Ostling. Ostling has had his entire body tattooed by Australian artist eX de Medici. de Medici began work on the now 65 year old former teacher back in 1988. The full-body work features, among other things, images of 62 flowers all native to Australia and Sydney. Upon his death, Ostling skin will be preserved and donated to a museum. You can view a full gallery of Ostling tattooed bod here.

Hate machine, mindless virtuosity [brown luger] 2002 by eX de Medici. Watercolour, white gouache on vellum.

de Medici opened her own tattoo parlor down under in 1990. She is world renowned for her watercolor works as well as her extensive tattoo work with Ostling. The creative and inky relationship between de Medici and Ostling was captured in the documentary “Skin”.

More on eX de Medici here.

Ron Wood Dress, £205. Is that Amy Winehouse?

Rolling Stone bassist, Ron Wood, has rolled out a new clothing line for Liberty of London. The designs are based on Wood’s paintings. Wood took up painting after his stint in rehab in the late 80’s. Some pieces are available at Liberty’s website now. Look for the full collection to launch online and in stores the first week of October.

Ivanabitch Vodka, by International Spirits. Vodka with an attitude. And a pickle. Pickle not included.

This billboard ad for the Russian made vodka, Ivanabitch, was banned by Viacom and Clear Channel in 2005. But not for it’s racy name. The ads were banned over the pickle. And that’s because according to Viacom and CC, a pickle looks just like a penis. You know, all green and bumpy. Clearly, Viacom and CC have a serious case of penis pickle envy. Weirder still is the fact that Ivanabitch isn’t pickle flavored vodka like I had hoped. But this one is…:

Garaht Malosol Pickle flavored vodka from Russia.

Garaht Malosol makes an 80 proof pickle flavored vodka that retails for $19.99. I’m thinking Garaht mixes up a pretty sweet Bloody Mary, but sadly, I’m an 80 proof pickle virgin. If you’ve tried this salty intoxicant, let me know…

Metallic Doc Martens by Raf Simons.

These new Doc’s by designer Raf Simons are due out later this month. The only problem with these super-sharp shoes is that they only come in men’s sizes. BOO!

More here.

Mr. Mustache pillow.

Who needs a real man for pillow talk time when you can have Mr. Mustache?

Thanks to Stacey for the “holy crap that pillow looks just like Freddy Mercury!” link.