Clint Eastwood, GQ’s Badass Of The Year.
Normally, I could give a flying fuck about what GQ has to say these days. However, I absolutely agree with GQ on crowning 79 year old Clint Eastwood as their “Badass of the Year”. That said, I’d totally hit it. And so would you so stop lying.
The Get Up Kids, On With The Show. From 2001’s Eudora. For K and his hate/hate relationship with Motley.
Despite SKYPE’s best efforts to prevent Episode #40 of The Movies About Girls Podcast from happening without yours truly, the best fucking podcast on movies could not be stopped! From Devil Girl to pornographic Christmas cards to thong thiefs, we covered it all. You can listen to Episode #40 here or just click the podcast button on the right of this page to link to The Movies About Girls website. Dig it.
Also, if you’re searching for your spandex and Aqua Net (pink can, ‘natch) after listening to our Daily Earwig today, The Get Up Kids cover of Motley Crue’s “On With the Show”, you can find it on TGUK 2001 record, Eudora. The record is full of alt versions of everything from Bowie to The Cure.
The Kids disbanded back in 2005, but have been active this year following the 10th Anniversary, double-vinyl reissue of their 1999 record, Something to Write Home About in September. The band is currently in the midst of a massive tour that concludes in March in Tokyo.
Joan Collins arriving at the Christopher Kane show at London Fashion Week. For Michael K.
Dear Ms. Collins,
When I grow up I want to be just like you.
Love,
Cherrybomb
Look out London, Mickey Rourke is 57 today.
Happy birthday to the chief muse of this blog, Mickey Rourke. I have no idea when this photo was taken or who it was taken by but on behalf of my eyes, I want to thank you.
Brian Viverios, Evil Eye, 2009. For K.
California artist/filmaker Brian Viverios’ acrylic calling card is hot women. Hot tattooed and bruised women with ciggys hanging Bogart style from their lips. Right now, Viverios is working on a collaborative piece with another of my favorite artists, Dan Quintana.
Full gallery of Viverios work here. NSFWish and completely red hot.
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.
Sex Pistol ice-cream cocktail.
On September 10th a new London boutique called The Icreamists will open it’s doors and start serving an ice-cream cocktail called the Sex Pistol. The drink contains ginkgo, biloba, arginine and guarana, ingredients that can stimulate you sex drive. The creamy concocktion (best typo ever) is served with a shot of La Fee Absinthe which contains 70% alcohol.
More on The Icecreamist here.
Blondie, The Hardest Part. From 1980’s Eat to the Beat.
My previous post got me thinking about Deborah Harry for some reason. While it might be hard to believe, this video is actually pretty sophisticated for 1980. Anyway, whatever this video might lack is made up for by Deborah Harry looking completely hot in a brown wig and this backstage pass ensemble she obviously lifted from Lita Ford’s closet.
Blondie plays with The Donnas (!) and Pat Benatar (!!) tomorrow, August 4th at Wolf Trap National Park’s Performing Arts Center in Virginia.
Clip from the cult Japanese rock ‘n’ roll Zombie movie, Wild Zero. 2000.
This movie has everything! Zombies, a love affair in spirit of Hedwig, microphones that spit fire, UFOs, chicks with machine guns, motor-oil head Japanese guitar God rock band, Guitar Wolf, their beyond cool leader ACE! and an ultimate zombie that shoots fricken laser beams out of his eyes. What more could you ask for? I loved this movie so much that I went out immediately after seeing it and bought my own copy. Because zombies are forever. Unless they get their head blown off. Then, not so much.
This weekend I also caught Hanzo the Razor: The Snare from 1972. The second in a series of three, first-rate Japanese Kung Fu splatter fests featuring veteran Japanese actor Shintarō Katsu as Hanzo. A pissed off Samurai with a constant hard-on, who lives in a booby-trapped (the pun, while not intended for once, stays) house. It was the perfect double-feature.
Trailer for the 1974 movie, Zardoz staring Sean Connery. How Connery came back from this flick to play Bond again in 1983’s Never Say Never Again, is beyond me.
Welcome to the very sexy, shirtless, NRA loving future world of Zardoz. A world where guns outnumber shirts (and proper pants for that matter) by at least 50 to 1. And, because I know it crossed your mind already, Charlton Heston was busy trying to convince a post-apocalyptic world that Soylent Green is PEOPLE!, so Zardoz director John Boorman (Deliverance) naturally went with Connery. That’s my theory anyway, and I’m sticking to it.
Beth Ditto publicity photo for her clothing line with UK store, Evans.
Sign up at the Evans site and you might win tickets to a future UK Gossip gig, a signed copy of the new Gossip record, Music for Men or, five key-pieces from Ditto’s new collection for UK retailer Evans.
The Gossip will play the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle on Saturday, July 25th.
Lita Ford at Rocklahoma in 2008. Photo by Mark Weiss.
In a Rolling Stone interview from earlier this month, Lita Ford said that Joan Jett’s manager offered her $1000 for her “life story”. While Jett is an active participant in The Runaways biopic, Ford says she has nothing to do with the film. Which sucks because Ford was a member of the seminal girl band until The Runaways broke up in 1979. More on the flick, due out sometime in 2010, here.
Lita’s new record, Wicked Wonderland, her first studio record in 14 years, is due out sometime this Fall.
More on Lita here.
Pink Vader Mask by Suckadelic.
The Iconography of Masks, a show curated by London based artist Jason Atomic , opens on July 30th at The Resistance Gallery in London. Masks will feature everything from from fetish hoods to death masks, created by artists and collectives like Suckadelic and Bigfoot, as well as new mask related paintings by Atomic himself.
To see more on the show, click here.
Trim Style Schick Quattro for Women. Designed for landings strips. If you just said, “what’s a landing strip”, you do not need this product.
So I’m flipping through the new issue of Women’s Health and THIS ad from Schick almost blew my eyes out. True story.
Vagina Light Switch Plate.
You might think that the vagina switch plate is cool, but, it’s got nothing on the glow in the dark vagina (NSFW).
Source: WOW!
Manties Saturday Night Special. From the Monday – Sunday Manties Collection. $78.00.
Manties are panties for men. The Manties with the lace on the leg will cost you extra, but it’s totally worth it.
Thanks to RDK for the link.
The Gossip infomercial for Music for Men.
Music for Men isn’t out until June 22nd (you can download the single Heavy Cross here now), so thank goodness for this oily infomercial, reminding us of that key date. The infomercial is also a reminder that going to the gym is sexy only in the dreams you have after whacking falling off to sleep while watching porn. Or old episodes of Dynasty. Did you know that Louis Farrakhan played a minor role in Dynasty? But I digress.
This is the year of The Gossip. If my predictions turn out to be false, then I’lI drink a pint glass full of Three Olives Cherry Vodka. Thankfully, I know I’m right on this one so there will be none of that cough-syrup fuckery in my glass anytime tonight maybe later soon.
Cherrybombed.com is about the music and culture of the Pacific Northwest, as well as other cool happenings around the world. We also shine a spotlight on celebrities behaving badly. Here, you will find videos, low-brow artwork and images, and tattoos only a mother could hate.
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