jiminspiration

i really want a jimi hendrix/sergeant pepper's esque antique military jacket. I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet was a boutique on Canaby St. circa 1960 famous for outfitting jimi hendirx, eric clapton, the bea-uhls & the who. in fact, designer peter blake had one of those euureka! moments for the cover of sergeant pepper's after walking past the shop in 1966.

a jacket on ebay that i really want buy but also think i should wait to purchase in case i find a better one

jimi

owner Jimmy Connors infront of the shop

jimi + buddy miles

Posted by Madame Lamb on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 12:19 AM 1 comments

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have fun haaaaanging out this weekend!

• don't forget to go see Ultramafic and Pan Tostado drop beats tomorrow night at Heathers on 13th and A
  

• J Gabriel, a longtime ML fav, submitted a track to Pete Tong TV and he's a finalist. Vote for Vote for "Moonlight Slide" here

• Crank this tune tonight
  

happy friday!
xxx

ML

Posted by Madame Lamb on Friday, January 30, 2009 at 7:33 PM 0 comments

Heathers Saturday

Pan Tostado and I are getting on the tables this Saturday at Heathers. Expect it to look a lot like this:

9 till close, 13th and A. In the words of Freestyle Express, bring your body with you baby and we'll make you feel right.

Posted by Ultramafic at 7:30 PM 0 comments

coachella lineup 2009

the Coachella desert fest announced their 2009 lineup. Headliners & ML favs include Paul McCartney, The Cure, Amy Winehouse, Atmosphere, Sebastien Tellier, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Molotov, Steve Aoki, Thievery Corporation, The Killers, Lykke Li, Noah & the Whale, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Throbbing Gristle, and Lupe Fiasco. Alas, I won't be making it out west for this one (I'm trying make it down to jazz fest and have committed to both Alpine Valley Phish shows). I'm sure Novel Designs will be there, camera in hand, so watch for that come April.

Here's the scheduled lineup.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17: Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Leonard Cohen, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Beirut, The Black Keys, Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, The Ting Tings, The Crystal Method, Ghostland Observatory, Crystal Castles, The Airborne Toxic Event, We Are Scientists, N.A.S.A., Patton & Rahzel, M. Ward, The Presets, The Hold Steady, A Place to Bury Strangers, Felix da Housecat, Buraka Som Sistema, Ryan Bingham, Bajofondo, Peanut Butter Wolf, Noah & the Whale, White Lies, The Bug, Alberta Cross, Los Campesinos!, Craze & Klever, Molotov, Switch, Gui Boratto, Steve Aoki, The Aggrolites, People Under the Stairs, The Courteeners, Cage the Elephant, Dear and the Headlights.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18: The Killers, Amy Winehouse, Thievery Corporation, TV on the Radio, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Atmosphere, Mastodon, TRAV$DJ-AM, Henry Rollins, Crookers, Turbonegro, Hercules and Love Affair, Superchunk, Glasvegas, Dr. Dog, Drive-By Truckers, Booker T & the DBT’s, Amanda Palmer, The Bloody Beetroots, Surkin, Para One (Live), Calexico, Liars, Bob Mould Band, Zane Lowe, Electric Touch, Blitzen Trapper, James Morrison, Drop the Lime, Glass Candy, Thenewno2, Gang Gang Dance, Billy Talent, Ida Maria, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Zizek, Cloud Cult, Tinariwen.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19: The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Throbbing Gristle, Lupe Fiasco, Paul Weller, Peter Bjorn and John, X, Antony & the Johnsons, Roni Size, Public Enemy, Jenny Lewis, Groove Armada, Paolo Nutini, Christopher Lawrence, Lykke Li, The Kills, Okkervil River, M.A.N.D.Y., Clipse, Sebastien Tellier, Fucked Up, Perry Farrell, The Horrors, Late of the Pier, K’naan, Junior Boys, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Supermayer, No Age, Vivian Girls, Shepard Fairey, Themselves, Gaslight Anthem, The Knux, Mexican Institute of Sound, The Night Marchers, Marshall Barnes

Posted by Madame Lamb at 9:58 AM 1 comments

Slim Aarons was charmed, I'm sure

Slim Aarons is an American photographer known for shooting beautiful people in beautiful places doing beautiful things and for his swimming pool/apres ski scenes. His photographs of playboys, celebrities, and socialites in Snowmass, St. Tropez, Acapulco, Verbier, Marbella, Biarritz, Bermuda, et cetera, are very contrived but I find the color photos tres elegant. The chichi coffee table book he released in 1974 called A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life remains popular among people of all walks of life.

For more Slim Aarons photographs refer to Photographers Gallery.

Phillipe, Duc De Magenta et Marquis De MacMahon outside Chateau Sully in Autun with fiancee Amelie Drummond, 1968

a garden party in Miami in 1970

A fondue picnic for the opneing of Snowmass in 1967

A Thomas Taylor and Bing Crosby on the Pebble Beach golf course in 1977

Hugh Hefner with his Bunnies at the Playboy Key Club in Chicago

British photographer Lord Lichfield with Marina Lante della Rovere, Ines Torlonia, Signoria Gancia, in Porto Ercole, Italy in 1970

Truman Capote at his Brooklyn Heights apartment in 1954.

Princess Bianca at her Gstaad chalet, 1985.

A party at the Kaufmann house in Palm Springs, 1970

William F. Buckley near Gstaad with John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977

Douglas Fairbanks Junior, Oscar de la Renta, and standing behind him Emilio Pucci. On the other side of the table T Reed Vreeland stands behind the host in the red shirt, Pat de Cicco. Acapulco, 1966****

*This photograph is a reproduction of the Renoir painting Luncheon of the Boating Party: see it here.
thanks for the tip, BW!

W. Clifford Klenk with wife Hope



El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971

Skiiers at Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968

Rockefeller brothers in their Radio City, New York office

Molly Wilmot's pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1982

Architect Mies Van Der Rohe in Chicago, 1960

Afternoon tea at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills, 1960

Posted by Madame Lamb on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10:45 AM 0 comments

teaser: the adventures of the miniaturized man on a horse

for the legions of sebastien tellier fans out there who are dying in anticipation of a video for "roche," m. tellier has gone ahead and released a "teaser."

Posted by Merkin Muffley on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 8:23 PM 0 comments

snow day

My 20th century architecture course & my modern Spanish literature course were BOTH canceled this morning to the snow. Unfortunately, I still woke up at 7:40am to go to class. I knew I should have gone to Vermont this morning! I hope you're all able to enjoy the snow. I'm hiding away in a coffee shop.

Photograph by Pamelaklaffke.

Posted by Madame Lamb at 11:18 AM 0 comments

rip John Updike

John Updike was one of the most important contemporary American novelists. His death inspired me to move Couples to the top of my reading list. The novel is about adultery in a small New England town in 1968. The review below has totally absorbed me. Can't wait to read it.

"Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotics, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death. Adultery, says Updike, has become a kind of 'imaginative quest' for successful hedonism that would enable man to enjoy an otherwise meaningless life....The couples of Tarbox live in a place and time that together seem to have been ordained for this quest." -- Time Magazine

Posted by Madame Lamb at 10:50 AM 1 comments

that boy needs therapy

an old video from the avalanches...suddenly girl talk (if he ever did) doesn't seem so awesome.

Posted by Merkin Muffley at 10:46 AM 1 comments

Billy, Babe, and Bobbie Rainbow

In homage to "Wrestler", which I saw two nights ago, here are some great vintage wrestler prints designed by Peter Blake, one of the leaders of the 1960s British Art Movement. you may know Blake from his work designing the cover of the Sergeant Pepper's album. Blake was commissioned by DoDo Designs in 1967 to create prints that could be widely produced. Each of the Rainbow prints sold for 1Euro and brought his art onto the walls of the masses for the first time. Here's Billy Rainbow with sisters Bobbie and Babe Rainbow.

Posted by Madame Lamb at 9:45 AM 0 comments

Poster Boy choppin it up

The man behind the razor ad mutilation (or, as he prefers to call it, "sign remixing") is nyc guerilla artist Poster Boy. In a recent NYMag interview Poster Boy explained his artistic goals and ideologies. “No copyright, no authorship," he says, alluding to his hope of derailing the stigmas associated with recycling imagery. Poster Boy hopes his art is "a social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.” Poster Boy began remixing signs after working as a poster boy for a Chelsea gallery. Like many great NYC street artists before him (Keith Haring comes to mind), Poster Boy realized that he cold use the subway as a tool to reach the masses. “Unless we were clever enough to get it on the international news, we weren’t gonna broaden our audience," he explains. His choice to remix pop images also catches the eye. How postmodernist...or is that post-postmodernism?

Gross Girl

Mossy Tiles 2

Macdose the World

Ad-Waiting

Watch a short documentary on Poster Boy and watch the him in action below. The film was written and directed by Keith Haskel.

For more information on Poster Boy refer to:

• Poster Boy's YouTube Channel
• NYMag article on Poster Boy "Slice and Dice: How Poster Boy Turns Subway Ads into Political Art"
• Poster Boy's Flickr Photostream (updated sporatically)

Posted by Madame Lamb at 9:02 AM 3 comments