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music
Paris Je T’aime!
What would a night in Paris be without the music of our beloved, Joséphine Baker? Hailey Tuck will be delighting our audience with her renditions of a few of our favorite Baker tunes! If you didn’t have the pleasure of seeing her sing at the very first Vintage Vivant (Paper Moon), then here’s your chance [...]
Edith Piaf: le petit oiseau
I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words. – Edith Piaf The story of Edith Piaf is all at once unbelievable, inspiring, and beautifully tragic. Abandoned by her parents, she was raised by her grandmother who owned a brothel in Normandy. The prostitutes helped to raise little Edith, who was [...]
Storyville Photos & Music (NSFW)
On May 29th, Vintage Vivant will present an evening of Hot Jazz, sex and sin inspired by Storyville, vintage lingerie and secrets of the boudoir. Before we get to the eyecandy of inspiration posts, we present a little history lesson about New Orleans and it’s infamous Red Light District. In the early 20th century, photographer [...]
Easterbunny Hijinks
Well, kittens – the Bunnyhop Bash was a blast and a half! The Easterbunny himself was there! We all ate too much candy, guzzled giggle-water, and did the Bunnyhop with Fatbottom Cabaret! Best Easter Sunday ever? Yeah, we would say so! Check out the fabulousness and hilarity from the photobooth! Your loving hostesses in our [...]
Gilded Lillies
Our eyes are still half-blinded from the dazzle of so many gorgeous creatures flitting about like gilded butterflies under the soft light of Swan Dive’s crystal chandeliers. Once again, everyone turned it out in fine style! Sugar-daddies and jazz-babies alike jitterbugged and lindy-hopped to the Eastside Dandies, who really are just the eel’s hips – [...]
Agent Ribbons – European Tour
Agent Ribbons: everything I love. Imagine if The Zombies and The Boswell Sisters collaborated on an album that was recorded in a Victorian house decorated by Dame Darcy. From the tick-whir of the Super 8 Projector on Rubix Cube to the sweet cirrus cloud melodies of Grey Gardens, Natalie Ribbons has a voice like a [...]
Talking Machines – Phonograph Documentary
Greetings modern anachronists and fellow phonograph enthusiasts! I have an exciting documentary to introduce to you. Bison Grass Films from the UK is making a film about modern-day phonograph collectors and creators. They are traveling this spring through the UK, Australia, Japan and the USA to find collectors & the like to interview. I am [...]
Kissing Film Stills, pt. 26
Reefer Madness! Formally titled “Tell Your Children,” this cautionary tale from 1938 features a trio of drug dealers and innocent teens who become addicted to “reefer cigarettes.” Here are the teen sweethearts, smooching while studying Shakespeare and innocently drinking hot chocolate. After Mary’s mother busts up the amour, Jimmy falls into a fountain. In the [...]
Choice Bit of Calico
Oh, gosh, what have I been up to? All of this heat makes the days melt together. Taking the dog on long walks in the August heat to get zucchini tacos at El Chilito. Listening to John Waters read his new book “Role Models” on my iPod everywhere: on the bus, on long walks, and [...]
Mechanical Instruments & Wonders
I have a general rule where I don’t watch movies that were filmed after Man walked on the Moon, therefore, I seldom watch new-release movies in the theatre. I’m so fortunate to have the Alamo Draft House and Paramount theatres here in Austin that play old favorites of mine, that if I do seek out [...]
April 18th, 2010
Yellow/Pink flower hairclips by Hello Kitty – Toy Joy, ATX Victorian/Damask black earrings – Urban Outfitters Sex Pistols Shirt – Urban Outfitters 1970s black sailor pants (made into shorts by me) – Military Supply Store, Seattle Black wedges – Melissa, Belo Horizonte, Brazil I really debated on if I should post this outfit or not, [...]
The Black Bottom Stomp – Dance
Une Petite Histoire: The Black Bottom is a dance that originated in New Orleans in the 1900s. The rhythm is based on the iconic Charleston dance, although it’s more sexual in nature. You bump your bottoms together, people! (See above diagram) I read several places that The Black Bottom was more popular than the Charleston, [...]
Music Monday – Annette Hanshaw
If you don’t already know her, I’m very pleased to acquaint you with one of my favorite singers! Annette Hanshaw (1901- 1985) needs little more than a piano accompaniment, ukulele strum and cymbal punctuation to offset her dreamy, buttery voice. Her songs are filled with breathy pauses and hums as she pleads “Love me Tonight” [...]
