Dress Me Good

Ready to Wear

If in doubt, wear black

In Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion...

but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right.

Thomas More

Like it's Sunday Baby...

There's no shame in loving me baby

But am I worth saving... am I?

Dress me good, like it's Sunday Baby

Walk me slow, down the road

I could pray to a neon Jesus

But I'm no believer... am I?

Dress me good, like it's Sunday Baby

Walk me slow, down the road

And of course, it would be quite rude of me not to mention...

Dress Me Good is now available for purchase at all the most beautiful digital outlets... you don't even have to leave the house...

Everyone Wants to Put You in a Box

What kind of music do you make? What does it sound like? Dress Me Good: Sounds like...

A slow walk under the mid day sun with a tall exotic woman on the edge of a border town. A wagon, pulled by four white horses festooned in white feathers, follows close behind as a black limousine glides to a halt at the other end of the street.

The whole town looks deserted apart from a girl and a boy, hiding in the shadows... watching in wonder. Suddenly, a weather beaten door opens and the pair are scooped up in the arms of a middle aged woman... She hurries them inside but a ball drops from the boy's hand and bounces aimlessly for a few yards before rolling under the hooves of the oncoming horses... No one thinks to retrieve the ball.

Off in the distance, the driver of the limo pops the trunk and walks slowly to the back of the car. He takes out a large, heavy, zipped up bag and throws it into the road before climbing back in behind the wheel. The limousine reverses, side on to the street then pulls away, as if gliding into the horizon, leaving only a cloud of dust in it's wake... A stray dog runs excitedly up to the discarded bag but within a second gives out a frightened yelp and runs for cover...

Poem

IL MARE E LA MORTE

I heard the voices

I heard the ocean sing

Oh lover I was falling, falling

As your heart sang

It filled the air

Singing lover sail home to me

On the rocks there

I could hear you

Oh lover are you falling, falling

As your voice sang

From the water's edge

Lover sail home to me

David Lloyd 2013

Robert Montgomery

Solar power and LED. Light from the sun, recycled to power the lights illuminating the text.

We are what we wear...

Film of the Week - Harold & Maude - Hal Ashby 1971

"A lot of people enjoy being dead.

But they are not dead, really.

They're just backing away from life.

Reach out! Take a chance!

Get hurt even!

But play as well as you can.

Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room."

Maude

Funeral - Robert Frank

If in doubt... wear black... The Huntress by Charley Greenfield

Baby You Can Drive My Car... 

But... when in doubt...

Until next time xxx

Goldfish - Guy Bourdin

It Might Get Loud

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

Jack Kerouac

Hendrix - New York 1968 - Shot by Elliot Landy

A is for Attitude... E is for Everything

"The difference between Pop and Rock 'n Roll? You might get fucked!"

Robert Fripp

Peggy Van Alden: How dare you think such cheap tactics would work with me!

Vince Everett: That ain't tactics, honey. It's just the beast in me.

Jailhouse Rock

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry

John Lennon

"Women want what you've got. They want what they don't have."

Chuck Berry

We love our Queen...

I met Sid Vicious for the first time at the ICA that night. I was there with Kenny Morris, who'd later be the drummer/pillow in Siouxsie and the Banshees. Syd asked if either of us could play drums, Kenny said he did... Then, without really a blink, Sid said "Do you want to be in my band?" I remember laughing when Kenny said "Perhaps..." and got the job, despite his not so rock 'n roll vocabulary. Christened by Johnny Rotten as The Flowers of Romance, they rehearsed for a few of months with Vivienne Albertine and Steve Walsh on guitars, until the Sex Pistols sacked Glen Matlock and took Sid aboard the good ship Malcolm... Viv Albertine moved on to the Slits while some time later Steve Walsh joined Manicured Noise.

Ironically, some years later, Glen asked me if I'd be interested in joining a reformed Sex Pistols with Steve Jones and Paul Cook... For me, it was a none starter... I'd have made an appalling Johnny Rotten. The plot thickened even further when Allan Dias, my friend and the bass player in my previous band Uropa Lula (below), joined John Lydon in the wonderful Public Image Limited... A circle of incest only bettered by Fleetwood Mac.

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Mikael Jansson for Vogue Nippon

Neon of the Week

Painters, Victoria Lucas and Richard William Wheater created a joint project called “12 Months of Neon Love” . They took a string of popular songs and turned them into a series of twelve neon citations that have been installed on the roofs in West Yorkshire, England. Shouldn't every city have half a dozen of these on the rooftops...

For Newcastle...
'In Every Dream Home a Heartache,'
'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place'
and of not forgetting...
'Something Kinda Ooooh!'

This week plugging Women Make Noise - My friend Jackie Badger one of the contributors in both text and music.

Film of the Week

Mentor: I like you, Clarence. Always have. Always will.

“I come from a generation whose soundtrack helped empower the listener, helped people to be all they could be and revelled in individuality. I’m living proof that music has that potential. Today many of these ideas have been lost as we increasingly become passive consumers, slaves to the rhythm who are emotionally detached from the planet. There used to be an element of manipulation on the part of the record companies and the media, but nowadays it seems like there’s a strange complicity. When I was starting out, music was an anti-establishment thing. Now people get into music to be part of the establishment. I mean how radical can you be if you want what the man’s offering? It’s all about new values.

The current cultural climate feels as if punk never happened. Warhol’s fifteen minutes of fame has become a nightmare of people that can’t justify three. During the punk days we used to say never trust anyone over thirty, nowadays I sometimes think never trust anyone under thirty! For the most part Western culture has become increasingly conservative, if not darn right stagnant.

Nevertheless I remain optimistic. The punk spirit is like the force in Star Wars - you can’t stop it. There’s always something going on, you just got to look in new places and like Strummer said, ‘Make sure your bullshit detector is finely tuned’. Look to the amateur and the naïve for the new ideas in the future, everyone else is reading from the same book. Punk attitude still serves me on a day-to-day basis. As I’ve said all along, a good idea attempted is still better than a bad idea perfected and I’m still turning my problems into my assets.”

Don Letts -  'Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers'

Until next time... xxx

What?

Reality Bites

In which, this week, we explore a distorted, strange and beautiful world

Alladin VW - Huntington Beach, California 2011 - Juan Ignacio Videla

Tricky Dicky

Richard Millhouse Nixon - 37th President of the United States

Could not levitate

Street Art - Street Life

Anders Gjennestad aka Strøk - Porsgrunn - Telemark county - Norway.


Looking for Mr Goodbar?

Ladies! A new romance in the air?
Is he the right man for you? Is he really more than just a pretty face?

I'm here to help... AskDavid.com

Behind you!

Seeing is Believing

Film of the Week - The Shining - Stanley Kubrick 1980

"You're the caretaker, sir. You've always been the caretaker."

The Aspe Revolver Bag

Given when shoppers bought a book by Belgium’s most famous crime-writer, Pieter Aspe.

Presenting...

Press play for an exclusive preview of my own work, the unreleased In Your Heart

In Your Heart

Oh love wake up, talk back, hold on
I know your ways, the hands of Eve
Can feel them reigning down on me

And I'll wake up in your heart
I will wake up in your heart

I know you'll well for these sad eyes
I know you'll run back
Save me now, sail my love, sail your heart in mine

In your heart (I can hold you)
In your heart (I can have you)
In your heart (I can feel you)

Poor love wait up, hold me I want you
I know your hands, the way you breath
Can feel you reaching out for me

When I can't wake up in your arms
I will wake up in your heart

I know you well, I know your eyes
I know you'll run back
Save me now, sail my love, sail your heart in mine

In your heart (I can hold you)
In your heart (I can have you)
In your heart (I can feel you)

. . . . .

Twilight Zone?

Perth, Australia - Google Earth shows a satellite image of a flying car.
Want an explanation? Wait there, it's coming!

Voluptas Mors

With Voluptas Mors (Voluptuous Death - 1951), Salvador Dali, in collaboration with photographer Philippe Halsman created a portrait of Dalí posing beside a giant skull, a tableau vivant (or “living picture”) comprising seven female models. Halsman and Dali took three hours to arrange the the tableau from an original sketch by Dali.

"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject...

rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."

Dali

Neon of the Week - Luke Robinson 2011

"I could pray to a Neon Jesus... but I'm no believer... Am I?
Dress Me Good - John VII

Happiness... just an illusion?

Wesley was raised in California and took up music at age four, relearning to play the guitar and ukulele after losing all but the thumb and one finger on his left hand... he contributed the yodeling to the "Silly Song" in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Marilyn started acting in motion pictures with Shirley Temple at the age of ten 10. She survives Wesley, who died in 2003.

This week plugging Ms Ambrosia Parsley and the wonderful Bastard France

Oh, and Google Earth - It's not a shadow, it's just a black car parked nearby. Sorry :/

Until next time...

Expressionism

Anyone for tennis?
Derek Hudson - Excursions

Pave Paradise

You can keep 'em for the birds and bees...

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
Thomas Jefferson

We'll always have Paris

but...

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Linda Evangelista by Steven Meisel

Drink up...

Wakey wakey... eggs and bakey!

Budd: You gotta hand it to the old girl. I never saw nobody buffalo Bill the way she buffaloed Bill. Bill used to think she was so damn smart. I tried to tell him... "Bill, she's just smart for a blonde."

Behind you!

Black feathers on horses...

A film I made using my own montage work, using multiple source images. Inspiration Steven Meisel, Javier Vallhonrat, Paolo Roversi, Sebastian Faena, Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello, Bettina Rheims, Norman Parkinson, Ellen Von Unwerth, Eric Kroll, Helmut Newton, Amber Valletta, Guinevere Van Seenus, Eniko Mihalik, Lauren Santo Domingo, Monica Bellucci, Shalom Harlow, Olga Sherer, Ming Xi, Iriss Strubegger...

There's no shame in loving me baby

But am I worth saving?

Am I?

Dress me good, like it's Sunday Baby

Walk me slow, down the road

I could pray to a neon Jesus

But I'm no believer

Am I?

Dress me good, like it's Sunday Baby

Walk me slow, down the road

Dress me good, like it's Sunday Baby

Walk me slow, down the road

Dress me good, in your eyes

Dress me good, in your eyes

New single coming soon 'Dress Me Good' xxx

In which we rejoice in the fact that...

If we build it, they will come

And plugging my friend Sarah Lorien's Aqualash

This should feature in a film... It has a beautiful, playful and eerie quality...

All the fun of the fair...

It started with a kiss...

Until next week... xxx