February 2012
“Cosmetic campaign advertisers admitted that they marketed products according to...”
– -“On Make-up and Makeover” written by Paula Boock about make-up advertising in the 1940s-1960s. (via heres-looking-at-you-kid)
Etta James
thedevilsblues:
nineteenforties:
A lot of people think the blues is depressing, but that’s not the blues I’m singing. When I’m singing blues, I’m singing life. People that can’t stand to listen to the blues, they’ve got to be phonies.”
Etta James, Los Angeles Times in 1992
Right on, Kait.
“If a lover in a story wins his true love, that’s the end of the tale, even if...”
– Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut (via unicornism)
“When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...”
– Rudy Rucker (via deermoon)
“shoes are just a pedestal. what interests me is the power of the woman who wears...”
– christian louboutin (via sherocs)
“I suppose as I was standing there looking, I was doing one of those triumphant...”
– Edmund Kemper. (via ramirezdahmerbundy)
