The Weekly Inspiration; Freaks, Geeks, 60s and Klimt

This week I met Geoffrey Rush, which was cool, and saw a really disturbing play about a high school shooting, which is always fun...

I also got really obsessed with Freaks and Geeks, a one-series wonder starring baby Seth Rogen, James Franco, Martin Starr and Jason Segel, among others. It just strikes me as a really real show, at the risk of sounding like a wanker, the sets/costumes/characters/dialogue all cut through all the hyper-stylization of most American T.V shows. So um, inspiration number one: Freaks And Geeks

I've completely overlooked the geek side of Freaks and Geeks in these photos but hey, being a freak myself I have more interest in them.

Also, album covers in the sixties were the best so y'know, inspiration numero two;

As a side note: HOW FUCKING GREAT WERE THE 60S? 

SO GREAT, THAT'S HOW*

...

Anyhow, a couple years back I got a birthday card with this beautiful image on it, and I recently found it and stuck it above my desk, leading to my next inspiration; Gustav Klimt

Just. Ugh. Wow.

So that's it for the ~inspiration, enjoy xx

*Caps lock completely necessary.

Roll over Beethoven

Seeing as music is the most exquisite thing on this strange planet, I figured I'd share some of my favourite artists:

"You've got the sun, the moon, and The Rolling Stones"

"A strange young man called Dylan, with a voice like sand and glue"

Jefferson Airplane

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

David Bowie

 Led Zeppelin

Simon and Garfunkel

Patti Smith

The Beatles

"And by the way, which one's Pink?

The Velvet Underground

The Doors

 The Mamas and The Papas

Joni Mitchell

Cat Stevens

Florence + The Machine

Femme Fatales | Part II | Uschi Obermaier

"The target was Uschi Obermaier. If there was anything that could soothe my soul, it was her. She was beautiful. She was quite famous in Germany as a model who had graduated into an icon of the student protest movement that was traumatising relations between the generations in Germany and threatening to tear the country apart. She was a mad rock'n'roll fan... I'd seen her picture on posters and in magazines, and there was something about her that got to me. Her road is littered with guys who tried to tame her. They tried to tame something that's untameable. She's the best bad girl I know."

- Keith Richards, excerpt from Life. 

More info on Uschi

Femme Fatales | Part I | Anita Pallenberg

"Her name was Anita Pallenberg and no one ever seemed to know quite where she came from or who she was. When pressed, she would reveal that she was half Italian and half German and that she had worked as an actress with the Living Theatre. She had only to walk along the street to cause a string of traffic accidents. She had tumbling, shining blonde hair, a long, lithe body and wickedly beautiful cat’s eyes. She was no dumb blonde, either, and the combination of witty conversation and devastating looks rapidly turned her into the darling of aristocratic London."

- Text from Up And Down With The Rolling Stones
More info on Anita

Anita and Keith Richards on set of one of Anita's movie, Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell

"She knew everything and she could say it in five languages. She scared the pants off me."

- Keith Richards on his first encounter with Anita

Anita and Mick Jagger in Performance (1968)

"She was like no one anyone had ever met before, she was foriegn, exotic, very extrodinary looking. All the old school girls become redundent once Anita came along, they had to be more edgy and more fitting, and the ones that couldn't keep up got pushed aside, as I did." 

-Chrissie Shrimpton (ex-partner of Mick Jagger's) on Anita

"It was never easy, even in the early years, holding a straight conversation with Anita. She was brilliant; her mind was always racing and she would always be well ahead of you."

- Ian Stewart

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