The Vampire Lovers
I suppose you know you're old when you're watching T in the Park on BBC3 and everyone is going on about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O and her 'effortless cool' and you're thinking exactly the opposite: you're thinking that she seems to have put an enormous amount of effort into looking really stupid. Like Keanu Reeves in badly-applied clown make-up. Or, in another moment, a sort of Native American Boadicea.
Not that there's anything too badly wrong with the music, even if they did start out pretending to be 'No Wave' and have ended up more like Siouxsie and the Banshees. Ut they ain't; but then who is? Am I the only person in the world waiting for Ut to reform? Everyone else has got back together, even if no-one ever heard of them in the first place. Really there's just Ut and Abba left.
Oh, and the Smiths.
Oh, and Haysi Fantayzee.
I suppose I shall have to look elsewhere for my icons. The other evening I overheard (that's what it felt like somehow - overhearing) an interview on Resonance with Ingrid Pitt, star of many a 70's horror movie. It wasn't all that easy to make out what she was saying, partly because of her thick East European accent, partly because her voice kept alternating between a whisper and a hysterical shriek. It came to me that she was quite gaga, as the young people say, until I realised that she was talking about her experiences in a concentration camp, and could be forgiven for being a bit emotional. Mind you, wasn't this in answer to a question about Hammer films?
Then she was suddenly talking about Elizabeth Bathory. Defending her, if I wasn't imagining it. Bathory could 'speak five languages', apparently. Which more than makes up for all the bathing in virgin's blood, I'm sure you'll agree. I'm thinking of putting Bathory forward as a figurehead for the blood service. We could start recruiting virgins and selling their blood as a beauty treatment. I am already at work on a Powerpoint presentation.
Finally, did Ingrid Pitt actually say that she'd 'killed seventeen Nazis', or did I imagine it? I was actually quite frightened by this stage. But icons should be scary, yes?
Not that there's anything too badly wrong with the music, even if they did start out pretending to be 'No Wave' and have ended up more like Siouxsie and the Banshees. Ut they ain't; but then who is? Am I the only person in the world waiting for Ut to reform? Everyone else has got back together, even if no-one ever heard of them in the first place. Really there's just Ut and Abba left.
Oh, and the Smiths.
Oh, and Haysi Fantayzee.
I suppose I shall have to look elsewhere for my icons. The other evening I overheard (that's what it felt like somehow - overhearing) an interview on Resonance with Ingrid Pitt, star of many a 70's horror movie. It wasn't all that easy to make out what she was saying, partly because of her thick East European accent, partly because her voice kept alternating between a whisper and a hysterical shriek. It came to me that she was quite gaga, as the young people say, until I realised that she was talking about her experiences in a concentration camp, and could be forgiven for being a bit emotional. Mind you, wasn't this in answer to a question about Hammer films?
Then she was suddenly talking about Elizabeth Bathory. Defending her, if I wasn't imagining it. Bathory could 'speak five languages', apparently. Which more than makes up for all the bathing in virgin's blood, I'm sure you'll agree. I'm thinking of putting Bathory forward as a figurehead for the blood service. We could start recruiting virgins and selling their blood as a beauty treatment. I am already at work on a Powerpoint presentation.
Finally, did Ingrid Pitt actually say that she'd 'killed seventeen Nazis', or did I imagine it? I was actually quite frightened by this stage. But icons should be scary, yes?
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