Tag Archives: Maila Nurmi

ain’t life strange?

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry this is another one of my all time favorite record covers – definitley in my top ten. i’ve had this sitting around for 25 years. when i sold my record collection to a dealer, i kept this … Continue reading →

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horror if it all

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ) this is some of the extremely rare footage of the original vampira show. like elvira, vampira introduced cheezy horror flicks and made snide remarks about how shitty they were. the big difference is that vampira … Continue reading →

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the vampires… desires of the dark promise

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Art

the vampires… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Vampire chicks! we love ‘em to death! the vampire chick is one of those ubiquitous and constantly present iconographic images in our culture. there’s even an enormous amount of pornography exclusively dedicated to vampire … Continue reading →

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Beaudelaire & the ''Beats''

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Dave

Take a phenomenon. And then de-fang it. Commodify it. Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into moralized and unflattering … Continue reading →

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