#scary diva

[bitter69uk]

“The one thing I don't think I could live without would be the soundtracks to horror films,'' she said. ''I love to play them in my car as I drive down the freeway.'' Miss Galas sees no contradiction in that she is as fond of grade-B horror movies and of the heavy-metal rock of AC/DC as she is of Verdi and her vocal idol, Maria Callas.”

/ From a 1985 New York Times profile of Diamanda Galas /

Don’t let the resemblance to Morticia Addams fool you - Diamanda Galas has SOUL! The fierce Greek American avant-garde diva, pianist, performance artist and AIDS activist (who was born on 29 August 1955, turning 69 today) convincingly styles herself as an Angel of Death. Once memorably described by The New Yorker as “lounge singer in a world on fire”, she wields her remarkable bird-of-prey voice like a weapon and possesses the same kind of wraith-cheekboned, raven-haired beauty Walt Disney endowed his animated evil queen stepmothers with. Galas got her first break singing in front of insane asylum inmates, has paid tribute to Aileen Wuornos and in performance is apt to take the stage stripped to the waist and smeared in blood. Appropriately, director Francis Ford Coppola enlisted her to provide eerie shrieks and gasps for the sound effects in his 1992 version of Dracula. I haven’t seen Galas perform in years, but I vividly remember the last time: she was reinterpreting jazz standards like “All of Me” and “You Don’t Know What Love Is” in her own inimitable (blood-curdling) way, which lulled the uninitiated into a false sense of security. People were filing out in dismay all night! Keep doing what you’re doing, lady! (If you’ve never dipped a toe into Galas’ oeuvre, start with her spine-tingling interpretations of “I Put a Spell on You”, The Supremes' “My World is Empty Without You” or Johnny Cash’s “25 Minutes to Go").

[kevinvoncrastenburg]

The Ladies Of Urbzville. ✨

[bitter69uk]

“Had Diamanda Galás been born 400 years ago, she would have been declared a witch.  These days, she merely sings like she’s being burnt at the stake. The grimly beautiful Greek American chanteuse belongs to that elite company of divas of despair that includes Nico, Lydia Lunch and latter-day Marianne Faithfull. Unlikely as it sounds, Galás has hooked up with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones for this album, which matches his menacing slabs of eight-string bass to her avant-garde sensibilities and operatic ululations. The results seethe with tension and drama. “Skótoseme” (Greek for “kill me”) sees Galás’ mourning wails swept along by an Arabian drone. On the sarcastic “Do You Take This Man?”, she lashes out like a blues mama who’s been pushed too far, while the title track details a group of vengeful prostitutes gleefully plotting to murder a john. The Sporting Life is marinated in equal parts malice and black humour.”

/ From my review of The Sporting Life for the British music magazine Vox, 1994 /

“John Paul Jones and Diamanda Galás crumble the little gingerbread house of rock illusions with their collaborative album, The Sporting Life, detonating all the overplayed crap we’ve become accustomed to - the bland bass/drum rhythms, the singer hooting oooh baby baby, the guitar and its obligatory solo wheeze. The album opens the genre to an expanse where divisions between what is electronic and what is “natural” smear, where the instrument is only as good as its ability to scalp you …”

/ From Bomb magazine, October 1994 /

Released thirty year ago today (6 September 1994): the album The Sporting Life, a collaboration between Diamanda Galás and John Paul Jones, a true marriage made in heaven / hell. I saw the duo perform together in London on this tour. In addition to the songs cited above, I’d recommend the ballad “Tony” (on which Galás vows “I'll walk the street at night / screamin' your name …” and sounds like a bummed-out Janis Joplin) and her wild interpretation of the 60s soul classic “The Dark End of the Street.”

[faggotdads]

doodles, doodles, & more doodles

[kitschykitschykoo]

Cat's eyes...

[cashweasel]

Queen of Libra season 🥳🎂

[cr33p-a-z01d]

girls in the rock scene save me girls in the rock scene

[mystardustmelodyyy]

@remotewatch HQ’s Election Countdown Day 5: {REDACTED}

Everything is going wrong. Your family’s lake cabin should be a cozy respite for you and your fiancé, but you’ve scarcely been able to sleep since arriving last month. That’s to say nothing of the frightening compulsions invading your every waking thought, or how Jack has been looking at you like you’re a complete stranger lately. As the days grow shorter and winter closes in, you can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is happening to you both.

Happy Halloween, Silly Goose Nation! 👻🎃

What’s scarier than losing your mind with your fiancé? Project 2025

[simm-mouse]

Smoochin at the new years party😘😘

Speaking of Cash Monet and Louie Bricks, they're just over this open secret of a relationship

Also, here's a doodle of Scary Mary for @simstraffikcone! She's one of my favorites too

[theothervonkarmagirl]

🍭🍭FLAPPIN'JACK FLASH🍭🍭

A brief on Clara's beloved Pegasus. U v U

He is a showoff. When lots of people are watching, he will strut or fly around like he owns the place. He likes to sprint and jet around, and Clara swears he will look at you like, "I'm the fastest Pegasus in the world!"

When there are only a few people, or he is only around other pegasi or horses, he'll act like he isn't paid enough to listen to you. He will decide in 5 seconds if he likes you riding him or not, and if not, he will DRAMATICALLY send you flying. Naturally, the exception is Clara, with whom he has bonded.

He is too clever for his own good. Clara has to distract him when letting him out of the stable now because before, he watched her undo the lock so many times he figured it out himself and kept escaping. They had to design new locks and everything.

He loves treats and being brushed. You will brush him until he is satisfied. Otherwise, he will nudge you. He is ok with other animals, if they show proper deference! He doesn't like mice, though. They are too little and too fast. What is up with those guys? He also HATES BATHS. Bathing is a huge production.

He likes attention. Like a certain human we know, he will do things he knows he's not supposed to do, like run off with feed buckets, if he feels he is being ignored.

Clara is a princess but Flappin' Jack Flash thinks he is the king lol

[baku-usagi]

Being a woman is literally so frustrating and scary.

I wish everyday I wasn't born a woman, and not in a trans dysphoria way but in a I am constantly in pain and have medical issues that come back unstudied women's reproductive health issues.

My period had been going on longer then usual and heavier then usual.. I've felt sick and fatigued. It runs in the family. My mom had issues too.

I don't have Insurance or a ton of money so I wouldnt even know where to begin for a diagnosis.

Could be endometriosis or uterine fibroids.

But looking stuff up hasn't helped. I'm tired, nauseated and scared. God I'm so scared. I don't know what my body is doing or why. I don't know how to get help and I can't find anything online that isn't 'drink more water and don't be fat!"

I hate it.

[todayisafridaynight]

NO RIGHT like I was thinking about that the other day too and Surely Jo does not have a particularly rich inner life... I love that scenario with Ichi dearly though!

But while I was going through times I'd mentioned my dreams earlier, I saw I'd once dreamt that Jo was an avid rhythm gamer lmao

I'd pay an inappropriate amount of money to watch Jo fuck it up on DDR PLEASE that sounds like Such A Dream ☠️☠️

[bitter69uk]

“In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star.” Bette Davis, quoted in the opening credits of MaxXxine (2024).

“Bette Davis’ greatest creation was Bette Davis. She was – indeed – a fine actress, but she made sure that the world knew it, knew how hard she worked and what opposition she had to overcome to get great acting roles. She wanted to be known as an “actress” and she gritted her teeth, bulged her eyes and succeeded, winning two Oscars, eight nominations and numerous other awards. She became the Queen of Hollywood as surely as Clark Gable became its King, and she was a big box office star to boot.”

/ From The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The World’s Greatest Movie Stars (1979) by Ken Wlaschin /

Died on this day 35 years ago: Hollywood’s fierce “Mother Goddam”, Miss Bette Davis (5 April 1908 – 6 October 1989), concisely summarized by film historian John Kobal as “the most starry of actresses and the most actressy of stars.”

[kitschykitschykoo]

Vampire...

[theglizzardwizard]

New hot take from white clash fans: a terf is when a black man (that is also trans) disagrees with you on the topic of making porn for children's media.

[bitter69uk]

“Hollywood’s most representative “Great Movie Star” and the screen’s finest personification of no-holds-barred ambition, Joan Crawford created her own screen persona early, doubtless basing it on her own desperate climb from the bottom of society and pushed this screen image to the very peak of stardom. The outward manifestations changed, but the core of the image never altered: she was a tough, shrewd, determined woman who wanted the best things in life and would do anything to get them – even murder. “I love to play bitches,” she once said, and in the end, she came to symbolize the bitch-goddess success, the dark side of the American dream. She looked like a star, she behaved like a star, she was a star.” 

/ From The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The World’s Great Movie Stars (1979) by Ken Wlaschin / 

Born on this day: the fierce and regal Miss Joan Crawford (née Lucille LeSueur on 23 March 1904, although the precise year of Crawford’s birth is contested). Pictured: the diva photographed by Willy Rizzo in 1959. That’s almost certainly a glass of vodka next to her elbow. 

Joan Crawford gazing in the mirror, photographed by Willy Rizzo, 1959.