#reseda. modelings

[3liza]

Exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers Jewels cleaving skin between breasts Your Cadillac breathes four hundred horses over blue lines You are going to Reseda to make love to a model from Ohio Whose real name you don't know You spin like the Cadillac was overturning down a cliff on television And the radio is on and the radioman is speaking And the radioman says women were a curse So men built Paramount studios And men built Columbia studios and men built Los Angeles It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles And the radioman says it is a beautiful night out there And the radioman says rock and roll lives And the radioman says it is a beautiful night out there in Los Angeles You live in Los Angeles and you are going to Reseda We are all in some way or another going to Reseda someday to die And the radioman laughs because the radioman fucks a model too Gone savage for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love Gone savage for teenagers who are aesthetically pleasing In other words fly, Los Angeles beckons It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles I am going to Los Angeles to build a screenplay about Lovers who murder each other I am going to Los Angeles to see my own name on a screen Five feet long and luminous As the radioman says it is 5 a.m. and the sun has charred The other side of the world and come back to us And painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles And you are listening to Los Angeles You are listening You are listening You are listening To Los Angeles

[simping-for-kamski]

The Rose and the Reseda

HELLO IT'S ME AGAIN WITH A NEW RAREPAIR OF HELL!!! Why nobody has posted any Zlatski on Ao3 yet is beyond my comprehension. Come ON! I wanted to write them as students so I went a bit AU because I realized "oh shit, the age gap" so I'm pretending there's barely an age gap, good, let's get some enemies to lovers vibes going.

Wordcount: 2,175 — read it on Ao3

The two of them snorted in the same dirty laughter. “You can’t say that!” Elijah swiveled his chair at him. “Go ahead and report me, tattle-toes.” Zlatko glanced back at him, grinning. “You laughed.” “Because it was so bad.” Elijah turned back to his screen. “It was politically incorrect. But witty. And that’s the difference between you and I,” Zlatko said. “I know when to make inappropriate jokes and you don’t. That’s why you can’t train your AI model. You can code, but you’re too socially-stupid to make it smart in that area.” Elijah turned to him again, flaring in renewed anger. “And you can’t get your android design to work out because you keep on using the wrong materials, because you can’t be arsed to read the documentation! You just go for the first thing that seems to fit your needs instead of properly researching all the options, you lazy ass!” “Oh yes, that’s right, I forgot. You’re the little STEM prodigy boy who can learn all the science shit all by himself,” Zlatko drawled. “Let me guess, you even know which materials I should use better than I do, huh?” “Well, maybe I do.” “Ha. Easy brag. Give me the specs if you’re that smart.” Elijah looked at him through narrowed eyelids. “You’re trying to manipulate me into doing your job for you. This ain’t Soviet Russia where physics obeys your laws.” “Right, it’s capitalist America where you suck dick and rip the benefit.” Zlatko huffed. “Too bad, I was going to offer you some help in training your AI model.” “A trade?” The two young men faced off as the word hung between them. Then Elijah let out a spiteful “Ha!” and turned his back to the other. “Never. You’re a dick, Andronikov. Suck it yourself.”

[matthewarnoldstern]

The best cars I've ever own

In honor of my brother Randy's 60th birthday, here's a list of the best cars I've ever owned. It features vehicles from Honda, Toyota, and Chevrolet.

My brother is turning 60 next month. Cars have always been an important part of his life. When we were kids, we spent every September visiting the car dealers on Reseda Boulevard collecting brochures for all the new year’s models. He turned his passion into a career. His website and YouTube channel is named Victory & Reseda after the neighborhood where we grew up and the gas stations on the…

[msfbgraves]

I feel like Chozen and Kumiko aren't together in CK, because Chozen has never thought himself worthy of Kumiko, and always felt guilty for what he did to her in KK2. Perhaps if he let her know, she would think about it, and finally, maybe not "get over" Daniel, but move on from him, and allow her heart to love someone who would love her back. TBH, I never bought the whole Daniel/Kumiko thing of KK2, and never did think it would work. Kumiko would always put her career first, Daniel his heart. That's the difference.

((In this, the Knights and Pawns universe, Chozen did feel some kind of way seeing Kumiko and Daniel together, and he hates Terry on sight.)) Okay, that's HILARIOUS. I want to see these four meeting, having dinner. Kumiko and Daniel are very happy! Meanwhile their spouses are bristling like bulldogs at each other. Also Very Jealous. HAHAA.

In this verse, Daniel does think that Kumiko put her career before him but I don't want to think so. First off, you'd get the whole "Woman chooses career and gets punished with lovelessness" trope. Plus, when she really didn't love him as much, that's perfectly legit, they're teens! And that could have been a perfectly valid reading before CK, but after... she could have danced in the US. Ballet is one of the more inclusive branches of the arts for petite Asian girls. Maybe not film or modelling but classical dance? Much better chance than most. They might have resettled in NYC, using Miyagi's place as backdrop for Los Angeles, or resettle with whatever company would have her, nothing kept them in Reseda. Mr. Miyagi could have stayed in Okinawa. My point being they could have made it work. Again it's perfectly OK for Kumiko to have been less into him than vice versa but with that CK continuation:

She was too afraid. She was too afraid even without that job offer. Adds some poignancy to Miyagi's "Must not lose to fear" line a few months later to Daniel. She didn't dare risk it.

Could they meet again? I really think that Kumiko is keeping her distance here, especially after they met again. That's too much. Remember, she's like the anti-Terry. One to suffer for decades, like Yukie, rather than put herself in Daniel's path. She had so many chances. Maybe she, too, felt she didn't deserve to disturb him. Only very late in life could I see her asking for "One day, please, one day with you, Daniel-san, forgive me." And Daniel would go, if it hurt Terry, his mate owes him that much.

Maybe at the very end in this verse, Chozen is there too, thanking him for loving his omega and Daniel would have a very strange sense of a life not lived with these two until Terry arrives to take him back to the life he does live.

[erinptah]

Annotated Chapter 18 Cover - Snow Night

An updated cover with another Steven Universe homage.

This is from one of the SU tie-in comics — seriously, isn’t it beautiful? The BICP figures with the most direct counterparts are Reseda (as Amethyst) and Timothy (as Pearl). Poor Sparrow just gets to be “the finger Amethyst is lying on.”

Didn’t have two more posing adult figures to model Emma and Bianca on, but collectively they’re acting as Garnet, which works great with SU lore. And Patrick as Steven. Don’t worry too much about that one, just relax and appreciate his cute little doggy sweater.

I liked the atmosphere of this chapter’s original cover art. The new version has the same group of characters, a similar palette, an overall compatible vibe. Most important difference is that they get to be inside, instead of sitting in the snow.

Original:

(Originally posted here on But I'm A Cat Person.)

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[qsycomplainsalot]

Reseda green 1911 uniform

Sauce: RosalieLebel75.franceserv.com; lesfrancaisaverdun-1916.fr

First row : Modified reseda uniform c.1913 Second row : Reseda uniform concepts c.1910-11 Third Row : Reseda troop helmet and officer jacket made c.1911

Much like her adoption of a modern service rifle, the modification of France’s colorful uniform was started barely a few years before the start of World War 1, at a time when no change could have effectively been made before the start of the conflict. It's a time-honored tradition, where hindsight is 20/20 and rifles are 7/92.

Several modernisation projects ran concurrently between the years 1910 and 1914, but not all of them were quite as modern as they were claimed. For every Boer-inspired practical field dress, the state would bring in famed illustrators and painters like Edouard Detaille, whose practical considerations were vastly outweighed by the necessity to preserve bright red pants because "otherwise how the f*ck do you know who you be shooting at" [sic]. The most promising upgrade though was probably the so-called Tenue Reseda.

Edouard Detaille's new uniform proposal, featuring an early shade of the lighter blue used from 1915 to 1935.

Commissioned by French war minister Maurice Berteaux and designed by a team led by général Dubail, the reseda green uniform was one of the aforementioned several proposed reforms meant to provide better camouflage to soldiers. It was made up almost in its entirety of a verdigris cloth, using a pigment from the reseda plant. Rank and file soldiers were also equipped with a cork/pith helmet fitted with a removable brass comb/crest piece, meant not to protect about shell fragments but rather saber blows. This last and very ostentatious part was replaced in the field with a simple cockade. Cavalry units would retain their old armor pieces save a few light cavalry helmet models, and artillery crews were equipped with Edouard Detaille’s Mle1902 helmet. This was an overall satisfying design to a modern eye, but decidedly less so to Berteaux’s colleagues at the time. The design was bashed for being unsightly, unpatriotic and looking too much like the German feldgrau uniform, with many arguing that all the modernization French soldiers needed was putties and a cap cover. The project received its biggest blow when Berteaux got ran over by a biplane, as one does, and his successor Messimy did not back it to the same extent. The new minister otherwise noted the “experience [to be] conclusive on a tactical level, and I considered it beyond reproach”, and even later about the madder red pants that remained in service: “this blind and imbecile attachment to the most conspicuous of colors would have cruel consequences.” The reseda uniform would see one last review in a slightly modified version developed between 1912 and 1913, now retaining the very French red pants and epaulettes for maximum patriotic efficiency. The helmet was also modified to resemble the future Adrian Mle1915 even more closely, with a fixed brass comb. Neither it nor the two Detaille uniforms it competed with managed to get adopted. Messimy, in final attempt at modesty, pushed for an odd allegedly blueish-bruised color competitor made up of a combination of red, white and blue wools. As the war erupted a month after this final decision, the design was never put into large production and French soldiers marched into Alsace wearing the same uniforms as when they first lost it.

1912 review of prototype uniforms, featuring from left to right Detaille’s horizon blue type, Dubail’s modified reseda green type and Detaille’s steel blue type.

[plumegames]

Here is a breakdown of model @plumegames​ look for Week 1 of our Spring Lookbook Collab. The theme for week 1 was "Wake up Spring". Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Tumblr to see the entire 6 weeks of looks as they unfold. 🌸 Instagram.com/justlikemarina 🌸 Justlikemarina.Tumblr.com 🌸 PlumeGames.Tumblr.com 🌸 Instagram.com/PlumeGames Hair - ClumsyAlien Linnaea Hair Pose - Ratboysims Blase’ Poses  Top - Oakiyo Jessica Cardigan Shorts - Miiko Energy Set Biker Shorts Socks - Serenity Comfy Socks Lashes - Miiko Eyelashes Pt2 Brows - Praline Eyebrows N129 Reseda Necklace - Serenity Eva Necklace Overrides - Miilko Elena Eyes Pose - Ratboysims Blase’ Poses

[pinktintedmonocle]

The Pin-Up - A Cobra Kai Lawrusso Fanfic - Explicit / NSFW

In which Johnny does post his thirst trap photos after all, and Daniel just can’t stop thinking about them.

Written for this prompt on the Cobra Kai kink meme:

Since Cobra Kai made Billy Zabka's thirst trap photos canon, I desperately need a fanfic of Daniel reacting to them. Maybe they were published when Johnny first did the photoshoot, and Daniel just happened to see them on the cover of the magazine. Or maybe Miguel eventually caved and posted them to Johnny's facebook as a Throwback Thursday kinda thing, and Amanda liked them. I really need a fic of Daniel reacting to those photos. Please!

“Hey kids, bananarama chocolate chip pancakes are up!” called Daniel, flipping them over in the pan. He glanced across at Amanda, sitting at the table scrolling through her phone.

“You want some, honey?” he asked.

Amanda didn’t seem to hear him, eyes transfixed to the screen.  Daniel put the pancakes into a serving dish and took them over to the table.

“Earth to Amanda”, he said, placing the dish down and waving a hand in front of her face.

Amanda blinked and looked up.  “Sorry babe.” She noticed the food.  “Ooo, pancakes!”  She transferred two pancakes from the dish to her own plate and went back to staring at her phone.

“What are you looking at?” asked Daniel, digging into his own breakfast.  “Whatever it is, it’s clearly more interesting than me.”

Amanda smirked.  “Johnny Lawrence.  He’s – ah – posted some photos of himself on Facebook.”

“So?” asked Daniel, frowning.  “What’s so distracting about that?  You see him almost every day at the dojo.”

“Not like this”, said Amanda.  She turned her phone around so her husband could see the screen and Daniel nearly choked on a mouthful of pancake.

The first photo was of a young Johnny on a beach, kneeling in the waves in a pair of tight low rise jeans. His hair was damp and messy and the sunlight glinted off his smooth chest and perfect abs.

Daniel swallowed painfully. “What the hell is that?” he asked, reaching for a glass of water.

Amanda grinned. “Apparently he did some modelling work in the eighties and nineties.  He posted them this morning for a throwback Thursday thing.”  She stood up, smoothing down her dress and grabbed her phone.  “I gotta get to the dealership, get a head start on some paperwork.”  She leant over and gave Daniel a kiss.  “I’ll see you there later, let you look at the rest of Johnny’s pictures in private.”

Daniel pulled a face. “I have no desire to look at Johnny Lawrence’s modelling photos, believe me.”

“Whatever you say, babe”, Amanda teased, walking out of the room.

Daniel huffed and continued to eat his pancakes, trying to think of anything except the photographs. He failed miserably, and after a minute he pulled out his own phone and navigated to Johnny’s Facebook page.

The second photo was of Johnny leaning against rocks wearing white pants, his black headband and nothing else.  His hair was a little longer in this one, and it curled up in fluffy blonde tufts.  His chest was tanned and more muscular than in the photo on the beach, his pecs well defined and glistening with oil. Daniel licked his lips, wondering vaguely why his mouth suddenly felt so dry.  At least in the third photo Johnny was sort of wearing a shirt, even if it wasn’t doing a particularly good job of covering anything.  Daniel tugged at his collar, feeling quite hot for some reason.

“Hey dad”, said Sam, coming into the kitchen and causing Daniel to snap of his reverie and drop his fork.  She frowned. “You OK?”

“Yeah, I’m fine”, said Daniel, wincing as his voice came out low and raspy.  He took another gulp of water and then stood up quickly, adjusting his suit and sliding his phone into his pocket.  “I’ve got to get to work, but I’ll see you later.  Have a good day at school, sweetheart.”  He dropped a kiss into her hair as he passed before leaving the house and getting into his car, the pictures still lingering in his mind as he drove to the dealership.

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Daniel found it hard to focus on work.  He had back-to-back meetings for most of the day, but he barely heard anything that was said in them, instead letting Amanda take the reins.  He managed to escape outside for five minutes over lunch and found himself opening up Facebook automatically and staring at the photos, biting his lip as he took in Johnny’s golden locks and chiselled abs.  As he was looking, his phone rang and Johnny’s name flashed up on the screen.  Daniel nearly dropped the phone in shock before answering the call.

“What do you want, Johnny?”

“Hello to you too, LaRusso. Look, can you give me a ride to training tonight?  Can’t get the engine started on my car.”

“You mean my car, which you effectively stole form the chop shop and never returned to the dealership?”

“Yeah, that one”, said Johnny, unfazed.

Daniel sighed.  “Yeah, sure Johnny.  I’ll be round at six.”

“Alright.  Hey, sure you’re OK, LaRusso?  Your voice sounds strange.”

“I’m fine”, Daniel snapped, hanging up.  He took a moment to breathe deeply before heading back inside the dealership.

“You OK, hon?” asked Amanda, looking at him with a frown.

“Yeah, I’m OK, why does everyone keep asking me that?”

Amanda raised an eyebrow. “Alright, calm down Mr.”  She gestured towards his mouth.  “It’s just that your lip is bleeding.  What, did you manage to get into a fight in the trading lot just now?”

Daniel touched his lip gingerly and winced.  “It’s nothing, I just bit it.  Anyway, ready for the next meeting?  Who’s this one with, marketing?”

Amanda stared at him with a look of concern.  “No, we had the meeting with marketing his morning.  You were there for all forty minutes of it.  Are you sure you’re OK, Daniel?”

Daniel thought of the photographs again, of Johnny Lawrence’s perfect body.  He shook his head.

“I’m fine”, he said, smiling tightly.  “Really I am.”

Amanda looked unconvinced, but mercifully didn’t say anything else as she steered Daniel towards the meeting room.

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At 6pm Daniel knocked sharply on the door of the apartment in Reseda.

“Alright, I’m coming”, yelled Johnny.  “Just don’t kick your way in this time, LaRusso.”

Daniel rolled his eyes and a few seconds later Johnny opened the door and ushered Daniel inside.

“You coming to practice like that?” asked Daniel, gesturing towards a robe-clad Johnny.

“I just had a shower, LaRusso, don’t get your panties in a twist.  Let me get changed and then we’ll go.”

Johnny disappeared into the bedroom and Daniel sighed and sat down on the couch.  Amongst the discarded cans of Coors Banquet and Slim Jim wrappers on the coffee table there was an old shoebox with a few pieces of paper poking out at the sides.  He glanced towards the bedroom to check Johnny was still occupied before flipping the lid open, curious to see what was inside. He sucked in a sharp breath when he saw the photos.  He picked up the one with Johnny in the white pants and the black headband and swallowed thickly, thumb grazing over Johnny’s torso.

“Alright, I’m ready”, called Johnny, emerging from the bedroom. Daniel quickly put the pictures back into the box and closed it.  However, as Johnny rounded the corner he realised he was still clutching the white pants photo in one hand.  He stuffed it in his pocket and stood up.

“OK”, Daniel said, desperately trying to act casual.  “Let’s go.”

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Daniel had the house to himself on Friday night; Amanda was out with friends and both Sam and Anthony had sleepovers.  He considered going out himself, calling Louise or Anoush and seeing if they wanted to go for a drink, but it had been a long week and he wasn’t sure he had the energy to deal with either of them.  You could call Johnny, said a little voice in his head, but he ignored it.  Getting drunk with Johnny was probably not a good idea, not so soon after the incident with the photographs.  He thought about the one he had stolen, now shoved down the side of the drawer in his nightstand, and he licked his lips.

No, he told himself firmly, pouring out another glass of wine.  I’m not thinking about that picture.  He sat down on the couch and started flicking through channels on the TV, trying to find something to take his mind off it.

After three more glasses of wine and an hour of a particularly dull documentary, Daniel found himself in the bedroom, looking at the picture of Johnny. God, he was gorgeous.  He wondered if Johnny still looked a little like that under his clothes, or if he was a bit softer now.  It was hard to tell; he was clearly still in shape, but maybe not quite that in shape.  Daniel shook his head.  This had to stop.  His concentration span was shot to pieces and Amanda had been giving him increasingly concerned looks for the past two days.  He just needed to find a way to get these feelings out of his system.

He glanced down at his watch.  9pm.  It would probably be hours before Amanda arrived home, so he had plenty of time. And really, what choice did he have? He needed to clear his head and regain his focus so he could concentrate on both his business and training his and Johnny’s students so they could win the tournament.  One time only, and that would be it.  

Without further ado he pulled off his sweatpants and underwear, fished a bottle of lube out of his nightstand and lay down on the bed.  He looked at the photo and bit his lip hard, tasting the copper tang of blood.  He imagined running his hands over that firm chest, imagined Johnny’s large, rough hands on his own slim waist and felt himself start to harden.

He squirted a generous amount of lube into one hand and took hold of his cock, running his hand up and down the shaft as he became erect.  He pictured himself burying his face in Johnny’s neck, breathing in his scent of sweat and oil and felling wisps of blonde hair tickle his lips.  Daniel moaned, arching his back as his cock leaked.  He thought about pulling down Johnny’s white pants and rubbing their cocks together.  Then Johnny would press Daniel into the rocks before kneeling down and taking Daniel in his mouth, and as Daniel gasped in pleasure he would grab a handful of Johnny’s hair to steady himself as he bucked his hips, encouraging Johnny to suck him harder and faster.

On the bed, Daniel was close to orgasm.  He realised he wanted to make this last, to spend more time in this fantasy, but he was far too aroused to last much longer.  He imagined coming in Johnny’s mouth and the blonde swallowing before standing up and kissing Daniel and Daniel tasting himself on Johnny’s tongue.

Daniel came hard, hand still working his cock frantically as he rode out his orgasm, vision blurring.  When he was done his body relaxed, boneless and sated, sinking into the soft bed. The photograph was lying on his chest and he picked it up, smearing cum across Johnny’s torso as he did so.  He swore under his breath and picked up a tissue from the nightstand, trying to wipe the photo clean.  He got most of it off, but there was still a suspicious looking stain over Johnny’s abs; he definitely couldn’t give the photo back now. The sensible thing to do would be to rip it into tiny pieces and put it in the garbage disposal, but Daniel didn’t quite have the heart to do that.  Not yet.

Instead he stood up and wiped himself down before picking up a book from beside the bed that he’d been reading on and off for several months. He tucked the photo in the dust jacket and put it back down before padding across to the bathroom for a shower.

He may not actually look at the photo again, he reasoned, but surely there was no harm in keeping it?  

Just in case.

[theterrornoise]

And the radioman says

It is a beautiful night out there!

And the radioman says

Rock and Roll lives!

And the radioman says

It is a beautiful night out there

In Los Angeles

You live

In Los Angeles

And you are going to

Reseda; we are all

In some way or

Another going to

Reseda someday

To die

And the radioman

Laughs because

The radioman fucks

A model too

[historichollywoodphotographs]

Ciro’s: Nightclub Playground of the Stars

Ciro’s was one of the most legendary nightclub-restaurants located on Sunset Boulevard, aka the Sunset Strip, a part of then unincorporated Los Angeles County where regulations were more relaxed than in the City of Los Angeles. Entrepreneur William "Billy" Wilkerson, owner of the Hollywood Reporter newspaper, Cafe Trocadero and Vendome restaurant, opened Ciro’s in January 1940. It was an immediate hit that Hollywood stars flocked to in droves, as did  Wilkerson’s other loyal Hollywood moguls, due to his previous track record of restaurant successes. Celebrity "regulars" included Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Errol Flynn, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Olivia De Havilland, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, and many more.  

Hollywood Reporter ads preceding the highly anticipated opening were a daily occurrence, reminding readers that "Everybody that's anybody will be at Ciro's." There was such a buzz, two opening nights were scheduled and for weeks afterwards, it was the only place in town to “see and be seen”. Guests were greeted with a sophisticated exterior facade designed by George Vernon Russell and a Baroque style interior by Tom Douglas. Douglas’ style epitomized the latest in Hollywood glamour - walls draped in heavy ribbed silk, dyed a pale Reseda green, and ceilings painted in American Beauty red. The stars luxuriated on red silk upholstered banquettes and warm bronze urn light fixtures flanked the bandstand. Emil Coleman's orchestra graced the stage.

Post premiere parties, benefits, and birthday parties were lavishly celebrated at Ciro’s. One of the oddest occasions in the club’s early days was a fashion show by a local furrier who dressed models in expensive fur ensembles accompanied by the same live animal. These beavers, leopards and minks got a peek at Hollywood’s infamous nightlife that most people weren’t even privy to! Speaking of insider access, columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons were usually on hand to surveil the scene and keep the public informed of Veronica Lake's alcoholic bouts, who Judy Garland was seeing, and the latest leading man to be temporarily banned for causing a disturbance. Lana Turner named it her favorite haunt, and with high powered endorsements like hers, Ciro's entered the realm of legend, packing the house with nightly audiences eager to enjoy headliners such as Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peggy Lee, Liberace, Maurice Chevalier, Danny Kaye, Nat King Cole, and countless other performers, for almost two solid decades.

After two and a half years, Billy Wilkerson repeated the exit strategy he’d used at the Trocadero, abandoning Ciro’s to establish La Rue Restaurant just down the street. In his place, Herman Hover took the reins and continued to foster the nightclub's great reputation. Hover remodeled the club, making it even larger and more opulent, in an effort to keep up with the other joints on the Sunset Strip and cater to the tastes of Hollywood's elite and loyal customers with the best entertainment in Hollywood. Highly popular with photographers, hundreds of photographs were snapped of the famous and not-so famous each night.

With the increasing popularity of Las Vegas in the 1950s, Hollywood's nightclubs found it difficult to compete with the enormous salaries being paid to entertainers in the gambling capital of the world. With business dropping off and expenses increasing, Hover filed for bankruptcy and closed Ciro's in January 1958.

Two years later, Frank Sennes, owner of the Moulin Rouge nightclub in the former Earl Carroll Theatre, further east on Sunset Boulevard, acquired Ciro's and re-opened it. Ciro's continued to do well and feature top entertainers. In 1961, Sennes decided to rename the venue “Le Crazy Horse” after the famous Crazy Horse Revue from Paris. After just a few months, the club was taken over by Paul Raffles and Bill Doheny who re-established the Ciro’s name in February 1967. Less than six months later, it was again renamed Spectrum 2000. In the early 1970s, pioneering disc jockey/record producer Art Laboe acquired the club and named it "Art Laboe's”. A couple of years later, the location was acquired by Sammy and Mitzie Shore who opened “The Comedy Store”. Mitzie operated the club throughout the 1970s and 80s as a new population began to enjoy the Strip. The Comedy Store remains in operation today.

- Christy McAvoy, Historic Hollywood Photographs

Source: Bruce Torrence archives

[idasessions]

Famous Muses & Groupies in Rock Music Pt. 39

GROUPIE: Pamela des Barres (born Pamela Ann Miller)

So you might be wondering why, nearly 40 posts into this series on muses and groupies, I haven’t focused on the queen bee herself yet. Well to be completely honest, it’s because I don’t like her I figured everyone already knows her story, lol. But I might as well give it a go just for the sake of continuity. Pamela was born on September 9th, 1948 in Reseda, CA to a housewife and a gold miner. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley right in the middle of where the first wave of rock music history was taking place. She passionately fangirled Elvis Presley, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Paul McCartney was her blueprint for the perfect boyfriend as a teen, and in her first memoir I’m with the Band (1987), Pamela claims she got an ‘A’ on an art project by drawing Mick Jagger’s crotch (….). She quickly met her first musician through high school classmate Victor Hayden—who just happened to be Cpt. Beefheart’s cousin. Through Victor, Pam got to go backstage and to local parties where she met Frank Zappa, the Byrds, the Stones, the Doors and Steppenwolf when she was 16-19 in 1965-68.

Even though she had been meeting and befriending rockstars since 10th grade, Pamela says she was mostly a virginal groupie in the late 1960s, and didn’t sleep with any of them as a minor. With a couple of intimate exceptions—like making out with Jim Morrison when Pamela Courson wasn’t around—Pamela didn’t lose her virginity until she was 19. The guy ended up being bassist Nick St. Nicholas of hard rock band Steppenwolf, and she claims the experience was ~just okay (i.e. she barely remembers it). Since then, Pamela went on to casually date and randomly hookup with stars in the 1970s like previous art class subject Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Keith Moon of the Who, Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Chris Hillman of the Byrds, Gram Parsons, and Waylon Jennings. Her first and only husband would be Michael des Barres of the B-list rock bands Silverhead and Detective from 1977-1991. Her only child, son Nicholas, was born on September 30th, 1978. She also went through a movie star phase and went on dates with former child actor Brandon de Wilde, TV star Don Johnson, comedian Michael Richards (??) and comic-turned-filmmaker Woody Allen (?!?!).

For work, Pamela had random jobs around the Sunset Strip from waitressing and retail to TV hosting and B-movie acting. After she finished school, she briefly babysat Frank & Gail Zappa’s kids and became part of Frank’s side project Girls Together Outrageously (AKA, the GTOs). The group was comprised of local LA County groupies as an experiment to see if they could make their own music too (spoiler: they can’t). During this period, Pamela went by the moniker ‘Miss Pamela’ or just ‘Ms P.’ The girls broke up after only two years together (1968-70) and one album released, ‘Permanent Damage’ (1969). Pam and fellow GTO Lucy Offerall both later had cameos in Zappa’s cult film 200 Motels (1971) alongside Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Mark Volman. In her late 30s, Pam was inspired to take up writing after gossip journalist Stephen Davis told her she was a good storyteller while interviewing her for the (awful) Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods (1985). Soon she went on to coin the first ever groupie memoir in 1987 called I’m with the Band, which quickly gained notoriety in the music community. Since then, she’s written three more memoirs: Take Another Little Piece of My Heart (1993), Rock Bottom (1996), and Let’s Spend the Night Together (2007). In modern times, she occasionally writes featured columns for publications, her own blog posts and has her own ‘groupie’ fashion line. She’s also still friends with GTO pal Miss Mercy and fellow Led Zep groupie Michele Overman.

But how does she feel about carrying the title of ‘the most famous groupie in the world?’ Well, it’s complicated. Pamela claims the first time she ever heard of the word ‘groupie’ was by a Zeppelin roadie at a Hollywood party in 1969. For a decade she battled with people labeling her the ‘G’ word, as she tried to be taken seriously and not viewed as a slut. But by the time she was writing her books, she changed her tune since it’s the only reason anyone knows who she is. She even goes as far as to argue that groupies are the ‘real’ muses of rock music and feminist. 😒 Another little issue that occurred after living it up in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s. There was a new, wilder, less legal breed of groupies in town: baby groupies (or the Star Girls). Teen girls between ages 13-17 who were ~stealing all the rockstars from the 20-something, seasoned groupies like Pamela and Bebe Buell. In 1971, while Pamela was dating Don Johnson, she noticed that 14-year-old Melanie Griffith was hanging around his film sets and neighborhood a lot. Soon ‘a lot’ became all the time, and Don infamously dropped Pam for Mel. Then only two years later the same shit happens again, when Zep guitarist Jimmy Page ditched Pam at the English Disco for 14-year-old Lori Maddox in 1973. (BTW, Jimmy wasn’t even legitimately with either of them. He was living with French model Charlotte Martin. Oh, and Jimmy and Pam’s husband Michael were friends at one point and Jimmy would hang out at their house sometimes…awk.) Now seen as ‘old,’ or ‘over the hill’ as queen baby groupie Sable Starr apparently called her, Pamela went through an existential crisis at age 25 about her exes leaving her for literal school girls.

But rather than, I don’t know, raising her standards on men, she spends the next 30 years shaming these teen girls for being man-stealers or something. In I’m with the Band, she’s a lot more forgiving of Melanie and even claimed they’re friends now, but she still held a grudge at Lori. Then sometime in the mid-2000s, Pamela and Lori are suddenly ~good friends and Lori is subject of a chapter of Let’s Spend the Night Together. When David Bowie died in 2016, Pam finally started publicly stating that teen groupies are unethical. But then #metoo blew up in 2017, and it quickly occurred to people that in an environment where sexism and sexual misconduct are being re-evaluated; music stars getting one-night stands and random blow jobs while partying with young women anywhere from 13 to 30 years old started sounding really, hella sketchy. Instead of owning up to the culture being outdated, Pamela doubled down hard on groupie-ism, defended the statutory rape with the baby groupies, and thinks ‘sex, drugs and rock & roll’ isn’t an issue. In most of her interviews from 2018, like on “Ken Boxer Live,” and in Women Wear Daily, NME and The Big Issue Magazine; she says she’s ‘bored’ with being asked about #metoo and that it’s a whole different vibe in the music industry. (I’m sure the women accusing R. Kelly, Ryan Adams and Russell Simmons of abuse agree.)

I’m sorry, but you can’t claim being a groupie is feminist, and at the same time say all that shit and brag about giving hickeys to Jim Morrison or blowing Mick Jagger. Just admit it was all about partying and being with famous people.

P.S. Penny Lane in Almost Famous (2000) is not based on Pamela, no matter how much she (or any other famous groupie) claim the character is. Penny’s based on Pennie Ann Trumbull. Check out my earlier post on her.

[homestuck-human-generator]

Name: Sai Jens Crespi Color: Reseda Green #6c7c59 Symbol: jewel Strife Specibus: marblekind Handle: cantankerousCreature Animal: pony Pronouns: ce/cer/cers/cerself Age: 33 Birthday: 94th day of the year Sexuality: w4w Interests: radio-controlled model playing and axe throwing Dream Moon: derse Classpect: Sylph of Light Land: Land of Light and Caves, a selfish place, with expensive Eastern Snake Necked Turtle consorts. It is a place full of sunshine and jewels. Iapetus has a choice for the player to make. Instrument: waldhorn via homestuck-human-generator https://ift.tt/4ildNT3

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

Character questions for the Lawrence siblings: 15 and 21 for Johnny, and 29 and 40 for Julie. Thank you!!

Johnny

15. Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?  Johnny can be preoccupied with material possessions.  He grew up with a wealthy producer stepfather in Encino during the status-heavy 80s.  He owned (or at least drove/rode) a 1982 Avanti II convertible, a Honda XL 600R bike, and a Pontiac Firebird.  Johnny wore the best clothes and cared about his appearance.  But after several setbacks in his life, he started caring less about material things, but money was still something that was on his mind.  Johnny managed to hold onto his precious Firebird, but lacked the funds for new paint jobs.  He was constantly going from one job to the next.  He had to settle for living in cheap, sometimes run-down apartments in Reseda.  Johnny stopped taking pride in his appearance; he would buy clothes that were cheap, fit for the most part, and were practical, rather than stylish.  When Robby came along, Johnny had to send a portion of what meager pay he got to Shannon for child support, which she would blow through.

21. If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?  Johnny does have a tendency to blame others for bad things that happen in his life.  But deep down, he will feel like he caused it, or at least had a hand in it.  Daniel LaRusso becomes a target for much of the blame, whether rightly or wrongly, mostly because he came to the Valley at a time when Johnny was trying to right some wrongs and things just continued to go downhill.  Johnny and Ali were both passionate and flirtatious people, so fighting and jealousy was common in their relationship.  But they always made up, until the fight during the summer before their senior year.  Ali had a problem with Johnny’s aggression that seemed to stem from his association with Cobra Kai karate.  It hit a head when Johnny beat up a male friend of Ali’s because Johnny felt he was trying to get into Ali’s pants.  Johnny truly did love Ali and loved that she and his little sister Julie got along so well.  After the breakup, Julie took it badly and didn’t talk to him for about a week and vowed never to get close to any of Johnny’s future girlfriends.  Johnny wanted to reconcile with both of his favorite girls.  Newcomer Daniel’s flirtation with his (ex-)girlfriend made things worse and in Johnny’s eyes, kept Ali from getting back together with him.  Eventually, Johnny made himself believe that no other girl could compare to Ali and it wasn’t worth it to put as much (especially emotional involvement) into a relationship.  Johnny and his friends were injured by Daniel’s friend/mentor after a fight that Daniel had initiated with the hose prank.  Johnny lost his last chance to be the All Valley Under-18 Karate Champion.  A loss that Johnny actually took in stride, by choosing to be the one to present the trophy to Daniel and congratulate him.  However, that loss cost him the respect and relationship he had with Sensei Kreese, the most positive paternal influence he had.  Kreese nearly killed him, causing him emotional trauma, which he represses and is a cause of his drinking and depression.  Because of the connections to Daniel, Kreese, and karate, Johnny loses one of the few things that made him strong and feel good about himself.  When his mother died from cancer while he was at college, Johnny outwardly blamed Sid.  He blamed him for his mom getting sick, for causing her so much stress that she didn’t know she was sick, and for not doing enough to save her.  But Johnny also blamed himself for not being there when she needed him and not noticing that she was sick when he was home.  Johnny blames his father for abandoning him, his mother, and especially an unborn Julie.  But even when he was a little boy, he wondered if Daddy left them because of something he did or said.  He blames his father and Sid for being such terrible role models as men and fathers, which is part of the reason why he fails Robby as a father.  He also blames Shannon.  However, Johnny knows that his own lack of interest, his partial unwillingness to stand up to or even work with Shannon, his drinking, and his other bad decisions have led to the estrangement between himself and his son and his son acting out.  When Julie came home from college pregnant at Thanksgiving, he believed that Jimmy took advantage of and seduced her, as well as betrayed their friendship.  He blamed himself more, though.  Johnny always prided himself in being Julie’s protector.  And he feels like he failed her.  He wished that he never let her get so close to the Cobras, particularly Jimmy.  It never occurred to him that Julie’s feelings for Jimmy were more than a childhood crush or that she could have initiated the relationship.  Johnny was angry and disappointed with himself for not sitting her down and having a sex talk with her, despite how embarrassing and painfully awkward it would have been.  He also hates that he never stood up to Sid and insisted that Julie take sex ed classes.

Julie

29. What did your character dream of being or doing as a child? Did that dream come true?  As a child, Julie dreamed of being a writer.  Not an author of a children’s book or a best-seller, though.  Growing up with a stepfather in the film and television industry, and a love of books, television, and film, Julie wanted to be a screenwriter or a writer on a soap opera.  But she never thought she was good enough.  She had a huge and active imagination, always coming up with stories.  But she mostly kept them in her head and when she wrote them down, she would only share them with certain people, such as her mom, Becca, and her favorite teacher.  Asking Sid to read her stories was a thought she never entertained.  The closest Julie ever came to being a writer was a few writing courses in college and becoming a librarian.

40. How does your character treat people in service jobs?  Julie always tries to be polite and kind to everyone.  She isn’t the type of person to go off on a fast food worker or waiter/waitress that got her order wrong or because the food was a bit cold.  If her order was wrong, Julie calmly and quietly informs them and asks for her correct order.  If she isn’t pregnant or breastfeeding, she doesn’t worry as much about the temperature or just won’t eat it.  She is not the parent who thinks that a teacher is out to get her child or tells them they don’t know what they are doing.