ORGASM ALERT! BIG PIC POST (you know you LOVE these)
It’s one in the morning and i just can’t sleep. Had a lovely day receiving the first few SISSYDUDE HOTTIE Q&A’s! So great getting such positive feedback from people that I like so much. They really know how to answer a “Tiger Beat” question! Almost hitting the one month mark of being unemployed. I promised myself a month of doing whatever I needed… sleep in… drink too much coffee… Sissydude post galore & watching some “porno gay” to get the juices flowin’. I’ll still be doing all this stuff but I really have to get on with the art and looking for creative work. I like today (errrr yesterday). Must get to sleep now… a photo session here tomorrow… tea party themed! I have to wake up early and get this place in order… and ice the cupcakes! xoxo J
more great eye blinking illustrations by william reiss @ ihave4catz
William Reiss is currently a development story artist for disney television animation. Other credits include co-executive producer for disney channel’s ‘fish hooks,’ creative director for cartoon network’s ‘chowder’, and storyboard artist/writer for nickelodeon’s ‘spongebob squarepants.’ In his career he has freelanced for companies such as dreamworks feature animation, playhouse disney/wild brain and simon & schuster publishing. He has earned two primetime emmy nominations and one annie nomination for his work with c.h. greenblatt on ‘chowder,’ as well as one annie nomination for ‘fish hooks.’ An alumni of calarts and rutgers university’s mason gross school of the arts, he continues to explore his interests in painting, illustration, and pop culture. Please feel free to send him a message!
SISSYDUDE LOVES: Clara Ward & The Clara Ward Singers on the FLIP WILSON show (1971) & MORE! (for Grant)
Clara Ward & The Ward Singers sings on The Flip Wilson Show in 1971 with a medley of songs like “Come On In My Room”(Clara), “I Sing Because I’m Happy”(Agnes) & “Dry Bones”(Malvilyn). If you see a hairdo with a white stripe in it it’s Clara’s mother Madame Gertrude Ward ( The Professional Business Woman in Gospel)
Left to Right: Madeline Thompson (Tambourine), Agnes Jackson, Clara Ward, Viola Crowley, Alice Houston and Dr. Malvilyn Statham (Tambourine)
Clara Ward (April 21, 1924 – January 16, 1973) was an American gospel artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers.
A gifted singer and arranger, Ward took the lead-switching style used by male gospel quartets to new heights, leaving room for spontaneous improvisation and vamping by each member of the group while giving virtuoso singers such as Marion Williams the opportunity to step forward in songs such as “Surely, God Is Able” (among the first million-selling gospel hits), “How I Got Over” (which she wrote; one of the most famous songs in the Black gospel repertoire), and “Packin’ Up”. READ MORE @ WIKIPEDIA
MORE AMAZING performances after the jump!
miss. pat collins, the hip hypnotist: TURN ON!
THE LUCY SHOW “Lucy Meets Pat Collins”
It’s retro-60′s at it’s best, as Lucy takes abusive boss Mr. Mooney to a hypnotist (Pat Collins) in order to cure his insomnia. All heck breaks loose instead-along with the laughs, as Lucy & Mooney are hypnotized by the wig-wearing “Hip Hypnotist” Pat Collins!
hunky dollmakers & other glorious vintage photos @ shorpy.
1861-65. “Pvt. Charles Chapman of Company A, 10th Virginia Cavalry Regiment (left), and unidentified soldier.” Half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
Susanne Sundfør – ‘The Silicone Veil’ (via erin)
I’m a larva wrapped in silk;
I am dying in burning flesh
Let me out, let me ache
Let me out, let me ache and itch
Get me out of this suit
I go to a funeral every day
I follow these people around
I follow these people like a rat’s tail
I carry their caskets, I sing them good night
They’re better off without me
Beauty is poisonous
Disruptive
Oh, heaven must be an iron rose
Unfolding…
Oh, let me in, let me out,
let me in, let me out!
This is a retirement
from plumbing the veins of rats and kings;
let the stars be my eyes then
unchain the knuckles and latches-
unbutton my wrists.
My skin so thin you can see black holes within;
my eyes so clear they light up the sky…
and sometimes I’ll bend into the silicone veil
and enter this world again as a ghost.
Beauty is poisonous
Disruptive
Oh, heaven must be an iron rose
Unfolding…
Oh, let me in, let me out,
let me in, let me out!
Let me out! x11
nine female country artists on a 1990 all-star tribute to ralph emery (via donald c.)
In this video, nine female country artists (Anne Murray, Jeannie C. Riley, Barbara Fairchild, Jeanne Pruett, Lynn Anderson, Jeannie Seely, Kitty Wells, Patty Loveless and Connie Smith) pay tribute to Ralph Emery on the TV special titled “All-Star Salute to Ralph Emery”. The show was taped at the Grand Ole Opry House on February 7, 1990, and it aired a month later on March 7, 1990.
rebirth by daniel van flymen (via homotography)
Daniel van Flymen returns on Homotography with his new shoot ‘Rebirth’ for Gaschette magazine, styled by Marco Riekstins
it’s CONNIE CHAN (the movie-fan princess) , Bitches!
Two films in 1965 would give a boost to Chan’s career: The Six-Fingered Lord of the Lute (in which she played the lead male role) and The Black Rose (in which director Chor Yuen had the foresight to change her image by putting her in a contemporary role as a modern-day Robin Hood).
Want to know more about CONNIE CHAN? Check out MOVIE-FAN PRINCESS!
it’s art smith, bitches! (via vintage black glamour)
A model wears Art Smith’s “Modern Cuff” Bracelet, circa 1948. Art Smith (1917-1982) was a modernist jeweler born in Cuba to Jamaican parents who eventually emigrated to Brooklyn. He opened his first shop on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village in 1946 – no small feat. According to the Brooklyn Museum (host of a 2008 exhibit of his work) he was one of the leading modernist jewelers of the mid-twentieth century. Along with being covered by magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Smith, an avid jazz lover, once made cufflinks for Duke Ellington which included some notes from Mr. Ellington’s “Mood Indigo.” Mr. Smith was also a supporter of early Black modern dance groups and an active supporter of Black and gay rights. Art Smith was quoted in the 1969 catalog for his one man exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Craft as saying, “A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’ until you relate it to the body. The body is a component in design just as air and space are. Like line, form, and color, the body is a material to work with. It is one of the basic inspirations in creating form.”
sister rosetta tharpe is love (the godmother of rock & roll american masters doc too)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) was a groundbreaking gospel singer and musician, who paved the way for the popularity of rock ‘n’ roll and influenced Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, among many others.
Tharpe’s biographer, Gayle Wald, found some of the singer’s contemporaries who were willing to talk off the record about her bisexuality; one fellow musician claimed to have walked in on Tharpe and two other women in bed together during her “honeymoon tour” right after her third wedding in 1951.
“SISTER ROSETTA THARPE The Godmother of Rock & Roll” – Produced & Directed by Mick Csaky – International version – 52 mins/2013 from Directors Cut Films on Vimeo.
Wald writes, “The circulation of this and other lore indicated that the gospel world had its own legends of outlaw identities and behaviors: of sissy men and bulldagger women, of philandering evangelists and pilfering prophets, of hypocrites who boozed up backstage before singing in front of the curtain about the virtues of holy living. For homosexuals in her audiences, rumors about Rosetta’s sexuality might have been liberating, an invitation to look for tell-tale signs of affirmation of their own veiled existence.”
Source: Gayle F. Wald, Shout Sister Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-n-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Beacon Press, 2007.
-Cookie
After the war Decca paired her with Marie Knight, a sanctified shouter with a strong contralto and a more subdued style than Tharpe. In their hit, “Up Above My Head”, Knight provided the response to Tharpe in traditional call and response format, then took the role that would have been assigned to a bass in a male quartet after Tharpe’s solo. It has been reported that it was an “open secret”, in show business circles that Knight and Tharpe were lovers.
with Marie Knight
“lolita ya ya”- sue lyon
Sue Lyon – Lolita Ya Ya
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1973: Sue meets Gary “Cotton” Adamson at the Colorado State Penitentiary, where he was currently serving time for murder and robbery(20-40 years).She worked as a cocktail waitress and lived in a hotel in Denver nearby. November 4: Sue marries Cotton. She began working for prison reform and conjugal rights. 1974: Sue divorced Cotton after he broke out and committed yet another robbery. Who knew?!
the hypnotic beauty of jacque demy’s LOLA (1961)
wallpaper design (inspired by Lola) by Noami Wilkinson
