SHINY SHINY

I bought a reversible jacket yesterday. The sleeves are ridiculously shiny but I can't help but love them because they're stitched to the softest pale grey leather/suede.

I would like to wear it with this kind of make up face decoration:

recreating the look with stick on diamonte I bought in poundland. I think I'll have to wait for the right occassion, which is sad because I dressed up very badly for a space-themed Bestival a few years ago and this combination would have been great.

If I don't use the diamonte to give myself a terrible rash, I might try THIS OUT with black boot converse.

Watch this space for some super classy DIY.

RA RA RASPUTIN

Apparently Rasputin means "dissolute". It upsets me that the most villainous haemophilia-curing nun-raping cyanide-immune Siberian is so badly underplayed in his disney incarnation. In "Anastasia" he's essentially a Russian Jafar.


If you're interested there's a really good book about him by Edvard Radzinsky with an amazing section about the "Khlysty", potentially the best religious cult ever. They believed that only after a man had sinned greatly could he be truly repentant and pleasing to God. That basically means nihilism in the name of God, fun times.

TUESDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2008

POSTED BY RICH COSY AT 20:43

I have been re-reading the blog I co-wrote with Josie for a couple of years and this is one of my favourites posts. I think its high time I got back into Rasputin.