Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows

My favorite movie, Harold and Maude!

  Now that it's officially spring here in Massachusetts, (you can tell because its actually sunny, and its a whopping 70°F here today!) the sun is shining, the trees are starting to grow their leaves again, and flowers are finally sprouting up again. 

Screen cap from Harold and Maude.

Miss Pamela and Marianne Faithfull, two of my favorite women.

I've started working at Dairy Queen again, and although I'll admit I was rather nervous to start working again, working in the spring is much more exciting than working in the fall and winter. Not only am I making more in tips (in three hours in the fall/winter I'd typically make around $8 in tips, now I make anywhere between $15-20 in three hours), but there are also more customers, keeping me busy and making time go by much quicker.
I'm glad I'm not the "new girl" anymore too. I'm still their youngest employee, but they're training new people to work there, and therefore, I don't feel 100% stupid for messing up, like I did before. Plus the toppings are super yummy, so I basically eat my weight in everything from cookie dough to cheesecake bites daily. That's the best part about working; the free food. I can make pretty much all the ice cream I want, I love it. Even though I'm not an ice cream fan, my family is, so I bring them home whatever they want. Alright already, enough about work. Just enjoy the pretty pictures and have a fabulous Tuesday!

Screen cap from Moonrise Kingdom.

Screen cap from Heavenly Creatures.

Trippy stickers from the 1980's. 

Sylvie Vartan.

From Rookie.

The Beatles show off their love of the outdoors.

Kissing Tiny Flowers from itsamodmodworld on 8tracks Radio.

1. "That's the Way" by Led Zeppelin
2. "The Village Green Preservation Society" by The Kinks
3. "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James & The Shondells
4. "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" by Donovan
5. "Monday Monday" by the Mamas and the Papas
6. "Picture Book" by The Kinks
7. "Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1, the most beautiful version in my opinion) by The Beatles
8. "Jennifer Juniper" by Donovan
9. "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" by Lesley Gore

Color Me Crazy

  Although I've made a color-themed post before, I thought I'd make another because I don't think the old one lived up to my standards. However, I've included the same color-themed playlist that I did the previous color post.
  So, to simply put it, here are a few various people, patterns, and images of color-related things from the 1950's, 60's, and 70's.

Pattie Boyd, unknown, George Harrison

Twiggy, unknown, Pattie Boyd and George Harrison

All unknown

Unknown, David Bowie, Robert Plant

Miss Pamela, unknown, unknown

Unknown, unknown, Brigitte Bardot

Unknown, the GTO's, Unknown

Unknown, Friar Park, unknown

She Comes in Colors Everywhere from itsamodmodworld on 8tracks Radio.

1. Behind Blue Eyes by The Who
2. Green Onions by Booker T & the MG's
3. Sister Golden Hair by America
4. For You Blue by the Beatles
5. Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones
6. Blue Sunday by the Doors
7. Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
8. Baby Blue by Badfinger
9. Yellow Submarine by the Beatles
10. She's a Rainbow by the Rolling Stones

♀ A Day for Women ♀

  Today is National Women's Day. It is a day to celebrate women in all of their glory, as well as all the amazing thing women do. Specifically in the past 100 years or so, women have received more and more recognition, and I'm thankful I live in a time where they do. Women have received the right to vote, started wearing pants, and going out and creating jobs for themselves in a time where previously only men had jobs. We've really come so far.

  That being said, there are still a few things women have not been able to accomplish. One of these things, unfortunately, is equality. Although women have been offered many of the same options men have been offered, there are still sexist pigs out there who treat women like doormats. They believe a "woman's place is in the kitchen," and that women are no good for more than sex.

  Although I've made a post similar to this before (here), I decided it's time to celebrate women in music, fashion, and film, three things I like most.

Pattie Boyd

  As those of you who know me probably know, I love Pattie Boyd dearly. She was a stunning model and overall beautiful figure. Strangely, I didn't like her until I read her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me. She was and still is so beautiful, and I really wish models nowadays used her as more of an inspiration. To me, she is simply stunning. And her birthday is March 17th, so wish her a happy birthday as well!

Miss Pamela

  Pamela Miller, Miss Pamela, Pamela Des Barres- Whatever you call her, she's beautiful. Miss Pamela started off as a groupie in the late 1960's and later went on to be in the GTO's, a band created by the infamous Frank Zappa. Althought The GTO's didn't achieve commercial success, Pamela went on to date multiple musicians and artists and prove to the world that she was a fierce go-getter. Like Pattie, she's written several autobiographies and is currently in the process of opening her own clothing line, Groupie Couture.

Marianne Faithfull

  Marianne Faithfull is most known for dating Mick Jagger in the mid-late 1960's. After she and Mick split, she was so damaged from drugs and smoking that her beautiful singing voice was permanently altered. But that didn't stop Marianne from making a comeback. She released "Why D'Ya Do It?" nearly a decade later, a nasty and rough take on the men who had used her during her life with Mick. She's even an actress, appearing in several modern films, the most recent to my knowledge 2006's "Marie Antoinette."

Cherie Currie

  When I mention The Runaways, most people think of Joan Jett. As much as I love Joan, I felt Cherie, the band's lead singer, was often overlooked. In the midst of 1977 punk rock, Cherie Currie rocked her corset and fishnets and strutted across the stage like she owned the place. I have yet to get a haircut similar to hers. If you're interested in hearing her story, like most powerful rock and roll women, she released an autobiography called "Neon Angel." There is also the 2010 film "The Runaways" starring Kristin Stewart and Dakota Fanning, although I'd much rather prefer you watch a video of her and the band performing live in Japan in order to get the full effect.

Cynthia Powell

  The second Beatle-wife on this list, Cynthia is known for marrying John Lennon. Although he left her for Yoko Ono in 1968, she remained strong and tried to continue her career. She is currently in her fourth marriage, and has even released her own autobiography, simply titled "John," about both her and her life with John Lennon. She remains ever graceful, sometimes connecting with her old Beatle-wife buddies, mainly Pattie Boyd and John Lennon's former girlfriend May Pang.

The most badass little girl, ever.

A Day for Women from itsamodmodworld on 8tracks Radio.

1. "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways
2. "Why D'ya Do It?" by Marianne Faithfull
3. "Those Were the Days" (Cover) by Cynthia Powell
4. "Do Me In Once and I'll be Sad, Do Me In Twice and I'll Know Better (Circular Circulation)" by The GTO's
5. "As Tears Go By" by Marianne Faithfull
6. "I'm in Love With the Ooo-Ooo Man" by The GTO's
7. "I Love Playing With Fire" by The Runaways
8. "Power to the People" by John Lennon

Some Girls

  Since bands with attractive men began, they have had dedicated followers who would do anything to be noticed by the band. In the early-mid 1960's, Beatlemania rocked the world and left millions of girls in a craze. These fans were probably the first example of crazy, over-obsessed fans, who took their love of the band just a little too far.
 These fans waited outside places where The Beatles were and made posters, signs, cardboard cutouts, and every little physical symbol of their love for the Beatles as possible. Girls made dresses with The Beatles on them, decorated their hair with Beatles clips and pins, and even made dolls with The Beatles' faces on them. Some songs were even recorded by dedicated fans, like "We Love You Beatles," by the Carefrees, "My Boyfriend Got a Beatle Haircut" by Donna Lynn, and "Ringo, I Love You" by Bonnie Jo Mason (Nowadays she's known as Cher). At Beatles concerts and places in public where The Beatles showed up, cops and other authority figures had to actually physically hold the crazed fans back before they broke loose and went on a rampage. These fans were literally obsessed!
  Beatlemania faded with teenage girls as The Beatles decided they wanted to be taken seriously around 1967 when they released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The fans backed off, but deep down, there were secretly fangirls still buying every single Beatles album and waiting outside The Beatles' homes.

 By the time The Beatles broke up in 1970, a group of young girls who were extreme fans emerged. These girls were called groupies, and they were girls who slept with the musicians in their favorite bands while they were on tour. Groupies often earned slutty reputations, as they were known to sleep with many different musicians. These musicians loved their groupies, but almost "threw them away" the next day, as they were simply used for a night of drinking, dancing, and sex.

  A group of groupies in the late 1960's and early 70's were nicknamed the "baby groupies" because of their young age. These girls, anywhere from age 14-17 were still in school, yet they got to sleep with celebrities on the weekends! A few very famous 'baby groupies' were Lori Maddox and Sable Starr. Sable had decided she was ugly and gotten work done on her nose by age 15. When she was 16 (Either that or 17) she recruited a young Lori Maddox, aged 14, to join her scene. Lori claims she lost her virginity to Angie and David Bowie, and she went on to have a secret relationship with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who was 28 at the time. (Double her age!)

  One of the most famous groupies of all time is Miss Pamela, also known as Pamela Miller and Pamela Des Barres. She was in the girls group The G.T.O's (Girls Together Outrageously) created by Frank Zappa. All the girls involved in this group were groupies in one way or another, but Miss Pamela was by far the most famous. She's even published books on her groupie ways.

Some Led Zeppelin groupies

Lori Maddox and Sable Starr

Miss Pamela (During her GTO's stage) discussing why she sleeps with English groupies.

Star Magazine, a popular groupie magazine in LA.

Some groupies.

The GTOs

Starfucker from itsamodmodworld on 8tracks Radio.

1.) Star, Star - The Rolling Stones; Originally, this was called "Starf--ker," which is slang for a groupie. Atlantic Records made them change it, eliminating "f--k" from the title, although the band always refers to it by the original title.

2.) Stay With Me - The Faces; The song is a tale of sexual debauchery where the Stewart gives a step-by-step account on how to pick up a groupie for a one-night-stand. He makes it very clear that she should be gone in the morning, although he does offer to pay her cab fare home.

3.) Sick Again - Led Zeppelin; This was the closest Led Zeppelin came to Glam Rock. It sounded a little like T-Rex and David Bowie, but Zeppelin was not about to put on make up or wear feminine clothes. The song is about Led Zeppelin's groupies. Robert Plant's vocals are hard to hear because they are buried in the mix.

4.) Some Girls - The Rolling Stones; The Stones wrote this about the women in their lives, mostly groupies. Richards said they called this "Some Girls" because they could never remember their names. Before they edited this down, it was 24 minutes long. Many of Jagger's outrageous ramblings were cut. The Stones considered this a dirty version of The Beach Boys' "California Girls."

5.) Stay - Pink Floyd; The song deals with a one night stand, or possibly a groupie.

6.) Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) - Led Zeppelin; This is a song about a groupie who bothered the band in their earlier days.

7.)  She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - The Beatles; Paul McCartney wrote this about a fan who broke into his house. Diane Ashley claims it was her: "We found a ladder in his garden and stuck it up the bathroom window which he'd left slightly open. I was the one who climbed up and got in. I don't regret any of it. I had a great time, a really great time."

8.) Summer '68 - Pink Floyd; This is about touring and groupies. It's really Richard Wright asking a groupie how they feel about what they're doing: "have you time before I leave to greet another man?