Dangerous Minds and Witchy Woman Marjorie Cameron.*

so i was having a google rendezvous and i stumbled upon this amazing blog, dangerousminds. you can search a tag, or look up by category, of which there are tons. (i highly recommend all the subcategories under the "art" heading.) i found this fabulous page on 60's avant-garde filmmakers and saw that he even covered marjorie cameron! marjorie was an occultist in the 40's and 50's in pasadena. (!!) she dubbed herself The Scarlet Woman, claiming to have given birth to a spiritual Moonchild, and also invoked the goddess Babalon with future husband, rocket scientist, and occult priest of the Ordo Templi Orientis jack parsons "to unleash a magickal force on the world." that's my kinda lady.*

playing The Scarlet Woman in kenneth anger's INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME:


with l. ron hubbard:


in curtis harrington's NIGHT TIDE:


her biography, THE WORMWOOD STAR.*

Witchsters and Gypsters.*

it's like malcom gladwell's idea of the tipping point: all of the sudden, things become wildly popular and everyone is into the same trends. in a way, it's cool to see the things i've loved since puberty finally being appreciated, but it's also annoying that things get so appropriated. so it is with all things goth at this moment: everyone is a tarot reader or a gypsy (or, as i recently heard, a "gypster," or a "witchster" ha!), everyone wears black lace and capes and witch boots and loves upside-down crosses and stones and chains and cats and owls...i was talking with my fellow OG goth homegurl on friday night and we were lamenting over this recent aesthetic appreciation of our ever-cherished subculture and the neverending phenomenon of co-opting subcultures for popular culture. there's more to it than black lipstick, dudes (even though we know it does look realllllly cool).*


Givency, Fall 2008


Sisters of the Black Moon




Dash Snow




"Pagan Chic" by Luella Bartley




Gareth Pugh; Gemma Slack


Alexander McQueen photographed by Terry Richardson


Raquel Zimmermann by Terry Richardson

Broadcasting Witch Cults.*

if you haven't yet seen this beautiful video, here you go. i remember seeing broadcast as a teenager and falling in loooovee...they recently made this collaborative mini-album that you can download from warp.net, and the title is gorgeous: "Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age.*

The High Priestess of Rock N' Roll.*

speaking of influential sorceresses, i just felt the need to pay homage to my favorite one in history, stevie herself. talk about a fashion icon! from her youth to her peak and even now, this woman was edgy, vampy, and still soft and classic somehow. i wish i had my own white owl familiar to perch upon my blessed hand....*