Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

item of the week : motley sailor 50s dress by Hell Bunny

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Hell Bunny’s Motley Sailor 50s Dress

image source catslikeus.com

The Motley Sailor 50s Dress by Hell Bunny can be found at the retro lifestyle store Cats Like Us. This cute little sailor styled dress would make an adorable Halloween costume when paired with a little white sailor hat, black shoes, and perhaps a little red neck scarf. Get a retro look with edge as the dress is adorned with skulls on the anchors, Hell Bunny dresses are too cute!

The Motley Sailor 50s Dress by Hell Bunny is available online at www.catslikeus.com.

- Meagan

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unaussprechlichen kulten : six string samurai

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Auxiliary Magazine would like to introduce its newest writer and column; Adam Rosina and Unaussprechlichen Kulten, respectively. A new column that looks far too deep into the morgues and mausoleums of of cult cinema for those amazing but unsung movies that just refuse to die.

Six String Samurai is a mish mashed, convoluted mess of a film. It’s also wildly entertaining, if you’re willing to overlook its flaws. Shot by writer/director Lance Mungia, turning in his only feature-length directorial credit (unless you count The Crow: Wicked Prayer, and I don’t), and released in those “anything goes” days of 90s indie cinema.  Six String Samurai stars actor/martial artist Jeffrey Falcon (also known for his roles in, well, nothing anyone’s ever seen) as a sword-swinging Buddy Holly look-alike journeying across the wasteland on a quest to become the King of rock n roll.  Along the way it offers its own take on post-apocalyptic fiction, incorporating elements from such diverse sources as the western genre, Japanese chambara films, bad sci-fi movies, and the modern fairy tale. Which is not to say that the filmmakers simply cut and pasted the best parts from other works to create this film, but rather brought together many different kinds of genre fiction and made it their own.

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