Joe Dallesandro: Flesh for Frankenstein

For months now, Jeremy has on occasion mentioned Joe Dallesandro and how he needed to show me one of his movies. Finally, the other night, Jeremy showed me Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood of Dracula. In Flesh for Frankenstein, I was immediately transported into Paul Morrisey's strange world of the grotesque experiments of Baron Von Frankenstein (Udo Kier), the Baroness, his sister/wife and her addiction to sex, the Frankestein's strange and creepy children, and Joe Dallesandro as Nicholas the stable boy who can't help but make love to every woman in town.
Udo Kier as Baron Von Frankenstein delivers his lines with such matter of fact bite and no-nonsense force, that some the funniest lines in the movie become even funnier because of his delivery of them. Udo delivers my favorite line of the movie when he says: "To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gall bladder!"
Baron Von Frankenstein is a man on a mission throughout the film in his quest to create a perfect super-race, while Nicholas just wants to live life and have lots of women. Baroness Von Frankenstein is sexually frustrated and unsatisfied, so when she stumbles upon Nicholas on two separate occasions with different women, she decides to hire him as a very personal servant in the castle. The Baron as a self-proclaimed scientist has more important things on his mind than sex with his wife/sister, and his experiments are conducted under much secrecy and the number of used bodies and parts are many. The female experiment is essentially perfected, but the un-perfected male counterpart is the ultimate demise of a number of the main characters in one way or another. Nicholas' best friend Sacha, a quiet fellow who simply wants to join a monastery, accidentally becomes Baron Von Frankenstein's latest victim when he loses his head to the crazy scientist. The Baron mistakes Sacha for a promiscuous womanizer, and the Baron wants a sexually charged brain for his male creation in order to impregnate his female creation with the first offspring of his new race. This of course is not what happens when Sacha's head is attached to the male monster body. Nicholas spots his best bud, or what's left of him, while serving the Frankenstein family their dinner. After that, Nicholas and Sacha wreak havoc on the Baron and Baroness until almost all are dead and piled in a heap on the science lab floor.
Joe Dallesandro is my new favorite thing, and he definitely stole the show in this film, in all of his strong, masculine and naked glory!
Such a fun and crazy film...I can't believe I am just now seeing this!! Below are some stills from the film. Enjoy, and definitely see this film if you haven't already.

My Rock and Roll Crushes

This post is all about some of my biggest rock and roll crushes. While all of the following names and faces are favorites of mine, I am not putting them in any specific order. I feel it best to start off with my biggest rock crush of all time, David Bowie:

David Bowie is absolutely beautiful and I just can't get enough of the way he looks in The Man Who Fell To Earth.


Up next is Richard Hell:



David Gilmore of Pink Floyd is another crush of mine. He is by far the best looking of the guys in the band!


John Lennon has always been my favorite Beatle and I think he is just groovy!



Elvis is always number one in my mind, or maybe in an even tie with David Bowie. There is only one King of rock and roll and that's Elvis!


John Entwistle A.K.A. The Ox is my favorite member of The Who and he is definitely handsome and stoic.




Pete Townsend is another crush of mine. His passionate playing and fierce stage persona is so appealing!



Mark Bolan of T.Rex is absolutely fantastic, fabulous, and glam.




Jim Morrison is that oh, so famous womanizer of The Doors and for good reason! Just look at that guy!



The multi-talented and multi-project juggling Jack White is a darkly handsome guy who reinvents himself almost every other day of the week.



Ever since spotting Jack Lawrence on the cover of the Raconteurs's cd cover I knew I was in love! Jack's long sleek hair makes me want to run my fingers through it and if I ever get the chance I will! I am praying that he doesn't get a sudden urge to chop those locks!



Chris Martin of Coldplay is another handsome rocker who charms not only with his music, but that smile!



P.J. Harvey is one of my ultimate girl crushes, and this was further confirmed after seeing her perform live just a few months ago. Boy, is she incredible!