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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whether you take it black or white … with sugar or without … or accompanied with puffs on a Lucky Strike like Linda Darnell here (photographed by Edward Clark for LIFE magazine in 1950) - Happy International Coffee Day (1 October)! #internationalcoffeeday #lobotomyroom #lindadarnell #coffee

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On this day sixty-two years ago (24 September 1964) beloved ultra-kitsch TV series The Munsters premiered - a high point in Western civilization! Never make me pick between The Munsters and The Addams Family – that would be an even more agonizingly painful decision than Sophie’s Choice! #themunsters

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For the 8 October 2026 instalment of the #LobotomyRoom cinema club at Dalston’s Rio cinema the featured presentation is The Wasp Woman (1959). (Tagline: “A beautiful woman by day – a lusting queen wasp by night!”). Buy your tickets HERE: riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What... #cultcinema #filmclub #bmovie

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Pink Palace: THE WASP WOMAN | Rio Cinema

Showing from Thu 8 Oct

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Grab the can of Aqua Net and teasing comb! Wild Planet, the wondrous second studio from Athens, Georgia’s essential post-punk party band the B-52’s, was released on this day (27 August 1980). #theb52s #wildplanet #lobotomyroom #postpunk #newwave #athensgeorgia #privateidaho #beehivewig #lgbtqia

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Born on this day in Peekskill, New York: comedic visionary Paul Reubens (27 August 1952 – 30 July 2023), the genius creator of madcap man-child character, adored kitsch icon and pop culture fixture Pee-wee Herman. #paulreubens #peeweeherman #lobotomyroom #peeweesplayhouse #peeweesbigadventure

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy International Cat Day (8 August)! Pictured: dark princess of pop Lana Del Rey and feline friend, photographed by Ellen von Unwerth (I know - ugh! Gross!) in 2012. (I could just have easily captioned this image “Priscilla Presley circa 1968”). #internationalcatday #lobotomyroom #lanadelrey #cat

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today (29 July) is National Lipstick Day! Let quadruple threat (actress, dancer, chanteuse and sex kitten) Eartha Kitt be your guide. Now slather on a thick coat and give me a big sloppy kiss! #nationallipstickday #nationallipstickday2026 #earthakitt #lobotomyroom #sexkitten #oldshowbiz #kitsch

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

She’s ready for her close-up! On this day in 1974, the fiercely glamorous Faye Dunaway featured on the cover of People magazine. (The “hot summer movie” the headline refers to is Roman Polanski’s Chinatown). #fayedunaway #peoplemagazine #lobotomyroom #cheekbones #diva #kween #fierce #newhollywood

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Four years ago today (28 July 2022) in Wood Green a female British Shorthair cat gave birth to a litter of kittens. One of her wriggling, mewling offspring was our own Eartha Kitten! Yes, That Bad Eartha (aka Eartha Angel, aka Eartha Quake) turns four years-old today! #earthakitten #lobotomyroom

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Baroque. Opulent. Decadent. Berserk! For my debut Lobotomy Room cinema club at The Rio cinema in Dalston on 6 August, I’m presenting bizarre 1968 “failed art movie” Boom! starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What... #lobotomyroom #cultcinema #badmoviesforbadpeople

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Pink Palace: BOOM! | Rio Cinema

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

1/ Seventy years ago today (2 July 1956) in showbiz history impossibly glamorous “Venus in Furs” Hollywood diva Elizabeth Taylor attended the Los Angeles premiere of Moby Dick and was captured by “the beatnik photographer” Earl Leaf (1905 – 1980). #lobotomyroom #elizabethtaylor #1950shollywood #diva

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day! Pictured: a heartwarming family portrait of Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter Luna (Carroll Borland) in Mark of the Vampire (1935). #fathersday #classichorror #belalugosi #markofthevampire #carrollborland #lobotomyroom #familyportrait #horrormovie #vampire #countmora

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It’s the end of an era! Cocktail lounge Fontaine’s (the jewel in Dalston’s nightlife crown) closes end of July. And for the FINAL #LobotomyRoom cinema club at this beloved venue, we're closing things out in high style with The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield! Thurs 16 July! tinyurl.com/34r2sceb

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Adieu to joyous, pioneering out-and-proud English artist David Hockney (9 July 1937 – 11 June 2026), whose death aged 88 was announced yesterday. Pictured: behold the glory of my favourite Hockney painting – his 1979 portrait of Divine. #DavidHockney #Divine #popart #lobotomyroom #lgbtqia #portrait

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy birthday to perma-scowling death kitten of No Wave, Cinema of Transgression leading lady, high priestess of confrontational punk poetry, that fabulous babe with the fierce curves and even fiercer mouth who spews uncompromising truth from every orifice – #LydiaLunch (b. 2 June 1959)! #nowave

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Pagan! Primitive! Taboo! This month’s FREE Lobotomy Room film club presentation is kitsch extravaganza Cobra Woman (1944) starring Maria Montez! 11 June at Fontaine’s in Dalston. Info: tinyurl.com/446t8h3s #lobotomyroom #filmclub #dalston #lgbtqia #mariamontez #cobrawoman #cultclassic #exotica

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Attention, people of the UK! Hurricane Louise has swept into town! Seriously, much-missed ex-pat Louise (aka Weezie) is visiting London this weekend and we’re all looking forward to an emotional (and inevitably boozy) reunion with this madwoman. Pic: us at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend in 2024.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Pause to reflect that 70 years ago today (13 May 1956), ultimate mid-20th century showbiz couple Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay met for the first time. A seismic moment in world history! (He was one of Mae West's onstage "chorus boys" at the time). #lobotomyroom #jaynemansfield #mickeyhargitay

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Raise a glass! Today (13 May 2026) represents World Cocktail Day and the 220th anniversary of the first recorded definition of the word "cocktail" published in the New York tabloid The Balance and Columbian Repository in 1806. (I’ll have a Mai Tai or Negroni, please). #worldcocktailday #lobotomyroom

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Released 45 years ago today (11 May 1981) by Island Records: Nightclubbing, the fifth studio album by everyone’s favourite post-punk freak diva / Afro-Dietrich / futuristic dominatrix from outer space Miss Grace Jones! #postpunk #newwave #gracejones #lobotomyroom #reggae #1980spop #diva #fierce

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In Memoriam: his royal highness, Show Business Personified, architect of rock’n’roll and the artist praised by soul diva Etta James for having “the guts to be a king and queen all at the same time” - the divine #LittleRichard (aka Richard Wayne Penniman, 5 Dec 1932 - 9 May 2020) - died on this day.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Attention, Leather Jacket Lovers! Homoerotic beefcake illustrator and connoisseur of firm male flesh #TomofFinland (Touko Valio Laaksonen, 8 May 1920 - 7 Nov 1991) was born on this day! His wildly idealized, gloriously brazen “dirty drawings” fired the imagination of generations of leather men.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Farewell to Nedra Talley-Ross (27 January 1946 – 26 April 2026) – the last surviving member of irresistibly fabulous 1960s girl group The Ronettes, who has died aged 80. Rat-up your hair like a teenage Jezebel, slather on liquid eyeliner and crank up “Baby, I Love You” LOUD in Nedra’s memory today.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Released on this day (26 April 1980): Los Angeles, the ferocious debut album (produced by Ray Manzarek of The Doors) by LA punk royalty X. Pictured: portrait of X’s witchy twisted bride frontwoman Exene Cervenka by Edward Colver, 1979. #xtheband #lobotomyroom #losangelespunk #exenecervenka #punk

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

BOTD: #FrancoCitti (23 April 1935 - 14 Jan 2016). The Italian actor was a brooding, sensual and charismatic presence in several films directed by visionary Pier Paolo Pasolini, including my two favourites – the absolutely wrenching Accattone (1961) (pictured) and Mamma Roma (1962). #lobotomyroom

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

BOTD: ultimate dark angel of 1950s pin-up queens, vintage smut icon and perennial hairstyle role model for generations of female rockabillies – #BettiePage (22 April 1923 – 11 Dec 2008)! Frolic in lingerie, teeter around in extreme fetish heels or spank someone with a hairbrush in Page’s memory!

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

BOTD (21 April 1947): happy 79th birthday to streetwalkin’ cheetah with a heartful of napalm / world’s forgotten boy / chairman of the bored / possessor of the world's most sinewy torso, one of THE greatest live performers EVER – feral godfather of punk, #IggyPop! Portrait by Peter Hujar, 1977.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Precisely 50 years ago today (16 April 1976): unassailable Country & Western diva, bouffant wig enthusiast, force for good and one-woman ray of sunshine Dolly Parton arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport for the 8th International Festival of Country Music at Wembley Arena. #dollyparton #lobotomyroom

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Is it even Easter until the effervescent Ambassador of Americana Charles Phoenix posts his traditional Easter Meatloaf of Lamb? As featured in Phoenix’s 2019 retro cookbook Holiday Jubilee. #easter #happyeaster #easter2026 #easterkitsch #retroeaster #lobotomyroom #charlesphoenix #vintageeaster

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Born on this day: suavely raffish and joli laid musical genius, dissipated 20th century Marquis de Sade of French popular culture once described by Vanity Fair as “the pungent flower of French manhood in all its Gallic glory”- #SergeGainsbourg (né Lucien Ginsburg, 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991)!

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

To commemorate #TransVisibilityDay (31 March): Andy Warhol’s legendary trio of gender-fluid superstar dolls (as celebrated in the Lou Reed song “Walk on the Wild Side”) Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling photographed by Richard Avedon for the June 1972 issue of Vogue magazine. #lgbtqia

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Born 65 years ago today: ultra-freaky post-punk drag monster, performance artist, nightclub promoter, fashion designer, artist’s model, muse, musician, Australia’s twisted gift to the world and all-round visionary - Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 - 31 Dec 1994)! #leighbowery #lobotomyroom #freakdiva

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

BOTD: the incomparably fierce and regal Miss #JoanCrawford (née Lucille LeSueur on 23 March somewhere between 1904 and 1908. The precise year of Crawford’s birth is contested although 1906 seems to be widely accepted). Pictured: portrait of Crawford with her pet poodles in New York, April 1957.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

BOTD: tempestuous maverick “outsider actress” #SusanTyrrell (18 March 1945 – 16 June 2012). When she died, The Guardian’s headline summarized her as “Actor often cast in sleazy, raunchy roles.” Seriously – what higher praise could an actress possibly hope for? Portrait of Tyrrell by Rocky Schenck.

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Born on this day: the truly great haunting and transgressive outsider photographer Diane Arbus (14 March 1923 – 26 July 1971). All these decades later, her confrontational portraits continue to fascinate and disturb. Pictured: Female impersonator on bed, NYC, 1961 by Diane Arbus. #dianearbus

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Unleashed 44 years ago today (12 March 1982): My First Album, the debut record by everyone’s favourite 300 pound drag monster / hog princess #Divine! Time hasn’t mellowed the sleazy urgency of putrid hi-NRG disco classics like “Shoot Your Shot”, “Jungle Jezebel” and “Native Love”. #lobotomyroom

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy 80th birthday to tremulous-with-emotion personification of old-school showbiz, triple threat, resilient diva, sequin enthusiast, Oscar winner, Studio 54 habituée and Betty Ford Clinic survivor - Liza “Jazz Hands” Minnelli (born 12 March 1946)! Pic by Mary Ellen Mark, NYC 2001. #lizaminnelli

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Art appreciation! La buveuse d’absinthe (1907) by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946). Don’t you love her haunted thousand-yard stare? In terms of alienation, this is like the female equivalent of Edvard Munch’s The Scream. #theabsinthedrinker #lobotomyroom #hauntedpainting #leonspilliaert

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Born on this day: the fiercely sensual, temperamental and magnetic earth mother of Italian cinema and paragon of Mediterranean womanhood, Anna Magnani (7 March 1908 - 26 September 1973). Portrait of Magnani by Yousuf Karsh, 1958. #lobotomyroom #annamagnani #shewolf #earthmother #italiancinema #kween

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Born on this day 115 years ago: Depression-era platinum blonde sex goddess #JeanHarlow (née Harlean Carpenter, 3 March 1911 – 7 June 1937). I particularly love Harlow’s performances in Dinner at Eight (1933), Red Dust (1932) and especially outrageous pre-Code comedy Red-Headed Woman (1932). #badgirl

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Born 94 years ago today: child actress turned volatile, hedonistic screen diva, AIDS activist, perfume brand magnate and definition of “movie star”, #ElizabethTaylor (Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, 27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011). Pic: Taylor in 1956 by Mark Shaw. #lobotomyroom #liztaylor #kween

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Born on this day 112 years ago: actress Carroll Borland (25 February 1914 – 3 February 1994) who played Luna Mora, eerily silent vampire daughter of Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) in 1935 Universal horror movie classic Mark of The Vampire. #carrollborland #lunamora #markofthevampire #lobotomyroom #horror

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Received a borderline spam email earlier from my pet insurance company notifying me that today (20 February) represents National Love Your Pet Day – an excuse to post a moody glamour shot of my intense and wilful fur princess, Eartha Kitten (aka That Bad Eartha). #earthakitten #britishbluecat #diva

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Happy 73rd birthday to #TheCramps’ fierce voodoobilly bad girl-guitarist extraordinaire-inscrutable dominatrix Poison Ivy Rorschach (née Kristy Marlana Wallace, 20 February 1953)! ). Pictured: portrait of Poison Ivy by Renaud Monfourny, 1990. Read my interview with Ivy here: tinyurl.com/n3v7bewk

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy Pink Halloween! I mean happy #ValentinesDay! Why not extend the swooning romantic vibes until Thurs 19 Feb and join us at Fontaine’s in Dalston when the FREE monthly #LobotomyRoom film club presents Morocco (1930)? Starring #MarleneDietrich and Gary Cooper! Info: tinyurl.com/3k8r8he9 #precode

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Lobotomy Room @lobotomyroom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Happy 65th birthday to scowling, ultra-intense American hardcore punk Renaissance man (and tattooed muscle daddy icon!) #HenryRollins (b. 13 February 1961)! I’d argue Rollins is at his ferocious howl-of-alienation best on Hot Animal Machine (1987). Pic: Rollins photographed by Rick McGinnis, 1988.

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