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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Date with Poison Ivy: My Epic Cramps Post I just got back from ten days in Canada on Friday 2 November. There’s not much to do in rural Quebec besides eat and sleep (I was aver...

Read my 1990 interview with Ivy here: tinyurl.com/n3v7bewk #thecramps #poisonivyrorschach #luxinterior #lobotomyroom #garagepunk #addamsfamilyofpunk #voodoobilly #punkabilly #psychobilly #rockabilly #rocknroll #rockabillypsychosis #badgirl #punk #punkrock #punkicon #punkpinup #filthelder #rolemodel

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

Born 105 years ago today: scandalous golden age Hollywood screen diva and glamour icon Lana Turner (née Julia Jean Turner, 8 February 1921 - 29 June 1995). Pictured: Turner as pagan priestess Samarra in 1955 MGM biblical epic The Prodigal. #lanaturner #lobotomyroom #biblicalepic #exotica #kitsch

Born 80 years ago today: sensationally beautiful sloe-eyed burlesque dancer turned Russ Meyer glamazon Haji (24 Jan 1946 - 9 Aug 2013). The bodacious Haji graced five of Meyer’s sexploitation masterpieces - most famously, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) (pictured). #russmeyer #lobotomyroom #haji

The temperamental and intense Eartha Kitten "helping" me change the sheets on Friday morning. #earthakitten #thatbadeartha #britishbluecat #britishblueshorthaircat #catsoftheinternet #lobotomyroom

Died one year ago today: twisted visionary, high potentate of cult cinema and the man Mel Brooks famously once labelled “Jimmy Stewart from Mars”, #DavidLynch (20 January 1946 – 16 January 2025). Pic: portrait of Lynch and Isabella Rossellini by Helmut Newton, 1988. #lobotomyroom #cultcinema

BOTD: R&B queen Ruth Brown (12 Jan 1928 - 17 Nov 2006). I saw Miss Rhythm perform several times over the years at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly weekenders. Even in declining health she rocked the house. “The doctors told me I’d never walk again,” she’d declare. “And here I am!” #ruthbrown #lobotomyroom

Light a black candle! The fabulous Finnish American actress and pin-up model Maila Nurmi (11 December 1922 – 10 January 2008) – better known as cadaverous wraith cheek-boned 1950s horror movie hostess Vampira – died on this day. #vampira #mailanurmi #lobotomyroom #glamourghoul #plan9fromouterspace

Eartha Kitten declares the festive period OVER! One final portrait taken this morning of Eartha with the pink flocked Christmas tree, which Pal is dismantling right this moment. It's actually a relief: I haven’t vacuumed in that corner for weeks. #pinkchristmastree #britishbluecat #lobotomyroom #cat

That Bad Eartha (aka our British blue fur princess / demon child Eartha Kitten) basking in a sunbeam on 31 December 2025. I hope everyone's 2026 is THIS serene. #earthakitten #britishbluecat #thatbadeartha #catsoftheinternet #lobotomyroom #britishblueshorthaircat

Before Mommie Dearest ... before Showgirls ... the original “What the hell were they thinking?” Bad Movie We Love was show business cautionary tale Valley of the Dolls. And it's the #LobotomyRoom film club selection on 22 January 2026 at Fontaine's! Info: tinyurl.com/3tfnby4x #valleyofthedolls

Happy 79th birthday to fierce punk poetess, beatnik earth mother, musician, playwright, shamanistic visionary, personification of jolie laide androgyny, role model and the woman Salvador Dali once likened to “a gothic crow” – #PattiSmith (née Patricia Lee Smith, 30 December 1946). #lobotomyroom

Girl! Amid the Christmas day revelry, can we all just pause for a moment today to remember that incomparably sultry and feline sex kitten chanteuse extraordinaire and camp icon, the bedroom-voiced Ms #EarthaKitt (17 Jan 1927 - 25 December 2008) aka MOTHER died on this day? #santababy #lobotomyroom

It's Christmas! Now let's all celebrate by doing the Batusi! #christmas #christmas2025 #christmasday #merrychristmas #kitschmas #christmaskitsch #lobotomyroom #batman #adamwest #retrochristmas #vintagechristmas #batmantvseries #batusi #purewest #festive #christmastree #kitsch #camp

Hoping everyone’s Christmas is mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky! Pictured: the morbid dream team of visionary cartoonist Charles Addams (1912 – 1988) and actress Carolyn “Mortica” Jones (1930 – 1983). This duo is like my spiritual parents! #addamsfamily #lobotomyroom #charlesaddams #christmas

Our wilful and intense “fur daughter” Eartha Kitten wishes everyone a merry Christmas. #christmas #merrychristmas #christmas2025 #earthakitten #thatbadeartha #catsoftheinternet #kitschmas #christmaskitsch #pinkchristmas #lobotomyroom #pinkchristmastree #britishblueshorthaircat #christmastree #xmas

Wishing everyone a Bewitching Christmas! The countdown to Kitschmas is on and you need a soundtrack for every possible festive mood swing. I’ve got you covered with my EPIC festive #LobotomyRoom Spotify playlist crammed with curiosities and oddities! Link: tinyurl.com/4xznkyft #christmasmusic #xmas

In the countdown to Kitschmas: a truly impressive festive ‘do via Wig Chapel! Doesn’t she evoke the late, great Lynne Marie Stewart as Miss Yvonne in the 1988 TV special Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhouse? #kitschmas #lobotomyroom #christmaskitsch #missyvonne #christmashair #festive #christmas #kitsch

Crowdfunding and co-ops: how independent cinemas are rising from the ashes of the pandemic With nearly a third of indie cinemas at risk of closure, new ventures like The Nickel have to get creative to keep the projectors running. Here’s how London’s newest grindhouse is beating the odds

Flattered to have been interviewed for this article! Interesting to be described as "a tattooed Canadian!" Read "Crowdfunding and co-ops: how independent cinemas are rising from the ashes of the pandemic" open.substack.com/pub/maxingle... #lobotomyroom #nickelcinema #filmclub #london #cultcinema

In the countdown to Kitschmas … chic alors! Christmas, Deneuve-style! Young Catherine Deneuve sneaking a cigarette by the tree in Jacques Demy’s Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964). Joyeux Noël! #christmas #catherinedeneuve #lobotomyroom #lesparapluiesdecherbourg #joyeuxnoel #frenchcinema #xmastree

Happy Thanksgiving to American friends! Pictured: festive pin-up of young starlet on-the-ascent Marilyn Monroe in turkey-hunting pilgrim mode, 1950. #thanksgiving #happythanksgiving #marilynmonroe #lobotomyroom #thanksgiving2025 #thanksgivingturkey #pinup #retropinup #vintagepinup #kitsch

How much can you stand … before YOU go BERSERK? Find out for yourself on Thursday 20 November when the FREE monthly #LobotomyRoom cinema club (committed to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents deranged 1967 horror shocker Berserk starring #JoanCrawford. Info: tinyurl.com/3jxf85b7 #filmclub #cultfilms

The weekend starts NOW! Pictured: “Dancing in the Kitchen, Preston, Connecticut circa 1955” from the book Americans in Kodachrome 1945-1965 by Guy Stricherz. #fridayfeeling #fridayfeels #thankgoditsfriday #fridaymood #fridaymotivation #lobotomyroom #kodachrome #foundphotography #kitsch #weekend