Secret Music: Laura Marling is my soulmate....

Let me just say that I prepped for this in the strangest of ways... pretending that Laura's sister wasn't temping for us... But she was! And she looks like her and sounds like her... and my sad little fangirl was dying... but I hope I didn't freak her out too bad with all the reminders in my Outlook calendar for the Secret Music show plus reminders to buy tix for the Oct 3rd Bethnal Green show (see ya there suckeritos!).... only a little obsessed.

Here is my face:

Was going for gothic undead 20s spinster-siren.... SPOOKY, no???? I did black lipliner with Feu de Terre by Nars on the lips... As far as I can tell this is a selfie in the b-room once back home so probably not my best look. 

Und here is the group pic:

Can you spot me?

As well as the only surviving evidence of Senor Bear?

How I Spent My Summer Vacation, aka HOLS!

WTF has the time gone?

I am alive. I promise. If only barely. I have been upping the intensity of my new cycling to work routine which has left me battered of body and face... seriously, have got an insatiable family of chinstrap acne that, like a rapper's girlfriend's booty, JUST WON'T QUIT!

Anyways... these past few weeks... months?!?!... have been emotionally exhausting as well... every dramz, you name it, I gots it. Family dramz? Check. Medical dramz? Check! Dramz dramz? Check check!

But I am somehow making it out.... slowly...

PROOF! 

Girls' night out at Street Feast, followed by an impossibly delicious dinner at White Rabbit in Dalston, where some squinty posh chap let us know that we are cute but "not that hot"... ahhhh. Bless dem beautiful squinty, marble mouthed tw@ts...

If you look close you can see my latest Tatty Devine acquisition... the BURGER NECKLACE! Thinking some tasteful nudes with nothing but the burger are in order... wazzah.

I also stumbled across this pic of The Cr3w while at home in LA showing off my London friends to my mommy... We are forming a LDN bike gang if anyone wants in on that! Yeah, we gon' get jackets.

Oh yes, did I not mention I have been in LA for a while?!?! No? Is that because I was having such an amazing time I forgot that everything else in the world existed? No! But close...

 Not only did we do LA, we also did San Diego and Las Vegas!

We stayed at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego and absolutely loved it... possibly more on that later!

But here is the pool where we spent 1 week of our lives when we were not eat, eat, eating! This was a particularly overcast moment... I assure you I came back peely and burneded.

Another highlight... when in LA we went to the Wild Records Yound N Wild Weekender! I finally got to see the Delta Bombers!!! And I 'sploded straight from yippy fangirl to hard core humina humina groupie. It gave me feeelings. I also caught a bit of Mary Simich of Wacky Tacky fame! But did not spot Mr. Tiny himself... Bummer! I also got to see Doris MayDay! Both at the PUG boutique and at the show... STALKER ALERT. Jooooookes. Also caught Omar and The Stringpoppers and Gizelle... Let's say I was not overly thrilled that Ms. Gizelle gave the mister the ol' humina huminasssss. Uncool! :)

handsome bastards.... The Delta Bombers!

View from our ace suite at the Tropicana... seriously the revamp they did is so ace even though I am a Tropicana purist... Highly recommended...

And lastly, the only real reason to go to LA... a King's Hawaiian cake!

And eat it we did.... mostly between the hours of 4 and 6am LA time....

Some more posts soon!

Thanks for checking in!

Oh, My Revolution Girl: Generations on a Theme

Natividad aka "Nana" aka "The Godmother of Gardena"

Georgina aka "Mama" aka "Wonder Woman"

Gigi (at 17) aka "Mija" aka "Gordita" aka "Scooter"

Gigi (at 27) aka "Body by Burger" aka "Who let that lady in?"

A Father's Day History Mystery

About 15 years ago, I was having a tough time as a "teenage super-square". I was never too bratty, or angsty, I guess, just kind of.... lost and confused.

One day, my dad came home from doing his rounds on the Garage Sale circuit (That's right, my dad was one of the original G-Salers) with a precious little wooden box inlaid with silver and copper accents in the form of Egyptian motifs.

He told me the box had a very interesting history behind it.

It had belonged to a young girl many, many years ago who was filled with sorrow at losing her love. She would cry every day, saving her tears in this box. And penning little notes of hopes and wishes that when mixed with her tears in this magical box would come true.

So he told me that next time I feel sad I should do the same. And keep all my hopes and wishes in there.

He spun a good yarn and, as I was and will always be a sucker for that man, I still believe every word to this day.

I don't know much else about the box other than that story. A little Sunday googling lead me to this:

So I am assuming it is also from the 1920s / 1930s and it looks like it could be quite similar, albeit in much worse condition.

Not that its condition matters at all. How could I even think of Antique Roadshow-ing a genuine magical wishing box???

But really, I hope everyone has a lovely Father's Day - because I know I won't. Nothing's much of anything without my "Fatty". Staying positive :)

And now for something inappropriate... I mean SEASONALLY INAPPROPRIATE... Golly Gee!

Although, the weather today is definitely saying "October... in hell"... and not "June in... ANYWHERE"!

Today, I would like to take a moment to talk to you about Halloween.

It is my favourite holiday - and should be yours, too.

I take Halloween very seriously and have at times ended up flailing and shouting at strangers on the street for not taking it seriously enough and for boring the pants off me. Trust.

Here are some images of Hallowe'ens past.

::Nostalgic Oscar death reel music::

2012

Half-a$$ed Gil Elvgren girl pin-up! With skirt literally pinned up to get that Oh So OOPS look!

Not my car.

The Original!

Woops - still not my car.

2011

Pretty much the greatest thing I have ever done. This picture does not even come close to capturing the full frontal severity of this look. Everything was rainbow. Frida Kahlo.

2010

I'm thinking the costume brief was "Sexy [Noun]"... I'm really surprised no one else came as Sexy Karl Lagerfeld.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!! booze.

Too Many Moons Ago

Betty Boop! Get it! My momz made / altered the dress from a Betsy Johnson I scored at the Goodwill for like a dollah. Ubiquitous Red Cup! Cropped to protect the innocents.

Credits: Grease Monkeys

Jamz!: Two Things That I Kinda Like Need Right Now

Macklemore.....

Plus Burgers...........

Equals...........

{Though for serious my jam is White Walls - Listen to it!}

Credits: JaKeepinItReal

Why Didn't I Think Of That?!?: Twerk it!

Ok - so for my first "Why Didn't I Think Of That?!?" post I am featuring a different kind of "tech start-up" - a YouTuber!

Introducing... Mr. Mawaan Rizwan, aka Malum TV!

I am a tough critic of comedy - coming from a long-line of jokers, clowns, hee-haws and knee-slappers - and while his humor is a bit less subtle than my all-time favorite, Mitch Hedberg, he's still funny!

We here at Body By Burger salute him and wish him all the luck in his future in comedy and online video production!

I found this video via Jezebel.

Bonus: MITCH HEDBERG!