Sophie Swengel ✽
“Put some love in your heart like you put the ink in the inkpot”
— Shocking Blue
When I am not working on my honors history thesis, embarking on a new sewing project, or enjoying a concert, I'm researching history and trying my best to , mostly of the swinging sixties and seventies variety. Below are some of the fruits of my labor; this is my world, my inkpot, and I hope you enjoy it.
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Future Now
On music and more
Accidental censorship with Lillian Roxon and Allen Jones ✽ On Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, and me ✽ Goodbye, Superlungs: a eulogy for Terry Reid ✽ ➳ Live from the grounds of the Devo fan convention
From My Modeling Career
Vintage style
Slipping on Betsey Johnson for Paraphernalia
The Silent Cinema
A viddy at the recent cut of Caligula ✽ ➳ Conflicted thoughts on Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein ✽ ➳ Life before and after the trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights ✽ Things Coppola’s Dracula had that Eggers’ Nosferatu didn’t