Well, this image by illustrator Gary Pullin comes close to representing an alternate answer to the "what is best in life" quandary that comes a little closer to my own point of view:
Death racing drag cars, badass skulls, and Vincent Price as Roderick Usher.
I feel that Price's Roderick Usher is a WAY under-appreciated style icon. That hair, that smoking jacket, that pained expression--it's ALL GOOD. There's something so New Romantic about that representation of the character. More spooky folks need to be taking a page from THIS dude's style book, let me just tell you.
6 comments:
Gary's art is very cool. Thanks for posting.
VP is the best, funny, creepy, dare I say sexy? I dare, sure. :-)
"More spooky folks need to be taking a page from THIS dude's style book, let me just tell you."
*AHEM*
(I kiiiiiiid.)
Darius, I'll dare right along with you! It's the eyebrow-arching. Gets me EVERY time.
Jack, you *know* you're my favorite Ripper-esque Gentleman. And I do mean the Dr. Cream type, not the Kosminski one.
I like Price's Prospero in masque of the red death much better, espec. since Price is... unnerving? without his mustache? Yes?
That said, I too suffer from "morbid acuteness of the senses" and am even worse on the lute (he sounds like he spends every evening trying to get the damned thing in tune)
My favorite Price as style icon is Verden Fell in Tomb of Ligeia. Dressed in black, top hat and those sunglasses.
Erich, I kind of like the moustacheless Price, so long as he's got the white locks going on. A white moustache might've been yet more unnerving, with a dark-moustache-and-white-hair combination being more than my little heart could stand...!
YES, Pierre! In fact, a quick Google reveals a stunning painting of Price in "Ligeia". I think moustacheless Vincent Price is really growing on me...!
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