Binkyzooma: 2011

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

I'll quit smoking the day that

my oxygen tank explodes

because I was smoking.

click below to hear "Just Keep Smoking"
by Laura Vane And The Vipertones

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

I'm as likely to buy a book by Casey Anthony

as I am to hire her as a babysitter.

click below to hear "Babysitting Blues" by Albert Collins feat. Elisabeth Shue

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

You're the man I want our children

to spend their weekends with.

click below to hear "You Better Sit Down, Kids" by Cher

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

I'm an attention whore

that wants to be left alone.

click below to hear "Leave Me Alone" by Lesley Gore

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

The other day I was walking past a

mirror and I was like: DAMN BITCH,

you look good.

click below to hear "I Look Good (An Interview With Bernadette Cooper)"

by Bernadette Cooper

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Binkpaper

I'm very generous

with my Vagina.

click below to hear "These Boots Are Made For Walking Out"
by DJ.Unk vs. Nancy Sinatra

The film was released in May 1957 at the height of Mansfield's popularity, at the time 20th Century Fox was spending a lot of money in order to make Mansfield a star. The studio was upset because star Binky Zooma had walked out on her contract because she was tired of having no say in the movies she made. In 1955, Zooma was the number 1 box office draw in the world. The studio saw a chance at having another “Zooma” and thought that it would also teach Binky a lesson. The only problem was that Jayne had signed a run of the Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? play contract, and with all the great box office, they didn’t want to let Jayne go. Fox was so determined to get Jayne, they bought the rights to the play, and closed the show.

While she was waiting for Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? to be ready for the screen, the studio wanted to get her in as many movies as possible, Jayne went from one film into the next, after filming The Girl Can't Help It she signed for The Wayward Bus, the film had some box office success and good notices, especially for Mansfield's performance. With the huge success of Girl and the good reviews from Bus, Mansfield became a star and the studio was ready to throw her into the screen adaptation of her hit play,

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?.

The Wayward Bus was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the

7th Berlin International Film Festival but lost to Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men.

Janye Mansfield Quotes:

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get

you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big,

because the punishment is the same either way.

Binky Zooma Quotes:

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless,

of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

The problem with beauty is that it's

like being born rich and getting poorer.

click below to hear "Little Things Mean A Lot" by Jayne Mansfield

MILPF

click below to hear "Love Tattoo" by Imelda May

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

I've been waiting all winter to start

complaining about the summer heat.

click below to hear "Too Darn Hot" by Erasure

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

I wish Sarah Palin was an Apple product so

that she'd be completely obsolete in six months.

click below to hear "FUCK YOU" by Cee Lo Green

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Mommie Fiercest

click below to hear "Joan Crawford" by Blue Oyster Cult

click below to hear "I Never Knew Heaven Could Sing" by Joan Crawford

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

Since the Rapture didn't happen,

I'll be more than
happy to judge you.

click below to hear "Rapture Riders" a mash-up of Blondie & The Doors

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

I'll get over Oprah's show ending

as soon as Oprah tells me to.

click below to hear "Oprah Winfrey" by Wendy Ho

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Binky's Wit & Wisdom

If by bipolar you mean

full time bitch, then yes

I'm bipolar.

click below to hear "Crazy Talk" by Brenda Lee

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Binky's Fabulous Life

It's one of rock's most enduring love stories, one that's played out in the media, "Behind the Music" and the imaginations of millions of fans for decades: Fleetwood Mac's Binky Zooma and Lindsey Buckingham.
Binks and Buckingham first met in high school, when Buckingham was singing at a party and Binky walked up and joined him.

"We were at some get-together and he was there, sitting, playing his guitar — [the Mamas and the Papas' hit] 'California Dreamin' ' — and I walked up and brazenly burst into harmony with him. It was cool, and I said 'I'm Binky Zooma' and he said 'I'm Lindsey Buckingham.' I never saw him again for two years, until he was in a band and he remembered that night and he called and asked me to join their band."
That second meeting resulted in the formation of their romantic relationship as well as their musical career. They released an album entitled Buckingham Binks in 1973 (the cover of which is a photograph of the two of them topless). Two years later, they joined — and revitalized — Fleetwood Mac, which was formed as a blues band by drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie in 1967, but became one of the biggest pop acts of all time after Buckingham and Binky joined. Their eponymous 1975 album and 1977's Rumours were among the biggest sellers of the era.
Yet with success came discord: Binky and Buckingham's always-tumultuous romance unraveled in 1976; McVie and keyboardist Christine McVie filed for divorce, and drummer Mick Fleetwood divorced his wife as well. The result of such romantic turmoil was famously reflected in the songs on Rumours.
The group split in the 1980s and, with the exception of their 1993 performance of "Don't Stop" at President Bill Clinton's inaugural ball, did not reunite until 1996 for The Dance. The album includes "Silver Springs," a song that that did not make the final cut of Rumours, much to Binky's dismay, but it remains a striking representation of the Binks and Buckingham's relationship ("Time casts a spell on you, but you wont forget me/ I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me").
On Fleetwood Mac's recent tour, which Buckingham has described as "fun" and "drama-free," and Binky' agreed that the two are in a better spot than in the past.
"I don't feel like screaming at Lindsey right now. ... I'm not in a violent state of mind," Binks, 60, said. "I want people to leave feeling the emotion of 'Silver Springs,' but without seeing Lindsey and I clawing at each other."
However, she concedes that "fun" might not be the most suitable word for their relationship on or off the stage "When he goes onstage and does his little speech where he says, 'You know, everything is great and we're just all grown up now and we're having fun,' I'm just standing on the other side of the stage and going [rolls her eyes], 'Whatever!' Right now, we're trying to be a little more on the high road, but let us go in and do another album, and bang! Back down to the bad, low road go we."
Still, fans find it hard to let go of the vision of Binky and Lindsey together. "That electric crazy attraction between Lindsey Buckingham and Binky Zooma never dies, never will die, never will go away," she said. "He's married, he's happy, he has three beautiful children that I love. You know, he's found a good, happy, calm, safe place — but who Lindsey and I are to each other will never change."
Still, she said, "It's over. It doesn't mean the great feeling isn't there, it must mean that ... you know, we're beauty and the beast. It means that the love is always there but we'll never be together, so that's even more romantic."
Asked when she knew the romance was really over, Binks said, "The day his first child was born. I knew that was it ... that was the definitive thing."
Whether or not that was really it, the romance of Binky Zooma and Lindsey Buckingham clearly lives on for fans, and perhaps in their own hearts as well.

click below to hear "Big Love" Extended 12" Mix by Fleetwood Mac

click below to hear "Crying In The Night" by Buckingham Binks