De-evolution
O.G. (Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912) d00d (Marcel Duchamp by Eliot Elisofon for LIFE, 1952) n00d (anon? ASCII enthusiast, unknown date. Thx, AP)
Necking
Swinging around that neck of mine every day. Logs, sneaker & glove, crystal gazing, rainbow mask & a mini Mickey. Feel like a creep when I forget to put it on.
You know the scene is very hum-drum
I was talking all-time fave raves with my pal Chris over dinner the other night. We’ve been friends for a good ten years or more, meeting as one did in the late 90′s through a shared interest in Belle & Sebastian. We were talking about upbeat pop songs that make you feel the same way [...]
I got us a song
As part of my radio show, I see a lot of films. Most films, in fact. There are some that critics aren’t invited to (the review-proofs & the stinkers) and some that don’t quite fall into my jurisdiction, but most films that came out in the cinema this year, I’ve seen. The worst ones are [...]
Bright lights, big bulbs
I recently moved house, working out that it had been 25 months since I’d slept in my own bed. Sounds more exciting than it was. Maybe. So my mind is wandering into interior design, more than I’ve allowed it to for that many months, trying to suppress my nomadic urges for a spell. The above [...]
“C’mon Jill, be a lady”
I was sad to come across the obituary for Jill Johnston in the NY Times today. Had never even heard of D.A. Pennebaker’s Town Bloody Hall ’79 documentary (how had I not?) that was mentioned in it, footage of a debate on the subject of women’s lib in ’71 in New York, chaired by Norman [...]
WWVB/BSJD?
A few years ago I decided as my new year’s resolution to cut out publications in print and online that had a negative vibe. Mostly this meant claws-out fashion sites and celebrity culture magazines that I perused when bored or in grocery store check-outs. This was around the same time that my old housemate Flippe [...]
Merci
Above: from the set of Les Bonnes Femmes “Certainly I’m happy right now making these films about murder. My interest isn’t in solving puzzles, but in studying human behavior. Nothing else interests me so much. I’m not a chansonnier, a man obsessed with the events of the day. I am a Communist, certainly, but that [...]
“I always dreamed in color”
Aurora’s posting of the ’74 Bubbles 7up commercial by Robert Abel & Associates (WOWOWOWOW) jogged Peter Max back into my mind.