Lotte Lenya's mouth. ~~~Obsessing over Art. Doing artwork. Realizing the ultimate insignificance of it. ~~~~ Autumn. Train travel. Vacant depots. Laughing til I leak. People or things that cause this to happen. ~~~~Expatriotism. ~~~~Also: Decay. Challah french toast. Pumpkins. Crows. Warm loamy soil. Unnerving things. Insane conversations til sun-up. Hangover cures. Politics. Old bookbinding smells. ~~~~Abhoring being in love. Gloaming. wet Redwood forests. Solitude. Snappy overlapping banter. Having a PICNIC ! - (but never in a crowd)! ~~~The underdog. The 1920's. Forgotten vernacular. Handwritten letters. Afternoon cocktails. Observing people doing people-y things . Playing 78's. ~~~~Wild flowers. Petting lonely pups outside supermarket entrances. ~~~Sprinting on the sidewalk at 3 am. farmers markets. ~~~Loomis and his extraordinary poetry. Absinthe lore. Books that pull you in and permeate your being. Inclement weather. ~~~~Old Hollywood. Old buildings. Old painted ladies on their afternoon excursions, in their moth-bitten finery, who obviously came here to Hollywood in the 1920's to find fame and fortune. ~~~~Mossy brick pathways. The silver wrapped familiarity of a Ding-Dong. Mercury glass. Garden dwelling. Old friends. Making new friends. Green mint tea. Taking photos. Cooking big pots of scrumpty-delicious soup. Scrambling eggs. Eating figs. growing Terragon. Gut feelings. Longing.
A madman with a time machine. A drop-of-the-hat-mad-hatter. Those with a lusty grasp of the absurd. A brilliant cook who could teach me how to make a sumptuous Bouillabaisse. Kindred souls who feel they are living in the wrong era...the 1920's and 30's feel more like home, don't they? Iconoclasts. Playmates. Paramours. Those repelled by conformity and the mundane. Misfits & Oddballs who never quite fit in anywhere. Passionate people who see beauty in unexpected places. Old people who have lived fully and recklessly,and want to talk about their experiences. I want to listen! Leftists, Bleeding heart liberals, Communists, Socialists & Dadaists. :-)Oh, and then there are these people...Oscar Levant. George Sand. Spaulding Gray. Erik Satie. Cole Porter, Isadora Duncan, Collette, Oscar Wilde. Dorothy Parker (& the entire Round Table habitues). Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe. Diego & Frida . Sally Bowles. Marcel Duchamp- (i met his lover once - 102 yr old ((at the time i met her)) artist Beatrice Wood - in her studio/home in Ojai ...she was AMAZING!)~ Cecil Beaton. Bob Fosse. Gore Vidal. And the Bundy Drive boys (so i could toast those beautiful bastards improperly! Yeah, I'm looking at YOU Barrymore!)--------------------------------------------- Sadakichi Hartmann - Otto Dix --------------------------Skyscraper tea, anyone?
Waltzes. Kurt Weill singing "Speak Low" by Weill. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This man: ~~The unspeakably exquisite Prince Poppycock!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Walter Huston's version of "September Song". The Archibald Leeches. (don't know em? you will.) Erik Satie's Gnossienne's. Oscar Levant's mad genius at the ivories. Chaotic supressed mumblings of an orchestral warm up. Early wheezing scratchy 78's. The chilling beautiful spew of a shakey warbling music box. Fred Astaire recordings of the 1930's. Mr.Uncertain at an abandoned piano. James Mason's speaking voice. That hissing silence before sleep. Lotte Lenya.These are haunting me.~~~The bewitching Miss LenyaThe ALWAYS disarming Oscar Levant.. width="425" height="350" ...... width="425" height="350" ...... width="425" height="350" ...... width="425" height="350" ....Cypress String Quartet: Debussy Quartet in G .. width="425" height="350" ...... width="425" height="350" .... "People" by Uncertain ~ and directed by Justin Coloma! (i'm in there somewhere - the undead tart in the red satin dress) .. width="425" height="350" .... oui oui.. width="425" height="350" ...... width="425" height="350" ....
See Cristiane Cegavske's "Blood Tea and Red String" stop-motion animated film any way that you possibly can!!! .. width="425" height="350" .... ..Harold & Maude. The King Of Jazz. Murder By Death. The Wizard of Oz. Carrington. Cabaret. Sunset Blvd. Howards End. The Philadelphia Story. The Thin Man. All That Jazz. A place in the Sun. Reuben Reuben. Adam's Rib. Grey Gardens. Pandoras Box. Big Night. Pennies From Heaven. The Misfits. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. The Big Lebowski. All Astaire & Rogers musicals. Vertigo. Lolita. The Shining. Being There. Mr. Blandings. Playtime (Jacques Tati). Goodfellas... width="425" height="350" ....
Colbert Report. Daily Show. TCM. Alton Brown. Bugs Bunny.
Lolita. Preferably read onboard a hurtling train, complete with strangers stares in aghast. Dorothy Parker. Augusten Burroughs. Collette. Anais Nin. Gene Fowler. Capote. John Irving. William Burroughs. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin. Tom Waits. Leonard Cohen. Carson McCullers.
the Mama of DaDa - Beatrice Wood All anti-War anti-fascism pro-impeachment pro-universal healthcare pro-HUMAN BEING activists. My mom - who i miss every day that i breathe. I would give anything to have her back. ~~~ My big sis~ ~~~~~And the incredibly inspiring Beatrice Wood!~Dorks, DANDIES, swains, upstarts, Bush loathers, curmudgeons, composers. madcaps, adventurers, imps, pixies, razor witted bastards, monocled impostors, poets, artists, writers, trouble makers, scene stealers, dream dwellers, time travelers, romantics, eccentrics, mind bogglers, wine guzzlers, book readers, word eaters, bon vivants, and those unafraid to speaketh their mindseths. Cheers mateys!