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and as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention, i dream of cherry pies

About Me


My Interests

abandoned places, air guitar, old clothes, wallpaper, pinch pots, time capsules, garbology, decay. See my blog, a potpourri of my adventures in wallpaper excavation, trespassing, dustbin-diving, thrift shops and poetic junk- with random outbursts of fashionable show-and-tell, and stuff about Hudson, New York.

My shop blog is at http://fiveanddiamond.blogspot.com/



By fiveanddiamond at 2007-03-05five and diamond vintage:
My vintage clothing shop, five and diamond, is at the corner of 5th and Diamond,
(also known as Columbia Street; also known as Rt 9G and 23B)
in the heart of

Open Thurs-Sun 12-5 and by chance or appointment. I accept MC, VISA, Discover, Debit cards, and, if you know my weaknesses, you can occassionally pull off a savvy barter with me.

I'd like to meet:

Find me over here too: http://fiveanddiamond.blogspot.com/



Music:


Movies:

CODA, Odds Against Tomorrow, King of Comedy, Another Woman, the Sweet Hereafter, The Heart is a lonely Hunter, Eternal Sunshine, Until the End of the World, Salesman,The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Adaptation, Vanilla Sky

Television:

if walls could talk, cash in the attic

Books:


I remember this one afternoon. It was the only time old Jane and I ever got close to necking, even. It was a Saturday and it was raining like a bastard out, and I was over at her house, on the porch--they had this big screened-in porch. We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't take her kings out of the back row. But I didn't kid her much, though. You never wanted to kid Jane too much. I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises, but it's a funny thing. The girls I like best are the ones I never feel much like kidding. Sometimes I think they'd like it if you kidded them--in fact, I know they would--but it's hard to get started, once you've known them a pretty long time and never kidded them. Anyway, I was telling you about that afternoon Jane and I came close to necking. It was raining like hell and we were out on her porch, and all of a sudden this booze hound her mother was married to came out on the porch and asked Jane if there were any cigarettes in the house. I didn't know him too well or anything, but he looked like the kind of guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality. Anyway, old Jane wouldn't answer him when he asked her if she knew where there was any cigarettes. So the guy asked her again, but she still wouldn't answer him. She didn't even look up from the game. Finally the guy went inside the house. When he did, I asked Jane what the hell was going on. She wouldn't even answer me, then. She made out like she was concentrating on her next move in the game and all. Then all of a sudden, this tear plopped down on the checkerboard. On one of the red squares--boy, I can still see it. She just rubbed it into the board with her finger. I don't know why, but it bothered hell out of me. So what I did was, I went over and made her move over on the glider so that I could sit down next to her--I practically sat down in her lap, as a matter of fact. Then she really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over--anywhere--her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows and all, her ears--her whole face except her mouth and all. She sort of wouldn't let me get to her mouth. Anyway, it was the closest we ever got to necking. After a while, she got up and went in and put on this red and white sweater she had, that knocked me out, and we went to a goddam movie. I asked her, on the way, if Mr. Cudahy--that was the booze hound's name--had ever tried to get wise with her. She was pretty young, but she had this terrific figure, and I wouldn't've put it past that Cudahy bastard. She said no, though. I never did find out what the hell was the matter. Some girls you practically never find out what's the matter.


Heroes:

Edith Macefield, Ruth Bigel, LA Smith

My Blog

Mountain JAM IV

Incredible Weekend of Music at Hunter Mountain. Tons of great professional band pictures on the mountainjamfestival.com website. Highlights were definately Franti, Citizen Cope (with Alice Smith!) J...
Posted by l¡Så on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:54:00 PST

the DIVE

Several weeks ago a woman walked into my shop and asked me if I would be interested in selling the pews and organ out of St John's Lutheran Church up the block from my shop. The church was being sold ...
Posted by l¡Så on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:43:00 PST

creative income tax procrastination 101

Me, myself and I drove over to the Land Conservancy in Stockport today. It’s a big abandoned farm on the river with lots of relics and foundations still in place. (Beekeeping stuff...)(Even thou...
Posted by l¡Så on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:12:00 PST

the orgasm doctor of warren street

Every time I rummage through my pile of Hudson ephemera I get hung up on creepy Doctor Harry Maltz, and his curious newspaper ad in the Hudson Register, circa 1920. Harry was a chiropractor, but his ...
Posted by l¡Så on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:24:00 PST

End of an Era: the Watnot Shop Closes (BIG DOWNLOAD)

I drove up to the old Watnot Shop Auction Barns yesterday to a)make sure they were still there, and b) get a pic for the big blog I've been working on this week. I was too late for the magic-hour ligh...
Posted by l¡Så on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:28:00 PST

Union Street Sweep, Hudson

Earlier this week I found an old photo album in my favorite Hudson shop, The Watnot Shop. Probably dated to the 1920s, judging from the fashion. The clothes, the buildings, the faces... I easily get l...
Posted by l¡Så on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:20:00 PST

I am half shot

This is a photo I bought at an auction about 10 years ago. "Sickles Entertainers at Fireman's Home Hudson NY Aug 4 1935"I especially liked this guy on the far right: (For more great faces up close the...
Posted by l¡Så on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:04:00 PST

oh and while Im on the subject

And then I'll shut up about this for awhile....Here's another piece of the same alley that the gentrification fairies visited this year with their bulldozers and vinyl garage doors.Beforeand After...
Posted by l¡Så on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:55:00 PST

A moment of silence: love Shack report

I was out cruising down the alleys this morning, minding my own business, when I stumbled upon this horrific scene--- one of my favorite love shacks getting shit-kicked to the ground and loaded into a...
Posted by l¡Så on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:46:00 PST

where ive been

here today: ( Kauterskill Clove, 1862, by Sanford Gifford)and here yesterdayCatskill Mt House Site. Sunrise 9.25.07 lots more pics on my flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiveanddiamond/sets/...
Posted by l¡Så on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:25:00 PST