memphis

memphis
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happy new year

top ten stuff

van gogh drawrings @ the met
ed ruscha@ the whitney and national gallery
friedlander @ moma
eggleston infrared @ cheim & read(?)
sufjan stevens, come on feel the illinoise
the squid and the whale
sisterhood of the traveling pants, the movie
mark newgarden, we all die alone
christmas windows at bergdorf goodman
head-on

contemplating ostrichness

-- from a nameless yeast

My favorite of the Bergdorf Goodman windows, this one particularly resistant to capture in a single (or even multiple) photos. This is why I shoulda brought the Hassy and a tripod.

brokeback benji

brokeback benji
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In the Union Square dog park, uniondog.org. The white devil was insatiable in his power play over the black dog, who ran around in circles trying in vain to escape. Her torturer heeded not the cries of bigger dogs such as the red-eyed samaritain coming up the rear; even a huge sheepdog, out of frame, couldn't stop the music. Like a Bergdorf Goodman Christmas window, this can't capture the depth and density of such a tableaux, and in this case the world may be better for the failure of art to mirror life.

Thanks to Bunny for the title!

new york eye

new york eye
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silky!

silky!
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cracker barrel, arkansas

cracker barrel, arkansas
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ticket counter, graceland

ticket counter, graceland
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suzy snowflake

here.

"it's for play"

"it's for play"
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One of the many times we got lost in Memphis was down this side road that was part abandoned warehouses and part high-class condos under construction (the class divide seems really deep in Memphis). I saw a gorgeous sunset view of barren trees overlooking the Mississippi. my date stopped and waited in the car so I could take pix but after a few minutes I motioned her over.

There was a walkway atop a steep hill that overlooked Riverside Dr and ol'
Miss. We admired the view and sat on a bench like a coupla crazy kids and after a spell we saw a figure come up the hill (it was a lot like Vertigo except without nuns and death) and got up, figuring it meant no good. It was this crew-cutted immigrant carrying an unfolded cardboard box. three friends were at the bottom of the hill looking up at us. The immigrant looked at us and our silent questioning and said in a thick (hispanic? middle eastern?) accent, "It's for play - it's good!" I wondered what kind of play was he giving for his friends down there? When he finished unfolding the box he put it down, lay on it face down and slid down the hill, ending up halfway into Riverside Drive. He came up for seconds and the second time he didn't make the road but fell off near the bottom and didn't get up for a minute, but by the time we moved on we saw him limping up, ready for another turn.

e'en hillbillies

e'en hillbillies
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out of order

-- from a nameless yeast

soul food

soul food
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like I said, we got real real lost a few times.

a king for a king

a king for a king
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how fried thou art

how fried thou art
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vernon's office

vernon's office
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a hillbilly no more

a hillbilly no more
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Two much-anticipated packages awaited me when I got home from work: my D70s, and Fantagraphics' brand new collection of work by Mark Newgarden, "We All Die Alone." So I used one to shoot the other - this is the first shot taken with my new toy. Instant professionalism, obviously.

The strip above appeared in the DC City Paper sometime in the late 80's/early 90's, when Newgarden shared the funny pages with the likes of David Lynch's "The angriest dog in the world" and Lynda Barry's "I am half-filipino and oh! Childhood!" I've tried to explain this particular strip to friends for years but had long lost my clipping, leaving the urgent humor of "Even hilbillies" lost to a generation. This cry of cynicism has perhaps been shed, if one can extrapolate from Newgarden's bio, which notes the artist is currently living with his woman in a building that once housed a Brooklyn funeral parlor. The fact that they reside in Kansas further attests to the strength of lurve. I have also perhaps shed my youthful cynicism and am looking for a former funeral parlor, perhaps in the Memphis area.

mp3s for fun and non-profit

january chow cha-chow chow chow
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the apricots, japanese girl group avec banjo and kazoo.
via mod-ified music

dranking songs from wynonie to the killer and back.
via locust st.

the call of the wild

the call of the wild
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(there's gonna be a) snowdown

-- from a nameless yeast

grounded

grounded
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From a test roll shot through my Zorki-4, an old-school Russian rangefinder with all sorts of mechanical quirks. I fogged most of the roll owing to a misunderstanding of the rewind procedure. But you can't fog freedom!

in a lonely place

in a lonely place
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no photoshop was used nor animals harmed in the production of this picture.

within a budding grove

within a budding grove
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oh the wonderful music lately provided by the dedicated staff of filles sourires:

-one of many versions of serge gainsbourg's "harley davidson" posted recently, this one a trip-hoppy effort by one depth charge
-three selections from the ouevre of 80's euro-teen sensation (n.b.: racy!) Lio.

how you will sing and dance in many languages! a bientot!

tabloid ophelia

tabloid ophelia
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tabloid photographs from the los angeles herald express

oh dog bark three

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site via happy palace; also see the difficult to meaneuver but seemingly endless wonder of oh-dog-you-sleuth.

lay your head upon my pillow

the lizzie borden bed-n-breakfast

August 4, 1892. A wealthy businessman and his wife found brutally murdered in their Victorian home in Fall River, Massachusetts. The Accused: the youngest daughter, Lizzie. The Verdict: Not Guilty!

So goes the lore of the most famous crime in the annals of American history. The mystery remains: If Lizzie Borden did not wield the murder weapon, who did?

Our beautifully restored Greek-revival home is now a first-class bed & breakfast. You are invited to choose one of 7 beautifully appointed bedrooms and roam the house to learn the true facts. What were the thoughts of the first police officers on the scene? Who were the suspects? What was the public?s reaction? Will you join the legions who think Lizzie guilty, or will you choose to be a stalwart defender?

via lenny.

i was so much older then i'm younger than that now

i was so much older then i'm younger than that now
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not just any port in a storm

not just any port in a storm
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the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

-- from a nameless yeast

true story

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pacify - by idio lector 1.3

-- from Idiolector 1.3

poor sewer-baby, eyeballing that binky from beneath the grates but powerless to retrieve it. let us who live aboveground appreicate the binkies we find because it is too rare.

a really big adventure

-- from a nameless yeast

attila

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the last days of the quarry house before new management takes over and sucks her marrow for a brazilian nose job. word is the famous burger - the best in the fahreakang tri-state area - will still be on the menu; word is also that the current staff knows dip about their future. what is this, the government?

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new musik, unheralded "new wave" at siart.

loose ends, UK soul at bumrocks.

sixty-one versions of tico-tico at wfmu.

the transfiguration of blind bishop manning

the transfiguration of blind bishop manning
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more from the Halloween Extravaganza @ Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

8:25; man without hat

8:25; man without hat
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a friend received some correspondence from Australia which was inexplicably packaged with this and two other snapshots.

savage night

savage night
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a traveling pants of the mind

a traveling pants of the mind
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Ferlinghetti's blurb is for Traveling Pants actress Amber Tamblyn's new collection of poetry "Free Stallion." Miss Tamblyn was mentored by Michael McClure among others. Her verse is a sight better than Jewel's, and one hopes that her next collection will shed the stallions and mainstream imprint (Simon and Schuster Children) for truly beat pants.

when i paint my masterpiece

when i paint my masterpiece
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just the two of us

just the two of us
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as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina

as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina
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one of the first things I ever bought on eBay, this squished currency cost me a neat $1.25 plus p&h in before-everything-changed dollars, and thus was an inexpensive way to bolster my feedback and q-rating. and oh, the girls, whose virtue would melt faster than you can say Sacajawea in a barn at the Rolls Royce and Movado that possession of such a talisman boded.

dukes

dukes
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summer leftovers. taken on the way to see the dukes of hazzard.

vavoomahhh

vavoomahhh
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boom! there she was

boom! there she was
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sharon and stephanie on trip to

sharon and stephanie on trip to
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the inscription on back of the picture indentifies the dames but leaves out their destination. where would a pair like this *not* go?

julia 44

julia 44
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One of the vendors at the Hell's Kitchen flea market had a handful of contact sheets and glamour shots of this one model, whose name is Julia Tamosi or Lamosi or Famosi or Bamosi? The photographer is John Paul Ireland. A friend at koffeeklatsch told us that this is just how girls dressed when he was a freshman in college, which dates this to the late 60's or early 70's?

unnatural urges

unnatural urges
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benji 77

benji 77
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big baby, der zorn gottes

neils for your listening pleasure:

young's time fades away, not on cd and not likely to be.
via a million miles away

diamond's rick rubin-produced new album.
update: diamond's been removed. nuts. it's alright.