battery x-change

battery x-change, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

memento maury

memento maury, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

yeasteanara

-- from sfrances

american legion hall

american legion hall, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

dancer in gold and black

dancer in gold and black, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

lady nose d'voidoffunk

Oh Honey, Why, It's Just PERFECT!, originally uploaded by the atomic housewife.

Portland

Portland, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

convergences

convergences, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

convergences

convergences, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

poet laureate

poet laureate, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

jeans on (rated r)

madison avenue

madison avenue, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

branding

branding, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

bronson. man dom.

new york

, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

he asked me if this bus was going to what sounded like "west palms." I said, er, it's going east. he nodded and thanked me and i have no idea what he said but he said a lot of it.

tension

, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

the penguins who make the cigarettes

whiskey picnic - directed by chad

woodland creatures gather besotted by the clear clean taste of PM whiskey

Superstar

Superstar, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

shopping with cy

shopping with cy, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

found in the coffee shop a few years ago.

"it's naked -- it's brutal -- it's who we are"

"it's naked -- it's brutal -- it's who we are", originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

the front element fell out of my lomo fisheye and shattered. it seems to have something to do with focus.

match your mood

party

party, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

stress release

stress release, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

From the May 24, 2006 issue of a Florida Keys free weekly. The pullquote goes, "It's a stress release. It helps me deal with a lot of problems."

the long legs of the law

the long legs of the law, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

If vertical stripes signify the watching eyes of regulators, and the human gam is a flesh-and-blood manifestation of similar design principles, are leg-men inexorably attracted to the code of good sportsmanship? and does the elaborate tat subvert the signage and make the would-be transgressor uncertain whether his departure from written law be met with punishment or reward? Should the charm city roller girls find themselves in need of a dramaturg, do let me know.

human being

human being, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

thin wild mercury music

thin wild mercury music, originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

houdini at the wintergarten

Houdini at the Wintergarten, from the Prints and Photographs collection at the Library of Congress

コマネコ１

happy sad

happy sad
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

if you squint real hard you can imagine that yellow car is a ball of fire he's conjured up from the depths of hades. I think my old, lower-res cameraphone could have worked such digital alchemy but I can stare at this and pass out and dream.

i dig a pony

i dig a pony
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

the zoppe family circus performs on mulberry street in little italy, nyc. related tags: pony, cleavage, punishment and reward.

great wall

great wall
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

I was walking around Chinatown and through an open doorway saw a pair of big-eyed puppy cut-outs hanging on a wall. I went in to investigate what turned out to be a kind of storefront Buddhist temple. A donation table was set up where you could pay a dollar for a fortune (see above). The temple matron sat at a reception desk across from the donation box, so I paid for my fortune and asked if I could take a picture. She said yes, but when I took aim at a pair of wall-hung big-eyed monkeys she said no - I could take pictures of Buddha but not that. Hmm.

me and my protective circle

me and my protective circle
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

at the strange powers exhibit, in a lower east side building supposedly haunted by Federico Garcia Lorca. I asked about the jar of sidewalk chalk on the reception table. It's an adjunct to Peter Coffin's wall drawing, where anybody who asks about it gets to have a protective circle drawn around them anywhere in the gallery. I picked a spot near the healer.

i can't believe this is the only korla pandit clip on youtube

gris-gris gumbo ya-ya

gris-gris gumbo ya-ya
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

the love song of j. alfred yeastrock

the love song of j. alfred yeastrock
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

weeki wachee by holga by Pat.

Ambitious Lovers - Love Overlap

penetrators - shopping bag

via sharpeworld.

go

go
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

stop

stop
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

kleenex / liliput - die matrosen

Young Marble Giants - Cakewalking

spalding's manual of roller skating, 1884

armor of god pjs

putty hill xanadu

putty hill xanadu
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Putty Hill Skateland in Baltimore, slated for the wrecking ball next month.

a funhouse nameless yeast and friend

a funhouse nameless yeast and friend
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

traffic

traffic
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Happy

happy!

Happy.

the littlest mortal coil

the littlest mortal coil
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

from the 1905 tome Painting pastimes for young artists

Tom Zé - A Volta do Trem das Onze

tom ze and the dancing nuns present "hein?"

listen to this:



while watching this:

Fantastic Hey Hey Hey

rory ride me raw

rory ride me raw
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

New Frontier - Donald Fagen

Q.E.D.

Q.E.D.
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

from a 1927 issue of field and fancy

Evel Knievel suckliloquy

calling richard prince

calling richard prince
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

crystal city, virginia

lost horizon (1973)

It wasn't that bad.

I said it about GOIN' COCONUTS, the Donny and Marie movie, which I would nevertheless not want to see again; and now I can say it about LOST HORIZON, the 1973 musical - which I actually wouldn't mind seeing again. So long as I can fast-forward through the non-musical parts.

LH has such an awful reputation - colleagues who saw its original release warned me there was nothing even enjoyably bad about it. It does suffer from what would seem to be insurmountable problems: a really slow start (a friend suggested cutting the ration scene, for one); actors who can't sing; and what may be the very worst choreography I've ever seen - poor Hermes Pan - the legendary choreographer of the Fred and Ginger movies is reduced in senescence to this? Is Sally Kellerman, at her physical peak, simply doing an impression of the infirm in her somnambulistic shuffle?

But I like Bacharach - his tricky melodies may not be immediately memorable, but once they dig in they're settled for good. And the conceit of a musical Shangri-La isn't so illogical - after all this wasn't the first or even second musical treatment of James Hilton's book, which after its Capra-ization was sung on broadway and later on television. I'm not familiar with the other musical treatments, but here the characters sing only in Shangri-La (the soundtrack recording includes a number by Peter Finch's character, having left Paradise, singing that he must go back - but this isn't in the movie), and the one visiting character who doesn't sing - Michael York - doesn't want to stay there, so it makes perfect sense that he doesn't have a song. Yes, even George Peppard, or his vocal double, sings too, and that's one of the charms of this movie, as characters find and revel in their song.

There is much to ridicule: a sexual chemistry between Liv Ullman and Peter Finch may be unlikely if not completely absurd, but between Sally Kellerman and George Peppard? And there's the casting of John Gielgud as Chang, who when we meet him immediately dispels our aural suspicions by pointing out that he was educated at Oxford. Which doesn't explain his occasional slips into some stilted Chinese-Oxfordian accent, but still, that's one audacious backstory. Politically, there's the matter of colonialism/exoticism and the peculiarly unenlightened gender roles in paradise. In better hands (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, back in the day? Bollywood? Jacques Demy!) this could have been an unguilty pleasure. Still, I found about a third of LOST HORIZON wonderful despite its flaws.

There's a demo record out there of the LH material sung and performed by Bacharach himself - if anybody in the listening area has a copy I'd love to hear it.

the world is a circle

From the Burt Bacharach-Hal David penned musical version of Lost Horizon, a much-maligned (and unfairly so), example of the late great Hollywood musical.

pickpocket

pickpocket
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

'Up to 100 bears were involved in the massacre ... It was a dreadful scene.'

Guard dog mauls Elvis's teddy in rampage

When Barney met Mabel, there was an instant - and fatal - chemical reaction.

On Tuesday night the doberman pinscher guard dog, after six years' blameless service, went berserk: within minutes Mabel, a 1909 German-made Steiff teddy bear once owned by Elvis Presley, more recently the pride and joy of an English aristocrat, lay mortally wounded.

satisfaction always

satisfaction always
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

from The American Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Association Inc Guidebook and Standard, 1932-1933.

terriers

Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Brotherhood of Lizards

Bearobics