Portrait of an “artist” as a young(er) man

Me, approximately twenty-seven years ago, in the “offices” of my fanzine, Magick Theatre; click to enlarge.

Adios, amigos.

A nicked Fury

Slavko Vorkapich works on one of the Furies for Crime Without Passion (Ben Hecht, 1934) swiped from Decaying Hollywood Mansions; click to enlarge.

‘Holy Moly’ by Cathy Davey

I’m all eager to get started
Don’t want to leave it
All undone though
One of these days my ego
Is going to steal you away

Holy moly, take me on please
I’m not one of these trained hounds though
I want to lead my own way
I’m just another stray

I’m all right, he’s all right, we’re all fine, we’re all ok
Pay your pay, night and day, lead in vain, lean on the old train

I’m a loose train now (x2)

Tomorrow is in motion
I feel it rise and fall again now
When I dive he’ll receive me
But I have a long haul to go

I’m all right, he’s all right, we’re all fine, we’re all ok
Pay your pay, night and day, lead in vain, lean on the old train

I’m a loose train now (x2)

Sky! Sky!

I’m all eager to get started
Don’t want to leave it, unsaid now
When I dive he’ll receive me
But I have a long haul to go

I’m all right, he’s all right, we’re all fine, we’re all ok
Pay your pay, night and day, lead in vain, lean on the old train

I’m a loose train now (x3)

I’m on a loose train now

Sky! Sky!

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From the film The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Lost New York

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Maila Nurmi

Via Fookdamorph; click to enlarge.

The new Lana Del Rey video

    “I am fucking crazy… but I am free.”

    OK… during the opening narration on this vid, I had a few thoughts:

“Uh oh… here we go.”

“I hope pray this narration isn’t on the album.”

“It looks like the new album could be Lana’s Wild at Heart.”

    But the song is catchy, and I’m sure after a few listens it’ll have me in its spell. One thought, however: after less than a year since Born to Die, is it too soon for a new Lana Del Rey album?

    The reason I ask is because I found her first album so original, so listenable, so well done, that anything she does now could only fall short of whatever unnecessary and unrealistic expectations I have percolating in my head… I have to learn how to back off and take it on its own terms… If anything, I’m grateful there’s a recording artist presently working who has me thinking and wondering and expecting and, most important, listening. I listen to her first album at least once a week and have been doing so ever since it came out. Only, back then, I’d listen to it once a day.

Do you Zenou?

Art by Izak Zenou; click to enlarge.

Jane Fonda!

Via Divine Decadence, Darling!; click to enlarge.

For you June Kenny fans...

This obscurity recently appeared on Netflix instant; click image to enlarge.

Noomi Rapace

Via Suicide Blonde; click to enlarge.