Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed

Marilyn Monroe photographed by a fan outside Fox Studios in New York on July 8, 1960.

— C.L.R. James, “Walter Rodney and the Question of Power”

Masahiro Tabuki, from JCA Annual 3 (1980)

“I travel your body, like the world, your belly is a plaza full of sun, your breasts two churches where blood performs its own, parallel rites, my glances cover you like ivy, you are a city the sea assaults, a stretch of ramparts split by the light in two halves the color of peaches, a domain of salt, rocks and birds, under the rule of oblivious noon"

And what I realized is that its power has got nothing to do with the tone or the melody itself; what you have to do is create an environment, a sound that's no sound at all. You see what I mean? Silence—I mean total silence—stirs up people's most primitive memories.

– Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

Mexican Gold Poppies (Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana), Superstition Mountains, Arizona.

“I need to do this to fulfill myself as a writer. I mean, it says, ‘come in out of the darkness.’ That’s saying, save yourself and come back. And it’s a serious thing. I had to do that to do the LP. I had to stop being crazy, or it wasn’t going to be done. Bella Donna was serious ~ I was not talking about a beautiful woman. I was talking about a beautiful woman becoming old and not beautiful. And skinny and too tired, the woman disappears.” ~ Stevie Nicks, High Times, 1982

Mike Brodie’s “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity”

Greetings and friendly wishes to all who may Encounter this voyager and receive this message We step into the universe with humility and hope

Hello Hello from the children of planet Earth

“The real head of the family…low-voiced, incisive and subtle, smiles are rare…ruined beauty…contemptuous and original and with fierce family loyalty…even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly…given to low-keyed rhapsodies about her garden of deadly nightshade, henbane and dwarf’s hair…”

Charles Addams, describing his most magnificent creation.  

Won’t You Be My Neighbor (2018) Dir by Morgan Neville

isabella killoran

Oh, oh, telephone line Give me some time I'm living in twilight