beautiful.

Wendy’s Girl?

Bill Callahan (smog)

Need I explain?

This fo’ sale?

Reppin’ Biggie

i’d be shot, but

miles

these too

Georges Franju’s 1959 French horror film Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face) stars Edith Scob as Christiane Genessier, a lonely girl whose face is grimly marred from an accident caused by her father Dr Genessier.

more later

Yesterday evening, Victoria, a new aquaintance, recounted to me, “There was some ladies passin by here just yesterday n poked their heads in. The one said to another, ‘ best get on, this is one of them witche’s shops.’ Don’t know why.”

Pointing to the set of mounted 8 point stags, I mused, “Maybe it was the taxidermy?”

“You know, Ted says they’re twins, but I thinks just that all deer look the same. Nowh, I don’t think it was them deer. You see, the deers outnumbered by the clothes. Aint no one gonna make that mistake, numbers be hard to mistake – it’s thinkin that messes people up. You know, decisions n all.”

“Maybe the two decided they wanted to go to Salem and visit. Maybe they were expecting witches but fucked up.” I reasoned.

“Maybe.”

excerpt from a fictional conversation inspired by visiting Warf St. Portland, Maine.

And heres a nift-ridden & related how-to list, via:  http://www.wikihow.com/Perform-Taxidermy-on-Animals

Steps:

1. Start by catching and killing an animal. You can follow the WikiHow guide to catching a small to medium sized animal, or obtain a game license and kill the animal with a rifle. You can also do this on a pet or other animal that has recently died of natural causes.
2. Solution Based Mounting
   • Most animals preserved in solution originate from the sea. Because it is not feasible to gut a squid, many scientists preserve them in glycol ethers or ethanol. Especially in the first few months, the salt gradient will often cause fluids to leech from within the creature’s body. It is important to keep changing the fluid so that it remains clear. Over time it will have to be changed less and less often.
   • Even animals that did not originate from the sea can be preserved in ethanol. Small pets like hamster or gerbils that you wish to live eternally, yet do not have enough time to invest in fleshing and mounting can by put in preservation jars. If done correctly, the fur will retain is soft look and it will be just as cute.
3. Fleshing and Mounting
4. Use a Scaple, or sharp knife to gently remove the skin of the dead animal take special care around the eyes,ears, and nose. Take precautions to make sure that it is not ripped.
5. Dip the carcass into a Plaster of Paris solution to make a mold of it. DO NOT COOK OR EAT THE MEAT AFTER PUTTING IT IN PLASTER OF PARIS
6. Use the mold to create a fiberglass sculpture of the animal.
7. Put the skin onto the sculpture adding marbles for eyes and the original teeth from the animal.
8. Enjoy your preserved animal; it will last for many years with good care.

The only clipping i’ve ever been fond of from VV.

”

Bill Hart was a director and a former literary manager of the Public Theater. In addition to many other productions in his long career, Hart directed Sam Shepard’s States of Shock and Tooth of Crime (Second Dance). Shepard remembers him here.

IN FONDEST MEMORY
OF BILLY HART

Billy died today at one forty something
sitting straight up
listening to a tale of how he saved someone from suicide
talking them down from a steep pitched roof

Billy
last I saw him
gasping
clutching at some invisible hand-hold
falling back exhausted
thrashing forward like some broken bird
astonished
mouth agape
he would just come out with things
like: “I had no idea it would be such a long journey away from evil.”
or: “We’re already dead, aren’t we? We’ve already done this?”

Billy
recklessly crashing down the midtown street
accidentally knocking over James Baldwin
“Poor Little Jimmy,” he called him
Mailer waking him at all hours
picking his brain about graffiti
Was it really Art?
Was it really Life?
Was it really Real?

Billy
character witness on behalf of Lenny Bruce when he was up for “Obscenity”
and shooting smack
Lenny called him “The Groovy Kid”
but that was back when he really was
when his eleven year old head was gently held
between the trembling palms of Lady Day
and kissed upon his high forehead
when he ran with two white dogs
through the streets of East L.A.
flailing in circles
sometimes berserk
sometimes profoundly stoic
always brilliant and shining with ideas
that seemed to come from far across the known world

Billy
who could see directly into the heart of a thing
and call it by a name you could suddenly recognize
with new eyes:
a play
a film
a story
a tale
a legend
a poem
a flight of birds

Billy
with not a mean bone in his body
acerbic lightning voice
and a mind that will always shine
on those of us lucky enough
to have crossed through its piercing beam

Sam Shepard
Pecos, New Mexico
1/24/08″

Been looking for some boots for a while. Settled on these:

Digby & Iona Jewlery

Reminds me of Maine.

It’s four in the morning

the end of December

I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better

New York is cold

but I like where i’m living

There’s music on Clinton Street all through the evening

I hear that you’re building

your little house deep in the desert

You’re living for nothing now

I hope you’re keeping some kind of record

“Famous Blue Raincoat” Leonard Cohen