trace cyrus

She Don't Wanna Be Saved, Don't Save Her

View of a Room

Atelier Elvira. August Endell. Munich, 1900.

************************

In 1901 [Endell] moved to Berlin, where ten years later he designed five shops for the Salamander Shoe Company, each with large, sensitively detailed windows. In them, as [Karl Ernst Osthaus'] account reveals, ordinary goods seemed almost to evolve into living forms: "the passerby is arrested before them: silk clothes rustle around him, and before him lips open up, which he will kiss while wearing these boots."
--Pamela Kort, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Berlin Street Scene (1913-14)"

?!

High of 69 Degrees

Verses

'Siul a Rún'


Siúl, siúl, siúl, a rún, Siúl go socair agus siúl go cúin, Siúl go dti an doras agus ailig liom. Is go dteighigh tú a bhoirnín, slán.

I would I were on yonder hill. T'is there I'd sit and cry my fill, and every tear would turn a mill. Is go dteighigh tú a bhoirnín, slán.

I'll sell my rack. I'll sell my reel. I'll sell my only spinning wheel. To buy for my love a sword of steel. Is go dteighigh tú a bhoirnín, slán.

I'll dye my petticoats. I'll dye them red, and around the world, I'll beg my bread. Until my parents shall wish me dead. Is go dteighigh tú a bhoirnín, slán.

I wish. I wish. I wish in vain. I wish I had my heart again. And vainly think I'd not complain. Is go dteighigh tú a bhoirnín, slán.

But now my love has gone to France, to try his fortunes to advance. If e'er he come back, t'is but a chance. Is go dteighigh tú a bhoirnín, slán.

---(a young women urges her boyfriend to desert the army...'walk away my love, walk quietly, get up and go away with me...')


'Níl Sé Ina Lá'


Níl sé ina lá, níl a grá. Níl sé ina lá is ní bheidh go maidin,
Níl sé ina lá is ní bheidh go fóill, solas ard atá sa ghealaigh.

Chuaigh mé isteach i dteach aréir, is d'iarr mé cairde ar mhnaoi an leanna.
is é dúirt sí liom "Ní bhfaighidh tú deor. Buail an bóthar is gabh abhaile."

Chuir mé féin mo lámh i mo phóca, is d'iarr m«briseadh scillinge uirthi.
Is é dúirt sí liom "Suigh síos ag bord, is bí ag ól anseo go maidin."

"éirigh i do shuí, a fhear an tí, cuir ort do bhrístí is do hata.
Go gcoinne tú ceol leis an duine cóir, a bheas ag ól anseo go maidin."

Nach mise feín an fear gan chéill, a d'fhag mo chíos in mo scornaigh?
D'fhág mé léan orm féin, is d'fhág mé séan ar dhaoine eile.

---(the Irish version of the 'Wild Rover' in which a man is tricked into spending all night in a pub while spending the rent money...)

Errol Flynn + Brigitte Bardot, 1956

Love In This Club: Hole. Yes, Hole...

I know Courtney Love looks like a Mickey Rourke muppet in a wig. I know Frances Bean is counting down the days until she can poison her during their "Reconciliation Thanksgiving dinner," but I still cannot find a single thing wrong with this song. Just give it a listen, and tell me you don't want to find some Urban Decay nail polish and go crazy:

leafy chaqueta!

Robert Rauschenberg. Samarkand Stitches #IV, 1988.

Oil on Canvas for Monday

The Fourth Dimension
Patrick J. Sullivan
1938

Waiting at the Drive-Thru

Interstate

birthdays march ?, 2010

Nina Hagen (55)
Anton Yelchin (21)
Thora Birch (28)
LeToya Luckett (29)
Joel & Benji Madden (31)
Eric the Midget (35)
Johnny Knoxville (39)
Terrence Howard (41)
Lisa Loeb (42)
John Barrowman (43)
Peter Berg (46)
Alex Kingston (47)
Elias Koteas (49)
Nina Hartley (51)
The Lady Chablis (53)
Joey Buttafuoco (54)
Bobby McFerrin (60)
Sam Donaldson (76)
Rupert Murdoch (79)

Martha Rosler Reads Vogue. Martha Rosler. 1982, videostill.

Verses

"Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space"
Ron Padgett


Here is my philosophy:
Everything changes (the word "everything"
has just changed as the
word "change" has: it now
means "no change") so
quickly that it literally surpasses my belief,
charges right past it
like some of the giant
ideas in this area.
I had no beginning and I shall have
no end: the beam of light
stretches out before and behind
and I cook the vegetables
for a few minutes only,
the fewer the better. Butter
and serve...

from New & Selected Poems, 1963 — 1992, 1995

Verses

Genesis 19:14-17, 23-26---


So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!" But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.

When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city." And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed."

The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Lullaby

"The Wheel"
W. B. Yeats

Through winter-time we call on spring,
And through the spring on summer call,
And when abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter's best of all;
And after that there's nothing good
Because the spring-time has not come -
Nor know what disturbs our blood
Is but its longing for the tomb.

pobre D'Angelo!

birthdays march ?, 2010

Chingy (30)
Nick Zano (32)
James Van Der Beek (33)
Freddie Prinze Jr. (34)
Boris Kodjoe (37)
Kathy Ireland (47)
Camryn Manheim (49)
Aidan Quinn (51)
Lester Holt (51)
Gary Numan (52)
Carole Bayer Sager (63)
Micky Dolenz (65)
Lynn Redgrave (67)

"in a dream

my love"

"I have a spiritual guide, not a therapist but someone who in my mind is connected with a higher being, and he helps me a lot. What I like about him is that he doesn't speak to me like I am a normal person. He understands that I have an eccentric way of life and personality. And he also understands that I am famous, and I appreciate that. He tells me that I no longer serve my life in the normal way that people serve their life, that I must serve the greater good in my service to the universe. And for me, it's my fans. I only serve my fans." Don't you think it's kind of creepy when you refer to yourself in the third person? "No. Not if you're an artist, it's not. I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans. And that way, I have to think about not what is best for my vagina but what is best for my fans and for me artistically." — Lady Gaga in an interview with T Magazine.

OH NO!!!!!!!!
I like the bit about "a spiritual guide, not a therapist," but then....
Are we only two kinds: famous artists with fans and un*famous non-artists who put their vaginas first? Tell me tell me.