Saturday, January 31, 2009

DREAM


I dreamed last night of strange things.
I was accosted and beaten by a group of men for no reason, they left me for dead in an intersection, all around it was pitch-black, like the intersection was under a stark white street lamp.  A lone person, a faceless stranger approached me from nowhere and I explained to her that I had just been beaten and she motioned for me to watch the darkness.  From the darkness comes a man dressed in glitter and a torn white dress, his legs were bare and exposed through the shredded fabric.  There was a huge pot-hole in the intersection and he stuffed it with red roses, huge gorgeous red rose blossoms.  The man went back into the darkness and was gone but a moment.  He returned on a bicycle and he was comically veering and teetering and he went into the pot-hole and the bike flipped him onto his face and he bit the black, wet concrete with tremendous force and his black page boy wig came off.  when he slammed into the road a puff of curly smoke went up from the impact and when he got up, mostly toothless and black, like he was made of ash and his face was smoking in a really comedic, screwball sort of way.  the skin was pulled away from his eyes so that you could see the deep red of the flesh underneath.  Though he was ashen and disfigured, his makeup remained perfect, purple and blue eye shadow and red red red lips. The ash man straightened himself up and began to walk towards me with these exposed eyeballs of his. 
I don't remember anything after that.  The color was vivid in this dream and felt important.  I recall the dream with a sense that it was hilarious.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

ULTIMA THULE



I found these glasses a while ago at Savers, and I thought they looked like this set I'd seen in a book on sixties design.  I bought them because they look like they are carved out of ice, and I liked that idea.  I just found out that they are those glasses, and I just broke one and I feel like I killed it.  Tapio Wirkkala is the designer, Finnish if you can imagine.  "Ultima Thule" is the set and I'm obsessed now with getting every piece.  

Monday, January 26, 2009

NOTHING SPECIAL

I watched Flesh, the Paul Morrissey film recently and I loved it.  I think more movies should be like that, like Morrissey's movies.  Incredible lives and situations to be sure, but presented like its nothing special, really touching maybe, or sad or hilarious.  Nothing special though.   No schmaltz hustling.  The scene with Candy and Jackie and that girl who wanted breast implants was spectacular. 

A Candy Darling Documentary coming out soon is titled, "Beautiful Darling."  It looks marvelous.