a slow, dirty drawl

if he died he would first inquire which place had the best hi-fi set and make his plans accordingly.


Video: Clip from Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law, 1986
Image 1: William Eggleston, Untitled, date unknown, from the "Troubled Waters Portfolio" 1980
Image 2: William Eggleston, Untitled, 1965, from the "Los Alamos Portfolio" (1965-74)

jack

your anchor has sunk


Image 1: Granddad at the Rocky Mountains, 1971
Image 2: Lulu with Jack, 1922
Image 3: Granddad with Rusty, 1934
Image 4: Granddad and Farmor's Wedding, 1954
Image 5: Granddad and Farmor at Lake Placid, 1959
Image 6: Granddad at Skjolden, Norway, 1965

vardaman

because I am a country boy because boys in town.


Image 1: Sally Mann, Emmett's Bloody Nose, 1985
Image 2: Sean Stewart, Rivertown, Winter, 2008, 2008
Image 3: Sally Mann, Emmett Darling, 1993

delta of venus

 
I am half sick of shadows.


Image 1: Carlo Van de Roer, Sara Rossein, 2009
Image 2: Amjad Faur, Burial Aesthetics, 2011
** Carlo Van de Roer's exhibition The Portrait Machine Project is up at the M+B Gallery, LA, until May 14 **
** Amjad Faur's exhibition Bethlehem in Wax is up at PDX Contemporary, Portland, until April 30 **

spring is in the air

Image: Terry Richardson, Harmony Korine & Chloe Sevigny, date unknown
Video: Clip from Cyprien Gaillard's Desniansky Raion,  2007, with music by Koudlam

an elegy

once narrowly escaped, now unavoidable...
the kitchen light burns on.


Image 1: Jaik Faulk, Young Prince, 2011
Image 2: Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 70, 1961, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image 3: Jaik Faulk, Jackie Stewart Protection, 2011
** Go see Give Me Shelter, the new solo exhibition by the amazing artist Jaik Faulk, up at Nationale, Portland till May 1 **

queen elizabeth

this is Maggie the cat...


Image 1: Sid Avery, Elizabeth Taylor Sunning Herself, 1955
Image 2: James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor on the Set of Giant, artist/date unknown
Image 3: Elizabeth Taylor Washing her Dog, artist/date unknown
Image 4: Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, artist/date unknown
Image 5: Wardrobe Still from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958
Image 6: Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Giant