#l.a. joan

[lunastar92]

R.i.p to Shelley Duvall

1949 -- 2024

[psychterminal]

[erasawordsmithofsorts]

THE HOLE SHIRT COMES THIS SATURDAY AND I ORDERED TWO NEW PINS AS WELL IM SO EXCITED

I ALSO MIGHT BE GETTING. A SIGNED L.A. GUNS POSTER. AND IM SEEING BLACK VEIL BRIDES NEXT MONTH, MIGHT BE GOING TO SEE JOAN JETT IN JUNE, IM GOING BACK TO SPNCON THIS DECEMBER, AND I MIGHT BE GOING TO AN L.A. GUNS CONCERT THIS AUGUST. LIVING THE FUCKING DREAM.

[oldtvlover]

So, tonight DVD time with Shakedown on the Sunset Trip from 1988. Cast: Perry King - Sgt. Charles Stoker Season Hubley - Officer Audre Davis Joan van Ark - Brenda Allen Vincent Baggetta - Sgt. Fuller David Graf - Officer Jack Ruggles Joan McMurtrey - Betty Stoker (Lt. Marsh from S&S) Charles Siebert - Sgt. Gerber and many more 

Story: Based on a true story, this movie perfectly captures an era gone by and transforms a story of corruption into a riveting drama. On the infamous Sunset Strip, an agressive vice cop's pursuit of a notorious Hollywood madam stirs up a deadly hornet's nest of political scandal. Los Angeles in the 1940s - a time when everybody had something to sell and a place where every dimly lit street seemed to hide a secret. Sgt. Charles Stoker sees the takedown of the most prominent madam on the strip as his fast track up the chain of command. With the help of his partner and love interest, Stoker catches the Queen of the Strip red-handed. However, he soon learns her political connections make her nearly untouchable. Ignoring the risks to his career - and his life - Stoker pushes harder for evidence to shut down the prostitution ring, until he realizes that his obsession may have gone too far. (taken from my DVD cover) Thoughts: An obsessed man to get the lady, yet he was ordered to it. Though Charles is separated from his wife, he still seeks her advice and time, especially for his sons and a good colleague, Jack. Betty knows about his affair, yet she only has one wish for him: that he's not a cop. Throughout this whole trial it goes up and down for Stoker, and he certainly feels betrayed by his love interest but he can answer his wife's request. This movie shows an era where all was possible, and to save many bad one good has to go. Unfortunately.

Old times are always fascinating. Well, a cop after a woman who has all in her hands. There was only one end possible.

[girlwithlandscape]

“A good part of any day in Los Angeles is spent driving, alone, through streets devoid of meaning to the driver, which is one reason the place exhilarates some people, and floods others with an amorphous unease. There is about these hours spent in transit a seductive unconnectedness. Conventional information is missing. Context clues are missing… Such tranced hours are, for many people who live in Los Angeles, the dead center of being there.” — Joan Didion, “Pacific Distances”

I went to L.A. last week for the first time and did not like it. Joan very eloquently summing up why here.

[eroticlamb]

Shelley Duvall as L.A. Joan in Nashville, 1975 ♡ Directed by Robert Altman

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

Behold, a bracket!

Text form below the cut because trying to copy all the 256 into the alt text sounded.... horrifying. Warning for 128 matchups, seriously, this list is long, and so I've avoided adding the artists until the polls.

a note: the pinned post has started misbehaving, so only open polls will be directly linked. closed polls instead have the results page linked in the set header, all the polls are linked from there

Set 1

The Lament for Icarus (Miao He) vs The Lament for Icarus (Herbert Draper)

The angel came to me in a fever hallucination, perched upon my bed as I returned from the bathroom. vs Sweet Brown Snail

Figures vs A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery

Happy Shoppers vs Hubble Deep Field

Lovers Painting vs Bath Curtain

Dr. Helen Taussig vs Une Martyre

Orangoutang étranglant un sauvage de Bornéo (Orangutan strangling a Borneo savage) vs Can’t Help Myself

Rape vs Technicolor Hiroshima

Set 2

A Walk at Dusk vs Based on “Autoportrait with the Model” by Maria-Rayevska Ivanova

Diary Page vs Les Jours Gigantesques (The Titanic Days)

Dead of Night vs You Won't

Christina's World vs Bobby

Untitled (I’m Turning Into A Specter Before Your Very Eyes And I’m Going To Haunt You) vs Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

Sharecropper vs Lustmord

The Parca and the Angel of Death vs Untitled (Zdzisław Beksiński)

Stress vs The Fallen Angel

Set 3

Device to Root Out Evil vs Travelling Light

Diana vs Fifty Days at Iliam: The Fire that Consumes All before It

The Plains, from Memory vs Exotic Bodies

Doubting Thomas vs Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror

Empty Nest vs Somebody Fell From Aloft

Anguish vs If I Died

Cat in Obsolete Bath vs You're Not Boring Anymore

Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) vs Untitled (billboard of an empty unmade bed)

Set 4

There Will Be No Miracles Here vs Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace

Fox Hunt vs Tarpaulin

Khajuraho Group of Monuments vs Ranakpur Jain Temple

ปราสาทสัจธรรม (The Sanctuary of Truth) vs Grande Panorama de Lisboa

Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais vs The Weather

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit vs If this is art

Statue of Vincent and Theo van Gogh vs Jeanne d’Arc écoutant les voix (Joan of Arc listening to the Voices)

Fountain vs Judith Slaying Holofernes

Set 5

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands) vs Cave of El Castillo

Chauvet Cave Bear vs Uffington White Horse

Laocoön and His Sons vs Winged Victory of Samothrace

Crouching Aphrodite vs Statue of Taweret

Guardian Figure vs Kūya-Shonin (Saint Kuya)

Ancient Greek doll vs Arena #7 (Bears)

Enbu (炎舞) (Dancing in the Flames) vs Yearning Shadows

Belfast to Byzantium vs Freedom

Set 6

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayan vs Portraits

The Blood Mirror vs Nighthawks

Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers): Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate vs "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw vs Forgotten Dreams

Saint Bride vs Pixeles (a group of 9 works)

War Pieta vs The Sunset

The Handmaidens of Sivawara Preparing the Sacred Bull at Tanjore for a Festival vs Ajax and Cassandra

Nāve (Death) vs Abstraction

Set 7

Yes vs Meeting on the Turret Stair

Hacked to Death II vs Stańczyk

Closeness Lines Over Time vs Voice of Fire

The Maple Trees at Mama, the Tekona Shrine and Tsugihashi Bridge vs Portrait of Sir Thomas More

Survival Series: In a Dream You Saw a Way vs Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre

Death blowing bubbles vs The Kitchen Table Series

Painting 1946 vs In the Grip of Winter

Untitled (Black and Gray) vs NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

Set 8

Blue Plate Special vs Red Cedar

Palace of Fine Arts vs Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba

Le Château des Pyrénées (The Castle of the Pyrenees) vs Susanna and the Elders, Restored - X-Ray

Moby Dick vs Viva la Vida, Watermelons

Venus Envy Chapter One (Of the First Holy Communion Moments Before the End) vs how to look at art

St. Sebastian vs Untitled #12

Carroña vs The invincible one

Untitled (Two Dogs) vs The Dog

SECOND HALF

Set 9

David (Donatello) vs David (Michelangelo)

The Other Side vs The Temptation of St. Jerome

Seated Woman with Bent Knees vs Starry Night

Headdress - Shadae vs Untitled for the Image Flow's Queer Conscience exhibit

Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind) vs Les Amants (The Lovers)

Siroče na majčinom grobu (Orphan on Mother's Grave) vs You Make My World a Better Place to Find

Fighting Against SARS Memorial Architectural Scene (弘揚抗疫精神建築景觀) vs Fallingwater

Resting vs The Hull

Set 10

Olive Trees vs Worship

Glow vs Wheatfield with Crows

Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X vs Untitled (He Plays Very Badly)

D.I.Y. by John Wiswell vs The Tragedy

Judith and the Head of Holofernes vs Beethovenfries (Beethoven Frieze)

The Memory of Me (How Could I Forget) vs oh god i had a really big epiphany about love and personhood but i’m too drunk for words

I am happy because everyone loves me vs 瀕危形態 (Endangered Forms)

Three Scaffolders vs Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan

Set 11

San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk vs Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow

The Grief of the Pasha vs Monolith in Vigeland Sculpture Park

Passion vs Space Diner

Hamlet and Ophelia vs Two Earthlings

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth vs Seer Bonnets

Photograph from "SNAP OSAKA" Collection vs Clytemnestra after the Murder

“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) vs The Lovers (TIE)

Kedai Ubat Jenun vs Orange Store Front

Set 12

The Apotheosis of War vs Portrait of the Dancer Aleksandr Sakharov

Julie Manet vs Mouth

The Icebergs vs Kaleidoscope Cats III

Maman vs Caza Nocturna (Night Hunt)

The Book of Kells Folio 188r: Luke carpet page vs Ardagh Chalice

Yusuf and Zulaikha vs Dome of the Rock mosaics

Rowan Leaves and Hole vs Untitled (prisonhannibal)

Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man) vs The Dedication

Set 13

Deimos vs Dog and Bridge

The Mocking of Christ vs Prudence

The Broken Column vs Siberian Ice Maiden shoulder tattoo

Transi de René de Chalon (Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon) vs Head of Christ

The Day vs Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 vs Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban জাতীয় সংসদ ভবন (National Parliament House)

Juventud de Baco (Bacchus Youth) vs Barges on the Seine

Oath of the Horattii closeup vs Visit hos Excentrisk Dam (Visit to an eccentric lady)

Set 14

Christ Crucified (With Donor) vs St. Francis

Thunder Raining Poison vs Piazza d'Italia

The Grove vs Among the Waves

Pintura Mural de Alarcón vs Sagrada Família stained-glass windows

Noonday Heat vs La Dame à la licorne (The Lady and The Unicorn)

Matroser i Gröna Lund (Sailors in Gröna Lund) vs Gielda Plakatu

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks vs The Garden of Earthly Delights

Kuoleman puutarha (The Garden of Death) vs Haavoittunut enkeli (The Wounded Angel)

Set 15

i've wasted a lifetime pretending to be me vs da oracle

minus #37 vs Panel from Fun Home

Excerpt from illustrated edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner vs La Mort de Marat (The Death of Marat)

The Veil vs Düsseldorf 4 (Museum Kunst Palast)

Capriccio vs Zodiac calendar for La Plume

The official imperial portrait of empress dowager Cixi vs José y Maria

Blooming Lilacs vs Lágrimas De Sangre (Tears of Blood)

An Interlude vs Boy Staring at an Apparition

Set 16

Mermer Waiskeder: Stories of the Moving Tide vs The Gran Hotel Ciudad de México Art Nouveau interior

Unfinished Painting vs To Arms!

Memorial to a Marriage vs The Island

Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn vs A Few Small Nips

Saturn Devouring His Son vs Guernica

Fairy Princesses vs Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Mummy with An Inserted Panel Portrait of a Youth vs Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party

Agnus vs The Cup Of His Murders Is Flowing Over And In His Coat Shall Be Many Curses

[felicitypdf]

"Feelings of inferiority in another sense, as well: Didion was what Dunne only pretended to be. “I was staying with Joan and John,” said Wakefield. “This was a couple of years before I moved to L.A.—in 1967, I think. They were both writing for The Saturday Evening Post. Things were going well, and they bought a new car, a Corvette Stingray. They’d just drove it home, right off the lot, and then they heard that The Saturday Evening Post was canceling their column, or maybe that the whole magazine was folding—I forget which—and John said, ‘Oh, God, maybe we should take back the car.’ Joan looked at him and said, ‘Don’t think poor.’” So, it was soft-spoken, bird-boned Didion, not hotheaded, chest-thumping Dunne, who was the real pro and little toughie."

Lili Anolik, True Confessions?

[grandhotelabyss]

What do you think of the modern influence of Californian culture? i.e. beaming out to the world: entertainment via Hollywood, worldview and drugs via the 60s, technology via Silicon Valley?

What interests me is that for as long as I can remember it's been seen by normies and conservatives as a political thing: the "land of fruits and nuts," as they used to call it, inculcates cultural liberalism. But the influence is much more totalizing than that. For one thing, from Nixon to Reagan to the Silicon Valley right that helped Trump, we've also frequently been governed and will be governed again by Californian conservatism as well as or more than California liberalism. "California Über Alles," as the poet said. And then, more importantly than the left or the right, is the apolitical influence, the promulgation of a unique form of spirituality, enabled by all the dream-machine Hollywood-drugs-tech apparatus, almost everyone seems by now to practice by reflex, a mix of Buddhism, gnosticism, esoteric Judaism, rogue psychoanalysis, and the magical tradition. Reading a number of Bruce Wagner's Hollywood-and-spirituality books this year—I'm Losing You, The Empty Chair, ROAR, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers—helped me to reflect on this aspect of the subject. Joan Didion's essays on the pioneer spirit that built the state are also suggestive of the individualism behind this sensibility. I am fascinated by the subject and would like to learn more about it. I've only spent about five weeks in California (L.A. to be precise) and would also like to visit again someday.

[gods-country024]

Joan Jett in her home in L.A. | by Chris Stein member of Blondie //1977

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Hi do you have the soroff on interview with Chris were he speaks about Sandra and salma

I love a morning where I can wake up and piss off Megan. No, Megan, this still exists! Try to wipe it out wherever you can, but it will never wholly disappear. So let's all revel in the absolute unfiltered, no-holds barred bro-ness that is 24 y.o. Chris. (And let's see if anyone else thinks he's talking like a totally single dude in this, when he was supposedly still with Jess Biel at this time. I think those two took a lot of breaks.)

IMPROPER BOSTONIAN, August 3-16, 2005 Issue

CHRIS  EVANS

 BY  JONATHAN  SOROFF 

PHOTOGRAPH  BY  BILL  STREICHER

 Newly minted  movie  star  Chris  Evans,  24,  was  born  in  Boston,  lived  in Framingham,  and  moved  to  Sudbury  when  he  was  12.  After graduating from  Lincoln-Sudbury  High  School,  he  signed  with  an  agent  in  New  York  and  almost  immediately  went  to  Los  Angeles,  where he  was  cast  in  the  Fox  sitcom  Opposite  Sex,  a  summer  replacement  series  about  three  guys  admitted  to  a  formerly  all-girls school.  He also appeared  on  David  E.  Kelley’s Boston  Public,  as  a  disturbed  student who  holds  a  class  hostage  at  gunpoint, and  on  CBS’  The  Fugitive,  as  the  rebellious  son  of  a  local  sheriff.  On film, he  appeared  in  Not  Another  Teen  Movie  and  The Perfect  Score,  and  starred  opposite  Kim Basinger and William  H.  Macy in  Cellular, playing  a  man  who  answers  his  cell  phone to  hear  a  woman  desperately  pleading  with him  to  save  her  from  kidnappers.  Recently, he wrapped  production  on  two films:  Fierce  People,  opposite  Diane  Lane and  Donald  Sutherland,  and  The  Orphan King.  His biggest film to date, Fantastic Four,  is  based  on  the  comic  of  the  same name  and  was  released  last  month.  Evans lives in  Los  Angeles.

 Jonathan  Soroff:  You  started  acting  at  17. What happened  to  spending  your  adolescence lost  and  confused  and  aimless?

 Chris  Evans:  It  was  still  lost  and  confused and  aimless,  it  was  just  in  L.A.  It  really  has been  the  school  of  life.  It  was  great.

JS:  You’re  still  too  young  to  say  that.  All  my friends  agreed  that  you  had  the  hottest  body  in People  magazine’s  “Best  Beach  Bodies," which  we  were  looking  at  this  morning. . .

CE:  Really?  I’ m  a  Serena  Williams  man myself.  Jesus  Christ,  my  God!  She’s just unbelievable.

 JS:  My  friend  Joan  wants  to  know  if  you’ll date  her.

 CE:  Is  she  cute?

 JS:  Yeah.

 CE:  How  old  is  she?

 JS:  Fortysomething.

 CE:  All  right!  She  can  teach  me  some things.

 JS:  So  how  do  you  get  the  washboard  abs?

 CE:  [Laughs.]  They  shade  it  in.

JS:  So  it’s  retouched?

CE:  I’  m  sure  it  is.  I’m  giving  away  all  the secrets.

 JS:  One  role  you  auditioned  for  but  didn’t  get and  really,  really  wanted?

 CE:  Ooooooooh.  I  think  it’s  a  movie  called Jarhead  that’s  coming  out  with  Jake  Gyllenhall  that  Sam  Mendes  directed.  I  really wanted  that  part — not  the  one  Jake  has but  the  one  I  tried  out  for,  and  I  will  just harbor  it  for  ever  and  ever...

 JS:  Jake  Gyllenhall  is  also  one  of  People’s “Best  Beach  Bodies,”  so  Sam  Mendes could’ve  had  two  hotties  in  the  same  movie. OK,  name  three  famous  people from Sudbury.

 CE:  Hmmm.  Famous  people  from  the ’Bury... All  I  know  is  Paula  Poundstone. Who  else  is  there?  Believe  me,  there’s  a picture  of  her  up  at  L.S.  [Lincoln-Sudbury High  School],  so  I’d  know  if  there  were  any others.

 JS:  Best  thing  about  Sudbury  ?

 CE:  Oh,  man.  What’s  not  to  love  about Sudbury?  It’s  relatively  cliche,  it’s  your stereotypical,  standard  bedroom  community,  right  out  of  the  movies,  but  that’s what  makes  it  so  amazing.

 JS:  In  Fantastic  Four,  you  play  the  Torch. Does  that  mean  you’re  a  flamer?

 CE:  That  was  a  good  one!  That’s  the  first time  I’ve  heard  that!  That  was  real  smart. You  should  write  that  in  the  interview!

JS: I intend  to!  Which  parts  of  your  suit  did they  have  to  pad  out?

 CE:  Meaning  for  muscles?

 JS: I don’t  know.  You  tell  me,  Chris.

 CE:  They  padded  everything.  We  all  wore muscle  suits.  All  of  us,  except  for  [Jessica] Alba,  ’cause,  y’know...

 JS:  Her  shit  is  tight!  Another  “Best  Beach Bodies”  winner.  I’ll  bet  she  could  kick  your ass.

 CE:  Without  a  doubt.  But  anyway,  with  all the  padding,  the  codpiece  was  the  thing that  stood  out.

 JS:  Did  you  enjoy  wearing  tights?

 CE:  Y’know,  I  think  I’ve  worn  tights  my whole  life  doing  plays.  I  just  got  paid  a  lot more  to  do  it  this  time  around.

 JS:  How  long  did  it  take  to  get  into  costume every  day?

 CE:  It  was  a  bitch,  but  I’ve  heard  of  worse. Maybe  an  hour.  The  muscle  suit  is  a  solo job.  You  do  that  on  your  own,  with  a  big bottle  of  baby  powder  and  some  frustration.  Then  once  that’s  on,  two  or  three wardrobe  people  come  in  and  squeeze  this blue  aqua  suit  on  you  that’s  just  impossible to  get  on.

JS:  Sounds  miserable .  So  by  the  end  of  every day,  had  you  lost  like  10  pounds?

 CE:  We  definitely  did,  but  we  were  working  with  a  trainer,  so  even  if  we  trimmed down  and  weren’t  eating  enough  on  set, we’d  wrap  and  go  right  to  the  gym.

 JS:  Sounds  like  Hell.  On  a  different  subject, namely  Cellular,  what  advice  do  you  have for  someone  who  gets  a  call  on  their  cell  phone from  a  damsel  in  distress?

 CE:  Well,  hopefully  there  are  cameras rolling,  because  otherwise  it  won’t  be  a good  movie.  Other  than  that,  I  don’t  know.

 JS:  If  you  had  to  save  anyone  in  that situation,  who  would  it  be  and  why?

 CE:  Oh,  I  wish  it  would  be  Sandra  Bullock. I  wish  there  was  some  way  I  could  save  her from  something.  Isn’t  that  crazy?  I  remember  being  in  seventh  grade  and  seeing  her in  Speed,  and  just  being  like,  “That’s  it. She’s  the  one.”  She’s  a  f—  ing  goddess.  You should  have  seen  the  poster  of  her  I  had  on my  bedroom  ceiling  growing  up — this  massive,  massive  poster  of  her  in,  like,  a  bra.

 JS:  It  was  on  the  ceiling?  That  sort  of  begs  a certain  question. .

CE:  [Laughs.]  C’mon.  My  mother’s  gonna read  this  interview.

JS:  So  what  was  your  favorite  comic  book  as a  kid?

CE:  Aren’t  comic  books  for  geeks?  Just  kidding!  I  have  to  go  to  conventions,  and they’ll  string  me  up.  The  truth  is,  after  getting  the  part  and  going  out  and  buying every  comic  book  I  could  get  my  hands  on, I  came  to  appreciate  them.  The  stories  and dialogue  are  complex.  You’ve  got  eight-syllable  words, supposedly  for  little  kids.  The art  is  amazing.  So  I  think  they  actually  are educational.  If  my  kids  want  to  read  them, I’ll  say,  “Go  ahead.”

 JS:  If  you  could  have  one  superpower,  what would  it  be  and  why?

 CE:  To  fly.  Hands  down.  No  question.

 JS:  One  superpower  or  extraordinary  ability that  you  actually  do  have?

 CE:  [Laughs.]  See,  again,  this  is  something my  mother  will  read,  so  I  can’t  really  answer  that.

 JS:  I  think  you  just  did.  So  who  was  your superhero  crush  growing  up?

 CE:  Man,  that’s  a  good  question.  What other  superhero  girls  are  there?

 JS:  Wonder  Woman  was  a  big  one.. .

CE:  Nah.  That’s  a  cliche.  C’mon,  I gotta think.  There  must  be  someone  good  out there.

 JS:  I  personally  had  the  hots  for  Aquaman.

 CE:  [Laughs.]  Does  Jessica  Rabbit  count? If  so,  that’s  it.  She  goes  above  Sandra  Bullock,  just  so  Sandy  knows.  In  case  she reads  this,  just  to  take  that  feather  outta her  cap.

 JS:  Best  actor  you  ever  worked  with?

 CE:  Bill  [William  H.]  Macy.  Not  even a question.  The  guy’s  just. .  .he’s  unstoppable,

 JS:  Actor  you’d  most  like  to  do  a  love  scene with ?

 CE:  I’ll  say  Salma  Hayek.  Sandy’s  more  the one  you  settle  down  with,  set  up  shop  with, take  home  to  your  mother.  But  Salma’s  the one  you  yell,  “Action!”  and  just  go  to town.

 JS:  I  read  in  the  Weekly  World  News  that there’s  a  tribe  in  Africa  that  worships  Salma Hayek’s  breasts.

 CE:  [Laughs.]  I  believe  that.

 JS:  Your  show  Opposite  Sex.  Was  that basically  a  bad  remake  of  Bosom  Buddies?

CE:  Whatever  it  was,  it  was  a  bad  original of  something.  The  bottom  line  is  it  was bad.  We’ll  leave  it  at  that.

JS:  Speaking  of  which:  Not  Another  Teen Movie .  Is  that  going  to  come  back  someday to  haunt  you?

 CE:  Oh,  man,  I  don’t  think  I  did  anything too  terrible.  Did  you  hear  that  great  line from  Entourage :  “Before  Tom  Cruise  did Fourth  of  July,  he  did  Top  Gun.  Before  Tom Hanks  was  Forrest  Gump,  he  fucked  a  fish.” So  in  my  case,  I  had  a  banana  in  my  ass. What  are  you  gonna  do?

 JS:  I  never  saw  that  movie. 

CE:  Neither  has  my  Grandma,  and  I’m hoping  to  keep  it  that  way.

 JS:  Diane  Lane .  Most  beautiful  woman you’ve  ever  seen?

CE:  She  is  f—ing  gorgeous.

 JS:  Who  would  win  in  a  Jell-O  wrestling contest:  Diane  Lane  or  Kim  Basinger ?

 CE:  Ooooh,  Diane.  She’s  got  it.

 JS:  You've  got  a  thing  for  older  women,  don’t you?

 CE:  Well,  y’know,  I’m  a  student.  I  wanna learn.

 JS:  Last  question.  When  you  make  the  cover of  Vanity  Fair,  what  do  you  think  you’ll  be  I wearing?

 CE:  I  think  I’m  gonna  go  for  the  body paint  thing,  like  Demi  Moore.

[lovesongbracket]

Reminder: Vote based on the song, not the artist or specific recording! The tracks referenced are the original artist, aside from a few rare cases where a cover is the most widely known.

Lyrics, videos, info, and notable covers under the cut. (Spotify playlist available in pinned post)

Me and My Husband

Written By: Mitski

Artist: Mitski

Released: 2018

“Me and My Husband” is the seventh track of Mitski’s fifth studio album Be The Cowboy released in August 2018. Like earlier tracks on the album such as ‘Nobody’, ‘Me and My Husband’ explores the loneliness Mitski felt while writing the album, although this time she takes on the persona of a suburban housewife. As she explained to GQ: “If you’re a suburban mom surrounded by family with a nice life you still feel alone. On tour, I’m surrounded by people all the time but it’s lonely.” Despite the song’s upbeat tone the lyrics portray a housewife stubbornly sticking by her husband even though she may not be happy. Mitski claims the song isn’t personal and isn’t meant to be reflection of her views on marriage or settling down as she told The Outline: “I try to keep a sense of humor about all this stuff. I’m not married, I don’t have a husband, but I was just thinking about being a woman with a man in a long term relationship. I used a stereotype of the suburban, old-fashioned housewife to kind of accentuate my point.”

[Verse 1] I steal a few breaths from the world for a minute And then I'll be nothing forever And all of my memories And all of the things I have seen will be gone With my eyes, with my body, with me [Chorus] But me and my husband We are doing better It's always been just him and me Together So I bet all I have on that Furrowed brow And at least in this lifetime We're sticking together Me and my husband We're sticking together [Verse 2] And I'm the idiot with the painted face In the corner, taking up space But when he walks in, I am loved, I am loved [Chorus] Me and my husband We are doing better It's always been just him and me Together So I bet all I have on that Furrowed brow And at least in this lifetime We're sticking together Me and my husband We're sticking together Me and my husband We are doing better

Our House

Written By: Graham Nash

Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Released: 1970

Cover included: The Head and the Heart, 2021

“Our House” is a song written by British singer-songwriter Graham Nash and recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their album Déjà Vu. At the time Graham Nash & Joni Mitchell were dating and the time the two spent that particular day after purchasing a vase on Ventura Boulevard inspired this song. Nash has stated that he wrote this song in a hour. In October 2013, in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, Nash elaborated: “Well, it’s an ordinary moment. What happened is that Joni [Mitchell] and I – I don’t know whether you know anything about Los Angeles, but on Ventura Boulevard in the Valley, there’s a very famous deli called Art’s Deli. And we’d been to breakfast there. We’re going to get into Joan’s car, and we pass an antique store. And we’re looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy … I persuaded her to buy this vase. It wasn’t very expensive, and we took it home. It was a very grey, kind of sleety, drizzly L.A. morning. And we got to the house in Laurel Canyon, and I said – got through the front door and I said, you know what? I’ll light a fire. Why don’t you put some flowers in that vase that you just bought? Well, she was in the garden getting flowers. That meant she was not at her piano, but I was … And an hour later ‘Our House’ was born, out of an incredibly ordinary moment that many, many people have experienced.”

[Verse 1] I'll light the fire You place the flowers in the vase That you bought today [Verse 2] Staring at the fire For hours and hours while I listen to you Play your love songs all night long For me, only for me [Verse 3] Come to me now And rest your head for just five minutes Everything is done [Verse 4] Such a cozy room The windows are illuminated by the evening Sunshine through them, fiery gems For you, only for you [Chorus] Our house is a very, very, very fine house With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy cause of you And our [Interlude] La-la, la-la-la la la… [Chorus] Our house is a very, very, very fine house (fine house) With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy cause of you And our [Verse 1] I'll light the fire While you place the flowers in the vase That you bought today

[luxe-pauvre]

In Slow Days, Fast Company, Babitz opines, “You can’t write a story about L.A. that doesn’t turn around in the middle or get lost.” It’s a kind of preemptive excuse for what’s to come: The beauty of her work is that it does get lost, turning back on itself with a playful energy that makes getting lost the point. But when writing a chapter in my own book on the city, I found myself lost in a way that was less fun, maybe because I am not an Eve. I am a Joan—I crave order, quiet, to make sense of the world and of the way I feel existing in it.

Marianna Eloise, California State of Mind: Search for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

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today i'm thinking of Joan Jett at home in L.A, 1977

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.19

Beer Birthdays

Coletta Möritz (1860)

Jim Dorsch (1951)

Keith Lemcke (1959)

Ken Kelley (1960)

Justin Crossley (1982)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Golding; English writer (1911)

Jeremy Irons; English actor (1948)

David McCallum; actor (1933)

Arthur Rackham; English illustrator, artist (1867)

Adam West; actor (1928)

Famous Birthdays

Mario Batali; chef (1960)

David Bromberg; musician, singer, songwriter (1945)

Helen Carter; country singer (1927)

Jack Dunham; animator (1910)

George Cadbury; chocolatier (1839)

"Mama" Cass Elliot; singer (1943)

Brian Epstein; Beatles manager (1934)

Jimmy Fallon; comedian, actor (1974)

Frances Farmer; actor (1913)

Lita Ford; rock guitarist, singer (1958)

Henry Arthur Jones; English writer (1851)

William Hesketh Lever; soap-maker (1851)

James Lipton; actor, television host (1926)

Joan Lunden; television journalist (1950)

Joe Morgan; Houston Astros 2B (1943)

Soledad O'Brien; television journalist (1966)

Freda Payne; pop singer (1942)

Louis F. Powell Jr.; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1907)

Amber Rayne; porn actor (1984)

Faye Reagan; porn actor (1988)

Nile Rogers; rock musician (1952)

Victoria Silvstedt; Swedish actor (1974)

Duke Snider; Brooklyn/L.A. Dodgers CF (1926)

Twiggy; English model (1949)

Paul Williams; songwriter (1940)

Trisha Yearwood; country singer (1964)

Richard Zsigmondy; Austrian-Hungarian chemist (1865)

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🦩➩ 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤

Read 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠: The sun is brutal this summer, especially in Flamingo Trailer Park, the land of big hearts and cheap tricks, you’ve been here for years unlike your “new” neighbour, Ari. He’s older, bigger, and intimidating, the local rockstar, and you, well, aren’t you just the sweetest girl in the whole-damn city?

♫ ·ﾟ𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

Note: All songs are by Lana Del Rey (unreleased). In order of parts:

𝟏/𝟔: Old Ricky's and The Den

Queen of the Gas Station

BBM Baby (Version 2)

Trash

Hey You

Girl That Got Away

𝟐/𝟔: Toothache

My Best Days

Last Girl On Earth

Butterflies

Driving In Cars With Boys

Put Me in a Movie

𝟑/𝟔: Drive-In and the Laundromat

Afraid

Pawn Shop Blues

Us Against The World

Put The Radio On

Hollywood

TV In Black and White

𝟒/𝟔: Dandy Andy's Diner (DADs)

Back to the Basics

Prom Song Gone Wrong

Is It Wrong

Every Man Gets His Wish (Version 2)

Break My Fall

Resistance

𝟓/𝟔: Wild 17

Yes To Heaven

Be My Daddy

Puppy Love

Caught You Boy

Bad Boy

Queen of Disaster

𝟔/𝟔: Saving Donna and the stage

Playing Dangerous

Television Heaven

Hollywood’s Dead

Roses Bloom For You

For You (For Charlie)

Wayamaya

Diet Mountain Dew (Demo)

Push Me Down

I Don’t Wanna Go

JFK

Never Let Me Go

more songs to be added

𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞: Tough Love Parlour

Backfire

Ridin (ASAP Rocky ft. Lana Del Rey)

Heavy Hitter

𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫: Mermaid Motel

Mermaid Motel

Smarty

𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬:

♫ ·ﾟ𝐀𝐫𝐢 & 𝐒𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫’𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 (𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲) — teleport to Flamingo Trailer Park. Includes the songs below and some added for sugar.

Note: These songs have the vibes of what I think they’d sound like and their vibes.

Danvers (lead vocalist), Levinson (bassist) & Everett (drummer) Live at The Den:

Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Crimson and Clover

Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing

Jesse Jo Stark - Love Is in the Air

Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9

Derek & The Dominos - Layla

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

Jimi Hendrix - Bold as Love

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Saving Donna: (Ari’s parent’s band)

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart

The Doors - L.A. Woman

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain

Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic

Janis Joplin - Move Over

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee

Jimi Hendrix - Third Stone From The Sun

Cream - White Room

Janis Joplin - Cry Baby

Jimi Hendrix - Dolly Dagger

Honourable mentions:

Boney M. - Sunny

Beach House - Space Song

Kali Uchis - Melting

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Princess Chelsea - I Love My Boyfriend

Kali Uchis - Loner

Kali Uchis - Lottery