bohemia

I'll let Marianne Faithfull speak for me...

"what the hell happened to bohemia? it took a hundred years for symbolist poets, absinthe-soaked painters and talented layabouts to create, and just twenty years for slick pseudo hipsters to fuck it all up and dilute it into the latest designer jeans ad. it's the curse of the hollow tinsel bohemia! all that's phoney rises, everybody's cool and nobody knows what the hell it means. it's just pret-a-porter bohemia. consumer cool. take me back..."

lucifer rising - marianne faithfull as lilith

i heart bat for lashes (click here!!)

I'M ON FIRE

Hey little boy is your mama home

Did she go and leave you alone, no

Got a bad desire

Oh, I'm on fire

Tell me now baby is she good to you

Can she do to you the things that I do

Oh, I can take you higher

Oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, edgy and blunt

Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul

Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet

And a freight train running through the middle of my head

But you, you cool my desire

Oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, edgy and blunt

Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul

Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet

And a freight train running through the middle of my head

But you, you cool my desire

Oh, I'm on fire 

i know originally it was bruce springteen's...but today this is my favourite. got a bad desire. i'm on fire.

love

venice and debbie downers

friday, hotel lobby, betsy johnson shoes. junk or genius?

mystery gondoliere

taxi boat

pink, neon sloth

peace of mind 

magic golden lights

magic pyramid 

a wish

her heart has already been broken?

my favourite song of the moment (click here!!)

velevet the big pink

going to the venice biennale. hoping to find lots of junk and genius inspiration and also lots of junkie geniuses

bye bye

need urgently to buy new pair of shoes before leaving!

should i take it personally?

the apocalypse: the woman of babylon (aka the whore of babylon) by Albrecht Dürer

introduction

starting my blog... i am doing it. junk and genius, a contradiction? it's up to you. 

just hung up on the phone with a friend who's a bit junk and genius and is having some problems for this reason. i love her. is it possible for something with no contradictions to be fascinating? or interesting? i live in a perpetual struggle between opposing emotions, ideas and feelings. sometimes i miss peace. sometimes i think that this is what makes me special.

 here's a poem celebrating the contradictions of what was once the most appealing place in the world:

 HOLLYWOOD. HOLLYWOOD BABYLON. i come from there.

hollywood, hollywood...

fabulous holywood...

celluloid babylon

glorious, glamorous...

city delirious,

frivolous, serious,

bold and ambitious,

and vicious and glamorous.

drama - a city full,

tragic and pitiful...

bunk, junk and genius

amazingly blended...

tawdry, tremendous,

absurd, stupendous;

shoddy and cheap,

and astonishingly splendid...

hollywood!!