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Donald as a cross dresser
1999, charcoal and pastel on paper
10 feet x 14 feet
Happy birthday Donald Duck June 9 1934
Donald Duck debuted – here -
Happy birthday Johnny Depp (Before Night Falls, he had double roles)
Here on youtube.
Fear and loathing (see Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson, Ali and Depp)
Act Natural 
(Orange blob escaped from the white house)
(art by Miranda July)
Dolls trailer (Directed by Takeshi Kitano, Poland gave this the best film award – costume design by Yoji Yamamoto)
Name these girls – Happy Hinamatsuri ablum
The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period. Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits. Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. “doll floating”), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them.(via wiki)
Meet Jesse 
Captive Girls (previous post)
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year of the Fire Rooster!
André Kertész 
(repost – see other photos here)
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Map of China as Rooster .. by Jurgen Trautwein
Funny Rooster on youtube .
Red Rooster 1996 by Edward Ruscha
Ed Ruscha archive here.
Year of Monkey
(see Frida Kahlo, Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn playing with monkey)
Year of Goat (Zubaran, Marguerite Yourcenar, etc)
Year of Wood horse (Turin Horse, Leonardo etc)
Year of Rabit (Pool Rabbit, Ray Johnson etc)
Year of Rat (Banksy Rat, Rat Patrol)
Year of Pig (Pasolini, Kimono Pig etc)
Then there’s the Pathé rooster, who’s been going strong for more than a hundred years and still turns up in silhouette at the end of the current Pathé “mobile” logo. So far as I know, that rooster has had the longest life of any movie symbol, in part because he originated with the Pathé Frères in France during the late 1800s, was registered in the U.S. in 1902, and adorned a record label (“I sing loud and clear” was the original slogan) as well as newsreels and feature films over the decades. It’s nice to see the company still respects its longtime mascot.
The Next Day – Marion Cortillard played a sexworker for priests – read more here.
Bowie at Berlin Wall – 1987
Take peek, David Bowie’s art collection.
David Bowie showing off his knowledge of contemporary art with Julian Schnabel here on Charlie Rose. (youtube)
Peter Cook, Bowie and Dudley Moore – via
David Bowie returned to space at 69 (Jan 10,2016 Bowie passed away 2 days after his birthday)
See more photos and links here.
The Cop, The Nun and Peter Cook – the Comic Genius
Jan 9 1995, Peter Cook died
An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
Title: Singer of Tales
Scultpure installation by Jon Isherwood
Woody would meet Dick Cavett at the Met - read Museum Hours by David Ehrenstein.
Photos by Fung Lin Hall
Museum Hours by Jem Cohen – Art, Life & Mystery (previous post)
Dada Picabia 
Francis Picabia – 22 January 1879 – November 30, 1953
Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, André Breton called Picabia one of the only “true” Dadas.
Picabia 
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Daughter Born without Mother
1916-18
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L’oeil Cacodylate, 1921
I Am A Beautiful Monster
Who is with me is against me.
Duchamp, Beatrice Wood 
at Coney Island
“Entr’acte,” the avant-garde film he made in 1924 with René Clair, and his contentious series of figurative paintings from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Borrowing from art history, soft-core pornography and commercial art, they presage Pop Art, appropriation art and Neo-Expressionism.
Perpetual Movement 
“Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction” is a Picabia aphorism consistent with another one: “The only movement is perpetual movement.” The show has a propulsive, joyous energy. Something new, different and often challenging waits in nearly every gallery.
Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing
(Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)
Gore Vidal would have been 91. Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer – we miss you.
Anais Nin 
and Gore
Photos via Previous post (Goodbye Gore Vidal)
The Best of Beasties by - David Ehrenstein
NY Magazine (Best of Enemies)
Life in Feuds: How Gore Vidal gripped a nation..
11 Things I Learned from the Hieronymus Bosch – by David Byrne
5. He was among the first to paint what he imagined
Bosch was considered among the first to paint things that were wholly out of his imagination. Previously there were standard demons as described in the Bible and elsewhere, but his figures went beyond that. His landscapes were fictional, too—a conflation of traditional Dutch elements and imagined versions of somewhat spectacular Middle Eastern holy lands.
7. Humanity is, for the most part, wretched
Hieronymus Bosch painted sheet music on man’s butt and now you can hear it.
Hieronymous Bosch 
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
Previous post – Porcille and Earthly Delight
Hieronymus Bosch: The Wayfarer, circa 1500–1510
The Mystery of Hieronymus Bosch by Ingrid D. Rowland
The Cop and Peter Cook the Comic Genius
Doris Lessing 
Doris Lessing archive here.
Herman 
and the Cat.. another photo from writing & the feline muse.
Herman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
Kay Ryan
A CAT/A FUTUREA cat can draw
the blinds
behind her eyes
whenever she
decides. Nothing
alters in the stare
itself but she’s
not there. Likewise
a future can occlude:
still sitting there,
doing nothing rude.
via Andrew Bonheler
Hillary Clinton didn’t win the Democratic Party nomination – she simply won the game of trickery, collusion and fraudulence that modern politics in this country has devolved into. And while Sanders’ bid to clean house ultimately failed, it opened the eyes of many millions of voters to show just how corrupted that system has become.
Uncounted (Youtube) Documentary of Corrupt California Primary includes proof of fraudulent voting machine counts.
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Joint studies from Netherlands and Stanford. Statistically impossible that Hillary won primaries.
And something else, congratulations Garry Trudeau. 
Gonzo (Levity links)
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
With Ali 
Interviewing Ali was easy. Just turn up and you would be granted a killer quote. Few sportsman have been as skilled at performing for the media. Yet Thompson didn’t want to be just another reporter dutifully quoting the gospel according to Ali. He wanted to break through the familiar grand facade.
“I was still shaking hands with Bundini when I realised where I was — standing at the foot of a king-size bed where Ali was laid back with the covers pulled up to his waist and his wife, Veronica, sitting next to him… I felt like I’d been shot out of a cannon and straight into somebody else’s movie.”
Here was a tribute from France, a brilliant and amazing flash inspiration piece from France. (The piece is titled Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.)
Hunter’s Fear and Loathing album
Paris Review: interview (the art of journalism)
Hat tip to Will Mccrabb for the photo.
Marlon set the timer on Kubrick (read how Kubrick got fired.)
Stanley Kubrick and Marlon Brando working on the script of One-Eyed Jacks, circa 1958.
Marlon Brando Documentary (youtube)
Letter to Marlon – Come on now Marlon, put up your dukes
I visualise the beautiful shots could be made with the camera on the front seat of the car showing the road (day and night) unwinding into the windshield, as Sal and Dean yak. I wanted you to play the part because Dean (as you know) is no dopey hotrodder but a real intelligent (in fact Jesuit) Irishman. You play Dean and I’ll play Sal (Warner Bros. mentioned I play Sal) and I’ll show you how Dean acts in real life, you couldn’t possibly imagine it without seeing a good imitation
Portrait of Marlon Brando by Julian Schnabel
