mad in pursuit

trust me, i swear i'm doing this for a reason:
jezebel
jezebel cards.
www.ilovejezebel.com
jezebel@ilovejezebel.com

russian dressing

i have long desired and recently acquired:
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon
Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion by Alexandre Vassiliev

(thanks to you, m. link)

thank goodness I have also recently acquired a whole lot of free time.

the theory of relativity

The rhinoceros is a distant cousin of the sick zebra I helped to wash when I was a boy and the circus came to Rimini. My theory about why the zebra was sick is that he didn’t have any sex in his life. How could he feel well? There was, after all, only one zebra in that circus. The rhinoceros is lovesick.
Only one rhinoceros is the same as only one zebra.


F. Fellini

shadowlands

dear dan-
i too, have spent a wintry evening compiling a mix cd. mine was for the purpose of self-promoting. the cd is entitled jezebel/songs for the vagabond heart and i have been sending it to stores as a melliflious missive. the set is as follows:

let's make love- yves montand/my baby just cares for me- nina simone/quelqu'un m'a a dit- carla bruni/i'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes- the carter family/dream of you- reinhardt & grappelli/the charleston/la dolce vita- nino rota/rue saint-vincent - yves montand/little girl blue- janis joplin/love calls you by your name- leonard cohen/la vie en rose- grace jones/breakfast in bed- dusty springfield/bold as love- jimi hendrix/fill me with apples- the sleepy jackson/sadie- joanna newsom/you're the top- cole porter/somewhere there's a feather- nico/my lover's prayer- otis redding/i can't believe you're in love with me- billie holiday/who will take my dreams away- marianne faithful/le plus beau du quartier- carla bruni/falling in love again- marlene dietrich
your pal, leigh
p.s. merry christmas!
p.p.s. i also like morricone!!

o canada!

salutations, christian. i am glad to be typing next to you, and glad to see that underexposure.net has gone global.

we met when we were almost young

a girl listening to her father's old leonard cohen records- not so special. a girl listening to her father's old leonard cohen records on a library of congress division for the blind talking books record player complete with braille instructions- that's special.

curioser and curioser

whose birthday is next? i shall bake an egg-free cake and spell out eat me on top in currants.

gilda mae tandy batnick, i love you.

breaking the waves

to speak to a subject spoken of, earlier, and at length by ladybird and terrain incognito:
i am now watching the delicious new criterion release of godard's "a woman is a woman" for the first time. jean paul belmondo, in character as alfred lubitsch (!), greets jeanne moreau as herself, and inquires as to the progress of "jules et jim". already there have been mentions within the film of "breathless", "lola", and "shoot the piano player". i think that bertolucci was riffing on this same idea in his "the dreamers" with all his film clips. godard did not need clips to support his intertextual referencing because it was in the time and of the time. bertolucci, i still contend, in a benevolent and generous gesture visually refreshes the memories or freshly educates and entices those who never knew.

time regained

dizzee rascal of terrain cognito and the mercury prize fame has a song called jezebel which has long lived on my computer- well, since january at least. thanks to sasha frere-jones and my freshly cancelled new yorker subscription for helping me put two and two together. i tried- i'm just not a new yorker kind of new yorker. i'll take my literature from novels and my pictures from fashion magazines.