Saturday, March 26, 2011

Chrishell Stubbs


From my vaults: William Bell



Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bell_%28singer%29

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld


New York


Grace Small


First Lines: Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker



On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.

Suvi Koponen

New stuff: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart



I saw them recently live in Berlin, good concert, although a bit low in volume. This is their second album, released a few days ago.

Tallulah Morton

Wise Blood (1979)



A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world and decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

Quite loyal adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's novel with some good performances which brings the grotesqueness of plot and characters with full power.

Who's That Girl?


Photographer: Joyce Baronio


Find more at:

http://www.joycebaronio.com

Alexa Yudina


From my vaults: Kristen Bell


Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Bell

Aleksandra Rastovic


New York


Natalia Vodianova


William S. Burroughs: The Cat Inside



  The cry I heard through Ruski was not only his signal of distress. It was a sad, plaintive voice of lost spirits, the grief that comes from knowing you are the last of your kind. There can be no witness to this grief. No witnesses remain. It must have happened many times in the past. It is happening now. Endangered species. Not just those that actually exist, or existed at one time and died, but all the creatures that might have existed.
  A hope. A chance. The chance lost. The hope dying. A cry following the only one who could hear it when he is already too far away to hear, an aching, wrenching sadness. This is grief without witness. "You are the last. Last human crying." The cry is very old. Very few can hear it. Very painful. The chance was there for an enchanted moment. The chance was lost. Wrong turn. Wrong time. Too soon. Too late. To invoke all-out magic is to risk the terrible price of failure. To know that chance was lost because you failed. This grief can kill.

Who's That Girl?


Illustrator: Vaughan Alden Bass



Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan_Alden_Bass

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Alyce Crawford


From my vaults: Ed Bell



Bio:

http://www.alamhof.org/edwardbell.html

and especially

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ed-bell-p33670/biography

Lynn Amelie Rage


New York


Tessa May Petrou


First Lines: Rose Macaulay - The Towers of Trebizond



"Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

Kate Moss irrégulière

New Stuff: The New Yorker


Who's That Girl?


Photographer: Frank Barthold



Find more at:

http://www.frankbarthold.com

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Phillipa Gleeson


From my vaults: Lionel Belasco



Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Belasco

Candice Goss


New York


Fatima Siad


ph: Reka Nyari

First lines: L. P. Hartley - The Go-Between



The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Silvana Roman


New Stuff: The Wire


Coco Rocha


ph: Dusan Reljin

New Stuff: Aerial M



Aerial M is actually David Pajo, post-rock legend formerly with Slint and Tortoise.

Lucy McIntosh


10th & Wolf (2006)




A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military and once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.

Bleak gangster character drama, nothing really new, but a well-told story.

Samantha Downie


Rooster Cogburn (1975)



Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with a pious old lady to track down the killers of her father.

Formulaic sequel to True Grit, enjoyable mostly for the two great central performances.

Who's That Girl?


Illustrator: Ruth Marten


Find more at:

http://ruthmarten.com