lui angleterre

woof, it's the special Englsih edition! you can tell, because the i is dotted with a Union Jack, and she's got an umbrella hangin' on. true, she's pants-less... but other than that, she's dressed all proper! and she's even got those argyle socks on those smoothy femme legs. i love her long brown hair, her natural make-up look, and it seems there's an article about mick jagger in there. is that what made it the English issue? or did they get ahold of mick because they already had the English theme planned? in the end, it doesn't matter, 'cause she's cute.

yer blues, john...

wow, i am soooo glad someone had JUST this bit posted. last night, i posted a shot on 'planetcool' of a hippy john winston lennon slipping his slinky hand inside carnal mick jagger's shirt, so as to grab at his 'stones' man-tit area. i even think my mate lucynell commented on the sleek black straightness of mr. jagger's hair. well, i knew when i posted it that i was almost 100% certain that the pic was taken around the exact time of 'the great rock and roll circus,' ... if not on the very set of the tv production. so, i dove into the Videos tonight, hoping that someone had realized the rock n' roll hilarity of this one-minute's-worth of film. like, could they be more baked? and what are they eating? and man, i don't know what's funnier... the '...i wanna hold your MAN...' line, from saucy john, or the hazy, eeee-baked tribute mick gives, long after lennon's out of the frame; "...you're blues john... you're blues, john... you're blues, john..." hey, maybe its just me, but this little bit never gets old.

umm, okay

um... no comment.
except to say that i doubt i'll see anything this funny all day.
love you all.
oh, and peace.
xoxo

wolf

i christened a new book tonight. i haven't written anything in it yet, i just got the cover on. the stars are the recently-featured-by-me hot bohemian couple of mick jagger and anita pallenberg. its from the nicholas roeg-donald cammell masterpiece 'performance.' actually, i don't think this particular shot is ever in the movie. and i know i featured a shot extremely similar to this shot last night. but that doesn't mean the cover is not extremely groovy, if i do say so myself. i already had the word 'wolf ' on hand for other distant reasons, but i decided i liked the archetype (sp?) of the wolf, and all those wild primitave implications of the bloodthirsty threat that might creep up upon the doors of innocence and domestic comforts.... that proverbial 'wolf at the door' that symbolizes a savage threat to a known and comfortable, albiet possibly ignorant, way of life. when you are blissfully sewing by the fire and entertaining thoughts of folly as you thread and stitch a square of linen with a slim silver needle and silken threads... the wolf is lurking, prepared... so lock your doors, gentle maidens. the wolf trots ever closer... closer...

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square

...81 powis square, to be exact. this is a lovely shot apparently taken during the filiming of the 1970 donald cammell-nicholas roeg bohemian masterpiece

'performance.' i loved this film even before i saw it, if that's even possible. and, after dozens and dozens of viewings, i still love it, and rank it very high on my list of 'absolute musts.' here we have mick jagger as reclusive ex-pop idol 'turner purple,' lying atop his scandanavian ladyfriend, miss pherba. pherba is played by the sexy and mysterious anita pallenberg. actually, sitting here thinking about it, her character, (and her performance of that character) is far more pivotal to the story than it seems when one watches it. i mean, she's the one who lets chaz in in the first place. she's lovely, and she's blonde, and she seems a little cloudy, but she's no fool. she keenly sees into chaz's 'game' almost before turner does. i love pherba... i love that damn movie. i love this shot. and i love all of you. sigh... (click to enlarge)

mirror mirror

hey, i'm still not exactly raving with inspiration. but i gotta post something... so um, i guess i'm gonna promote one of my favorite films again. yes, jean-lucien took this lush screen capture quite a while ago. its from roeg's hippy masterpiece 'performance.' in this shot we've got, from left to right... anita pallenberg as the hazy pherba, then chaz's half-disguised reflection in the mirror, then turner's (mick jagger's) reflection reading a book, then chaz himself, with the blood of a magic mushroom sluicing through his brain. yeah, by this time in the movie, chaz is submerging so fast he can't make sense of it anymore. psychedelically speaking. i love the silky colors jean-luc found in the grain. he's really got an 'eye.' (but not like the creepy 'eye' in 'clash of the titans.' ) (?) i like the way he manged to get them all in the same shot. you know, i grew up scrutinizing all the 'movie'-related books in all my school and public libraries growing up, and i always marveled at some of the whunky, bland shots that were used to illustrate the text. jean-luc constantly proves to me that, with a little talent, and affection of the subject matter, you can really get some gorgeous, relevant pictures. (click to gorgeously enlarge)

a pair of freaks

yeah, that might be a bit cold. you will no doubt recognize these two young lovers. yes, that's mr. mickety-mick jagger in the dress on the right, and the statuesque miss jerry 'hey ya'll' hall in the suit on the right. i don't know why i'm posting this. probably just the freak factor. i mean, i have nothing against either one of them. i actually think jerry looks great. but mick, well... mick looks old and tired and used-up enough to be mistaken for... well, keith richards, actually. still, this shot looks like they have a pretty fun time together. are they still together? or is jerry banging some other english rocker i haven't heard about? anyway, i'm all about clothes swapping and a little gender bending. but man, look at those lines in jagger's face. its like a road map of the back roads in asheboro, north carolina.

m is for mick jagger

here's a great shot i found one night when i was fishing around for picksh. now, i realize the image of mick himself in this picture is somewhat unremarkable, but that t-shirt really gets me. i don't know why i think its so hilarious, but i do. i almost wonder if mick is even sober enough to know the shirt is in the shot with him. hell, i'm sure he does, which makes the shot even funnier. its like, i can imagine him saying like, 'hey mate, turn around so they can read your shirt, and i'll pose next to it, which will be a real scream, because I AM mick jagger...!' it would only be funnier if mick himself was photographed wearing the shirt.

flash bulbs

...and i do mean 'flash.' here is a deep grained shot of mick jagger and anita pallenberg behind the viewfinder. after, please enjoy mick and his barely-legal boys in the fantastic 'memo from turner.'

video: memo from turner- mick jagger -'performance' soundtrack

here is the gritty, psychedelic, somewhat-homoerotic, groovy song from the donald cammell-nicholas roeg film 'performance.' if you dig this, you'll most likely dig the whole thing.