The Explanation
(for those who require one)

And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

The Present Day Composer #90

Ennio Morricone

Illusion Travels By Streetcar #5


The cast for episode #5

Joseph Garza Medina
Brian Risselada
Ryan Sarnowski
John Calvin Story
Tom Sutpen

The Future is Now #42

Original caption: "Secretary Pauline Edwards demonstrates the use of closed-circuit television for self-assessment, London, 1963."

Behind the Scenes #46


Keith Richards

It Was The Beat Generation #18


Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr, and Allen Ginsberg

Twilight of the Dreamboats #85

Artists in Action #847


James Brown leads

The King #11


Pay attention to that man behind the curtain

Before and After #328: Allyn Joslyn

Before

After


They Went and Made a Book Out of It #11


Freebie and the Bean

Behind the Scenes #45


Alan Arkin and Richard Rush on the set of Freebie and the Bean

E is for Eggleston #15

Untitled B&W Image

Heroes of European Literature #5


Ezra Pound (expat), John Quinn, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce

Celebrations #14


On the cake...Professor Longhair

The Art of Cinema #577


Capulina Contra Los Vampiros
(René Cardona, 1971)

Spirit of '76 #7


Joe and Palmolive

Artists in Action #846


Buddy Guy is pissed

Artifacts #52

Warner Bros get behind the Sex Pistols

Movie Directors and the Means of Production #32


Movie Director: Alex Cox
Means: Patrol Car, Desert Road
Production: Highway Patrolman

Artifacts #51

Patsy Cline's Elgin Wristwatch

When Legends Gather #842

Orpheus listens, Springsteen inspects, and Genius regales.

They Were Collaborators #868

Don Rickles and Clark Gable on the set of Run Silent, Run Deep (1957)

(Rickles: "He can't act!").

Soul Stirrers #34

Cliff Nobles

Illusion Travels By Streetcar #4


The cast for episode #4

Joseph Garza Medina
John Calvin Story
Tom Sutpen

The Art of Cinema #576; Art of the Double Feature #10


Straw Dogs
(Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
&
Food of the Gods
(Bert I. Gordon, 1976)

The Heretofore Unmentioned #189

The Box Tops
Bill Cunningham, Danny Smythe, Alex Chilton, Gary Talley & John Evans

Before and After #327: Jason Molina

Before


After

The Art of Cinema #575

The Small World of Sammy Lee
(Ken Hughes , 1963)

Critical Symbols: A Girl and a Gun #6


Raquel Welch
Bandolero!
1968
(for real this time)

Critical Symbols: A Girl and a Gun #5

Raquel Welch
Hannie Caulder
1971

The Heretofore Unmentioned #188


Greg Sage of the Wipers

Viceroys, Prophets and Hillbilly Cats #24

The Phantom
A.K.A

Jerry Lott

Harold Ramis Dead at 69


Illusion Travels By Streetcar #3


The cast for episode #3:

Steve Pulaski
Tomas Roges
Tom Sutpen
Rafael Taylor

American Photobooth #6


Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn, and Mel Ferrer

The Frame Within the Frame #77


The Kinks

Heroes of European Literature #4; Artists and Animals #119


Franz Kafka

Happy 93rd Birthday, Abe Vigoda


They Were Collaborators #867


Buster Keaton and Gary Cooper perform at a charity circus (1948)

Women of the Stage #16

'Coming in Person Feb 24'

The Cool Hall of Hame #272


Oliver Reed

They Went And Made A Book Out Of It #11


Freebie and the Bean

shutterbug friday #24 Cornel Lucas

Claudia Cardinale

Joan Collins

Belinda Lee

Cliff Richard

Dirk Bogarde

Brigitte Bardot

Mary Ure

Virginia McKenna

Pier Angeli

Cornel Lucas photographing his first wife, Belinda Lee