"Pink Narcissus" - Street Scene

Street Scene from "Pink Narcissus" by James Bidgood, from left to right, Andrew Starr, Donald L. Brooks, Charles Ludlam, Larry Rey

Angel, by James Bidgood

Donald L. Brooks as Angel, 1969 photo collage by James Bidgood.

Pink Narcissus

The original James Bidgood photo with reference to May 29th Robert Patrick Pentatych.

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Pentatych by Robert Patrick

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Gimme a Head with Hair PLUS Fashions to Match!!!

DORIC WILSON, 1969, MICHAEL WARREN POWELL, 1968, DONALD L. BROOKS (with Andrew Starr in "Pink Narcissus," photo James Bidgood) 1969, Edward Crosby Welles, 1964, WALTER MICHAEL HARRIS, 1968.

Mother's Day -- 2007

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
John Singer Sargent -- American painter
1889
Tate Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
221 x 114.3 cm
Presented by Sir Joseph Duveen 1906
Jpg: Tate Gallery, London

(Click on image to step back)

Probably the closest Sargent ever got to the Pre-Raphael Brotherhood was with his paintings of the famous actress, Dame Ellen Terry (1847–1928) as Lady Macbeth after the first performance in the role; and yet this is not at all an allegorical painting, just a straight portrait of the actress in costume playing Lady Macbeth. Still, the tone, the costume, the medieval implications are very much in theme with Edward Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Pre-Raphaelitism.

Is there any reason for a man to starve to death, be it for love or any thing?

I see the sun setting in all its glory -- the impending night with its own particular beauty beckons with a cool reflection of the stars we could not see by day, shining upon us at night with the memories of our not-forgotten friends each twinkling through the black night in teasing echo of "vanity of vanities", leaving us to rest in peace with the knowledge that a thousand years from now, none of this will matter.

To enjoy what there is of life and celebrate each other's existence in the here and now is all we have before the shadows fold their arms around us as we drift into eternal sleep.

Where on Earth am I?

I'm not, I'm on the Moon!

The New York Times Crossword in Gothic

A blog that comments on or reviews The New York Times Crossword Puzzle -- daily postings, now in its third month!

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Happy?

Robinson Cano

TSOTSI

Tsotsi is a 2005 Academy Award-winning film directed by Gavin Hood and set in a Soweto slum, near Johannesburg, South Africa. It is based on a novel of the same name by Athol Fugard. The soundtrack features Kwaito music performed by the popular South African artist Zola as well as a score by Mark Kilian and Paul Hepker featuring the voice of South African protest singer/poet Vusi Mahlasela.

The Resurrection

In the tomb...

The Crucifixion

Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus Christ

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so; but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. -- Luke 22:24-30

A letter to Roberta Sklar on 04.04.07-- via e-mail:

Roberta,

Thank you for the invitation notice, and your previous e-mail (which I had lost -- ergo, no reply!). I do recall that Robert Patrick had sent you a copy of the Conrad Ward photograph from "The Good Woman of Setzuan" at Hunter College back heaven knows when -- those were the days!

I am listing my three sites below in the event you wonder what I've been up to and am up to now. I am particularly happy with the site "The New York Times Crossword in Gothic" (it's a blog)! When one is homebound as much as I am these days (not my health, but my current obligations) the internet is an electronic escape -- imagine in olden days, one looked at the wall! No, that's not true -- as a child, I remember being snowed in for weeks in the winter months in South Dakota and there was always something to keep one's attention -- card games, jigsaw puzzles, drawing, reading -- that's right, no television! As a matter of fact, we had a radio that stood on the floor and had a big green eye! We would listen to the programs in the dark -- "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" -- and many others. So a dozen souls in the dark in the middle of winter warmed by a log-fed stove never suspecting that one day old twitching fingers would be furtively hammering while gazing at an elaborate light bulb with constantly moving images that respond to one's fleshy digits!

Donald L. Brooks -- Off-Off Broadway and Beyond -- http://donaldlbrooks.com/
The New York Times Crossword in Gothic -- http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/
Donald's Web Log -- http://donaldlbrooks.blogspot.com/

Donald

In the garden...

Joe Cino passed away forty years ago, April 2, 1967.

Palm Sunday