[“Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.” --Thelonious Monk BOTD in 1917. His son says he was "crazy about Laurel and Hardy" and would watch them for hours.]
Happy birthday to one of the great outsider artists
[Ed Wood, born 100 years ago today. A unique genius; nobody is the Ed Wood of anything, not even Harry Stephen Keeler.]
This led me to read about BAT PUSSY, which is just my kind of rabbit hole
[If BAT LADY is actually infamous 1973 porn parody BAT PUSSY. And if YOUNG MARRIAGE is actually Ed Wood's 1972 feature, THE YOUNG MARRIEDS. And if they played on a double bill in Inkster, Michigan. Then God exists. But it can't be confirmed! Ed Wood was born 100 years ago today.]
“Hoo-ray!” he said, but with bitterness absolutely dripping from his voice. “Then it seems I can construct fiction--fiction being something that does hang together--about other things than Little White Rabbitses--and Big Black Wolfses--and Little Brown Mices--and--oh God!” he broke off disgustedly.
“Every time I even think of myself, I think of myself only as a box of fictional animal crackers; and every time I visualize myself, I see myself only as a huge radio transmitter blaring into the sweet, sticky upturned--and yawning!--faces of a million brats. Where were we--for Lord’s sake?"
[French prima ballerina, novelist, painter, and sculptor Ludmilla Tchérina was born 100 years ago today. She was Irina Boronskaja in THE RED SHOES (1948) and Giulietta in TALES OF HOFFMANN (1951), a favorite of Scorsese and George A. Romero. Here's the barcarolle!] www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9IC...
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