2012.*

here we are. it is NOT the end. the age of aquarius is supposed to be the time for spiritual activism & inspiration, of unity & awakening. just a few things on the year's list that popped into my head: make little videos w/ my super8. play with smoke & wax & colored films & play with frames like zines, cut n paste. see oOoOO. learn more spanish. explore the southwest. visit sao paolo. integratron it. never lose faith. never stop seeing love & light in everything.*

I Would Die for You.*

just in case you started to forget....don't. this music + these ideals of love = the best of being 13 in 1996.*

Cat Cult's Hidden Cove.*

ian took these beautiful polaroids on the fourth of july. i love them. el matador beach, tequilla and ginger ale, caves, tidepools, and reliving the craft. check out the cat cult tumblr for more.*

Remembering my Dirty Southern Adventures.*

just reminiscing on past travels...it's summertime again, which means it's time to travel back to my southern roots...moonshine, national forests, swamps, ghosts, voodoo, haunted mausoleums, gothic cemetaries....dreams do come true.*

Dangerous Minds and Witchy Woman Marjorie Cameron.*

so i was having a google rendezvous and i stumbled upon this amazing blog, dangerousminds. you can search a tag, or look up by category, of which there are tons. (i highly recommend all the subcategories under the "art" heading.) i found this fabulous page on 60's avant-garde filmmakers and saw that he even covered marjorie cameron! marjorie was an occultist in the 40's and 50's in pasadena. (!!) she dubbed herself The Scarlet Woman, claiming to have given birth to a spiritual Moonchild, and also invoked the goddess Babalon with future husband, rocket scientist, and occult priest of the Ordo Templi Orientis jack parsons "to unleash a magickal force on the world." that's my kinda lady.*

playing The Scarlet Woman in kenneth anger's INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME:


with l. ron hubbard:


in curtis harrington's NIGHT TIDE:


her biography, THE WORMWOOD STAR.*

Anais Nin: A Spy in the House of Love.*

thinking of kenneth anger makes me think of anais nin, and vice versa. french-cuban flamenco dancer, diarist, psychoanalyst, speaker, and literary critic, she journaled from age 11 until shortly before her death in 1977, publishing her memoirs, erotica, and short stories. referring to her two simultaneous marriages as her "bicoastal trapeze," her most famous partner in life was henry miller, with whom she lived a beautiful bohemian lifestyle. (she also had a love affair with his wife, june.) full name: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell. she also appeared in maya deren's "Ritual in Transfigured Time" (1946) and kenneth anger's "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (1954) as Astarte, where she came dressed as her own madness. the queen muse....*

Kenneth Anger's Magic Lantern Cycle.*

as i wait anxiously for my jodorowsky dvd set and my kenneth anger dvd set, tumblr just reminded me of some of the reasons we all love this crazy genius so much....*

Wolfgang Tillmans at LACMA.*

this week in los angeles: wolfgang tillmans lectures at LACMA tomorrow. more info here.

Psychomagic & Alajandro Jodorowsky.*

Chilean writer, filmmaker, playwright, historian, composer, healer, mystic, tarot master, founder and psychomagic and psychoshamanism. AND he likes cross-eyed cats! much love for this 80 year-old genius-babe.*






Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fabula 52, June 9, 1968, from centerfortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.com.



"Magic is in beliefs, in superstitions; it seeks to dominate the outside world with rituals and symbols. Psychomagic is the control of the internal world, of a world outside of all superstition, and of all self-deception. I am mortal, but how can I think that I'm powerful when there's this enormous universe of eternity and infinity? What right do I have to talk about such power? My power is that of knowing myself. On the facades of Greek temples was written the phrase, "KNOW THYSELF." Once can't know anything more than that. Reality is not what it was, it's not what it will be, it's not what you want it to be. It is what it is. There's nothing nonessential about it, just things as they are. When we enter into what things are, we are in magic...We are shaped by the forest, which is society and transmits time, history, the past, and culture."*

Graff Cat Love.*

if you like street art and you like cats, here you go. truly meowsome.*

Postcards from Italy.*

favorite band. beautiful video by alma har'el, the heralded director. film. vintage. nostalgia. instruments. zach condon. pure love.*

Henri: Me as a Cat.*

i showed this to my friend tatyana and she said it was me as a cat. (i also think it is just like marla, which reinforces the fact that we are one in the same and that she is my familiar.)*

tiny moments in the city.*

Kenneth Anger for Missoni.*

kenneth anger is making films again! well, at least he recently did the new f/w 2011 ad campaign for Missoni. a beautiful dream within a dream.*

Portrait in Summer, 2010.*

ian took this beautiful picture of me on the res on the 5th of july, the day after the glorious celebration. i rather like it. no sleep, no makeup, no clothes, no problem.*