lupine dreams

just found this great artist featured on a great blog called iheartmyart.com (which was featured on nylon magazine's website)
john lupo avanti. his paintings are ominous and beautiful, calling to mind aubrey beardsley, egon schiele, and that creepy saloon painting you found at the fleamarket.
he's also coming out with a comic...check more of his work at http://www.poetryofline.com/

Mud Cloud Acrylic, published in Juxtapoz magazine 10/10

Dog Pack  acrylic on paper.

Ghost Ranch acrylic on paper

fairy forest

http://theanthropologist.net/#/Urnatur
the bricoleur and i went to savjo sweden a couple of years ago. i'm pretty convinced that sweden is one of the best places in the world.

sugar sugar

here's my review of mobile, alabama-based the sugar factory on awaiting the flood.com. best music i've heard in a while.
http://awaitingtheflood.com/album-review-the-sunshine-factory-sugar-independent/

rainy day woman

rainy, cold day spent lounging with the bricoleur, finishing a fantastically weird novel, making endless steaming cups of green tea, and online window shoppping.

barlow's first novel is a novel-length free-verse poem about werewolf gangs in LA. no shit. it's moving, weird, and deliciously noir.

screw the  litas i was waiting to give myself for xmas. these babies are screaming for my feet. jeffrey campbell two-timer wedges. image via oaknyc.

bonadrag nails it again. lindsey thornburg druid hood, reversible mexican blanket- black cashmere. all for the mountain phalanx necklace. images via bonadrag.

pleiades playlist

been taking cosmic hints to look starward these days. winter's the best time for stargazing, as taught to me in 5th grade by my science teacher mr. davis. we had a constellation project and i remember freezing my ten-year-old buns off standing in the driveway with my star chart.

pleiades playlist:

bat for lashes-pearl's dream
yeasayer- 2080
devendra banhart-seahorse
feathers-silverleaves in the air of starseedlings
fever ray-dry and dusty
mazzy star-umbilical
modest mouse-3rd planet
my brightest diamond-to pluto's moon
papercuts-the machine will tell us so
riceboy sleeps-happiness
tortoise-the lithium stiffs
david bowie-always crashing in the same car

meteorite.

just read Vanity Fair's article about marilyn monroe's lost (now found) diaries. heartbreaking. poor norma jean. who can fail to see themselves in this woman?  and god, the horrors of mid-century psychoanalysis. it's enough to make anyone want to rescue her. can't wait until the book comes out, hard as it will be to read. look for it: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe ed. by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment. to be published this month by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, LLC, Harper Collins.

adornment

latest magpie-like obsession: heavy hand decorations.
top to bottom: antarctica ring by Swedish designer jealousydesign on etsy.com, custom two-finger ring by Mary Jo in Long Island NY at www.mercurios.net,  Pamela Love double-cage ring at bonadrag.com.

must.read.

The Magicians by Lev Grossman.
"I felt like I was doing peyote buttons with J. K. Rowling." -Mickey Rapkin, GQ

i want to hear what Neil Gaiman thinks about this book. startlingly good, this tale tells the truth. you know it because it makes you blush with self-recognition. not to mention the awesome fact that the characters turn into geese and arctic foxes.

Woven Hand

saw Woven Hand a week ago today at the Grey Eagle here in Asheville. all my expectations were blown out like lightbulbs. first expectation blown: I DANCED. MY ASS. OFF.  i mean, like, full-blown ecstatic dancing that makes people around you a bit uncomfortable. so wonderful. i've wanted to see david eugene edwards live since i was about sixteen but never ever thought he would rock out with such primal intensity. and yes, he sings about jesus. edwards singing about jesus is a thing of magic with snake-handling electricity sparking all over the place. here's a clip that doesn't begin to do justice to the live experience.

Woven Hand - Sinking Hands