And finally, #Dusty, on a pillow, when ordinary surfaces aren’t soft enough.
Or…Cher. That’s the other choice. Cher.
The only solution is to get good news mixed in with the bad and to listen to this song very very loud while walking with heavy things in the rain.
Matthew J Barnhart: Re:
In a long email thread with Jason Molina back in 2008, I made a passing comment about having trouble finishing some Tre Orsi songs. He hammered out this reply a few hours later on his Blackberry.
I have a lot of reservations about posting private correspondence, but what he says here is so…
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CRAZY8s!
PR me and regular me are both super excited for our film’s premiere tonight…
Jenny Holzer’s Truisms. I think the first time I remember seeing or reading this was at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, probably 1991-2 and feelings like she was spilling the secrets of the adult world.
Yes, the Walker in the 90s! This and the Fluxus exhibit cemented little me…
(Source: et--cetera)
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outside, waiting for meeting on Flickr.
Waldorf Hotel dining room Polynesian mural, basement level, via City of Vancouver archives CVA 1444-53.06 and an ebay postcard. You can seen another angle of the dining room here. I have extruded the mural from the archives photo, and cut it into 3 pieces to show the complete mural with ‘relative’ accuracy, though it is unfortunately in black and white. I would be very curious to learn if better colour images of the complete mural exist somewhere, and I do not know who the artist would have been. I presume the mural is dated 1955 or thereabouts. Via BCLiving:
In 1953, a man named Bob Mills purchased eight black velvet paintings by Edgar Leeteg in Honolulu. When his wife declared she didn’t like them, Mills vowed to create a Tahitian cocktail lounge in Vancouver. And he did.
Seizing on the emerging obsession with Polynesian culture that was becoming trend at the time, Mills transformed his Waldorf Hotel as a “tiki”-themed bar and hotel in 1955, opening the cocktail lounge in full tiki style. Designed in 1947 by architects Mercer & Mercer in a modernist style, the East Vancouver hotel, beer parlour and basement restaurant’s new facelift was a huge hit.
Fifteen years later, in 1970, the Waldorf’s cook, Frank Puharich, purchased the hotel from the Mills family.
The future of the Waldorf hangs in the balance.
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