Sunday, October 17, 2010

BECOME THE ANIMAL THAT ALL MEN SEEK


A few months ago Vanity Fair ran an article about Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the letters they'd exchanged over the years. It's a great article which I definitely recommend and have reread a few times if only for the letters themselves, some of which are published in the article. I categorize the following as the greatest love letter ever written and I'm not even like that. What a mighty good muse.

"December 27
Continued with the same gifted pen. It's no use pretending that you are an ordinary woman. Quite clearly, like this pen, you are not. I don't mean, for a second, that you are in any way comparable with a pen. And yet you are, like this divine pen you are heavy and light at the same time.… How [to] watch the puritanical face relax into slow lust? How to watch that watch catch its breath, and, for a speck of a speck of a millionth of a second, become the animal that all men seek for in their women? And since we're talking of pens and you, how [to] watch the ink splurge out of the pen … reach[ing] out from the inner depth of the divine body. Will you, incidentally, permit me to fuck you this afternoon? Yours truly (you have just come into the room), R.B."

You can read the rest of the article here

I was watching a special on Bette Davis last week and saw this clip. It beats all brush offs for life.

EMANCIPATION





Spirited Away & Ponyo.

Dancehall Danceoff from Sarah Doyle on Vimeo.





Illustrated Missed Connections that are fo real. I make it a point to check this blog regularly, for obvious reasons of cuteness and delight.

TERRY RICHARDSON FOR FRENCH VOGUE




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