GIRL: somewhat dead. (somewhat alive).

electronic warmth and intricacy. insectlike percussions. untimely deaths. literature. art. secrecy. a certain kind of love and the end of the world.


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Vaknade till den här lappen i morse efter en riktigt eländig natt och lipade nästan för att det var så fint. 

Anaïs Nin in Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Kenneth Anger, 1954.
A masquerade party for which guests were encouraged to “Come  as your madness,” inspired one of the guests—avant-garde filmmaker  Kenneth Anger—to create Inauguration of the Pleasuredome (now  considered a key work in experimental film) in which famed diarist Nin  and other notable figures appeared. One of the most iconic scenes is an  abstraction of the costume Nin wore at the party, which she describes  below.
I wore a skin-colored leotard, leopard-fur earrings glued  to  my breasts, and a leopard-fur belt around my waist. Gil Henderson   painted on my bare back a vivid jungle scene. I wore eyelashes two   inches long. My hair was dusted with gold powder. My head was inside of a   birdcage. From within the cage, through the open gate, I pulled out an   endless roll of paper on which I had written lines from my books. The   ticker tape of the unconscious. I unwound this and handed everyone a   strip with a message. (Diary 5 133) (Read more and see the original costume.)
Eder kvinna och min bättre hälft. Under denna kväll blev vi måltavlor för en karl som var fullständigt övertygad om att vi var ett syskonpar från Ryssland (19 respektive 20 år). V var systern som “kunde svenska” medan han förtjust förkunnade att jag “bara gissar att svara antingen ja eller nej för det är de enda orden jag kan på svenska!” då jag uttråkat svarade “Ja. Nej. Ja.” på dennes träaktiga frågor. 
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Charlotte Gainsbourg, by Annie Leibovitz.
we'd probably liveblog the end of the world
omg earthquake!!!!
flood is coming!!
omg water is in my house
nO NOT MY COMPUter
it's ok i have service on my phone guys
OMG MY SISTER IS DROWnING
aw a fireman is here
he's giving my sister mouth 2 mouth
i ship it omg
otp; i know how to save a life
whoa the earth is like breaking open
byE

Marlene Dietrich, painted by Martin Kosleck
this woman is all kinds of Fabulous.
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