I don’t know why this particular painting is so ingrained in my memory.  It is almost as if my first memory was of seeing this painting in a museum.  So much of my early life was spent in a museum with my mom. I lived inside this desert and the gypsy was related to me and the lion lurked around in the night like the omnipresent darkness and danger of my imagination; its yellow eyes pierced mine in a primordial familiar gaze. I heard the sounds of her mandolin and I could feel the warm desert night air stirring in my fists full of warm sand. I don’t know if it was my imagination on fire or that somehow Henri Rousseau simply painted a perfect snapshot of my past life.

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Jackson Frank – Milk and Honey

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Trailer for the new Basquiat documentary.

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Them – Don’t Look Back

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Chet Baker – The Thrill is Gone

Marilyn Monroe: fur coat + boater hat.