Alas...

 There just aren't enough celebrity-themed dance crazes anymore.

It's that time again...

October starts tomorrow and I will be back in horror-mode doing my best to consume nothing but nightmarish demon-inducing art, music, and movies for the next 31 days. Tonight, I will watch something sunny and happy and full of light... probably created by Disney... but tomorrow my friends, tomorrow I begin my annual worship of the Beast.

The More You Know: Cindy Sherman

Smithsonian Magazine did a wonderful article explaining the inclusion of the above Cindy Sherman image into a MoMa exhibition titled "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West." I was very interested to learn that a teenage Sherman created this picture on a family vacation:

"She loaded a camera, a tripod and a suitcase full of wigs, makeup and costumes into a station wagon, and whenever she saw an interesting location she asked her parents to stop while she set up a scene to shoot."

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Indelible-Images-Monument-Valley-Girl.html

Sleep, my Love (1948)

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Love #3 - Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen's love is one of lust and loss. "So Long Marianne" captures the confusion of identity that can come with very close relationships as well as the acceptance a relationship's failure without bitterness."I'm Your Man" is one of the simplest, most erotic songs I have ever heard. Desperation for one's love to the point of complete complacence and self-denial, even to the point of total reinvention, is something to which many can relate. 

Love #2 - Bjork

I know by now that you'll arrive by the time I stop waiting.while you're away my heart comes undone.

Love #1 - Bruce Springsteen

tell me now baby is he good to you? can he do the things that i do?
roy orbison's singin for the lonely. hey that's me and i want you only. don't turn me on again. i just cant face myself alone again.