i'm closin' the book on the pages and the text & I don't really care what happens next ...

going, going, gone by bob dylan

every time i listen to anything from this album (planet waves) i'm instantly back in high school, head phones on, late at night - it's a palpable feeling.

icon - sam shepard

arizona, 1979

with patti smith, ca. 1971

publicity still from resurrection, 1980

photographed by herb ritts, virginia, 1988

1984

on the set of wim wender's don't come knocking, 2005

with jessica lange, photographed by bruce weber, 1994

with patti smith

photographed by bruce weber, 1994

in terrence malik's days of heaven, 1978

with bob dylan, rolling thunder revue, ca. 1975

photographed by bruce weber, 1994

with patti smith, cowboy mouth, 1971

in homo faber, 1991

with best friend johnny dark

with jessica lange at the opening of the new york film festival

sam shepard at the chelsea hotel photographed by david gahr, 1971

photographed by herb ritts, 1988

because he loves strong women, because he wrote paris, texas (and many other amazing & haunting things) because he was so beautiful in terrence malick's day's of heaven, because, because, because.... he's just so hot. le fucking sigh.

 i went through a frances farmer obsession as a teenager (yes, one of those girls).... when shepard, playing her first husband leif erickson (jeffrey york in the movie), tries to save frances in the film, well, my heart was forever lost to him.

the story-tellers, part 45

johnny depp & kate moss

jane birkin & serge gainsbourg

anita pallenberg & keith richardson

arthur miller & marilyn monroe

humphrey bogart & lauren bacall

mick jagger & marianne faithgull

kris kristofferson & rita coolidge

johnny cash & june carter

clyde barrow & bonnie parker

bob dylan & suze rotolo

richard burton & elizabeth taylor 

alabama in true romance:
amid the chaos of that day, when all i could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all i could smell was the violence in the air, i look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool.

she takes just like a woman, yes she does, she makes love just like a woman, yes she does, and she aches just like a woman, but she breaks just like a little girl....

bob dylan,george harrison & leon russell - just like a woman
(concert for bangladesh)

....i am broken, all the way inside.

time is an ocean that ends at the shore, you may not see me tomorrow....

oh sister - andrew bird  (bob dylan cover)

& when it all came crashing down, i became withdrawn & the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on, like a bird that flew, tangled up in blue......

bob dylan - tangled up in blue. one of my favorite songs (i know i post it all the time!)

you're pleasure knows no limit, your voice is like a meadowlark, but your heart is like an ocean, mysterious & dark.....

one more cup of coffee before i go (valley below). seriously beautiful version of this song. like, beyond beautiful.

the story-tellers, part 28

paul mccartney

bob dylan, desire, 1976

marilyn monroe, nevada, photographed by eve arnold, 1960

patti smith

clint eastwood

audrey hepburn

marcello mastroianni in 8 1/2, 1963

pablo picasso

steve mcqueen, ca. 1960s

the story-tellers, part 27

john lennon & mick jagger, century city, california, photographed by ron galella, 1974

james dean & marilyn monroe 

(as far as i can tell they never met - or met once briefly - but nice pic nonetheless)

rita hayworth & marlene dietrich

(they were rumored to have been lovers)

bob dylan & johnny hallyday, ca. 1966

marlene dietrich & ann warner photographed by eve arnold at the trocadero, 1939

paul newman & clint eastwood

brigitte bardot & jane birkin

coco chanel & jeanne moreau in coco's apartment, 1957

love is in the air

for you, bruce springsteen
best love song ever.



help me make it through the night, rita coolidge & kris kristofferson



shelter from the storm, bob dylan



henry lee, p.j. harvey & nick cave



wild is the wind, david bowie



jezebel, iron & wine



if i were a carpenter, june carter-cash & johnny cash



say yes, elliott smith

i wanna dedicate this to someone out there watching tonight, i know, she knows who she is.....

bob dylan with scarlett ribera on violin - oh sister

i first heard a bob dylan song in the 7th grade....all these years later & here i am. i remember playing this album over & over, earphones on, in the dark. i was in a steel town in middle america but this album took me to places i could only dream about. still does.

don't look back

i could watch this forever....donovan + dylan + my all time favorite song, it's all over, baby blue.

the story-tellers, part 20

keith richards

david bowie

axl rose

ian curtis

kurt cobain

bob dylan

nick cave