"Consumer-driven modernism, it was in-vogue anthropomorphism, a swim through the guts and entrails of the world...a throbbing, pustulous, inflamed amusement-industry boil on the backside of Brooklyn."
My new obsession. Coney Island. The quote is from a book recommended to me that I finished a few weeks ago, The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall. It wasn't such a great book even though there was parts of interesting tattoo talk the story was a bit overblown for me & I didn't really take to the main character. Anyway, Coney Island remained in my brain. It used to be a proper island don't you know, that they purposefully joined back onto Brooklyn. Pretty insane place from what I can tell, & it goes along (I guess) with my constant desire to go back to New York having not appreciated it before. I was a teenager, I was with my mum. I spent most of my money on American Apparel & a very lovely Anna Sui prom dress. The idea that there's a beach in New York pretty much blows my mind. I mean Central Park is pretty insane in the center of such a *city* city, but a beach? I'd love to go swimming there. According to a Coney Island blog I found there's a big business man trying to get rid of all the small shop owners to replace them with chains or something so I'm going to try & go this year.
Also, it's where Requiem For A Dream is set. HAS ANYONE WATCHED THAT FILM? Jesus Christ. It's a film that many people have recommended to me, told me was their favorite film or even thought I would be a connoisseur of due to my penchant for fucked up drug films (& books). But I spent a large portion of it - basically after the gangrene - with my hands over my eyes. Watching gang rape, amputation & electric shock therapy interspersed is not my idea of fun. We had to watch it to the end to see who died, BUT NONE OF THEM DIED. Seriously. I now own the DVD. Anyone can have it. I'd quite like to get it out of my house. I might just casually leave it somewhere. Or do you want it? E-mail me your address. Free. Honestly.
Anyway, yeah. Weekend. Coney Island is the shit. Photo source. Spent 2 hours driving to & from Melksham to get a projector today. Realizing that I am no longer an art student. But fuck I have a projector now! Expect lots of arty photography coming...soon. That's why my brain is shot. & I have clutch foot. Is that a technical medical term?
It should be.
my gf met a fella who lived in coney island, he's a singer from new york called curtis eller. he said blackpool was just like coney, just as fake, suuped up and as colourful but in a good way. there used to be a brothel there which was in the shape of an elephant, if my QI memory serves me well.
ReplyDeletere: photos, true true but no one has come forward to say what each photo was about, why they're doing it. it's easy to say what someone is doing when on s swing but when it comes to combing a pig, well who knows why
í'll have requiem for a dream :P
ReplyDeletegood post by the way!
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:O requiem for a dream is amazing!
ReplyDeleteDId you take those pictures? they're really cool
great post
I'll have Requiem! I've been reccommended it cause of the Clint Mansell musical score, what did you think? (though perhaps you were too freaked to listen?) Looking forward to seeing some art stuffff
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