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directed by Brian De Palma
written by John Farris
starring Amy Irving & John Cassavetes
Century City, Los Angeles CA 1978
In
honor of his seventy seventh birthday I thought it appropriate to
present some images from the film by Brian De Palm that I admire most. When I first
saw it, I was understandably appalled, but found that despite my best
efforts to rid my memory of it, the images and the ideas behind them had
found a permanent place in my mind. I began to see a connection
between what De Palma was doing and the literary experiments of Isidore
Ducasse in the late eighteen sixties. I remain of more than one mind
regarding De Palma’s approach to film making, but I can’t help admiring
his best efforts and above all this remarkable and very serious and
bloody parody of the ending of Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.
(7 September 1926 - 11 December 2016)
photographed by Bruce Bellas
(Bruce of Los Angeles)
for the Male Figure
circa 1955 Los Angeles CA
A
native Los Angelean of Armenian ancestry, Al Abajian had a
distinguished college football career at the University of Southern
California (where he received his Masters degree in 1953.) He also
played rugby, and of course he was well known as a body builder, which
is how Bruce Bellas knew him. There is a lovely series of wrestling
photos of Al with Bob Poling that I’ll post soon, also by Bruce of LA. I
was surprised to find Mr Albajian’s obituary so easily and of such
recent date. I shouldn’t have been surprised, as he looks to have kept
himself in fine shape. He made his living in education as a high school
principal and was a life long gym rat, but I suspect that Bruce managed
to capture him at the best time of his life, or at least the peak of
his physical perfection. Though he was married and fathered four
children, the obituary also says that he most enjoyed spending time at
the gym with his buddies.
Twin Peaks: the Return part 18
What is your Name?
David Lynch & Mark Frost
Anaheim & Los Angeles CA
& environs 2017
After meeting up in Glastonbury Grove near the red curtained entrance to the Lodge, after his definitive release, Dale Cooper and Diane Evans journey by car some 430 miles from one designated spot to another (some say its the 430 miles
from Los Alamos NM to Odessa TX) and at that specific point pass
through another magical portal to a parallel reality, changing abruptly
from day to night. After speeding along a dark highway they stop at a
Motel where they perform a sex magick ritual. After this draining
session (it seems especially traumatic for Diane) Cooper wakes the next morning alone with only a farewell note from her and stranger still it is addressed to Richard from Linda (just as the Fireman foretold in the very first scene of part 1.)
Though it is clearly the same room as the night before, when he exits
into the Motel parking lot it’s an entirely different building (it has, at least, grown another story) and
place. Even his car is no longer the same.
in Profiles of Passion
starring Joey Rico & Preston Phillips
San Diego Boy Productions
San Diego CA 2014
Joey Rico
has done a lot of work for this particular studio and from the very
beginning of his career. They may have even given him his start. From
the first they paired him with older tops. A couple of times the
cameramen watched him prepare himself with a dildo and then took over at
Joey’s invitation. Though he occasionally plays the top, Joey most often bottoms, and he’s well suited to the role. I find his pairing with this somewhat flabby red haired daddy, called Preston (a US Marine who had previously performed a masturbation duo with his brother Justin Phillips,) much more exciting than it has any right to be. With his calm, soft spoken, air of confidence and gentle enthusiasm Joey always appears to enjoy performing without the need to exaggerate… If it’s fake, it sure doesn’t seem so.
