lightning is my girl

au coquelet, berkeley ca

Hillary Kimball and the Nuisance Bear

Rose White, Rose Red

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Hippies

After their delicious burner single “Home”, these kids made a music video that starts out with Mr Sharpe crawling through the desert, harvesting a San Pedro cactus, and taking a huge bite out of it on camera.  It was like watching a toddler swallow your car keys while you stand, helplessly, across the room, too far away to catch him in time.    I–!!!  HE JUST–!  HE PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH AND THEN IT WAS GONE!   HE JUST ATE IT!

Logan, offspring

Apologies to: Marjorie M Liu, Daniel Way, Gene Luen Yang. Sometimes you’re metal enough for one hand, and sometimes, you’re metal enough for the other hand. But sometimes, you’ve just got TOO MUCH METAL FOR ONE HAND.

The secondmost eminent Proust scholar in the country

Helen, asleep

(Berkeley co-ops, night)

and bring you from a wild Kate

Katherine Ann Butler, age 17, 1959.

Fairytale of the Germs

Or, Weetzie Bat  as Lorna Doom  and Darby Crash (and more of those dark-eyed boys), from a photo. I wish I knew who to credit for it, but the photographer’s page went down with geocities.

Mirror Mirror: Captain Kirk and Ms Spock

“Whenever I do the ’60′s girl sideburns I feel like Maybonne’s scotch tape is missing.”

Necessary ingredients: go-go boots, Dr Girlfriend hair, lamé.