“I Can Be As Deep As The Sea And As Shallow As A River. I Can Be The Faces You Like Or A Thousand Others.”

“How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour / Hold Still

Adélia Prado, from “Denouement”; translated by Ellen Dori Watson

Text ID: I am beginning to despair / and can see only two choices: / either go mad or turn holy.

is there anything sexier than saying “check mate”?

Brigitte Bardot’s last film before she retired: DON JUAN, OR IF DON JUAN WERE A WOMAN (1973).

1970s interiors: the movie. Man, one after the other. Hip interiors from that period often look like cheap sci-fi sets—or actually, better yet, like those LPs with schmaltzy symphonic versions of romantic songs. Remember those? Fireplace, a rug, a young couple, wine glasses...

And then sex.

sunlight in the bathroom, spring 2013

Claudia Cardinale

From Nickie Zimov, with LOVE 1.3

10x14 cm. oil on paper, ink, acrylic powder

Nickie Zimov

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