paul cadmus

Paul Cadmus - Bar Italia (1953-55)

Paul Cadmus lived and worked in Italy in the early 1950s. Bar Italia satirizes the crowds of tourists in Europe during the postwar years, when Americans alone had the money to visit a continent devastated by the Second World War. A crowd of people fills an imaginary square cobbled together from different Italian cities. The sidewalk café offers a full range of characters, including argumentative Italians, pudgy clerics, hustlers, old widowed crones, and a group of what the artist called "rather outrageous" gay men. Cadmus also painted himself into the image, quietly taking in the boisterous scene from just beyond a young Italian perched on the wall. In the background a large marble monument parodies Italy’s decrepit architectural treasures, currently under repair at the hands of a stonemason at the top right. Cadmus's moony, prying tourists, who scan the sky for masterpieces and search phrase books for "Where is the restroom," say it all. But he included a final indignity: Just to the right of the painting's center, graffiti on the wall spell out "Go Away Americans."

in Luce Foundation Center for American Art

wishing...

My brand new Canon EOS 400d by ~stevieiero on deviantART

...a Canon EOS 400D.

lovely day

friends <3

barco negro

São loucas! São loucas! Loucas...

Eu sei, meu amor,
Que nem chegaste a partir
Pois tudo em meu redor
Me diz que estás sempre comigo
Eu sei, meu amor,
Que nem chegaste a partir
Pois tudo em meu redor
Me diz que estás sempre comigo

De manhã, que medo, que me achasses feia!
Acordei, tremendo, deitada na areia
Mas logo os teus olhos disseram que não,
E o sol penetrou no meu coração
Mas logo os teus olhos disseram que não,
E o sol penetrou no meu coração

Vi depois, numa rocha, uma cruz,
E o teu barco negro dançava na luz
Vi teu braço acenando, entre as velas já soltas
Dizem as velhas da praia que não voltas:

São loucas! Loucas...

Eu sei, meu amor,
Que nem chegaste a partir
Pois tudo em meu redor
Me diz que estás sempre comigo
Eu sei, meu amor,
Que nem chegaste a partir
Pois tudo em meu redor
Me diz que estás sempre comigo

No vento que lança areia nos vidros;
Na água que canta, no fogo mortiço;
No calor do leito, nos bancos vazios;
Dentro do meu peito, estás sempre comigo
No calor do leito, nos bancos vazios;
Dentro do meu peito, estás sempre comigo

( solo )

Eu sei, meu amor,
Que nem chegaste a partir
Pois tudo em meu redor
Me diz que estás sempre comigo
Eu sei, meu amor,
Que nem chegaste a partir
Pois tudo em meu redor
Me diz que estás sempre comigo

Mariza - Barco Negro

vincent

Vincent Malloy is seven years old
He's polite and always does as he's told
For a boy his age, he's considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price

He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog, and cats
Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he has invented and wander dark hallways alone and tormented

Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
He likes to experiment on his dog Abocrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So that he and his horrible zombie dog
could go searching for victims in the London fog

His thoughts aren't only of ghoulish crime
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time
While other kids read books like "Go Jane Go"
Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe.

One night while reading a gruesome tale
he read a passage that made him turn pale
Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive

He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed
His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom
where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife.

While alone and insane incased in his doom
Vincent's mother burst suddenly into the room
She said, "If you want, you can go out and play
It's sunny outside and a beautiful day."

Vincent tried to talk but he just couldn't speak
the years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:
"I'm possessed by this house and can never leave it again."

His mother said, "You are NOT possessed and you are NOT almost dead
These games you play are all in your head
You are NOT Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy
You're not tormented or insane, you're just a young boy
You're seven years old, and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun."

Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall
While Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to sway, to shiver and creak
His horrored insanity had reached its peak
He saw Abocrombie, his zombie slave
and heard his wife call from beyond the grave

She spoke through her coffin and made ghoulish demands
While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands
Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams
swept his mad laughter to terrified screams

To escape the badness, he reached for the door
but fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slow

Narrated by Vincent Price

Vincent (Tim Burton, 1982)

running up that hill

It doesn't hurt me.
You want to feel, how it feels?
You want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
You want to hear about the deal I'm making.
You, (If I only could, be running up that hill)
You and me (If I only could, be running up that hill)

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
Get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder.
There's a thunder in our hearts, baby

So much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
You, (If I only could, be running up that hill)
You and me (If I only could, be running up that hill)
You and me, won't be unhappy

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
If I only could

Come on, baby, come on, come on, darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
Come on angel, come on, come on, darling,
Let's exchange the experience

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

If I only could, be running up that hill
If I only could, be running up that hill
If I only could, be running up that hill
If I only could, be running up that hill
If I only could, be running up that hill
If I only could, be running up that hill
If I only could, be running up that hill

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

love your body

Body Confident by ~LostxIn-Moonriver on deviantART

i picture you in the sun

I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong
And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy
And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen
And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in

May God's love be with you
Always....
May God's love be with you

I know I would apologize if I could see your eyes
'Cause when you showed me myself, you know, I became someone else
But I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need
I picture you fast asleep
A nightmare comes
You can't keep awake

May God's love be with you
Always...
May God's love be with you
Always...
May God's love be with you
Always...
May God's love be with you

'Cause if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
You...
You...
I'll find you
You...

I don't know anymore
What it's for
I'm not even sure
If there is anyone who is in the sun
Will you help me to understand
'Cause I been caught in between all I wish for and all I need
Maybe you're not even sure what it's for
Any more than me

May God's love be with you
Always...
May God's love be with you
Always...
May God's love be with you
Always...
May God's love be with you

'Cause if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
You...
You...
I'll find you
You...
I'll find you
You...
I'll find you
You...

Joseph Arthur - In the Sun

where does the good go

Where do you go with your broken heart in tow
What do you do with the left over you
And how do you know when to let go
Where does the good go
Where does the good go

Look me in the eye and tell me you don't find me attractive
Look me in the heart and tell me you won't go
Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love
Look me in the heart and unbreak broken it won't happen

It's love that leaves and breaks
The seal of always thinking you would be
Real happy and healthy strong and calm
Where does the good go
Where does the good go

Where do you go when you're in love and the world knows
How do you live so happily while I am sad and broken down
What do you say it's up for grabs now that your on your way down
Where does the good go
Where does the good go

Look me in the eye and tell me you don't find me attractive
Look me in the heart and tell me you won't go
Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love
Look me in the heart and unbreak broken it won't happen

It's love that leaves and breaks
The seal of always thinking you would be
Real happy and healthy strong and calm
Where does the good go
Where does the good go

Look me in the eye and tell me you don't find me attractive
Look me in the heart and tell me that you won't go
Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love
Look me in the heart and unbreak broken it won't happen

It's love that leaves and breaks
The seal of always thinking you would be
Real happy and healthy strong and calm
Where does the good go
Where does the good go

It's love that leaves and breaks
The seal of always thinking you would be
Real happy and healthy strong and calm
Where does the good go
Where does the good go

Where does the good go
Where does the good go
Where does the good go
Where does the good go

(Look me in the eye)
Where does the good go
(And tell me you don't find me attractive)
Where does the good go
(Look me in the heart)
Where does the good go
(And tell me you won't go)
Where does the good go
(Look me in the eye)
Where does the good go
(And promise no love is like our love)
Where does the good go
(Look me in the heart)
Where does the good go
(And unbreak broken)
Where does the good go
(It won't happen)

Where does the good go?

Tegan and Sara - Where Does The Good Go