Historic 66

Arizona

All The Time In The World

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

our house... in the middle of our house our house... in the middle of

Notes for a Poem on the Third World, Glenn Ligon, 2022, neon and paint.

At the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.

"Tucson Jack" by Neon artist Steve Justin, out for a photo (h)op in the desert.

Route 66, McCartys, AZ

Came across this gem right off Highway 40, 15 miles east of Grants, New Mexico. No motel or groceries to be found…

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(via Tucson Time Machine newsletter | Arizona Daily Star)

First Child, Pilot of Evangelion Unit-00, Rei Ayanami

Happy Halloween

Last line tag

Tagged by @careful-pyromancer (tysm!!)

Today's last line tag is from Neon Glow

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"You could...come in?" Ari hears the words leave his mouth before he's really processed them - startling even himself in the process. "...it's well past midnight," he reasons aloud "...and I have plenty of room to spare."

Edward's agreement is meek and accompanied by a flush that the darkness could not cover, illuminated in the street light as they thank their driver and haul their items to the front step.

He's barely got into the cool air of his home, hand fumbling for the light switch - when it registers that he doesn't think he remembers the last time someone other than himself slept here.

He turns to look at Edward, who is clutching his suitcase amid a very obvious panic attack, and anything he had remembered to say had only managed to run away from him.

'Oh right,' he thinks to himself in a shock of realisation '...that's why I invited him in.'

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Getting flashy for the weekend ✨ Any fun plans? Gas is too expensive here in California to go anywhere 😅⛽💸😭

Drawing the Things I Want To (11-15)

11. Flix Bus Station. 31st and 8 ave. 4 x 6"

12. "Oh, Look. The mother rhino is giving birth!" 4 x 6"

13. 70mph McDonald's. I-17 Arizona. 4 x 7"

14. Motel. Holbrook, AZ. 4 x 6"

15. Hopi Travel Plaza. Holbrook, AZ. 6 x 9"

Jerry’s Drive-In

Arizona

All The Time In The World

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

Route 66: Wigwam Motel // Holbrook, AZ // MAR 2023

im wearing a green sweater and khaki pants, a giant purple ring, three very different bracelets, two different earrings, a scorpion yingyang necklace and a Mayan-type pictograph necklace

idk WHAT aesthetic this is but i am vibing with it

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to The 1998 Khmer Rouge apology, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers’s first movie FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1932), Gali Atari, Baltimore artist Eric Block, Mayor Tom Bradley, singer-songwriter Ed Bruce, Pablo Casals, Bernard Cribbins, Rick Danko, Ted Danson, Yvonne Elliman, Marianne Faithfull, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, New Orleans clarinetist Willie Humphrey, Scott Joplin’s 1902 song “The Entertainer,” Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna, Jude Law, Franz Liszt’s 1857 symphonic poem "Die Hunnenschlacht,” jazz-Celtic singer Laurel Massé, Clyde McCoy, Dina Merrill, Mary Tyler Moore, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, cellist-composer Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Paula Poundstone, Cozy Powell, rockabilly DJ/singer-songwriter Glenn Reeves, Jim Reid, The San Francisco Symphony, Marco Antonio Solís, Barbara Steele, The Supremes’s 1965 single “My World is Empty Without You,” Ray Thomas (Moody Blues), “Billy” Tipton, Jo Van Fleet, Jon Voight, Roger Voudouris, and my friend and musical compadre “Easy” Mark Tomeo. I lack photos of Mark and I together, so I grabbed pivotal images from Mark’s fascinating career as a champion of pedal steel, resonator, and twang guitar + singer-songwriter. He was in the Grammy-nominated “New Wave cowboy” band Rubber Rodeo (shown here)—in the 80s RR played at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco while I just happened to be lurking nearby. The world got smaller when Mark and I met in Pennsylvania, performing and recording with Ben Kaplan, some Badlees-spinoff projects, and extensively with the band Neon Cactus. Circa 2000 I was working with Davy Jones (Monkees) on his JUSTME series of original recordings. Davy wanted a pedal steel guitarist, and I summoned Mark. Here’s “Hold Me Tight,” a Tex-Mex samba we did; the Mike Nesmith-ian arrangement was Davy’s idea: 

Meanwhile HB EMT. By the time I get to Phoenix anything can happen…

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