exquisite corpse

there’s a very specific aesthetic i’m going for on this blog and it’s called cool things i like

stop making sense. just laura

Me salting you before biting a chunk off of your arm. Maybe even marinating you for a few hours beforehand. Drizzling some olive oil and lemon. Making a salad. Some fries with tzatziki on the side.

Watercolour of a single red rose, painted by Marilyn Monroe and inscribed to John F. Kennedy for his birthday in May 1962

Vincent Price introduces The Bat (1959)

i made a low effort scan of donna tartt’s afterword in ‘we have always lived in the castle” by shirley jackson in the folio society edition. enjoy :)

I forgot the word "binary" and the closest I got was "bipolar dichotomy".

2024-09-26

Frederic Stanley - Costume Surprise, The Saturday Evening Post (1921)

Milchick commission

i’ve reblogged this before, but i failed to tell yall that landowska is one of my favorite historical women. she was a world-class musician, and she travelled to mallorca as a sort of musical pilgrimage to honor chopin, who stayed a winter there decades before. while there, she procured the spanish piano he used during his stay – on which he wrote some of his famous preludes. the piano, along with many of her belongings, were looted by nazis during wwii. she worked for years to find it and get it back after the war, which was complicated by her jewish ethnicity (tho i believe her parents had converted to christianity). though she was able to regain ownership of it, she never saw it in person again.

paul kildea wrote a wonderful partial double-type biography of her and chopin called chopin’s piano.