Zap Mama, Brazilian Girls + Macy Gray

Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, Calif.

Vik Muniz

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego—La Jolla

Friday night at Image Control

Valentine shoot

Santa Ana, Calif.

From Baton Rouge, her mother is friends with Andrei Codrescu, whom she called both "pretentious" and her favorite New Orleans writer.

Alexei Jawlensky at the Norton Simon

This afternoon I took a long meandering drive into the hellhole of Los Angeles, my way blocked at every turn, and instead of buying film at Freestyle I found refuge at the Norton Simon.

There was a show of paintings by Alexei Jawlensky downstairs. Initially I was unimpressed, but smaller early works like "The Hunchback" (1917) and "Helene" (1916) managed to go beyond rehashed Matisse; and the abstracted faces of the twenties, with their playful line and light, airy colors, made the show.



The faces of the thirties were darker, for darker times.

Minox B prints

Two rolls of Minox prints arrived today from Blue Moon in Portland, one color and one in sepia-toned black-and-white (printed on color paper). Once again, the results are lovely.

Every shot doesn’t work; for example, it was too dark in Kroll’s house to get much that was usable, but I knew that would most likely be the case. The picture of Renee at the kitchen sink, while underexposed, is at least a nice memento. The pictures of Carly in the bathroom are blurry but perhaps hold some interest. I don’t know if my focus was off or if she was just too much in motion.

Merv Griffin, R.I.P

Creator of Jeopardy.

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

A very young and invisible Vincent Price starred in "The Invisible Man Returns" last night on KDOC. It was fun and I don't think motion pictures have improved all that much in years since it was made.

Lee Hazlewood R.I.P

"Sooner or later we all make the little flowers grow. . . ."