Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Sleep + Dream Mix

This mixtape will be perfect for:

A. drifting off to sleep
B. attempting to drift off to sleep
C. spending some quality time with a lit candle
D. taking a long bath
E. doodling random things on napkins

You can download it right HERE.

My great friend Lucy, who  i met in high school, came from California and paid a visit to Peter and I  ... we had a ton of fun taking pictures (Peter took most of the ones below), listening to music, eating cookies, playing with dolls, tape recording ourselves, sipping wine and enjoying a backyard fire ... We hadn't seen her in almost ten years and ended up reminiscing a good deal ... one thing that brought big grins to our faces was remembering a documentary we had seen on public television back in the teenage years ... it was called "Best Boy" and featured someone called Philly ... Here's the gist of it:

"It came out of nowhere to win the best documentary Oscar in 1980, and by now "Best Boy" should be ackowledged as one of the finest documentaries in film history. Filmmaker Ira Wohl took as his subject his own cousin, 52-year old Philly, a retarded man who had lived his entire life with his parents. Seeing the physical decline of the parents, Wohl suggested they prepare Philly for living away from home for the first time in his life."

The part that grabbed us the most when we 1st saw "Best Boy" was when the camera man asks Philly what he's doing and, although he's simply standing there with nothing in his hands, he happily responds "I'm eatin' chicken!" (This happens at 6 minutes and 33 seconds on the video below) ... Lucy loved this line so much that she ended up naming her cat Chicken ... ENJOY!



and HERE is the 3rd installment of the Mystery Tapes series.








2 comments:

  1. The "who am I?" of Philly SUCKS!!!! Real Philly is on display with a smaller photo of CHICKEN set in front. Both framed in gold, they make a lovely addition to my home decor. It kinda looks like the railing humper is saying "I'm eatin' chicken!!!" too.*

    *DL was on this computer before me so I posted as him at first - what an asshole.

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