On the set #406

Steve Shapiro : The Velvet Underground and Nico making the “Banana” Album at Specter Studio, NY, 1966.

[Lou Reed, huit ans pile, James Cain, clic-clic, John Cleese, la Saint-Evariste et Scerbanenco. Guingouin aussi, et quelques autres.]

On the set #266

Photo by Renata Steiner.

[John Cale, a very merry unbirthday.  On a aussi Profumo, Ornella Muti, Bukowski, Mapplethorpe, Sacher-Masoch et tout ce qui s'ensuit clic-clic.]

Contact Sheet #24 (a Very Merry Unbirthday #113)

© Steve Schapiro.

[C'est pour John Cale, +1. On a aussi Profumo, Ornella Muti, Bukowski, Mapplethorpe, Sacher-Masoch et tout ce qui s'ensuit clic-clic.]

Un air qui vaut pas dix ronds #333 (Unbirthday #301)

Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole
Not like you
Alright.

Richman, 1972.

[Celle-ci, tout le monde l'a chantée : Jonathan Michael Richman, Modern Lover, un an de plus. Sammy Davis Jr, sinon, Dango, Cross, Serge Teyssot-Gay et Gabriel Yacoub clic-clic.]

A Very Merry Unbirthday #279

I believe you, Mr Wilson

I believe you anyway.

Cale, 1975

[Brian Wilson, balnéaire, 75. Le 20 juin aussi Balthazar, clic-clic, Andreu Nin, Bugsy Siegel et Cioran.]

Sleeping in the midday sun (un air qui vaut pas dix ronds #275) (a Very Merry Unbirthday #254)

Cale, 1974

[Chris Spedding, un an de plus. Denis Lavant, pareil, la Saint-Harvey, la Saint-Blier aussi, clic-clic, et Pauline Carton.]

This heart of mine (a Very Merry Unbirthday #113 ter)

[Le 9 mars on a John Cale, donc, Ornella Muti, Bukowski, Mapplethorpe, Sacher-Masoch et tout ce qui s'ensuit clic-clic.]

A Very Merry Unbirthday #113 bis

John Cale and Nico, by Stephen Shore, NYC ca 1965.

[Le 9 mars on a John Cale, Ornella Muti, Bukowski, Mapplethorpe, Sacher-Masoch et tout ce qui s'ensuit clic-clic.]

Un air qui vaut pas dix ronds #178

[Valerie Solanas, morte un 26 avril, un jour pour Selby Jr clic-clic, le jour de la Gestapo, de Guernica, de Tchernobyl.]

La Sainte-Stéphanie (avant Caroline II)

It's so cold in Alaska.

clic-clic

Lou Reed 1968

[David Bailey, aussi, Fausto Coppi, clic-clac, et la jeune Patti Smith.]

A Very Merry Unbirthday #113 (je me comprends #19)

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.

Cale 1982 

[John Cale, 71 ans. Ornella Muti, Bukowski, Sacher-Masoch et tout ce qui s'ensuit clic-clic.]

La la la (un air qui vaut pas dix ronds #73)

You're a ghost la la la
You're a ghost
I'm in the church and I've come
To claim you with my iron drum

La la la.

[Paris 1919, on pense aux champs magnétiques, à Philippe Soupault, † le 12 mars 1990. Pour le reste clic-clic, c'est chargé : Charlie Parker, Howard Fast, das Spartacus Brigade et Maximilien - sur l'avantage de vivre longuement.]

Feeling good, feeling oh so fine

First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
I'm waiting for my man.

[Loulou, 70 ans aujourd'hui clic-clic.]

Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice (A Very Merry Unbirthday #1)

Lewis Alan Reed, né le 2 mars 1942 à Brooklyn, New York.

Images worth repeating

Pour Andy Warhol, malgré tout, le 22 février 1987.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.