09 February 2010

Hey lady, you lady...


This was a Christmas present and it's now hanging in my bedroom. It reminds me of John Waters' Female Trouble. I think it's funny. Apparently, it's an oil painting that hung in a beauty parlor to advertise the skills of the proprietress. Too much?

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  1. I love her. In fact, pretty sure she's a distant cousin of mine.

    Never consider ridding your life of something that makes you laugh!

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  2. She reminds me of my Dad's sisters, circa 1974. She's a permanent part of the collection now, it's just a matter of where to put this painting.

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  3. I adore anonymous portraiture.

    She looks like one satisfied client.

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  4. I just don't know why a red-blooded American boy like yourself would want his mother in his bedroom.

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  5. My mother NEVER looked like that. My bedroom's got to be good for a laugh if nothing else.

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  6. Actually, that painting is surrounded by two paper mache masks I bought from naked Indians in Costa Rica, and then on the other side is some framed pottery shards from Greece. I like the eclecticism that painting brings. It's got all this primitive, rustic stuff around it and then there's my Mona Lisa in all her 1970s glory.

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  7. I think she's marvelous, and I can totally believe that she got her hair jacked up at Le Lipstick Beauty Salon.

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  8. By Butterfly I'm sure. Gator could never turn out that kind of work.

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