Chad Taylor

Johnny is a man and he's bigger than you




And a very interesting thing happens to your brain, which is that any information which is common, after several repetitions, you cease to hear. You reject the common information, rather like if you gaze at something for a long time, you'll cease to really see it. You'll see any aspect of it that's changing, but the static elements you won't see ... The amount of material there is extremely limited, but the amount of activity it triggers in you is very rich and complex.
-- Rob Tannenbaum, "A Meeting of Sound Minds: John Cage and Brian Eno," Musician 83 (Sept. 1985)

All of my heart





"Character in any sense that we can get at it is action, and action is plot... We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are." (Henry James

(ABC, Cat People, Night Stalker, Maitresse)

The Dark-Haired Girl



'It's like [Eye in the Sky] when actual rescue is right at hand but they can't wake up. Yes, we are always asleep like they are in Eye and we must wake up and see past (through) the dream -- the spurious world with its own time -- to the rescue outside -- outside now, not later.' 
 -- Philip K. Dick quoted in Divine Invasions by Lawrence Sutin (Paladin 1991)

The Excellent Man




'There is only one situation in which the virtue of the good citizen and excellent man are the same, and this is when the citizens are living in a city that is under the ideal regime...'
-- Edward Clayton, Aristotle: Politics (2005)

(REALITi, Mission Impossible, The Prisoner)

California


Don Van Vliet is a 39-year-old man who lives with his wife Jan in a trailer in the Mojave Desert. They have very little money, so it must be pretty hard on them sometimes, but I've never heard them complain.

"Have you seen Franz Kline lately? You should go over to the Guggenheim and see his 'Number Seven', they have it in such a good place. He's probably closer to my music than any of the painters, because it's just totally speed and emotion that comes out of what he does."

In the warm room




Three results from three unrelated image searches. Top to bottom: Beate Bartel of Liaisons Dangereuses (1981), Sex Pistol memorabilia girl Liz Hall by Phil Strongman (1979) and Barbara Eden, I Dream of Jeannie (1965).