Ball of Confusion

The Last Days of Disco

BLOW up

Nuclear detonation

Shot by a Rapatronic camera less than 1 millisecond after detonation.

REALITY checkpoint

Don't

This City's made of light... (Neon of the Week)

From SPACE

New York, the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Alistair Cooke

I'd written some pop fiction about the end of the world...

I decided that the final days would be quite beautiful in their own way. For the cover, I used a shot I'd taken in Fuerteventura back in 2006. I had photographed similar landscapes in Nevada over the years, but decided that the Apocalypse, when it came, would be somehow more fitting off the coast of North Africa... Besides... it wouldn't draw a lot of attention in Las Vegas.

Hold me now, in your tender arms

We've gone so far, into the stars

At the end of everything, we remember everything

No more tides, or seas and rain

We watch the world's demise and save our lives

At the end of everything, we remember everything

The Arks of Eve, ten thousand deep

All lit up for the pick of the babies

The frozen clouds and painted leaves

Are just hand me downs and deeds

As our world ignites ten million lights

We leave our Gods behind on mountain sides

At the end of everything, we remember everything

©John VII - David Lloyd 2013

It is of course available at Amazon - iTunes - CD Baby and all other lovely digital outlets...

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Graffiti of the Week

Plugging my friend, Peter Truckel's fabulous book

Park life

Until next week... xxx

Random Hearts

Protection

All but three of the forty five senators who torpedoed gun control measures in Congress last Wednesday (17 April 2013) have received money from firearms lobbyists, according to new analysis by the Guardian and the Sunlight Foundation. Who'da thunk...

Girl guides...

This City's made of light... (Neon of the Week)

Chris Bracey - Scream Gallery

All aboard for fun time...

And England's Dreamin'

39 Steps

Madeleine Carroll and Robert Donat share a sandwich

Northern Lights Photo by  Gunnar Gestur Geirmundsson

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again.

You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”

Joan Miró

Interlude - In Babylon

In Babylon - John VII from DUMB BABY SOUNDS on Vimeo.

Apologies for plugging our very own record 'In Babylon'

Available at Amazon - iTunes - CD Baby and all other lovely digital outlets...

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Jane Birkin wearing a Celia Birtwell print... You're welcome!

First in a series called Fancy meeting you here - Warhol & Weegee

Only happy when it rains...

Retro...Special

"Watch her walk down that street... like she owns the motherfucker!"

Plugging the Moon Kids and Dizzy Days - Lemon Sherbet Remix

God saves...

Until next time... xxx

L.A. Stories Part I

On a clear day you can almost see two blocks...

A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies!

A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure! 

Announcer

Tyrell: What... what seems to be the problem?
Batty: Death.
Tyrell: Death; ah, well that's a little out of my jurisdiction.

Tyrell: "More human than human" is our motto.

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon.

I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities."

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

It started like any other night...

"Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars... in a speck on one in a blink.

That's us, lost in space. The cop, you, me... Who notices?"

All quiet on the western front.

Various people are asleep.

Various people are awake.

They come and go in cars, pickups, taxis.

Other than that, we watch the air move.

Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a regular type life?
Neil McCauley: What the fuck is that? Barbeques and ball games?

Fiery the angels fell
Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders
Burning with the fires of Orc

"Whether or not what we experienced was an According to Hoyle miracle is insignificant.
What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved."

Sometimes people need a little help.

Sometimes people need to be forgiven.

And sometimes they need to go to jail.

"The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men."

And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that strange things happen all the time.
And so it goes, and so it goes.
And the book says,
"We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."

Dumb Baby Sounds debut single 'Rain Dancing' now available at iTunes , Amazon , CD Baby and most other leading digital outlets. Please feel free to share wherever possible...we are a small but wanton paper boat set out on the oceans and need all hands to the pumps... Thank you xxx

RAIN DANCING by Dumb Baby Sounds


"The past isn't something I'm looking for..."

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Helping America into the New World.



When the sunshine don't work, the good Lord bring the rain in.

L.A. Stories Part I - Featured the words & images of Ridley Scott, Hampton Fancher,
David Webb Peoples, Jack Kerouac, Michael Mann, Stuart Beattie, Quentin Tarantino,
Roger Avery, Paul Thomas Anderson, Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, Steve Martin.

L.A. Stories - Part II

Some of these buildings are over twenty years old.

Come to Los Angeles!

The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting... the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. Life is good in Los Angeles... it's paradise on Earth.... Ha ha ha ha. That's what they tell you, anyway.

If there's one thing this last week has taught me...
It's better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it.

It's dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Seventeen million people.
This is got to be the 5th biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies. Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices...

Esmeralda: What is your name?
Butch: Butch.
Esmeralda: What does it mean?
Butch: I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit.

Mr. Pink

Excuse me, Mr. Pink, but the last fucking thing you need is another cup of coffee.

Mr. Perdue, Maitre D' at L'Idiot: Your usual table, Mr. Christopher?
Carlo Christopher: No, I'd like a good one this time.
Mr. Perdue, Maitre D' at L'Idiot: I'm sorry, that is impossible.
Carlo Christopher: Part of the new cruelty?
Mr. Perdue, Maitre D' at L'Idiot: I'm afraid so.

Mr White, Mr Orange, Mr Blue, Mr Pink, Nice Guy Eddie.

Lara: How far can bullets go?
Daniel: They go pretty far but they usually get stuck in something and stop.
Lara: What if they don't?
Daniel: Are you thinking about that bullet that came through your window?

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance.
Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter.
Fran Lebowitz - Social Studies,'Lesson One'



Boy that was really exciting...
I bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan aren't ya! Yeah me too. I love that guy.
My heart's beatin' so fast I'm about to have a heart attack.

Just because you are a character...

doesn't mean you have character.


You can't trust Melanie...
But you can trust Melanie to be Melanie.

This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation
Helping America into the New World...

It rains... you get wet...


I was the night
Home of the night
Clothing your eyes
From the cold and the blues and the wild
(Chills - Dumb Baby Sounds)

CHILLS by Dumb Baby Sounds

Do bullets go bad?
No, it's not like milk.
They don't have expiration date or anything.

Only in L.A.

Ordell Robbie: Is she dead, yes or no? 
Louis: Pretty much.

L.A. Stories Part II - Featured the words and images of Curtis Hanson, James Ellroy,

Brian Helgeland, Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco, Michael Mann, Stuart Beattie,
Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avery, Paul Thomas Anderson, Fran Lebowitz, John Boorman,
Ridley Scott, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, David Lloyd, Steve Martin, Elmore Leonard.