A better 2024....

1975, Fender Starcaster....

Haga....

Merry Christmas....

photo by Dorothea Lange, september 1935

"Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California."

In Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Carousel....

Maspalomas....

Court Central do Jamor....

..and many more courts 😊

Babylon Berlin....

Gereon (Volker Bruch) und Charlotte (Liv Lisa Fries)

Berlin, Berlin....harte zeiten, eine dunkle schönheit, einer verlorenen zeit. A very well-made (expensive !) TV series capturing the city's late 20s atmosphere 👏

"riders on the storm"....

The recording of LA Woman in December 1970 at The Doors Office on Santa Monica Blvd. The boys seem to attend a funeral rather than being in the process of creating some of their best songs. Photo: Wendel Hamick

After reading the biographies of the three surviving Doors in a short time, I have to wonder if they forgot to have fun while the train rushed away ? One can discern a certain playfulness and pleasure around 1965 when Manzarek and Morrison lived together on Frazer Av. (Venice). After that, there is most hard work (and trouble) during the incomparable creative process that they went through the next few years. But joy .... is just not there (or so they forgot to write about it ?). Densmore`s book is like a letter of reconciliation; "and a little sad that I did not really understand what was going on ... then". What you get from all three books (and they actually complement each other), is a very good picture of who Morrison was; an enormously talented and tormented young man, whose legacy is still as relevant today ....

Jim....he would have been 80 today.

5 x Chaplin....

..and not a boring second 😊

The Kid, 1921

The Gold Rush, 1925

City Lights, 1931

Modern Times, 1936

Limelight, 1952