cf. video by Sixstringplayer via Pixabay (edited collage)
Summer of 1977
Tag: driving
Astrophil and Stella
Finnish Museum of Photography, “Autoja ylittämässä salmea lossilla…” (1959)
I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try
Our horsemanships…
—Sir Philip Sidney, “Astrophil and Stella 49”
One Way Love
“You always look so cool,” she repeated.
cf. Ide Collars Advertisement (ca. 1922)
“Who wants to go to town?” demanded Daisy insistently. Gatsby’s eyes floated toward her. “Ah,” she cried, “you look so cool.”
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
“You always look so cool,” she repeated.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I loved you, Atthis, long ago…”
cf. photograph by Averie Woodard via Unsplash
I loved you, Atthis, long ago…
—Sappho
You got to have a little rock ‘n’ roll music to get you through the stormy weather
Squeeze Left
cf. Ladies’ Home Journal, 1964
Cruise Control
We go cruisin’ so close, the way they did long ago…
Photograph by Daniela Cuevas via Unsplash
and Arnstein Bjone, The Atlantic Ocean Road / Atlanterhavsveien, dashcam video, Norway – YouTube
I’ll Fall In Love Again
cf. B.W. Kilburn Company, Broadway and the great “Flatiron” (ca. 1903) and photograph by Wil Stewart via Unsplash
Well I was rollin’ down the road in some cold blue steel, I had a bluesman on the back and a beautician at the wheel…
Two lane highway is takin’ me home, home at last
Andreas Feininger, View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado (1942)
John Sapiro 