On the Tenth Day of Christamas and The Other 15 Films Meme

illustration from Beatrix Potter's Rabbits' Christmas Party

I am almost out of steam for the last two days of Christmas but I'm still all fired up about the lists of fifteen films some of you groovy readers have left for me in comments or on your blog. Those of you who said fifteen films is too few to list - I agree!

Here is the second list of fifteen and I'm sure I could still come up with more, quite quickly.

 1. Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen

 2. Priscilla of the Desert 

 3. Boys Don't Cry 

 4. Fargo (thanks for the reminder!)

 5. Run, Lola, Run

 6. E.T. (another one I was reminded of)

 7. The Wizard of Oz

8.  Love and Anarchy - Lina Wurtmuller

9.  The Red Violin

10.The Song Remains the Same - the Led Zeplin movie

11. Pecker - John Waters

12. I Shot Andy Warhol

13. Capote

14. The Last Picture Show

15. Monster's Ball

On the Ninth Day of Christmas...

Oh. The ninth day almost got by me...

This piece by Marc Chagall is painted on the ceiling someplace in France or Russia, I believe. Isn't it beautiful? And this I give to you on the ninth day. Have a good one!

On the Eighth Day of Christmas...

The sweet side of Gorey, I guess.   :-)  

This is the eighth day. By now I am  turned into a lizard, for sure.

"If this were really me, I would have a red ribbon tied to my tail".  ;-)  I wish you'd find the ante-dote for this, please!"

On the Seventh Day of Christmas...

 Georgia O'Keeffe
American

On the Sixth Day of Christmas...

a little spoof to make you smile. What exactly was it my true love gave to me on the sixth day?  ;-)

the original in case you haven't heard of it, which of course you have...but just in case you forgot...not everyone knows everything...I for one, cannot tell a Chevy from a Ford, unless my nose is right up against the letters.  But then again, that could be because I am by now quite blind, except to beauty, for which I have a constant craving.  :-)

On the Third Day of Christmas...

On the Second Day of Christmas

William Bouguereau

Merry Christmas and Blessed Yule

An Andy Warhol Christmas

The American artist and pop icon Andy Warhol was one of the first artists I admired as a middle-school kid in the early seventies.  But I only discovered his sweeter side when I looked at a package of Christmas cards about ten years ago. 

The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post article entitled A Look at Andy Warhol's Spiritual Side:

The man often called the Pope of Pop attended Mass several times a
week, worked in a soup kitchen, kept a crucifix and devotional book on
his bedside table and prayed daily with his mother, a devout Byzantine
Catholic who lived with him until her death in 1972.

(For a more complete post on the life and work of Andy Warhold, please see my post here)

 

Pagan Sphinx Entertainment Highligh

A WIlliam Boroughs Christmas

I hope nobody's gonna their thong all in a knot (actually, I hope they do) over William Burroughs After all, it's just a story.   ;-)

Marianne Stokes

1855-1927

Austrian

Merry Christmas - Happy New Year!



Frohe Weihnachten - glückliches neues Jahr!


Feliz Navidad - Feliz Año Nuevo!


Joyeux Noël - Bonne Année!


Buon Natale - Buon Anno!


Feliz Natal - ano novo feliz!

Merry Christmas

Vittore Carpaccio

1460-1525

High Renaissance Painter
image courtesy of Ricci-Art

Strange News

Santa Died for your Mastercard

Larry Steagall | Kitsap Sun
Art Conrad hung a Santa doll from a cross in front of his West Bremerton home, making a statement about political correctness as well as the commercialization of Christmas.

Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2007/dec/21/strange-santa-scene-states-bremerton-mans-on/#ixzz0aF9Qd3Or

Happy Winter Solstice

artist unatributed

Like a lot of people in the western world, I celebrate Christmas as a secularist. I don't consider myself a neo-pagan. Honestly, I don't consider myself a member of any religion, if Paganism is one. As if by nature, I reflect upon the Winter Solstice as the turning point from which the natural cycles of nature bring us back toward the light. From that perspective, it easy for me to understand and relate to how the pre-Christians celebrated in the way they did and how many of these traditions are still with us.

At Christmas, Christians are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ; a story I find fascinating and humbling, though there appears to be some historical proof that Jesus was not born in winter. Feel free to correct me on this, as I am not aversed to being corrected on these matters. I am, in fact, quite interested to hear various perspectives.

I honor and respect the various ways people celebrate holidays at this time of year. Though I am not Christian, I will, on my blogs, honor Christmas through the art I select. Just as I do with virtually everything else I am thinking about.

Look forward to beautiful madonna and manger scenes depicted by early Renaissance painters, along with images that may show magic, faeries and elves, some picture book art and whatever else I stumble upon.

Happy Winter Solstice

Our Holidays

WP's sister and his mother, A.P. who is 87

WP's lovely daughters M an L, lighting the Menorah, in honor of their Jewish heritage on their mom's side

My Supergirls

Left: Supergirl Two and her BFF S.A. (whom I've known and loved since she was born)

Some favorite gifts

A Santa from SG2

A cool stapler from WP's daughter M

Dark truffles from WP

And this sums it up in the form of a warm pair of socks with a logo, from WP's daughter L. :-)

If you'd like to check out my holiday slideshow on the side bar, there are a ton of photos there. Just click on it and it will take you to Picassa where they can be viewed bigger.

I finally had success in figuring out how to install a slideshow, so this is a major technoligical victory for me!

The Christians & The Pagans

I thought this song rather fitting for the post I just wrote. Enjoy.