August 1969
Photo taken by Voytek Frykowski
August 1969
Photo taken by Voytek Frykowski
Showing posts with label manson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manson. Show all posts
December 17, 2012
August 28, 2012
From 1969: Cheer Up, Charlie
Not much else to be said about that.
This shot was by photographer Mark Getty.
January 21, 2012
August 9, 2010
From 1968: Wondering Why This Isn't Like The Dream
This haunting song, a lament by John Phillips about the emptiness of fame and the Hollywood scene, as well as his increasing unhappiness that he was starting to blot out with heroin, is considered to be oddly prescient of the Manson murders, which would take place roughly one year after this song was released.
Indeed, the group was inextricably linked with the crimes. John and Michelle Phillips, along with Cass Elliott, were part of the same social circles to which the Tate victims, save for Steven Parent, belonged.
And shortly before the slayings, Michelle had a brief affair with Roman Polanski in London.
The first three mansions shown in the clip: the Italianate horror that currently stands, abandoned (again), on the site of the Tate murders (the former 10050 Cielo Drive); Jay Sebring's house, which was the former domicile of Jean Harlow and her husband, Paul Bern (who committed suicide there); and finally Sharon Tate's "love house," 10050 Cielo Drive.
"If you play the game, you pay the price...purchasing our piece of paradise..."
Honestly, this song really creeps me out.
August 8, 2010
August 8, 2009
Coming Down Fast, But I'm Miles Above You
This is what they did.
(A word of warning: this video is extremely graphic and features crime scene and autopsy photos of the victims.)
Sharon Tate's baby boy, fathered by her husband Roman Polanski, was taken from her womb and buried in his mother's arms.
August 7, 2009
October 26, 2008
1970: Hemlines Herald My Impending Birth
Life
August 21, 1970
about three weeks before I was born
get the bit about the "Manson Ranch" in the sidebar!
May 9, 2008
Roughly 25 Years Before The Tate-LaBianca Slayings, Young Charles Manson Receives A Bicycle For Christmas
Okay, so he would grow up to be the leader of The Family. mooching off Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, brutally slaying coffee heiresses, acquiring "young loves" and talking Crazy Talk out at Spahn Ranch.
Charlie was a kid once, too, and in this touching 1944 advertisement just in time for Christmas, he captures the holiday spirit in a way that only a Young Manson could: with a look that any sane parent would learn to fear (and possibly would lead to an exorcism by Father O'Halloran by New Year's Day).
Not that an exorcism on Young Charles Manson would have worked, anyway. He already WAS Jesus Christ, remember?
Father O'Halloran would sprinkle the holy water on Young Manson and scream, "The power of Christ compels you!"
Young Manson would respond, "No, I didn't. Now where in the fuck is my new bike? There's a couple of addresses in the Hollywood Hills I want to check out."
May 6, 2008
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