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Re: rebel musings
--- Kelvin Bailey <prestokelvo at hotmail_com> wrote:
> So this past Tuesday evening my friend Adam and I
> packed ourselves into his
> Honda and took off to the Hoosier heartland.
You were just maybe an hour away from me!
> Adam
> and I tried to recreate the photo of JD walking in
> front of the bank - to
> miserable failure.
i can't tell you HOW many "recreations" of that photo
i've seen around here... it's probably the same as
Abbey Road in London.
"There they go again, Gertrude! Aw, dammit! Get those
tourists out of the road again!" :{p}
> I was amazed at the simple dignity surrounding James
> Dean's grave.
Do you know how many times that gravestone gets
stollen? I'm serious, at least every few years they
need to replace it because some bozo yanks it for his
or her personal collection. ("Yes, I collect used
headstones of ALL the dead celebrities.")
When I saw it, I wouldn't have really considered much
dignity past who was laid next to him; his headstone
was covered in sloppy lipstick kisses, with cigarette
packs and butts strewn everywhere. We thought he might
get hungry when we saw it, so we left some Swiss Cake
Rolls on top.
How's that for dignity?
> but the grave site is blissfully free
> of the Nash-Vegas kind
> of kitschy commercialism one might expect.
I will give it that. Unless the first few stollen
stones were more spectacular.
Glad you had a good trip, though. That's all that
matters ultimately, right?
bink
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