Twinka Thiebaud is my new Oona Chaplin (nee O'neill), Etc.

There is a very famous photo by Judy Dater that depicts the famed photographer imogen Cunningham encountering a beautiful nude woman named Twinka. I don't want to put nudity here so if you would like to see this photo go here: http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=twinka+thiebaud&spell=1 (and I recommend you do) Years ago I spied a postcard on a fridge in a house I was working on. Recently I saw the photo for the first time again found out the title "Imogen and Twinka" Further research reveals that she was the daughter of Wayne Thiebaud and lived with and cared for Henry Miller in his final years. If anyone has a spare $350 dollars I very much would like this copy of Henry Miller's Reflections Twinka edited and personally inscribed that came from the library of "the astrologer to the stars" - Sydney Omarr who was a close friend of Miller and advised and enjoyed the company of beautiful women including Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, and Kim Novak.

I have always loved Oona Chaplin for many of the same reasons I am now bewitched by Twinka - beauty, pedigree, and the events in her life. She took up with Charile when she was 17 and was disowned by her fatehr Eugene O'neill in equal parts becuase Chaplin was the same age as her father and he rivaled him in fame. She also sewed thousand dollar bills into her mink as they fled Hollywood for Switzerland at the height of the Red Scare. Oona as an actress great granddaughter named Keira, but my heart is already taken by the Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard.

Two days ago I was eating at an inn in rural Pennsylvania when the automobile pictured above pulled in. Driven by an older gentleman and a fetching blonde, they soon sat outside and ordered food and an ice bucket with champagne. Later I approached them asked them if it was all right if I photographed their car. I said it was really cool. "No," the blonde purred, "it's hot." I took the photo, thanked them and asked what year it was. The older man said it was a 1954 Jaguar and besides the paint job and the leather interior it was all original.

oh and here are some tunes I would like to crank up in my Jag - Twinka, Oona (rest her soul) or Marion are all welcome to join me.


1. The Grateful Dead with the Neville Brothers - Iko Iko/Day O/Women Are Smarter
2. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
3. John Paul Young - Love is In the Air
4. 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday
5. Sheila B. Devotion - Spacer
6. Jigsaw - Skyhigh
7. Sebastian Teiller - Divine
8. Prince - Neon Telephone
9. The Ohio Express - Down at Lu-Lu's
10. 10cc - Rubber Bullets
11. John's Children - But She's Mine
12. New York Dolls - Human Being
13. MC5 - Looking At You
14. The Fall - Tempo House
15. Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Disco Devil

download here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4930eg


enjoy! -bubbles inc.

ps: I scored the sheila b. devotion and the lee perry tracks from mixes compiled by the painter peter doig
and the track 'skyhigh' by jigsaw from a mix by the painter mark mahosky