Spookiness

Hello hello

Sweltering hot today and yesterday! That boiling drippy sizzle on asphalt/ sweaty glasses of iced tea/ ripped shorts/ fat flowers..its summertime in the city! I am feeling prickly with excitement about so many things this summer. Some of my family is coming to visit from England soon, things are blooming, love is in the air, and I am in a heavy love affair with Detroit: anxious to dip myself in more and more. DEMF is soon! So good the feel to city's raging heartbeat by the river.

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Yesterday was filled with friends, hula hooping, drumming, and adventures. First it was to Dabl's African Bead Museum! I had never been there before, and Seairra told us about it. We headed there in her car with all the windows rolled down listening to Sixto Rod Riguez--yes! Dabl is this very wise very calm older man who spent 9 years transforming two buildings and a field into an entergetic, spiritual, and simply beautiful art installation. It appears out of nowhere, between crumbled buildings and unassuming traffic. He painted the sides of the buildings with bright colors and attached broken mirror shards all over them so that as you walk around, your image flits in and out of view (isn't it strange to look at yourself in a mirror while out doors?)

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There is an African imported bead shop with hundreds of strange beads of every kind....bone, metal, charms for all sorts of things. I picked up a couple for myself and one for a special love.

The sculpture garden outside has a huge wooden demon with mirror eyes.

Then, last night I went to the Theatre Bizarre for the first time! I was driving down the State Fair St. at midnight, and was just begining to wonder if I was lost, when I saw, through the pregnant trees, yellow circus lights and heard the sounds of strange music and witchy laughter.

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Step into your dreams for an old fashioned spooky theatre of nitmarish proportions. The moon smiled shyly through the clouds and skeletons swayed in the breeze. A campfire illuminated darkly dressed zombies. Meanwhile, sexy burlesque ladies did their thing, and gruesome fake body parts were smashed. Excellent! Ghosts and strange wayfaring spirits dancing to the strange circus music. Where its All Hallows Eve all the time: my kind of place.

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The below pictures were taken last night by Vanessa.

Ooh...this gal was tantilizing.

Dream of dreams...Remember this scene in The Royal Tenebaums?

Wouldn't it just be amazing to spend the night in a Natural History Museum? If you find yourself in New York, the AMNH can organize a group sleepover in the museum for you. (http://www.amnh.org/kids/sleepovers/%20) Although, I think it would be way better if you just snuck in with one or two people and a bottle of wine. Probibly the paid sleepovers are well lit and supervised...I think wandering around with a flashlight would be much more magickal...and spooky. All those strange shadows, taxidermied beasts, suspended dinosaur bones..and the thick dusty quiet would be the best part. It would be a night that would last forever.

Today was calm and hot. I went to Cranbrook Gardens with my mom to swoon at the huge flowers and elegant sculptures. I wish I could live in a secret garden. So many faeries.

I hope you are all doing well.

peace and love

Madeleine

P.S.

Speaking of spookiness...

These two are so turned on...(hmm. Is this turning into a cocorosie fan site or what? It completly unintentional, I swear) and coming to Detroit soon!