according to this map the beautiful town of PA HOA is doomed.
i have very found memories of this area as do many friends..
truly the end of another era
10/25/14
I REMEMBER STRANGE FRUIT
"On the night before Billy Holiday was leaving New York, (1957) she told Guy Johnson she was going to sing "Strange Fruit" as her last song. We sat at the dining room table while Guy stood in the doorway.
Billie talked and sang in a hoarse, dry tone the well-known protest song. Her rasping voice and phrasing literally enchanted me. I saw the black bodies hanging from Southern trees. I saw the lynch victims' blood glide from the leaves down the trunks and onto the roots.
Guy interrupted, "How can there be blood at the root?" I made a hard face and warned him, "Shut up, Guy, just listen." Billie had continued under the interruption, her voice vibrating over harsh edges.
She painted a picture of a lovely land, pastoral and bucolic, then added eyes bulged and mouths twisted, onto the Southern landscape.
Guy broke into her song. "What's a pastoral scene, Miss Holiday?" Billie looked up slowly and studied Guy for a second. Her face became cruel, and when she spoke her voice was scornful. "It means when the crackers are killing the niggers. It means when they take a little nigger like you and snatch off his nuts and shove them down his goddamn throat. That's what it means."
The thrust of rage repelled Guy and stunned me.
Billie continued, "That's what they do. That's a goddamn pastoral scene."
Maya Angelou recounting Billy Holiday's conversation with her son.
ANTEBELLUM SAYS......
check out all the interview @ antebellum during 2012- 2013
interviewed by me- RICK CASTRO
camera & editing~ HEATH DANIELS
location~ ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD
ANTBELLUM SAYS...... DARREN ANKENBAUER
HANDBOOK
ANTEBELLUM SAYS...... ALEX GILDZEN
THE BLACK DAHLIA
TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION
GO ASK ALICE
RICK CASTRO:MASTERWORKS
this is a teaser.......
to commemorate the 9 year anniversary of ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD, we are excited to present~
RICK CASTRO: MASTERWORKS
a 28 year retrospective of my photography. curated by my pal~ RUBEN ESPARZA this exhibition will be a comprehensive presentation of my best work. surprisingly this is the first time i've had a solo show @ my own art gallery- antebellum.
the exhibit will open on NOVEMBER 15TH~ 7PM TILL 9PM
on display thru december 31st, 2014.
with live performances by
JEFFREY HUTCHISON
RAVEN SHADOWMOON
COP JACK
and more surprises to come!
