ANTEBELLUM BLOG

2/22/12

THE GODDESS BUNNY~ ACTING CLASSES

the goddess bunny is now offering acting, singing & dancing classes!

check it out~

photo courtesy~ rickcastro.com- circa 1987

Emptiness is life and death. Living with and striving for more emptiness is scary,
but also incredibly rewarding. The hard part is in doing it.

I believe that as we increase the emptiness in our lives,
life actually gets better. Emptiness leads to increased awareness,
creativity, communication, health, and effectiveness.

10 Ways to Blissful Emptiness:

1. Wake up and admit it. Emptiness is scary and challenging.
But also totally worth it.
2. Get rid of clutter, static, noise. Take everything off the desk.
Stacks of mail, magazines, books and bills just all get dropped
in a box and dealt with later. (Sometimes procrastination is good.)
Turn off any music (and of course TV). Be alone and quiet for a bit.
3. Wake up early. The previous day’s worries aren’t so present
after a long,
good sleep. Emptiness is easier with a refreshed mind
and an empty desk
and quite surroundings. Arising early, before the day’s
pandemonium begins,
cultivates emptiness.
4. Turn off distraction. Phone gets powered down.
Email and web browsers closed.
Social media and alerts shut down.
Make it a ritual to shut these things down,

knowing that the coming empty, disconnected state is
going to be scary but awsome.

5. Get a sheet of blank paper and keep it next to you for
random ideas and inspirations.

The head stays empty when you can jot down things that arise.
6. Use the breath as the base. Good breathing =
good thinking.

Follow a few deep breaths to start things off,
and as you get off on
tangents or distractions,
just come back to paying attention to the exhalation.

7. Notice time. With every breath, and every
meandering thought,
realize just how much time there is. There is plenty of it.
Expand into it.

8. Take breaks and reward yourself. Allow the flow to occur,
but also recognize that it’s good to stand up and stretch,
get some tea,
go for a quick walk,

eat something. This isn’t a marathon or boot camp,
so use balance.
9. Use gratitude. When you feel stuck, focus on one

great thing in life.
You’ll find that more good things come to fill your reality.
10. Remind yourself again, emptiness is scary,
but it’s also really good.

reposting courtesy~ samovar~
san francisco/antebellum correspondent

BEN BOY BY RICK CASTRO

ben boy~ 2010 by rick castro~ for the april flores xxx~ rated toy show exhibit~
2010 @ antebellum

i created what any red blooded homo would do with a rubber vaginal sex toy....
i turned it into a dick!

SEE MORE HERE~

photo courtesy~ boots bryant

2/21/12

RICK CASTRO- DOCUMENTARY

LOOK WHAT I FOUND FROM 2006!

Rick Castro by cinebene
INTERSECTIONS LA- produced & directed by BENEDICTE GAUTHIER
circa- 2006

MARDI GRAS

photo courtesy~ steven arnold

2/20/12

THE BEST SCENE~ FROM THE LONG, LONG TRAILER

classic comedy- lucy & ricky in THE LONG, LONG TRAILER- 1953
directed by vincente minnelli

NEO~GOTH

photo courtesy~ sid terror

KURT COBAIN WOULD BE 45~ TODAY

KURT COBAIN

(February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana. Cobain formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1985 and established it as part of the Seattle music scene, having its debut album Bleach released on the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989. After signing with major label DGC Records, the band found breakthrough success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from its second album Nevermind (1991). Following the success of Nevermind, Nirvana was labeled "the flagship band" of Generation X, and Cobain hailed as "the spokesman of a generation".

Cobain however was often uncomfortable and frustrated, believing his message and artistic vision to have been misinterpreted by the public, with his personal issues often subject to media attention. He challenged Nirvana's audience with its final studio album In Utero (1993). During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression. He also had difficulty coping with his fame and public image, and the professional and lifelong personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife, musician Courtney Love.

On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The circumstances of his death have become a topic of public fascination and debate.

photo~ RICHARD AVEDON~ dancer~ Rudolph Nureyev, Paris 1961

ANGRY

photos & model~ courtesy~ bj broekhuizen

2/19/12

WHAT BECOMES OF A BROKEN HEART

model & photo courtesy~ asa fox~ antebellum artist

FASHION AS FETISH

(click on image to illuminate)

THIERRY MUGLER~ 2012

repost courtesy~ zae gaines~ hollywood/antebellum correspondent

LEOPOLD & LOEB

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), more commonly known as "LEOPOLD & LOEB", were two wealthy University of Michigan alumni and University of Chicago students who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 and were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The duo were motivated to murder Franks by their desire to commit a perfect crime. Once apprehended, Leopold and Loeb retained Clarence Darrowas counsel for the defense. Darrow’s summation in their trial is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment and retributive, as opposed to rehabilitative, penal systems.

Leopold and Loeb have been the inspiration for several works in film, theater and fiction, such as the 1929 play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film of the same name.

also the 1959 film- COMPULSION- staring dean stockwell & bradford dillman.

Leopold, age 19 at the time of the murder, and Loeb, 18, believed themselves to be Nietzschean supermen who could commit a "perfect crime" (in this case a kidnapping and murder).^[2] Before the murder, Leopold had written to Loeb: "A superman ... is, on account of certain superior qualities inherent in him, exempted from the ordinary laws which govern men. He is not liable for anything he may do."^[3]

The two were exceptionally intelligent. Nathan Leopold was a child prodigy who spoke his first words at the age of four months; he reportedly had anintelligence quotient of 210