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background room: `pendlestock mannequin torso: =KornKidSamStock books: ~temabinastock fan: ~KaBoomStock blue cheese: ~Mind-Matter rusty bedsprings: =Falln-Stock rotten apricot: =Falln-Stock fallout sign: *StillWillow dried roses: ~Mictecacihuatl-Stock oranges: ~The-Corpse-Stockpill bottle: ~The-Corpse-Stock texture: ~parablev
chairs: ? granny: [link] popcorn machine: PD seated mannequin: sxc 547451_21189141
non-stock wall graffitti courtesy *ChiChi-Usera [link] [link] [link]
Urban decay. Mental decay as well, I guess. I was thinking about all the small businesses that have been destroyed by the corporations, the little odd places I used to visit as a child. There was one five-and-dime that had a gypsy fortune teller machine, mannequins, and always smelled of fresh popcorn. Those damned things haunted my dreams for years...
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I wouldn't want the world that existed then, but there are a few things that I do wish were the same.
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It was an era of forcibly conformist groupthink, venomously opposed to the non-average.
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I just re-introduced myself to the country music of that time. I always hated it, but I realize now it was that hawkish attitude, the ignorant obeying of authority, the slicked-back conformity that I hated. Some of the music has aged well.
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Are we both talking about the late 40s and the 50s, or is that just me?
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I was born in '57, so I'm mainly speaking of the sixties.
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I thought so, because when I was a kid, country music was still invisible nationally, and was very much oldtime instead of bluegrass or semi-pop. And I detested it even though or because I lived not very far from its country heartland.
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It was big in small town NC when I was growing up, along with hippie bashing and loving mom, apple pie and war.
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Funny how wars involving Americans always get justified by apple pie and mom. Funny how mention of oil and money is studiously avoided by justifiers.
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Yup. Some are born followers, some born leaders, but there are way to many leaders who were actually born to drive garbage trucks.
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I can think of so many of them who are not competent enough to drive golf carts, a much less demanding a task than driving trash trucks.
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this moves me deeply... i find it comforting... it feels like my 'house'... i think you know what i mean...
thank you so much! 
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Dude, this was my wall paper for like 8 MONTHS!
It was the most breath taking work I'd seen when I first joined dA.
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thank you very muchly, i'm happy you like it!
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Faving and running - like you and for same reasons. I could fav your whole gallery, but not run from it. I'll be back.
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almost like mine but i have a old movie theater popcorn machine instead of a gypsy fortune telling machine....btw long time no see bro...i am back on track, had a moment of nervousness from trials and tribulations of life.....
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In my head, this is my house. But I'm not the person in the chair (she is the one I pretend to be), I'm the one on the floor.
Such a well thought out composition and excellently executed. I hope you don't pull too far away from such images.
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thanks! i won't get too far away, this is what i do. arranging the jumble of thoughts and memories in my head. both the sitting figure and the torso are mannequins, btw.
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Nice
thats a great collection of objects
and stock you've chosen to make
this picture, all works really well.
Thanks for using my stock!
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i have no idea how you do what you do.
wonderfully constructed.
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fine I guess...just found out that my husband has cancer...could be better. Sorry...I am more honest and blunt than required or desired.
I hope you are well.
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how terrible! i don't know what to say without seeming to pry. i do hope it's not as bad as the word itself sounds, and that you have friends and family for support.
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It will be ok. Thanks.
I was pretty freaked out and just reacting. I have heard from so many people...people who have lived.
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i miss them too.....the store i'm now in was build over the rollerrink i had one of my first dates in ...way back in , like 1980....i find myself thinking about the ghosts of the building...and the one i was in before was built over where i used to have my karate classes, and the 5+dime, and the old, old theater.....smells of popcorn, old linoleum, and memories of card packs with stale sticks of gum in them......it's ironic i now exist, and make a living over the very ground i hold dear in memories from childhood....
that wall scares me
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life just gets stranger, the longer it goes on. i remember things from when i was four more than what happened four days ago.
yeah, that wall... chichi's graffitti looks like some alien race left it there years ago, before returning to the stars.
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One of the great things about having a stock site and an art site is that you actually get to fave things twice. I really like this piece and so I'm doing what I've wanted to so many times before and faving it twice.
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Thanks for using my stock. Nice work keep it up.
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wow. that's really beautiful. and the story behind it.
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That machine on the left side reminds us of the one that appeared in that movie with Tom Hanks, "Big". 
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Wow when you look further you see so much more in the work...well done...I love it
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