Tag: Melody Owen
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The Birth of Death (A Brief History of Dead Star)
Twenty years ago, on Halloween night in Los Angeles, the charismatic young film star River Phoenix died on a sidewalk outside of The Viper Room. It was a strange and shocking drug-fueled ending to an amazing young man’s life. I was about the same age as River and I had sincerely loved a couple of…
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Reclinerland and the ACP “Soundtrack”
In 2002, I was about to self-publish the first version of A Common Pornography. It was a slim 60-page book with footnotes by Mike Daily and collages by Melody Owen, The print run was about 600 copies. It looked like this: But first I needed to make a bit of moolah to pay for it.…
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