JIMMY VARGAS...REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE...NORTH BEACH HUCKSTER

       SAN FRANCISCO… last decade of the 20th Century.

       Nowsville.

I’m chain-dragging my past forward with me as an eternal side-windering’ drinkin’ compadre.

My beat noir is now North Beach, Broadway.  

Why haven’t I returned to the glittering graveyard that was the Hollywood of my past life?

Well, the L.A. that I used to haunt and hustle of fifty years since, no longer spins its’ allure over me.

L.A. is all xeroxed insouciance and shamour, a dolled up, cosmeticised death...

It ain’t my neighbourhood no more.

So I’ve shifted up a couple of degrees north for a more gothicised clime: San Francisco.

It’s also the Bay City where that perfume ether of that Shadow Bride of mine, for whom I still wait, is the

strongest in this present life.

And I sense she dangles a little bit of her veil here, her marble skin sculptured in the fog swirl, amplified by the dolant fragrance

of Lily of the Valley parfum.

© JIMMY VARGAS 2000 / 2011

From his multimedia dvd / E-Book “MY SHADOW BRIDE"

Photo: Elfes / Vargas

JIMMY VARGAS..."REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"...

A still from JIMMY VARGAS' screen test for Eagle Lion Pictures.

"She took my Last Cigarette." (1947)

Based on the Vargas story of a Los Angeles racketeer from 1940's Hollywood, who in his reincarnation to present day West Coast is haunted by his Shadow Bride.

JIMMY VARGAS' multimedia dvd "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"

 Release date  April... 2011

                                      Astral film recaptured by Roman Czerny / Hartley

JIMMY VARGAS "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"..."THE LAST CIGARETTE"

A still from the VARGAS / SCARLATTA screen test for Eagle Lion Pictures... "She took My Last Cigarette." (1947)

Based on the Jimmy Vargas story of a Los Angeles racketeer from 1940's Hollywood, who in his reincarnation to present day West Coast is haunted by his Shadow Bride.

JIMMY VARGAS' multimedia dvd "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"

 Release date  April 7th... 2011.

Astral film recaptured by Roman Czerny / Hartley

JIMMY VARGAS...MISS NATASSIA's FORTEASE FETISH TEMPTATIONS

Miss Natassia's private domicile is a 1940's Fifi stocking box.

She arises forth each evening shivering out of the web sheen of the black fumant hosiery at ready to serve as both muse, and hostess to TALLULAH'S BOUDOIR Inc.

And there at the burst of each moonglow Miss Natassia, my hostess of moirologia hails over the peak of the city on Angels Flight, her sheer black bat-wing scarf, whipping around her in the Santa Ana mistral, laughing, curring, like a victorianique vampira, uttering the essences, memories and energies of these forties totems into life.

(C) JIMMY VARGAS 2005 / 2010...From his multi-media dvd book "Torchin' at Tallulah's"
Photo by JIMMY VARGAS / ROBERT TAYLOR

JIMMY VARGAS ..."THE BIRTH OF A FORTIES FETISH MINX""

You are birthed from my  Zippo lighter, a film cel of screen goddess Joan Bennett, and the gossamer web of nineteen forties holy hosiery.

I gave you life, I gave you your name, my Natassia Minx

Sending you out to skirt Los Angeles at twilight, a vampirella in her funereal mourning suit.
Performing a serendipitous striptease, you discard your snake gloves, Schiaparelli serge skirt, Pink Venus girdle and satana stockings on the doorstep of Hollywood's sub-consciouness.

And when you have drawn from them all that you need, you will come back to poppa, my diabolical little minx.

(C) JIMMY VARGAS 2005/ 2010

From the Jimmy Vargas' Book / DVD... "Torchin' at Tallulah's"
Photo by JIMMY VARGAS / ROBERT TAYLOR