Slow Days,fast Company, Eve Babitz

Slow days,fast company, Eve Babitz

"On April 15, 1976, I read in the L.A. Times that Phil Ochs was cremated. (I hadn’t even known he was sick.) And it turns out he hung himself. In the news story it said he’d complained to a friend that he was depressed and “couldn’t write.” He’d been complaining for years that he could no longer write. I thought he wrote such beautiful melodies you could swim in them. And now he’s done such violence to himself, putting a rope around his neck, hanging himself, thirty-five years old. New York City style, black and white. No accident. Taking no chances."

Sofia Coppola at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and 2023.

"I'm just like him" and the him in question is a dead alcoholic.

Sharon Tate at home in 1968, by an unidentified photographer

I feel the weight of centuries smothering me.Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead.I am the present,but I know I,too,will pass.The high moment,the burning flash come and are gone,continuous quick sand. And I don't want to die.

-Sylvia Plath

Jane Birkin photographed by Patrick Lichfield for Vogue, November 1, 1969.