Posts Tagged ‘music’

CocoRosie

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Still Awesome, is what I’m sayin’.

Daniel Johnston, Henry Darger and the Vivian Girls.

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

They are all three still awesome, that’s all I am saying.

I watched the Daniel Johnston documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston the same evening I watched the documentary about the iconic Henry Darger In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger. Those links will take you to the documentary trailers.

For me, it was a phenomenal night of documentary film. Consequently, the two men are inextricably linked in my mind. So now I am linking them in this post.

Darger lived as an unassuming janitor in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. When he died, a massive literary and artistic body of work was found by Darger’s landlord. The art world peed itself.

Read more about Darger. Below, his infamous heroines, the Vivian sisters.

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