photo by Scott Beale
Last night after John Law’s book release event at City Lights Bookstore in North Beach, a bunch of us went over to Spec’s Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, one of my favorite bars in the city. It’s an amazing, historic little place full of all kinds of oddities.
Above our our table was a curious painting of Sonia XIXLXIV. Violet Blue was sitting next to me and I started to notice an uncanny resemblance between the two, it almost seemed as if the ghost of Sonia was keeping an eye on her. I shot of photo of Violet in a similar pose as Sonia, with Katy Bell providing some art direction assistance. I left my SD card at home, so the only camera I could use was my iPhone and it actually came out pretty well.
UPDATE: Here’s Abie in a bunny suit paying homage to the photo of Violet and Sonia.
photo by Abie Hadjitarkhani
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That is beyond awesome.
Uncanny … who is Sonia XIXLXIV, anyway? Perhaps a bit of geneology digging will show that they’re related … stranger things have happened, eh? :)
Violet Blue is one of my favorite bloggers. A strong female voice that is needed in the geek-a-sphere.
Spec’s Twelve Adler Museum Cafe is where I first met John Law in 1988. Carrie Galbraith invited John to the sketch group we did each Friday, rotating to various bars & cafes around the city. His facial hair that night cycled to muttonchops. After the drawing/sketch group session, John took us on a little field trip to climb one of the Saints Peter and Paul Church towers. This was the beginning of a long & memorable night concluding with the near beheading of Sebastian Hyde & myself. John was giving us a ride home (at that time I was living at P. Segal’s 1907 Golden Gate) as we turned on Divisadero, the rusty bolts holding the camper shell to the truck bed gave way & slid off. Luckily, Seb & I had noticed slippage prior and lay on our backs to avoid injury. The two of us jumped out, ran down the block, picked up the shell, heaving it back onto the truck –jumped in & sped home. A homeless gentleman on the corner witnessed the ridiculous spectacle, acting as a drunken cheerleader.
I’m sure John’s account of that night is far more interesting…
Wow, that’s pretty cool!
I walk by Spec’s almost every day, but have never gone inside. I think I must make some time for it next week.
What a truly spectral image. Violet is singular beauty from this era. It’s marvelous and slightly chilling (in the best fashion) to see her doppelganger from another era.
specs is bomb. one of the best local gems in NB
to pick a nit, if “XIXLXIV, ‘ is supposed to = “1964″ somebody got their roman numerals cockeyed.
it should be MCMLXIV.
yes, I’m a geek.
beautiful women, though (both Sonia & Violet), and a great picture.
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