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I took this in Northern California on my honeymoon. I went back there because I lived there for one summer as a 6-year-old. My friends and I used to play in this cemetery and I recall one of them noticing this stone, and we all were amazed that someone so young could be dead, so long ago. Anyway, I trace my interest in cemeteries to that event, to this place and this stone.
Blame it on Albert Rogers (this is his gravestone).
This was taken on color 35mm film and printed in my own darkroom. The original ceramic portrait looks to be faded or possibly never was in focus, and might even have been sketched over at some point. I've tried to pull it out in the scan and bring up what details are there. I have only seen a couple post mortem photos on gravestones. For it's age, I still think this is in pretty good condition...
By the way, the kid I played with most in that cemetery died at the end of that Summer. Guess you never know, do you?
This image shows severe skin lesions plus an early fishing line entanglement around the base of the right pectoral fin which has started to cut into the adjacent skin.
I've got an obvious attraction to what's been and gone, scattered bits we've loved and lost, never coming back. I sometimes find that extends to relationships, which are often easier to process in retrospect. I've carried out a handful of mental postmortems, sifting the influence of a deceased relative, faded friendship, or romantic attraction. They all can carry a kind of beauty, despite the heartbreak. When it comes to writing, I'm inclined to skip specifics on the living, but more than willing to give the dead their due. There are a couple members of my extended family that I avoid quite religiously. One is easy, they're in another province. Another is closer, but we don't cross paths so often. When they pass through my thoughts, it's not with any bitterness – just a reminder of the virtues of steering clear.
Everyone wants to tell you who wronged them. It's such a universal human need, to be the victorious victim or main character of the story. But keeping a complete secret of how it went wrong can have a kind of freedom too. If you make that choice, you don't have to be grilled and answer questions, or formulate an argument for how you did right and they did wrong. So when someone asks: "Have you heard from so-and-so?" You can just say: "No" and never mind. Maybe a cobwebbed memory or random mention brings them up, like some burned-out wreck long abandoned. They might find it hard to be resigned to history, but I've had no trouble letting go. Just like this heap of rust, it's no great loss to leave what's going nowhere. They don't need me to love them to be loved.
October 3, 2022
Torbrook Mines, Nova Scotia
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Slayer (Final World Tour) @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD on Tuesday, May 14, 2019
#FinalWorldTour 2019 #Setlist:
Delusions of Saviour
Repentless
Evil Has No Boundaries
World Painted Blood
Postmortem
Hate Worldwide
War Ensemble
Gemini
Disciple
Mandatory Suicide
Chemical Warfare
Payback
Temptation
Born of Fire
Seasons in the Abyss
Hell Awaits
South of Heaven
Raining Blood
Black Magic
Dead Skin Mask
Angel of Death
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Rock Hard Festival Festival 2011
Line up Friday :
Contradiction
Procession
Postmortem
Primordial
Enslaved
Triptykon
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Slayer (The Final Campaign Tour) @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, on Saturday, November 9, 2019.
#TheFinalCampaign #Tour #2019 #Setlist:
Delusions of Saviour
Repentless
Mandatory Suicide
World Painted Blood
Postmortem
Hate Worldwide
War Ensemble
Stain of Mind
Disciple
When the Stillness Comes
Born of Fire
Payback
Seasons in the Abyss
Jesus Saves
Chemical Warfare
Hell Awaits
South of Heaven
Show No Mercy
Raining Blood
Dead Skin Mask
Angel of Death