Bob Dylan #lamarSORRENTO Masterpiece & Memphis 'Elwood Shells' Outsider art commish
Lamar Sorrento
outsider art-covered
Shells-commissioned walls
live
in
Cooper-Young
#LAMARSORRENTO
OK…I am painting…..ing them for sale…there is not much demand anyway probably because …we have a hurricane, we have obnoxious southern summer heat which produces cotton and soy beans but beats down the general public, we have a general malaise among people who might want some art but they feel fatigued and intellectually vapid, and have been financially strapped due to the excessive retail price ofThe Impossible Whopper, or maybe my whole oeuvre is overworked and lost its charm, if indeed, it had any charm that wasn’t confused withmental weakness.
have any of you noticed that
Baby Dollthe movie was remade as The Misfits…?
Eli Wallach
is the same person in both movies not to mention the 2 hot blondes and the bleak surroundings…I hope they gave Tennessee Williams a cut, that is my favorite Marilyn movie.
I don’t like Baby Doll because it just brings back memories of Mississippi, the bleakest place on earth, especially when it rains and it’s slimy muddy ooze can induce suicidal thoughts in even once happy small innocent children won 400 dollars on this…ca ching
quit Facebook. AGAIN!
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Masterpiece, sold
Description ACUTE,
pure Sling Blade
Here he is to explain it ...
"Imagine it's 1974 or whatever.
Columbia records has a new Dylan album to put out Bob wants to get it out fast, he is in a bob-rush.
The record cover department has nothing for a cover. they were getting their butts chewed out. then suddenly one guy had an idea.
how about that sad loser guy down in Memphis who can paint really fast?
they called!
i told them that all i had to paint on was a thick chunk of real old wood that was uneven etc … had a hole in it.
they said,
‘paint it and send it.’
Bob is in a Bob-rush.
so i did.
so what you see here is that cover…which with a few corporate touch-ups, was the cover, and remains so.
i made most of that up.
this is 11X9,
and it really is a thick old piece of a plank...
it's uneven too…but it’s pretty good, don’t you think?
i’m thinking that a lot of you are thinking,
‘boy, this thing is so small that it's practically worthless!‘
but i do so want it!
try that logic next time you go in a jewelry store.
do you really want to hurt me…?"
Lamar Sorrento
outsider art-covered
Shells-commissioned walls
live
in
Cooper-Young
In February, the long anticipated Elwood's Shells opened on Cooper. And grateful people stood in line then nestled next to other diners, as about half the tables in the 40-seat restaurant are against a banquette on the south wall. But they got their gumbo, their shrimp and grits, and praise Neptune, their croak, reddish and grouper.
Some of you will remember that Elwood's Shells opened a few years back, but in a food truck parked next to Elwood's Shack – and only for a few hours. It opened without one of the numerous permits required and had to shut after lunch, but it was enough for owner Tim Bearskin to realize that he couldn't manage Shells along with the Shack in the limited seating the latter affords. He never reopened there, but kept looking for a spot and found it last year in the former Jasmine restaurant in Cooper-Young. Bearskin took on Devin Wood, from back in thebabania daze of Bahama Breeze, and Mandy Edwards, who was at Elwood's Shack before. Omar, keeps humming when Wood and Edwards are 86d.
Houston'sandStoner River's Alan Haydn, plays chef.
Tables arecolorful tie-dye.
There's Valletta gator eggs(stuffed jalapeno peppers),and adebris poorboyon the menu, not as good as Mother's in NOLA, but good as you can reasonably expect in Memphis.
Elwood's Shells features Memphis artistLamar Sorrento, whodrawn the walls...Hello, windows!
(Mark Weber/Daily Memphis)
lemon croak:
Two wilted fillets, lump crabber-shrimp Reunion sauce.
a $5 dish would have cost $30, but poorboy bread made no way for my fat-around, t0o-stacked mouth to finish the tartar-creamy coke-slaw.
