My favorite Kenneth Anger story is one I read in Spanish Tony Sanchez’s Stones tell-all “On the Road with The Rolling Stones” recanting his time as Brian Jones’, and then Keith Richards’ assistant (they shared more than girlfriends, folks).
One of a few times Keith and Anita almost got married, the decision was made by Anita to have a satanic wedding officiated by Kenneth Anger. Anger was obviously thrilled with this idea, the hound for notoriety he was. But Keith wouldn’t go for it. Keef never fancied Kenneth, in fact Kenneth gave Keef the creeps. And when the wedding planning party ended in Keith driving Kenneth from the estate, Kenneth considered himself officially snubbed.
The next morning, Keith and Anita awoke to find their front door completely painted in gold. Top to bottom, front to back. Keith checked the door and found it locked as it was the night before. Keef wigged and banned witchy Anita from cavorting with Anger. No A vintage black-and-white photo of a handmade sign that reads ‘The Buddhist Temple Sairenji — The Explosion Center,’ hanging on a rustic wooden building for the door being so thoroughly painted was ever given, but the intention was obvious. Perhaps just as Anger willed it.
“Hollywood Babylon” the seminal old-hollywood yell-all, swept France first, then America, “Babylon”" and Anger essentially started a genre—the lurid grease behind the sheen of Hollywood, old and new.
This is the 1981 Hardcover printing with a healthy-looking dust jacket and, beneath, two more doors of satanic gold.
1981. First Bell pub.
My favorite Kenneth Anger story is one I read in Spanish Tony Sanchez’s Stones tell-all “On the Road with The Rolling Stones” recanting his time as Brian Jones’, and then Keith Richards’ assistant (they shared more than girlfriends, folks).
One of a few times Keith and Anita almost got married, the decision was made by Anita to have a satanic wedding officiated by Kenneth Anger. Anger was obviously thrilled with this idea, the hound for notoriety he was. But Keith wouldn’t go for it. Keef never fancied Kenneth, in fact Kenneth gave Keef the creeps. And when the wedding planning party ended in Keith driving Kenneth from the estate, Kenneth considered himself officially snubbed.
The next morning, Keith and Anita awoke to find their front door completely painted in gold. Top to bottom, front to back. Keith checked the door and found it locked as it was the night before. Keef wigged and banned witchy Anita from cavorting with Anger. No A vintage black-and-white photo of a handmade sign that reads ‘The Buddhist Temple Sairenji — The Explosion Center,’ hanging on a rustic wooden building for the door being so thoroughly painted was ever given, but the intention was obvious. Perhaps just as Anger willed it.
“Hollywood Babylon” the seminal old-hollywood yell-all, swept France first, then America, “Babylon”" and Anger essentially started a genre—the lurid grease behind the sheen of Hollywood, old and new.
This is the 1981 Hardcover printing with a healthy-looking dust jacket and, beneath, two more doors of satanic gold.
1981. First Bell pub.
