Ephemera: A Legacy Music Video

A pattern forms

In 2017 the Bushwick Book Club hosted a terrific multi-media event for the launch of my coloring book Legacy

Among the artists performing was Jetty Swart. Now Jetty has launched a music video and a song based on that coloring book novella. To view it, in all its ethereal glory, please click here.

The lyrics are as follows:

Baccarat strikes a match

She knocks her flaming knuckles against her forehead
Then she chuckles
Sparks fly up, landing snowflakes hiss and sizzle

Baccarat strikes a match

False eyelashes frizzle, fall to ash
Melted spandex runs up her flesh
Amazing blazing tits are just about to pop and splash

Baccarat strikes a match

A living torch in the dark sky
On scorched, smoking spike high heels
Her platinum blond curls are burning but she won't cry

Baccarat strikes a match

Cloaked in smoke, snaking 'round her nakedness
thick as a black feather dress, she jokes about him choking

Baccarat strikes a match

Then she dances a little more
In the smoldering ring of everything she wore
That has fallen to the floor

Jetty Swart

It’s always a rush when your work inspires work in a different medium

The Panic! at the Disco album Time to Dance is reputed to be based on my novel Invisible Monsters. As thanks, I wrote the band into my story Loser.

And there’s the perennial Brad Pitt collaboration with the Dust Brothers, This Is Your Life. To hear it, click here.

Funny where life takes us. My best to Jetty Swart. Thank you for such a great launch party.