Download PPT Weetzie Bat

Weetzie Bat
By Francesca Lia Block
Weetzie Bat
• “A pop-culture-driven, fable-laden, sentimentaltone prose poetry… strange and dreamlike.”
Patrick Jones
• No other writer has written so accurately about
the reality of life in Los Angeles” Patricia J.
Campbell
• Written as a college senior at UC Berkeley when
nostalgic for LA.
• Inspired by Magical Realism: Gabriel Garcia
Marquez 100 Years of Solitude and Isabelle
Allende’s House of Spirits.
Marylyn's prints at Graumann’s (Chinese Theatre) (1)
Oki Dogs (1)
Tinys was known for it's
curbside service - girls
on roller skates, Tshirts, and skimpy
costumes. different for
those days. Teenagers
cruised here. women
used to come there in
carloads. It was a big
place for everyone.
Northwest corner of
Sunset and La Brea. (1)
Jerry. Dirk’s car a red ‘55 Pontiac (2)
A slinkster-cool car
Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can’t Help it. (3)
Laurel Canyon where
Houdini and Jim
Morison used to live
(2)
Venice Beach and boardwalk (5)
Sunset Boulevard
The Depression Era Tick Tock Tea
Room has remained virtually
unchanged in the last 70 years.
A truly Vintage restaurant
Grandma Fifi’s cottage? A Hollywood cottage with one of those fairy
tale roofs that looks like someone has spilled silly sand. (30)
ARROW AND LUCIA
FASHION STORY INSPIRED BY WEETZIE BAT
PAPER MAGAZINE
Some poetic lines. What do they mean?
• Love is a dangerous angel. 15
• She couldn’t leave where it was hot and cool,
glam and slam, rich and trashy, devils and
angels, Los Angeles. 21-22
• Weetzie felt her heart stealing all the blood in
her body. 49