FINGERS LIKE SATURN
TALL TREES FOTOS

Nothin' Shakin' But the Leaves On A Tree...


Imagine, if you will, a band cheated out of their last foto shoot. Their number was up, they ran out of time - but the location remains - just across Lamar Avenue from a topless night club called _________________.

Imagine if you will Beauty, Art and Japanese out on a limb: Fingers Like Saturn, draped compositionally amidst the deserted teenage mental asylum known as TALL TREES on the outskirts of Memphis.

When I happened upon this outpost I immediately wondered if some lone female fire starter confined to a room with a view was imprinted and transfixed on the soul-trafficking across the street, only to find employment there sometime later.

While I was there, city grounds keepers were about the yards painting yellow X's on grand oaks and destroying the namesake, one by one, of TALL TREES.

Note: Within every abandoned institution lies a soiled mens magazine. This particular room featured a random PLAYBOY magazine featuring a Nicole Kidman interview (Kidman gets the last lines in the last Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut; "Let's fuck.").

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Fotos by Thin White Trash / October 3, 2007.

Here's an FLS song that mentions TALL TREES.


CLOCKWORK ORANGE MOUND

I ONCE KNEW A GIRL WHO WAS BORN IN CLOCKWORK ORANGE MOUND
SHE WAS A PRETTY LITTLE THING, NOW TALL TREES IS HER STOMPING GROUND
IN ANGER SHE THREW A PARTY FOR THE WHOLE DAMN TOWN
THE DEADERICKS WERE THERE WHEN THE CURTAIN CAME FALLING DOWN.

I ONCE KNEW A BOY WHO LIVED IN CLOCKWORK ORANGE MOUND
GOT CAUGHT IN A LIE AND THE BROWN SHIRTS HUNG HIM UPSIDE DOWN.
THE BLOOD RAN IN HIS HAIR AND THE ONLY THING THAT KEPT HIM SQUARE
WAS A GIRL IN A GOWN ON HER WAY TO EARLY MORNING PRAYER.

WHY DON'T YOU COME AWAY?
COME AWAY AND HOLD MY TRAIN
TO THIS PLACE THAT I HAVE MADE
LIES BURNING IN THE SHADE

LOVE & DEATH & ME
THAT'S ALL YOU REALLY NEED
COME AWAY AND HOLD MY TRAIN
TO THIS PLACE THAT I HAVE MADE

CLOCKWORK ORANGE MOUND, BABE
CLOCKWORK ORANGE MOUND (X2)

I ONCE KNEW A BOY WHO LIVED IN CLOCKWORK ORANGE MOUND
MET A CUTE LITTLE MURDERER, THOUGHT HE MIGHT SETTLE DOWN
BUT SHE KILLED ALL HIS HOPES TOOK A ROPE AND HUNG HIM UPSIDE DOWN
WHEN THE BROWN CAME AROUND SHE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.

(GET DOWN)

Fingers Like Saturn, copyright 2007

Text by Thin White Trash - Fotos by Don Perry

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