JIMMY VARGAS "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"...LURE OF THE FORTIES SIREN

I USED to be a racketeer…

 A zoot-suitin’ jazz-warblin’ moonlight Sinatra’d pimpster,

Hustling sin skin and scam for the Dragna syndicate

From a pleasure house jazz-bar called the ‘Tallulah’s Boudoir’ on the twilight side of Sin Alley, Fifth and Main, Los Angeles, 1946.

I cut a couple of jazz torch discs to a bar angel of underworld Hollywood, the Black Dahlia, which went all the way to the top of the palookaville hit parade… Just like her.

I bought the big fall in a mob brawl, December 1947,

In a skid bar off Fifth and Main under an unholy hail of rosary bead bullets, blessed and ordained by Mickey Cohen triggers Eli Lubin and Ichabold Bronkowitz… 

My cadaver carved and sluiced into San Pedro harbour, enchained in a farewell soundtrack of warped Artie Shaw records.

My murderers lampooning my demise as they trashed my corpse to the waters.

"Something to sing along to Vargas, while you go about the business of being dead."

My Ka-spirit already ciphered, into a chinoise bell jar, as a celluloid slither.

By a Witch of Hollywood Boulevard, in a black mass ceremony.

© JIMMY VARGAS 2000 / 2011...
"MY SHADOW BRIDE" Book / DVD

Photo © Torren / Vargas

JIMMY VARGAS..."REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"...

A still from JIMMY VARGAS' screen test for Eagle Lion Pictures.

"She took my Last Cigarette." (1947)

Based on the Vargas story of a Los Angeles racketeer from 1940's Hollywood, who in his reincarnation to present day West Coast is haunted by his Shadow Bride.

JIMMY VARGAS' multimedia dvd "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"

 Release date  April... 2011

                                      Astral film recaptured by Roman Czerny / Hartley

JIMMY VARGAS "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"..."THE LAST CIGARETTE"

A still from the VARGAS / SCARLATTA screen test for Eagle Lion Pictures... "She took My Last Cigarette." (1947)

Based on the Jimmy Vargas story of a Los Angeles racketeer from 1940's Hollywood, who in his reincarnation to present day West Coast is haunted by his Shadow Bride.

JIMMY VARGAS' multimedia dvd "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"

 Release date  April 7th... 2011.

Astral film recaptured by Roman Czerny / Hartley

JIMMY VARGAS' DEATH SHOT..."REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"

Astral film cel of Jimmy Vargas' spirit leaving body after gunshot to back of head, December 23rd 1947. From the film vignette "Requiem for My Shadow Bride".

A multi-media dvd installation based on his life as a Los Angeles racketeer from 1940's Hollywood.

The Vargas multimedia dvd's release date is April 2011.

JIMMY VARGAS '... "REQUIEM FOR MY SHADOW BRIDE"

A still from the Jimmy Vargas 1947 astral film vignette "Requiem for My Shadow Bride"

based on his story of a Los Angeles racketeer from 1940's Hollywood, who in his reincarnation to present day West Coast is haunted by his Shadow Bride.

The Vargas multimedia dvd's release date is April 2011.