Edie Sedgwick ~ Beat Happening - "Left Behind"

slo-mo'd footage of Edie @ her zenith, from "Ciao! Manhattan," "Outer & Inner Space," etc. - song: "Left Behind" by early 90s indie band Beat Happening

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[MowgliX]

That's the United Nations Plaza (the building with the black top and curved roof is the fabulous Dag Hammarskjöld Library - the interior is stunning too) behind Edie at 0:35 by the way.

[desertshore]

@MowgliX YES!! it's in Tudor City. there's a fantastic park just behind that area edie, paul & viva are hanging out at (overlooking UN) . i think some of them lived down there @ the time they filmed the sequence. i actually walked up that staircase (recognized the inscription) edie is laying across when i hung out in that area a few yrs. back, didn't realize it 'til i watched the flick for the umpteenth time again upon arriving home lol.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Did you notice how cold Paul America seemed towards her in the beginning of this clip? He doesn't hug her or anything. It looks as if he shouts "Come on Edie, get up, let's go!" or something.

[desertshore]

@MowgliX.. looks like she was takin' a lil' nap there ~.* lol

[desertshore]

@MowgliX i love that u think paul should've hugged her.i agreee lol.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore The inscription has some connection to the United Nations? It says something about "...nation shall..." Or is it connected to the Ford Foundation? And you're right: David Weisman had an apartment in Tudor City at the time, and I think three or four other people lived there too.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore That's... what do you call it... Synchronicity? It's almost magical, in retrospect, that you should remember that, because I had the same feeling when I, out of the blue, figured out where that fountain near the Time-Life Building, the one surrounded by the wavy pavement was, just by accident. And remember - I haven't even been to NYC yet! (Or maybe I have, in some earlier life...) Maybe Edie, the little angel, is trying to show us something? Where is that inscription/war memorial?

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx I'm looking at that picture now. I think it looks really strange, but there is a certain something about her soft neck and face and the hard, rusty, old spikes of the track segment. Oh, and the S&M people were around a lot earlier than the 1960s. Remember Marquis de Sade? Now, there was a real old pervert. 1965 or '66 is only yesterday, not an eternity ago. Remember Venus in Furs? by The Velvet Underground?

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx No, I must have missed that picture. It sure sounds like something they might do.

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX Haha I didn't mean literally, but the only subcultures I'm aware of that use spiked chokers are the S&M and goth crowd (and I don't think the latter was around yet in the 60's). It's really hard to appreciate how ahead of her time fashion-wise Edie was from our modern context.

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx I have seen that picture, and somehow I don't think the necklace has anything to do with S&M. Really, it's more like a fashion statement. What it looks like is a segment of the tracks for a small tracked vehicle, such as an armored personnel carrier... :)

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

@MowgliX Unfortunately I didn't save them, but I do have the oft-circulated pic of Edie with cropped brown hair wearing a spiked S&M choker necklace of some kind. It's from that same session in Paris. Have you seen it?

[MowgliX]

@desertshore Yes, because I would have... For a very long time.

[MowgliX]

@desertshore I want to go there...

[MowgliX]

@xXPinkGoddessXx No, I haven't seen them. Please post them if you can! I guess there are hundreds of photos and a few film clips we haven't seen. Probably some photos from Paris and London too. Oh, and after that they all went to Tangiers in Morocco too. Things that people keep at home maybe. This happened a very long time ago. Edie, timeless and stunning as she appears even today, is only one year younger than my own mother...