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Ummm welll uhhhh....

I don't know why but if I was immensly rich, for some reason I'd rather buy some old stuff at the Yves Saint-Laurent estate sale in Paris this week...

Yucko. Tacky. Gawdy.

That portrait is a good answer to the discussion going on elsewhere on this blog -- whether to hang a "self-portrait" in your home, or not. NOT!

But I like the tea kettle. The wheels go around when the water boils.

the portrait is pretty cool though...in a crazy, over-the-top way....

I hope someone got some pics of the Ranch's interior before it was dismantled. I'm guessing it looked like an upscale flea-market.

Granny says you shoulda saved your money Mike.

At least they can't sell his moonwalk or his anti-gravity lean.

I love the portrait! I mean, in a completely tacky icked out kind of way, but it would be great in a dimly lit Regal Beagle type of bar...

i can't find the price for his portrait....anyone able to find it??

Delightful.

comes with free crazy!

He's very eccentric, so I would expect some of his items are fantastic treasures and some are more on the freakish side, which is really not going to have the same definition for everybody. In a moderate amount of 1, most of the stuff probably isn't totally awful.

Oh. Dear.

Follow the link. I encourage everyone to see how nice most of his things are.

OK I've followed the link and I'm looking at the catalogues at this moment and the experience is a bit strange : it is true that there are some very beautiful authentic antiques, juxtaposed by uhhh, objects that could have come out of Jeff Koons' imagination. I just wonder what the interiors must have looked like...
I'm surprised at how several antique pieces are damaged and sold as such.

that portrait is amazing.

I guess what I'm saying is it's sort of a disservice (to whom, I don't know) to skew all the offerings to the crazy angle. The fortune teller came out of an arcade (there are several as well as video games and pinball games). Some of his taste in furniture is a little gaudy, but a whole room scheme is different than the potential to snag one fabulously ornate settee. If Shaker is more your style, he's got a lot of that too. If you like tacky figurines of clowns, you've got a lot to choose from! Ok, that's kind of where it turned sad and weird for me. But the point is, unless you're seriously opposed to owning the goods of an accused (proven? I can't remember) pedophile with too much plastic surgery, most of the lots are tasteful, even if you can't say they are to your own taste. And here I was, expecting the possessions to be so much more fun and interesting vision into the world of a true eccentric. I don't have the means to bid myself, but it was an interesting catalog.

Actually, I think the portrait is awesome. It makes me sad, though, because it's from a time when he really was great. I just can't look at anyone who's done what he's done to his face. It's like not being able to look at a really beautiful, anorexic friend.

What's really creepy is that portrait. Can you imagine how freaked out the kids would be coming across that in the middle of the night?

I am going to make a print of that poster and frame it in the finest brass frame I can find, and hang it over my couch.

superbeetle, you took the words right out of my mouth.
...or the text right out of my fingertips, what have you.

oh, sad.

I kind of like the creepy granny fortune teller, though. it makes me think of the movie, 'big' (though I think that was a creepy gypsy man).

nazrd - I have no pictures, unfortunately, but a relative of mine installed some of the flooring at Neverland Ranch back in the day. Apparently it was more of a mix of "upscale flea market" and "eclectic amusement park."

Good god this makes me so incredibly sad. I miss the Michael of yore: 1970-1985. Enduring the current state of the economy is much easier than accepting the tour de force behind Off The Wall and Thriller embodies the tall leafy protaganist in the classic book "The Giving Tree." Only the tree didn't touch the little boy in an inappropriate manner.

haha he does have the Zoltar fortune teller from Big!!! omg it's in one of the catalogs...
how sad

he has like 100 different life sized statues of random people and movie characters too, oh man

'Hot Items'?????

the upper left portrait...what does he have under that crown, his "new" (read: current) face?!

"Prince Michael," sad and delusional. Pity he was such a great talent. I would have preferred him in a portrait a la Diana Ross. Anything from his home, however wonderful would just creep me out.

I find this really sad. :\

I don't like his taste in furniture AT ALL, but I could browse through his belongings for hours. Fascinating!

Redistribute the wealth!

ummmm amazing