rant whine 'splain espouse: Lucifer arisen

Friday, November 19, 2004

Lucifer arisen

BeauSoleil gets an intense look on his face. "Before we could consummate our relationship, I was almost killed," he says in a voice that projects over the entire room.

I steal a peek at the tweaker-looking inmate sitting next to us and can tell he's trying his best not to eavesdrop.

SF Weekly has an interesting cover story this week on Bobby BeauSoleil, one-time semi-rockstar, contemporary of Anton LaVey, Kenneth Anger, and Charles Manson, and currently resident of the state prison system. A black, fascinating story of the descent of a youth who was by all accounts a charismatic, accomplished artist in the 1960s and '70s, but whose hedonism spun his life out of control and landed in him in prison for murder.