john fulton

my spanish art teacher is this whimsical older lady who has lived in spain for 22 years after spending her first 40 or so in southern california.  she moved here for the love of her life, or in her words, her "media naranja", a bullfighter, painter, and the first american matador by the name of john fulton:

anyway so this is all great, but i have been pretty terrified by this whole bullfighting thing since i got here.  i became MORE scared when she presented us with paintings of his that he had painted with the blood of the bulls he had killed.  all that came to mind was ani difranco's line,

if there is one instinct i just can't get with at all
it's the urge to kill something beautiful just to hang it on your wall

...so....i'm not going.  to hell with it.