Well, hello there! My name is Billy Lilly and I am from small town Brandenburg Kentucky. Population: 2,913. There’s a few things of interest in my town: a farm with a silo that has a real tractor placed on top, a pretty good fair,(voted best in the state a time or two) and an old jailhouse turned pizza place that’s supposedly haunted. Outside of that, there aren’t too awful many ways a fellah can get any culture without taking the nearly hour long drive to Louisville.

So, a few years back, I started making my own micro movie theater. I call it LillyLand. Some day when it’s all finished it will seat a modest 18 people. I’ll have it open free to anyone who would like to come for a visit. I’m not interested in making money off it, I would just like to meet some nice folks and maybe make some friends if I’m lucky.

I get a little lonely sometimes so I watch a lot of movies to keep myself in good company. I just love watching movies. I’ll watch 2 or sometimes 3 or 4 in a day. They are a great escape. I even wrote a little poem about it. It goes like this:

Sittin on the couch

Alone as I can get

Tv set

Tv set me free

Free as a bird

A sedentary, introverted bird

Free as a bird

A big ol couch potato with wings!

I started out painting pictures of movie stars to hang in the rafters and all around for decoration. I believe there are 100 or so in there currently. Lately, I’ve been teaching myself how to carve. I like making low-relief pictures. I got the idea from looking at ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. I paint mine bright colors and put glitter and sand on them sometimes for extra texture.

Another thing I’ve been making is these beaded, sorta chandelier kinda, things. I got one that is my homage to Jackie Chan that I call Jackie Chandelier. My favorite one so far is one based on the movie called They Live. It’s a ufo with flashing lights and a tractor beam made of little hubba bubba gum packs. In the movie, Rowdy Roddy Piper plays an unnamed drifter who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens. And one time he spots some of them aliens at a bank and says, “I have come to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.” Haha! Classic!

Well, that’s my progress so far. I thank you for taking the time to read about me and my little theater project. I do hope you’ll stop by sometime. Have a happy day! Love, BiLLY LiLLY

If you would like to donate any money towards the completion of the theater, please contact me through Direct Message on my Instagram billylillyuniverse

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