Friday, October 26, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A nicked Fury
Slavko Vorkapich works on one of the Furies for Crime Without Passion (Ben Hecht, 1934) swiped from Decaying Hollywood Mansions; click to enlarge.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
‘Holy Moly’ by Cathy Davey
I’m all eager to get started Don’t want to leave it All undone though One of these days my ego Is going to steal you away
Holy moly, take me on please I’m not one of these trained hounds though I want to lead my own way I’m just another stray
I’m all right, he’s all right, we’re all fine, we’re all ok Pay your pay, night and day, lead in vain, lean on the old train
I’m a loose train now (x2)
Tomorrow is in motion I feel it rise and fall again now When I dive he’ll receive me But I have a long haul to go
I’m all right, he’s all right, we’re all fine, we’re all ok Pay your pay, night and day, lead in vain, lean on the old train
I’m a loose train now (x2)
Sky! Sky!
I’m all eager to get started Don’t want to leave it, unsaid now When I dive he’ll receive me But I have a long haul to go
I’m all right, he’s all right, we’re all fine, we’re all ok Pay your pay, night and day, lead in vain, lean on the old train
I’m a loose train now (x3)
I’m on a loose train now
Sky! Sky!
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From the film The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Monday, October 15, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
The new Lana Del Rey video
OK… during the opening narration on this vid, I had a few thoughts:
But the song is catchy, and I’m sure after a few listens it’ll have me in its spell. One thought, however: after less than a year since Born to Die, is it too soon for a new Lana Del Rey album?
The reason I ask is because I found her first album so original, so listenable, so well done, that anything she does now could only fall short of whatever unnecessary and unrealistic expectations I have percolating in my head… I have to learn how to back off and take it on its own terms… If anything, I’m grateful there’s a recording artist presently working who has me thinking and wondering and expecting and, most important, listening. I listen to her first album at least once a week and have been doing so ever since it came out. Only, back then, I’d listen to it once a day.
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Monday, October 01, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Lip Service
Without a third season in sight, Lip Service has so far been both intensely promising and generally frustrating. While I find no fault with what I consider to be its secondary characters, the show failed to notice the goldmine that could have been in the bi-polar relationship between Cat and Frankie. I love how they’re introduced — Cat all conservative, Frankie all rock n’ roll — while peeling back an uneasy history of lust, longing and heartbreak. And for the first season, just six episodes, I was eager to see their potentially interesting future unfold. Unfortunately, as I got into season two (just another six episodes), there was something of a letdown — the spontaneity of the first gradually diminishes, characters devolve into superficial dramady figures… while one of its central, and genuinely compelling, women is dropped for good while the other is emotionally neutered and cast into exile. Midway through season two I began to question (rather than speculate) just where the thing was headed, and wondered what the charismatic Ruta would be doing next.












