Category Archives: Performers

Desert Island Discs

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Desert Island Discs is a BBC radio program, one that has been running since 1942 and is one of the longest running radio programs in the world. Various prominent types are asked to imagine themselves cast away to … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Performers, Personal reflections | Tagged Desert Island Disks, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard | 9 Comments

Girliness, Alive and Well on the Internet

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The culture doesn’t provide for much in the way of girliness these days. Have you noticed? I guess I should define what I mean by girliness, but I’m not sure I can whittle it down to … Continue reading →

Posted in Performers, Personal reflections, Sex, Women men and fashion | Tagged Damsels in Distress, Garfunkel and Oates, Girls, Jan Skvankmajer, Katie Sunshine, The Sorry Girls, Vi Hart, Whit Stillman, YouTube | 19 Comments

“The Abyss”

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “The Abyss” features one of the most striking opening shots in early cinema (it was released in 1910). Taken from the center of a busy urban street, it shows a woman walking away from the camera as … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers, Sex | Tagged A Fool There Was, Asta Nielsen, Basic Instinct, Camille Paglia, Denmark, Gustav Klimt, movies, Sharon Stone, Silent Film, The Abyss, Theda Bara, Urban Gad, vamp | 10 Comments

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, OR Simiae est Insanissimae Populos

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Fame is fleeting. You remember newsreels, like actually remember them? Mebbe mebbe not. Depends on age mostly. They were really the only way to disseminate the news visually in a pre-internet and pre-TV era. TV in fact pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Movies, Performers | 6 Comments

“An American Affair”

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I bought the DVD of this 2009 movie because Gretchen Mol is in it. It turns out to be a small historical suspense fantasia, set in 1963 in Georgetown, about a teenage boy from an uptight family … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged Gretchen Mol, JFK, Mary Pinchot Meyer, movies, Ross Thomas | 9 Comments

“Sana”

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I love this ultra-exultant dance track from the soukous star Kanda Bongo Man. There’s enough genius guitar and bass work in it to send a fan soaring clear into the next century. Here’s another happy Kanda Bongo Man track:

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Kanda Bongo Man, Music, soukous | Leave a comment

Exploitation Movie Posters

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: These days, everyone loves old exploitation movies — even smart people. In fact, it seems to me that old exploitation movies are to the artsy-smartsy set of today what Hollywood classics starring Bogart and Cagney were to the artsy-smartsy … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial art, Movies, Performers, Sex | Tagged 13 Assassins, American International Pictures, Audition, Blaxploitation, Breakdown, Crank, Edwige Fenech, Exploitation, Frank Tashlin, Freeway, Greg McLean, Grindhouse, Herschell Gordon Lewis, horror, Ichi the Killer, Jack Hill, Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Mostow, Kung Fu, Matthew Bright, Movie Posters, movies, Neveldine/Taylor, Pam Grier, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Roberta Collins, Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, Sam Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Sid Haig, Takashi Miike, The Devil's Rejects, The Human Centipede, Tom Six, Wolf's Creek | 18 Comments

25 Awesome Things About “Rio Bravo”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Please feel free to add your own. 1. The names: Chance, Dude, Stumpy, Colorado, Feathers. 2. The bit where Chance kisses Stumpy on the head, then runs out the door like a little kid who’s just stolen … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Music, Performers | Tagged Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, Howard Hawks, John Wayne, movies, Ricky Nelson, Rio Bravo, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, westerns | 8 Comments

Bait & Switch

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Sometimes I’m not sure what a television ad is trying to sell me. Oh, I know what the product being advertised is, more or less. It’s the experience the ad is attempting to associate with the … Continue reading →