Uncouth Reflections

Architecture Du Jour

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes:

Le Château Frontenac, Quebec, designed by Bruce Price.

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Posted in Architecture | Tagged Bruce Price, canada, hotels, Quebec | 1 Comment

Showtune Saturday: “Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop”

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes:

I will confess to not being a Will Ferrell fan at all (with the exception of his turn as Bob Woodward in Andrew Fleming’s very underrated Dick) but if anyone could harness the manic lunacy of Kenneth Mars’ Franz Liebkind from Mel Brooks’ original, nonmusical 1968 The Producers, it’s Ferrell, who is an absolute gas in the 2005 remake.

And you should not read anything into the fact that this is the second ShoSat in a row to be tagged “dancing nazis”. Coincidence, I swear.

Posted in Humor, Movies, Music | Tagged dancing nazis, mel brooks, showtune saturday, the guten tag hop-clop, the producers, will ferrell | Leave a comment

Linkage

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes:

They’re taking over.
Is the U.S.’s public-health field more concerned with public health or “social justice”?
N.Y.C., R.I.P.
Yet the food and drink in New York has never been better.
Was legendary French thinker/shrink Jacques Lacan an asshole?
How should conservatives support the arts?
Why weren’t any bankers prosecuted?
France’s latest bestseller is a far-right tome.
Steve Sailer takes a look at the “you’re on the wrong side of history” argument.
The great Bill Kauffman finds a lot to like in Grover Cleveland’s wife. I interviewed Bill here and here.
Writer/environmentalist Wendell Berry talks about the accomplishments and limitations of the locavore food movement.
I find the Slow TV movement to be genius. Link thanks to Blowhard, Esq.
Horrifying.
Satire Du Jour. I’ve always had a great time when we’ve visited the American south.
“If you want such things as peace and liberty you are far more likely to find them at the level of 5 million people than at upward sizes.”
Be sure to visit our NSFW Tumblr blog, where we share some of the zany things that get our pulses racing.

Posted in Linkathons | Tagged Bill Kauffman, Fred Reed, Jacques Lacan, Kirkpatrick Sale, Steve Sailer, Wendell Berry | 12 Comments

Juxtaposin’: Merry Companies

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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Posted in Art, Photography | Tagged Dennis Hopper, Dutch painting, Jack Nicholson, Juxtaposin', merry company, Michelle Phillips | 2 Comments

Art Du Jour

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes:

Gustave Doré, “The Deluge,” 1866. Hi-res copy here. H/T Glynn Marshes.

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Posted in Art, Philosophy and Religion | Tagged engraving, Gustave Doré, The Bible | 4 Comments

Couldn’t Do It Today

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

Beneath your perfume and your make-up
You’re just a baby in disguise
And though you know that it’s wrong to be
Alone with me
That come on look is in your eyes

Posted in Music, Sex | Tagged better runnnnn girl!, couldn't do it today, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap | 4 Comments

Art Gallery of New South Wales: Australians

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes:

More AGNSW pictures, this one focusing on the museum’s works by Australian artists. (I’m using a loose definition: artists who were either born or died or spent a substantial part of their lives in Australia.) I was especially taken by the nightmarish Surrealist paintings of Herbert McClintock and James Gleeson, enough that I’ll be investigating their work a lot further. Talk about out-Dalí-ing Dalí. I’m also a fan of Weaver Hawkins’ strikingly modernist jockeys, and Arthur Collingridge’s oddly sweet A Token of Friendship.

Herbert McClintock, Dawnbreakers, 1939

James Gleeson, The Sower, 1944

Sidney Nolan, First Class Marksman, 1946

John Brack, The New House, 1953

Grace Cossington Smith, Interior with Wardrobe Mirror, 1955

Sydney Long, Pan, 1898

Eric Thake, Archaeopteryx, 1941

Weaver Hawkins (aka Raokin), Going Round, 1954

George W. Lambert, Important People, 1914-21

Crace Cossington Smith, The Curve of the Bridge 1928-9

Roland Wakelin, Down the Hills to Berry’s Bay, 1916

Charles Meere, Australian Beach Pattern, 1940

Albert Tucker, Faun Attacked By Parrot 3, 1968

Arthur Collingridge, A Token Of Friendship, 1890

Related

European paintings and a lady-themed gallery from my trip.

Posted in Art, Travel | Tagged albert tucker, art gallery of new south wales, arthur collingridge, charles meere, eric thake, george washington lambert, grace cossington smith, herbert mcclintock, james gleeson, john brack, raokin, ronald wakelin, sidney nolan, sydney long, weaver hawkins | 1 Comment

Architecture Du Jour

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes:

Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley, California.

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Posted in Architecture | Tagged traditionalism, UC Berkeley, University of California | Leave a comment

Movie Poster Du Jour: “Grand Illusion”

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

This poster, for a ’40s release of “Grand Illusion,” is generally regarded as the best design for the film. It’s by Bernard Lancy.

Related

Lancy on Pinterest.

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged Bernard Lancy, Film, France, Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir, Movie Posters, movies | Leave a comment

Showtune Saturday: “The Lambeth Walk” (With Bonus Nazis)

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes:

Me and my Girl was a hit musical of 1937, a mistaken-identity dancehall comedy about a Cockney bloke named Bill Snibson who discovers he is the heir to a noble title. The show’s hit tune was “The Lambeth Walk”, whose strutting rhythm and “OI!” singalong became a national craze. It inspired an eponymous 1939 film, from which this clip is taken.

The song eventually spread to the US…and Germany, where a member of the Nazi party denounced it as “Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping”.
A wag at the British Ministry of Information named Charles Ridley took this as an opportunity to assemble a clip, edited from bits of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will,made to appear as if the Nazis were goose-stepping to “The Lambeth Walk”.

Goebbels was reportedly extremely displeased with the clip.

Me and my Girl was given a makeover in the 1980s (including a revised book by Stephen Fry), sufficiently altering it to earn Tony and Olivier awards for Best Musical. Check out Robert Lindsay and a young and endearingly gawky Emma Thompson in this 1984 video.