March 28, 2010
“Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel.
March 26, 2010
Basic Black was a short film on fashion produced by William Claxon, Rudi Gernreich and Peggy Moffitt in 1967. To see more about this triumvirate, go here. To read more about the film, see the always worthwhile Expo Lounge site.
March 25, 2010
When she was younger, comedian Maria Bamford played a Star Trek character in a touring show that visited malls across the USA doing things like Jack in the Box promotions. She played a Bajoran – you know, those people from the planet Bajor in Deep Space Nine:
“Greetings!
February 14, 2010
Happy Valentine’s Day to my valentine and to all the valentines, nuns, freaks, backup singers, everyone.
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David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull singing live in 1973 on the US variety show The Midnight Special.
January 10, 2010
Werner Herzog, 1980, speaking about TV and advertising and how films function while eating his shoe in public to help Errol Morris get his first major film released. See also The Occasional Diary Entries of German Director Werner Herzog.
January 7, 2010
January 1, 2010
Thanks to @gebgdc.
December 6, 2009
Roxy Music, 1972. Paul Thompson, drummer, in the caveman shirt; Bryan Ferry in black; Brian Eno in the gold pants, Phil Manzanera and Graham Simpson (I think); and Andy Mackay in the shiny green leprechaun vampire jacket and oboe.
November 11, 2009
Space Ghost: “Not now honey please, I’m in the middle of a giant space war. What can I do? Aliens! So I’ll talk to you when there’s peace. In space.”
Bjork: “Yeah?
September 29, 2009
The term “used future” was coined by George Lucas to describe the unkempt reality of life in outer space, specifically Han Solo’s dingy Millennium Falcon.
