
Piece: Maria robot from Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis
Where: The Cinémathèque française Paris, France

Piece: Maria robot from Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis
Where: The Cinémathèque française Paris, France
Posted in museum piece
Elia Kazan and Barbara Loden

bonus couple (non-romantic): Barbara Loden and my brother-in-law

Posted in cute couple alert, Wanda/Loden

This was an easy choice. French singing legend, ladies man, life-long smoker and, of course, a man who wanted to fuck Whitney Houston.
Oh, and creator of one of the greatest LPs of all time.


And get this: Serge and Dirk Bogarde. There isn’t room for any more greatness in this photo.

Posted in a man that we admire, booze, on your sleeve
I recently scored this Italian edition of Macca’s Another Day 45. I am quite happy with it. While waiting for the Italian version to come up on auction, I got a tour of Another Day around the world. Let’s have a look, shall we?
Germany:
Spain:
Portugal (they practically got the Let It Be sleeve):
Japan:
Then there is sheet music:
Australian sheet music:
Some weirdo is trying to sell this old ad, clipped out of a magazine, for $30.00! Good Luck, dude:
Someone else put the same ad to good use and made their own sleeve with it. Sort of Another Day folk art. This now rests in a pile of 45s on my shelf. He was selling it for one dollar.
Posted in apple records, Macca, music, on your sleeve
Ages ago, my friends and I used to drink 40s of St. Ides, a potent and, if I recall correctly, almost syrupy malt liquor. Good times. In the mid-nineties, Ides had a pretty amazing marketing campaign in which they hired big name rappers to record commercials promoting St. Ides usage. Here’s a(n unfortunately incomplete) pretty choice one featuring an atypically sluggish verse from Biggie Smalls:
The real hot deal though was a rare-ish promotional cassette that contained recordings of each of the commercials. My friend, Julio, had a copy of the cassette and loaned it to me and my then-(dorm)-roommate so we could make a pretty obnoxious answering machine message with it. For some reason, we chose the Nate Dogg ad. If I were to do it again, I would almost certainly choose the (first) Snoop one if only for the mention of the house full of hos. Anyway, and I apologize for this, here’s a video of the cassette. Skip to around the two minute, eight second mark to hear the ad that made the answering machine and confused Ken’s Nan to no end.
Sometime later, St. Ides introduced a new line of fruity, over-carbonated beverages called Special Brews. I only recall drinking them once and they tasted like shit, but that didn’t stop me from plastering my then-living room (I was out of the dorms by then—a turn of events not completely unrelated to the Special Brew incident) with posters promoting them. Unfortunately, the only image I could find of these classy posters has some website branded on it. Please don’t go to that website.
December 8, 2006 was indeed a busy day for Lindsey. It was reported by the National Enquirer that Linds engages in the practice of cutting! Let’s hope this is/was not true!

This photo was seemingly their only bit of evidence along with testimony by an unnamed source who claimed that Linds, despondent over the state of her failing career, was seen cutting herself with a butter knife in a hotel room! In the same article, the NE quoted another unnamed source as saying that he “watched Lindsay Lohan snort cocaine and pop OxyContin – then wash it all down with vodka.” Who hasn’t been there? There’s more: “I’ve spent many booze and drug-fuelled nights with Lindsay, and I’m only coming forward now because I want to save her life…At the rate she’s going, Lindsay is headed for an early grave…I’ve known Lindsay for the past two years, and she absolutely loves to get wasted. She makes Courtney Love look like a girl scout.” Courtney Love? Piling it on a little thick, aren’t we?

Meanwhile, and in the most bizarre bit of Lohan then-news, it was revealed that Lindsay claimed to have been contacted by Vice President Al Gore who was interested in helping her clean up her tarnished image. In a leaked email written by Linds, she claimed: “Al Gore will help me. He came up to me and said he would be very happy to have a conversation with me.” It gets better: “Hilary (sic) Clinton, Bill Clinton…would be willing, if we just ask. If we just ASK.” This email only got more odd from there. She claimed she was interested in getting politicians to assist her in her plan to “release a politically/morally correct, fully adequite [sic] letter to the press,” as a means of assisting her in spreading her views on “how our society should be educated for the better of our country. Our people. Because I have such an impact on our younger generations, as well as generations older than me. Which we all know and can obviously see.”
Of course, none of this was true. A spokesman for the Oscar winner smothered these flames immediately: “I can confirm for you that Mr. Gore has only met Ms. Lohan once, very briefly, at the GQ Men of the Year dinner last week. There were hundreds of other guests.”
Here she is photographed exactly two years ago today.

Posted in lohan history