Monthly Archives: June 2014

on your sleeve

Posted on June 30, 2014 | 2 comments

Clubland

Clubland. Elvis Costello. 1981.

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cassavetes directs

Posted on June 29, 2014 | Leave a comment

John Cassavetes directs Too Late Blues. 1962.

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the soft skin

Posted on June 28, 2014 | Leave a comment

Françoise Dorléac and Jean Desailly in La Peau douce. Truffaut. 1964.

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record labels

Posted on June 27, 2014 | Leave a comment

John, The Wolfking of LA

My summer jam since February: “John Phillips” (John The Wolf King of L.A.). John Phillips. 1970.

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advertising

Posted on June 26, 2014 | Leave a comment

1974.

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the stickers on records

Posted on June 25, 2014 | Leave a comment

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Michael Jackson. 1995.

Some previous owner of my copy of this box set tried his best to pry the stickers off of the cover but thankfully didn’t succeed. The second one was added to the cover of the included booklet after controversy arose around the lyrical content of the song They Don’t Care About Us (which is a total banger, by the way). It’s incredible it wouldn’t have occurred to Michael or anyone around him that the lyric, “Jew me, sue me, everybody do me/Kick me, kike me, don’t you black or white me”, wouldn’t have attracted some heat. But Mike was having a bad couple of years.

History cover sticker

History book sticker

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dig the critics

Posted on June 24, 2014 | Leave a comment

Annie Hall

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1977.

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cover art

Posted on June 23, 2014 | Leave a comment

August 1979

Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. in The Main Event. Howard Zieff. 1979.

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museum piece

Posted on June 22, 2014 | Leave a comment

Deliverance

Piece: The canoe from Deliverance. John Boorman. 1972.

Where: The Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum. Jupiter, Florida.

Unfortunately, the museum closed to relocate two years ago and there seems to be no news about if or when it will reopen. In fact, the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theater doesn’t even mention its closing on its history page — you can, however, purchase a BRIFT mousepad at the website’s store (I’m seriously considering the Smokey and the Bandit T shirt that’s also available). So I wouldn’t go planning any trips to Jupiter, Florida any time soon.

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on the set of

Posted on June 21, 2014 | Leave a comment

David Niven and Clive Donner on the set of Vampira. 1974.

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