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Artwork of the Day: The Hundred-Dollar Girl (Artist Unknown)
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Music Video of the Day: New York City by Kylie Minogue (2019, dir by ????)
New York City has inspired many great songs and movies. Maybe not as many as Paris, or even London for that matter, but still, out of the cities that can be visited on the North American continent, New York City is definitely one of the cultural leaders. After all, it’s got more of a history than Los Angeles and it’s less corrupt than Chicago. ALL HAIL NEW YORK!
Of course, I live in Texas and we tend to make a lot of jokes about New York down here. But we do it out of love. Or, at the very least, I do. Of course, the main thing that I love about New York is that everyone’s in a hurry and you don’t have to waste a lot of time being polite. I like that. The whole avoiding eye contact thing is a part of what makes New York great, in my honest opinion.
Anyway, this video from Kyle Minogue has a 1970s New York-on-cocaine feel to it. At least, that’s what I assume New York was like in the disco era. I’ve only got the movies to go on and Saturday Night Fever always seems like it’s just a few seconds away from showing someone doing a line of coke while John Travolta’s on the dance floor.
What I’m saying here is that there’s a lot that I don’t know for sure. But I do like New York and I do like dancing and I probably would have had fun in the 70s.
Enjoy!
Lisa’s Week in Review: 5/6/19 — 5/12/19
Happy Mother’s Day, everyone!
Here’s my week in review:
Movies I Watched:
- 1969 (1988)
- All the King’s Men (1949)
- Am I A Serial Killer (2019)
- Another Plan From Outer Space (2018)
- Brave (2012)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Chappaquiddick (2018)
- The China Syndrome (1979)
- Facing the Giants (2006)
- From Noon Til Three (1976)
- The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
- Homekilling Queen (2019)
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- The Long Riders (1980)
- Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Of Mice and Men (1992)
- The Trial (1962)
- The Warriors (1979)
Television Shows I Watched:
- 9-1-1
- The Amazing Race 31
- American Idol
- The Bachelorette
- Bar Rescue
- Barry
- Brooklyn Nine Nine
- Chernobyl
- Couples Court with the Cutlers
- Deadly Women
- Dr. Phil
- Face the Truth
- Fear They Neighbor
- Fosse/Verdon
- Friends
- Game of Thrones
- Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda
- House Hunters
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
- iZombie
- Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court
- Lucifer
- Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
- Model Killers
- Paradise Hotel
- Planet of The Apes
- Property Brothers
- Saved By The Bell
- Seinfeld
- Shipping Wars
- Survivor 38
- The Twilight Zone
- Twisted Fate
- Veep
- The Voice
- What We Do In The Shadows
Books I Read:
- Left to Die: Chappaquiddick Grand Jury Foreman Reveals Explosive, Never-told Before Information (2009) by Leslie H. Leland
- The Motion Picture Annual 1990: Covering the Films of 1989
- Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up (1988) by Leo Damore
- Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan (1971) by Zad Rust
Music To Which I Listened:
- Afrojack
- Gwen Stefani
- Hardwell
- Hrdza
- Icona Pop
- Language Arts
- Lenny Kravitz
- LPX
- Moby
- Nine Inch Nails
- Rebecca & Fiona
Links From Last Week:
- On her photography site, Erin shared: Cannisters, Tuesday Afternoon, Row of Cameras, Squirrel, Trees, and A Backyard!
- On my music site, I shared music from Hardwell, Hrdza, Gwen Stefani, Kermit the Frog, Yasmin Levy, Nine Inch Nails, and Ruben Ramos.
- I reviewed the latest episodes of The Amazing Race and Survivor!
- Beto’s Long History of Failing Upward
- Woody Allen’s ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ to Be Released in Italy
- Kevin Costner Angry At American Politics: ‘Shame On Us’
- CBS Renews Six Dramas, Including ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ ‘Bull,’ ‘SWAT’
- Constance Wu Says Fresh Off the Boat Renewal Is ‘Not’ Great News: I’m ‘So Upset Right Now’
- ‘Stranger Things’ Lawsuit Dropped on Eve of Trial
- STEM School students walk out of shooting vigil amid frustration
- Chris Hughes Is a Backstabbing Loser
- It’s Been 15 Years Since ‘Friends’ Ended. So Why Does It Dominate On Netflix?
Links From the Site:
- I shared music videos from Hrdza, Bajofondo, Kermit the Frog, Language Arts, LPX, Lenny Kravitz, and the Muppets, I paid tribute to Orson Welles and Peggy Lipton. I shared the opening of Touch of Evil and the trailers for American Woman and Rim of the World. I reviewed Psycho Stripper and Another Plan From Outer Space
- Erin reviewed The Phenom and the covers of Gun Moll Magazine. She shared the following artwork: Farm Hussy, The Shades of Evil, Lust for Youth, The Torrid Widow, The Tenement Kid, The Hayseed and the Hooker, and Wayward Mother.
- Gary reviewed Sheba, Baby, Born to Dance, and Batman at 80.
- Jeff shared the new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer!
- Ryan posted an interview and reviewed Space Egg, The Castle of the Beast, and Tack Piano Heaven, along with sharing his weekly reading round-up!
Artwork of the Day: Wayward Mother (Artist Unknown)
Artist Unknown
Happy Mother’s Day!
Music Video of the Day: Bohemian Rhapsody, performed by the Muppets (2009, dir by ????)
Happy Mother’s Day!
Enjoy!
Weekly Reading Round-Up : 05/05/2019 – 05/11/2019, Alex Nall
It’s no secret that Chicago’s Alex Nall is one of my favorite cartoonists on the face of the goddamn planet. I’ve previously reviewed his long-form works Teaching Comics Volume One, Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours, and Lawns on this site, but for this week’s Round-Up column we’re going to look at four of his mins, not least because two of ’em are brand new and you should get your hands on them by whatever means possible! Or, ya know, just head over to his Storenvy site and see what he’s got, or bug him for what he doesn’t until he does. Here’s a link for that :http://alexnallcomics.storenvy.com/products
The Rain Is Slow Coming is one of his brand new ones, a wistful and lyrical “love letter” from a farmer to his daughter about the land they’re barely hanging onto by the skin of their teeth…
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Scenes That I Love: Norma Accepts Ed’s Proposal in Twin Peaks: The Return (R.I.P. Peggy Lipton)
As this day comes to a close, I have some sad news to report. The actress Peggy Lipton passed away earlier today, at the age of 72. While one generation may know her best as a star of 1960s television and others know her for her marriage to legendary music producer Quincy Jones (and as the mother of Rashida Jones), I knew Peggy Lipton as Norma Jennings, one of the few characters to get a happy ending in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return.
Norma was the owner of the Double R Diner and, for the most part, one of the few stable residents of Twin Peaks. While the rest of the town was collapsing around her, Norma could usually be found in a back booth, going over expense reports and continually proving herself to often be the lone voice of sanity in her hometown.
The love affair between Norma and Ed Hurley (Everett McGill) was a story that ran through both the original Twin Peaks and the Showtime revival. One of the big moments in the revival came when Ed, having finally gotten Norma to agree to give him a divorce, finally asked Norma to marry him. It’s perhaps the most unabashedly romantic scene to be found in David Lynch’s filmography. (Lynch did the scene in one take and, according to Lipton, was in tears by the end of it.) It’s a scene that’s wonderfully acted by both McGill and Lipton, with both actors saying so much without saying a word.
And here it is, a scene that I love from Part 15 of Twin Peaks: The Return:
Christopher Adams Ushers You Through The Gates Of “Tack Piano Heaven”
There needs to be a new word word in the English language for something less than a fixed and deliberate “event” and more than a random, happenstance “occurrence.” A middle ground of some sort that defines things that are happening, but are just — I dunno, happening.
Cartoonist and musician Christopher Adams has, to date, self-published two issues of his apparently-ongoing series Tack Piano Heaven, and if somebody does come up with this new word, it would describe the succession of less-than-events-more-than-occurrences that play out in its pages perfectly, but until then — shit, I’m kind of a loss to do so. I’ll do my best, but fair warning : it may not be good enough.
Which is, of course, what makes this comic so exciting and interesting — it’s literally impossible to pin down. Adams lays out pages in a way you’ve never seen before, intercuts his…
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Pulp Fiction #3: Batman At 80
Whether you call him the Caped Crusader or the Dark Knight, it’s hard to believe Batman has been in the public eye for eighty years! Making his debut in Detective Comics #27 (cover dated May 1939) in a story titled “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate” by co-creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane, Batman has gone from mere comic book crimefighter to king of all media! Not bad for a poor little rich kid from Gotham City!
BATMAN BEGINS
Artist Bob Kane (1915-1998) had been toiling in the nascent comic book field for three years when DC’s superhero character Superman took off like a rocket. Comic houses were scrambling to compete in this new genre of costumed cavorters, and Kane came up with some sketches of a masked vigilante, basing his design on Lee Falk’s Phantom, Douglas Fairbanks’ ZORRO, and the 1930 horror/mystery THE BAT WHISPERS. Kane asked writer Bill Finger…
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Artwork of the Day: The Hayseed and the Hooker (by Robert Bonfils)
by Robert Bonfils
Through the Shattered Lens 