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oldhollywood: Ella Fitzgerald - My Funny Valentine

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:58:52 +0000

oldhollywood:

Ella Fitzgerald - My Funny Valentine

jakefogelnest: Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:11:09 +0000

jakefogelnest:

Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”

Um, ooh, wow.

surrealism: Sunday Dalí: The Madonna of Port Lligat (first...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:37:17 +0000

surrealism:

Sunday Dalí: The Madonna of Port Lligat (first version), 1949. Oil on canvas, 18½ x 15⅛ inches. The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.

Dalí’s turn towards Catholicism and interest in reusing the iconography of the Italian Renaissance are inextricably married to his reaction to the United States’s detonation of the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. Subsequent paintings depict the atomic properties of objects through dematerialization and by suspending the objects in space, demonstrating the divisibility of matter.¹

This work is clearly influenced by Piero della Francesca’s Madonna and Child with Angels and Six Saints (1470-75) [image link]. Both Madonnas have their hands folded over the infant Jesus. Both paintings also have the iconography of an egg hanging from a seashell although Dalí inverted his shell in the manner of Carlo Crivelli. The shell is a reference to the god Venus, who Mary replaced with the rise of Christianity as the dominant religion in western Europe. The egg is symbolic of new life.²

It is striking to see that what appears to be Freudian iconography in Dalí’s work actually be directly lifted from the Renaissance masters. Further investifation of the Francesca work leads to more questions. Namely, why is Saint Francis (the man to the right of Mary) holding his ripped tunic open? And why is Saint Peter’s head bleeding?³ It all looks so fresh in Dalí’s painting, and yet, the ideas are centuries old.

Michael R. Taylor, Dalí, (Venice: Rizzoli, 2004), 346. ↩

Ibid. ↩

A quick google search revealed that Peter of Verona was assassinated with an axe blow to the head. He was canonized shortly thereafter. ↩

adammlias: Why are there so many songs about rainbows and...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:40:53 +0000

adammlias:

Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide.
So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it.
I know they’re wrong wait and see.

Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
Who said that wishes would be heard and answered when wished on the morningstar?

Someone thought of that and someone believed it.
Look what it’s done so far.
What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing and what do we think we might see?

Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
All of us under its spell.
We know that it’s probably magic.
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I’ve heard them calling my name.

Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors.
The voice might be one and the same.

I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it.
It’s something that I’m supposed to be.

Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.
Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.

oldhollywood: Rita Moreno, West Side Story rehearsal, 1961....

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:52:23 +0000

oldhollywood:

Rita Moreno, West Side Story rehearsal, 1961. Photographer: Phil Stern

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US singer and actress Whitney Houston dies aged 48

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:25:17 +0000

US singer and actress Whitney Houston dies aged 48:

Fuck. Whitney Houston RIP. What a talent, wasted. Somehow hoping this is a hoax.

She played the SECC when she was really young and was on a weird revolving stage in the centre of the hall. *Everyone* wanted to dance but bouncers made us all sit down boo.

nevertoooldtolovemuppets: Beaker singing a rendition of...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:51:10 +0000

nevertoooldtolovemuppets:

Beaker singing a rendition of “Feelings”.

Place the face

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:43:09 +0000

Watching Police Academy there was one face that seemed familiar but just couldn’t think of the name. Turns out it was Kim Cattrall (of later Sex and the City fame). Yep, that’s right, didn’t recognise her with all her clothes on ;-)

"I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:05:00 +0000

“I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming.”

- Dusty Springfield (via funny-quotes-quote)

nevertoooldtolovemuppets: Miss Piggy prepping for her job as...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:17:55 +0000

nevertoooldtolovemuppets:

Miss Piggy prepping for her job as hostess of the BAFTA red carpet!

The Muppets. I laughed, I cried - in a good way

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:22 +0000

Was so looking forward to The Muppets and as it got closer there was a slight tinge of worry, “what if Disney’s ruined them”…shouldn’t have worried! The film was great, would really like to know what today’s children make of it, at times it felt like the script was more for the benefit of the adults, those of us who watched the orignal Muppet Show every Saturday evening on ITV… that suited me down to the ground. I cried 3 times, first was a lump in the throat at the picture on the wall of Henson and Kermit, second - the rendition of “The Rainbow Connection” and thirdly the finale. But all in a very good way. Seriously that’s the first time I’ve shed tears of genuine emotion other than frustration in *years*, have always been so emotionally deadened by Citalopram that the fat tears rolling down both cheeks were quite an achievement. Think the nostalgia pang is quite well explained in Madmen, the Carousel, and the Pang of Nostalgia in the Walking Dead. Remembering back to the original Muppet Movie must have been around 10 when it came out and Kermit was strumming his banjo in the swamp singing The Rainbow Connection, such memories of happier times. Beautiful. I think I’ll be seeing this film more than once. Amazing, just the tonic I needed.

Canny wait

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:50 +0000

Hopefully in a few hours time I will have seen The Muppets. Parents need to take their kids to infect a whole new generation with the awesomeness of Jim Henson’s creations. I love a world where a pig can kiss a frog and he *doesn’t* turn into a prince. Hell yeah!

Kermit rules 4eva

oldhollywood: Above: The partial set from Citizen Kane consists...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:37:58 +0000

oldhollywood:

Above: The partial set from Citizen Kane consists of a foreground doorway and the butler (Paul Stewart), while Kane (Orson Welles) stands on a distant soundstage floor.

Below: The final, deep-focus image was completed with a matte painting by Chesley Bonestell. The live-action elements of the doorway in the foreground and Kane in the background were optically composited with a painted hallway, columns, and floor. The distant reflection of Kane on the floor was painted as well.

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Not Super Bowled over Madonna

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:25:13 +0000

Have only just caught up with watching the Super Bowl and Madonna’s half time performance, sorry, disappointed. Let’s get this straight, she ‘borrows’ Kylie’s entrance routine…which in turn is a rip off of…

Liz Taylor as Cleopatra

I feel we all need to take a Camile Paglia arts history course for this one, mucheth ripping off-of, well anyway…the music. If you didn’t know you could just look at the last number Like a Prayer and think with the pious staging that this was a sincerely religious number. Christ! How times have changed. Don’t we all remember the stushie when the video came out the first time around…seriously…other meanings of those lyrics are available

Madonna - Like A Prayer

I feel like a part of my youth just died, it’s like Sid Vicious started singing tracks from the Sound of Music. Where is the real Madonna and what have you done with her? Still you’ve got to admire Madonna the businesswoman knows exactly that a TV audience of millions of middle America isn’t the one you want to piss off. Shrewd. Canny. Material Girl that you are.

Dusty Springfield - You don’t have to say you love me (by...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:47:10 +0000

Dusty Springfield - You don’t have to say you love me (by tourbatos)

caro: Spotted on a typewriter lying around at Summit Basecamp…

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:36:42 +0000

caro:

Spotted on a typewriter lying around at Summit Basecamp…

"Winners don’t believe in fate like others do. They just don’t accept defeat."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:45:19 +0000

“Winners don’t believe in fate like others do. They just don’t accept defeat.”

- David Silva (via cuore-forte)

liquorinthefront: Elizabeth Mitchell and Angelina Jolie in Gia

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:32:26 +0000

liquorinthefront:

Elizabeth Mitchell and Angelina Jolie in Gia

I'm an aspie!

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:06:00 +0000

Have just been formally diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum and have Asperger Syndrome. A few decades too late but nevermind. Hooray now I can have a card that explains why I’m an anti-social git.

Dilbert’s Love …This is why I don’t have a...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:55:55 +0000

Dilbert’s Love

…This is why I don’t have a smart phone.