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{votd} Michaelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)
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I remember reading a review of Blow-Up in the very left-wing mid-Sixties magazine, Ramparts, edited by the madman Warren Hinkle, who was a good friend of my dad’s, although I didn’t know it at the time. The review was really strange, straining for meaning, overly verbose and enigmatic. I really couldn’t understand it, though I…
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{votd} 77 Sunset Strip—Episode S02E13, The Jukebox Caper
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Lots of crazy beatniks in this episode. And Edd “Kookie” Burns, one of my first heroes. Roger Smith playing guitar and singing, but he hits it! Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb.
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{votd} The Unknown Life of Julie Newmar Catwoman My Living Doll
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From the YouTube comments: Julie is a cherished friend. She always told me I was “a perfect expression of God”. That’s how she sees everyone. That’s how she sees everything in nature and each bloom in her garden. I cherish her garden tours when she examines a leaf or a petal and describes it with…
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Video of the Day—The City
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The 1939 Documentary that Predates Koyaanisqatsi by 43 Years, Scored by Aaron Copland From the YouTube notes: I’ve been reading a book called The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. There’s a section about music in the 1930’s where Ross describes the film score for a film documentary titled The…
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