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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} 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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