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Jackie & Max

THE absolute best romance between two old people in all of cinema, brought to you by Quentin Tarantino in his unfairly-under-celebrated (this is a very relative statement, I know) Jackie Brown (1997), featuring Pam Grier as the titular Jackie and Robert Forster as love-struck bail bondsman Max Cherry, AND the wonderful sound of the Delfonics (see the second clip for the original mono mix of "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) as part of another (of course) excellent Tarantino soundtrack:




I'ma gonna go watch it again right now...

The Gas Face

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Stillman Sunday Afternoon

I'm spending the afternoon with Metropolitan (1990) again.

I swear that I like it for reasons beyond hearing Carolyn Farina's Audrey say my name.

Mad Jack

Please enjoy this wonderful song from the Chameleons' Strange Times until I can take photographs of used raingear I happened across this weekend:

Bob Dylan - "Simple Twist of Fate"

My brother's favourite version:

They Animate!

Simply amazing! For all your animated gif needs: StephD.biz

Oh why the hell not embed this "Between Two Ferns" here too?

I mean it's not like it's not all over twitter and facebook and a bunch of lazy tumblrs already. But it did make me belly-laugh so hard the cat flew from my lap and left me with three bleeding welts from his back claws.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Steve Carell from Between Two Ferns

Girls - "Lust for Life"

I don't know what it is lately, but I can rarely keep my mouse fingers still long enough to watch a music video. And this one? It's got to be at least about a year old, but seeing as how I can't stop listening to this album (which I also slept on for many months), why not post it now? It's not great or anything, but just about as good as it needs to be.

More Bad/Lazy Photographs

Abner Jay Pt.II

Grassroots Festival, 1993:

Psycho Killer

Cooling out to this:

House Party

Isn't it about time to watch it again?

Slattern - Baby Love Hurts

From the lovely and talented Julia Ryckman as Slattern:

Slattern - Baby Love Hurts (Music Video) from Damien Ferland on Vimeo.

Produced by Julia Ryckman
Directed by Travis Cole and Damien Ferland
Director of Photography Ryan Simmons
Lighting / Grip by Kevin Bacon
Edited by Jaimz Asmundson

(c) 2010 Julia Ryckman

Come to Jonathan

Cover Equations

Cover Version vs. Original, videos just because, all based on my personal + subjective enjoyment...

"Atmosphere" ~~~ Pink Mountaintops (a.) = Joy Division (b.)

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" ~~~ The Slits (c.) = Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (d.)

"I'm on Fire" ~~~ Chromatics (e.) = Bruce Springsteen (f.)

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" ~~~ DEVO (g.) > the Rolling Stones (h.) (by a nose)

"Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" ~~~ The Feelies (i.) >>> the Beatles (j.)

"Benny and the Jets" ~~~ Biz Markie (k.) >>>>> Elton John (l.) (and I do love the Elton John version dearly...)

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Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010

Rest in Peace, you crazy old son of a bitch.

Growing Pains

I've just (finally) upgraded the template of this blog, mainly to allow for "Older Posts" and "Home" links to be enabled, so please bear with me for a bit while I work out the kinks like allowing full images to be visible.

The Red Menace

Every time I see this Sherwin Williams logo I fall in love all over again:

AdiFeelings

Lately I get rather depressed when thinking about the imminent demise of my favourite sneakers, a pair of Adidas "Rekord" shoes, seen here from a few apartments and cities ago:



I found those gorgeous things at King's Sports in Winnipeg (they occupy the old theatre where I first saw both Big and *batteries not included) during their formerly-excellent Boxing Day Sale in 2004 while on the hunt for something like the signature "Zissou" shoe from Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004):



(Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, those shoes were never officially released by Adidas, though some took to customization of the original "ROM" style to create, and sell, their own.)

But back then, those Rekords led me down a path of firm Adidas brand allegiance before branching out into New Balance "574" appreciation and eventually letting Nike re-enter my life on account of some of their "Blazer" designs (beware - colourways for both of those types are often potentially offensive to the eye, maybe even the heart). While sneakers and I have been falling out of step in recent years, I always like to have at least a couple different options ready at standby. And while I wait for the nu-rave hangover to blow away from sneaker culture in general with the winds of change while keeping my fingers crossed for another round of Rekord-reissuing, something like this crisp colourway of AdiTennis Hi sneakers might satiate my shoe hunger: