it’s been a busy few months. i will tell stories soon.
The first two and a half minutes (including the famous backwards title sequence) of Robert Aldrich’s KISS ME DEADLY.
The studio of director Georges Méliès just prior to its destruction.
(via chained and perfumed)
(via 50 watts)
I wrote that song while I was recalling working with a bunch of kids when I was a psychiatric nurse. I worked with these kids and their parents would blame the music they listened to for the problems they had in their homes. I would see a lot of this, but I think that music is an entire net good in the world; no child has ever been harmed by music. So, I wrote a song about a couple of guys that get in trouble for playing death metal and get sent off to hospitals.
—John Darnielle on “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” (via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)
gloria swanson in beyond the rocks (1922)
(via theloudestvoice)
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people’s performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment.
Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a graduate school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.
—from david mamet’s true and false: heresy and common sense for the actor
for sale at drawn & quarterly: ozu prints by adrian tomine.
(proceeds will be donated to the japan society’s earthquake relief fund.)
dziga vertov’s storyboard for man with a movie camera (1929)
(via the daily notebook)
