When Company Comes

[wehadfacesthen]

Alain Delon as Tom Ripley in Plein soleil   AKA: Purple Noon  (Rene Clement, 1960), a French film based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley

Trop belle pour vivre….

[prominentmen]

Lou Reed and Garland Jeffreys, Syracuse University, 1962

[theoldrounder]

Btw, Garland Jeffreys’ new album “14 Steps to Harlem” is excellent

[zippy49]

agree

[johannas-motivational-insults]

“They didn’t get everything. There was something inside her they couldn’t take away. She looked invincible.”

[synctest]

something wild (1986)

[zippy49]

Gonna watch Jonathan’s Something Wild commentary on Filmstruck tonight. And I’m gonna cry. He was the sweetest man.

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: The Feelies’ Stanley Demeski

Forty years ago, some young men from Haledon New Jersey started a rock band named after an Aldous Huxley reference. The Feelies shared influences (the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, the Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones) and ultimately stages with the punk bands that played at CBGBs and other clubs across the river in New York, but never a sound. Their white-knuckled guitar rave-ups propelled terse tales of suburban anxiety and musical transcendence stood out from the rest of the Stiff Records line-up at least as much as the fact that they were American and the rest of the line-up wasn’t. After their first LP Crazy Rhythms the rhythm section quit and guitarists Glenn Mercer and Bill Millions recruited drummer Stanley Demeski, percussionist Dave Weckerman, and bassist Brenda Sauter, who have been with the Feelies ever since. Since Feelies time encompasses long dormant phases, Demeski, who provides our Listed today, has also had time for stints in Luna, Speed The Plough, Winter Hours, and East Of Venus. The Feelies just released In Between, their first album in six years; Bill Meyer’s review of it for Dusted notes, “The Feelies may tell small tales and play like they’re living in them, but it all rings true.”

Demeski had this to say about his list: I’ve done these before, mostly on stupid Facebook, so I’ll use the “10 LP’s that influenced my playing and general taste in music” theme for this one. I’m going to try to go in chronological order.

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[colchrishadfield]

Roses are red Violets are blue If I were your island I’d be Corfu

[danselzer]

Roxy Music - Pyjamarama I have never seen this live version of one of my very favorite songs by one of my very favorite bands, as posted to facebook by another favorite, Roy Montgomery. So many favorites.

[whatsthesound]

The new album just might be pretty great.

[focalmuseum]

[wowdanascully]

[bittertwee]

I think going back to my late-90s fantasy of me as Scully will make these next four years more bearable.

[zippy49]

I made this earlier today and it has been shared a couple hundred times on FB. I’m not accustomed to such reaction, but my God, Trump scares the living daylights out of me.

[pixeljazz]

Studio photography of Expressionst dance costumes (made by Walter Holdt & Lavinia Schulz). Minya Diez-Dührkoop. 1920s. Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

[wehadfacesthen]

Montgomery Clift, 1953

[wehadfacesthen]

Director Carol Reed confers with Orson Welles during the filming of the sewer scenes in The Third Man, 1949

[movieposteroftheday]

German poster for PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA, 2016)

Designer: TBD

Poster source: The Film Stage

[call-that-reverend]

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Pedro Almodovar, 1990)

[zippy49]

I have been beta-testing Filmstruck for the past few months and started watching this again last night. I hope the streaming service is affordable because I love it!

[stevebadgers]

Gene Wilder (1933-2016) “On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.” Be free.