DEXTER DREAMING DARKLY

M-99 Etorphine hydrochloride has been Dexter's real love....his really fucked up relationships with Rita, Lila, and Lumen have culminated in his most human bonding with Hannah........   Rita was killed by Arthur Mitchell; Dexter killed Lila after she attempted, unsuccessfully to immolate him; and Lumen, having lost her "dark passenger" exited her bond with Dexter to have a "normal" life......Now, Dexter, in the penultimate episode of this season, has sacrificed his great love to protect Debra and whomever may interfere with Hannah's co-dependent pathological desire to protect him.....I had imagined that DEXTER would end this season....with Dexter and Hannah sailing into the sunset with Harrison.   That is not likely, is it? 

2011 TEB Pechalat Bourzat exibition dance......

Pechalet and Bourzat were my pick for bronze @ Trophee Bombard, this week......I'm seldom fond of either their choreography, choice of music or costuming....especially since they're French and we do expect a high level of taste from the French, after all!.....American and Canadian skaters seemed a shoe-in.....But, surprise!! Gold for Parisians.......

Asche & Spencer...Marc Forster...+ Ryan Gosling = STAY.....

Asche & Spencer:  Personnel: Chris Beaty (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass guitar, programming); Richard Werbowenko (electric guitar, piano, keyboards, bass guitar, programming); Greg Herzenach (nylon-string guitar); Michelle Kenny (cello); Thad Spencer (electric piano, keyboards, glockenspiel, drums, programming, turntables); Tommy Barbarella (organ, Mellotron); Al Wolovitch (keyboards, bass guitar, programming); Thomas Scott (keyboards, programming); Jim Anton (bass guitar).Audio Mixers: Bob DeMaa; Alan Omerovic; Richard Werbowenko.

Kafka

TED ALLEN PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPH FOR CAMILLE

MARILYN PHOTOS THAT I RECEIVED YESTERDAY…..

 

The Boy Friend

Shirley Temple - Daddy Take a Bow

Midsummer Night's Dream 1935

MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO BALLET WAS THIS ARTSY FILM BY 

William Dieterle, who had the smarts to utilize popular child actor, Micky Rooney and ingenue Olivia DeHavilland, as well as popular film stars, James Cagney and Dick Powell and serious stage actress, Verree Teasdale..... to create this concoction........

FLESH GORDON

 

I just discovered an old VHS tape of FLESH GORDON……..a silly example of Sexpoitative Sci-Fi…..

A tasteful outtake:

Eyes Wide Shut

I listened to Trysting Fields........the touching and lugubriously sentimental music brought up images from ATONEMENT.....and aural links to Phillip Glass...Images from LYCIDAS...the memory of the tempest, lost to sadness without recall upon awakening...like the FLOOD of Jocelyn Pook, emerging feet first from the womb of Eyes Wide Shut, it's seer lost forever in the tangles of a jungle path to the Rainbow's End.......as if there were no end to time, as if Eternity were enough to realize.....as if we were not blind and deaf, watching shadows of passersby, chained by dogma and delusion, focused on a magic trick that seems so real that each wants to believe that it is, but for those who, released magically from the vinculi, turn....shadows evanescing, and walk into the morning light as stars vanish into the firmament and birds sing the darkness beneath horizons....

WILFRED

GREATEST (ha..ha) MONOLOGUE IN TELEVISION HISTORY

JUMPIN' JIVE, Cab Calloway & Nicholas Brothers (HQ)

Il Lavoro- Luchino Visconti

At 17, I saw this with my Father......who was shocked that my tastes were so "decadent"......

SMALL TOWN MOVIE HOUSES

Just in a nostalgic conversation with a friend from my childhood......we were discussing movie theaters in Huntsville.......There were actually quite a few....and, THE ELK'S THEATRE, not pictured.........My contemporaries frequented THE LYRIC, where popular fare like Disney, MGM musicals, Travelogs and current newsreels and old serials from the 40's were shown.....The Lyric would host Talent Contests and kids could bet on old, filmed horse races (!)......It was conveniently located next to a fabulous confectioner, where one could get delicious chocolate-covered candied orange peels and chocolate-covered cherries.......I liked THE GRAND, which always featured the darker-textured WARNER BROTHERS films, lesbian-themed women's prison flicks and Outer Space movies....all in B/W....all noirish......The Central, in the old dilapidated mill district, showed low cost films from the 30's and 40's, where one could get a fill of CARNIVAL OF SOULS, DRACULA or low-budget "B" films......The drive-ins were for make-out movies like THE IMMORAL MR. T or movies with teen sex...like PEYTON PLACE....

FAG HAG from FRUITFLY

The Trip

YOU DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD STOP THERE, DID YOU?

Apache Dancing..........Dior Dancers

ACROBATICALLY FANTASTIC: FIERCELY COMEDIC: DOWNRIGHT WACKY: PRELUDE TO MURDER:

Hiram Keller Undercofler Jr.

I met Hiram in the late 80's.....immediately recognizing him as Ascyltus, a character from Fellini's SATYRICON.......he died of liver cancer.....sadly.....

The Little Rascals - The Pinch Singer (1936)

I was always eager to watch a LITTLE RASCALS short at the Lyric Theater.......They've stood the test of Time......

I rediscovered this stack of goulish photos and posters........as a 12-year old, I snipped pics from Famous Monsters of Filmland and read creepy novels like Werewolf Of London and Dracula.........This collage has a bit of my collection and a bronze that seems to fit the mood......

 


    The Bubble or the Spirit by Kalabi

Visconti: Death in Venice (1971)

The Holy Mountain

FUGAZI.........WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

maybe Fugazi's taking a break to slow dance.......don't all bands...eventually?

The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)

SENSO

Film making doesn't get any more georgeous.......Visconti working with Zeffirelli!

Spectacular staging, set design and musical interpretation!

I wonder how the film would have taken form with Bergman and Brando.....Visconti's first choices for the leads.........Nevertheless, this great film works as grand scale Opera in the older Stage Theater format...splendidly.......despite the many moments when the cast momentarily lost their connection to the depths of personal emotional involvement that may have been completed by involvement with Stanislavsky's newer acting methods.......