INTO THE MILD: Recent Episodes
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Marc Maron’s excellent career spanning interview with director Todd Haynes had me revisiting Haynes’ once highly bootlegged film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. The 1987 short focuses on Carpenter’s struggles with anorexia, and was made almost entirely with Barbie dolls. With the title track stuck in my head for days, I dug up my favorite […]
I finally read Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. One of the benefits of reading a book of this ilk in this day and age is to have streaming media at your disposal to provide the appropriate soundtrack, and hunt down any digital artifacts referenced by […]
If you are like me, you have lived your entire life unsure as to if Roy Orbison was blind or not. That being understood, learning that Orbison was cast as a sharp shooting ace in a 1967 MGM Western was a revelation. The Fastest Guitar Alive tells the tale of Orbison’s Johnny, a Civil War era confederate spy/troubador, […]
Next to The B-52s and Lou Reed cameos in One Trick Pony, The Lovin’ Spoonful cameo seems pretty unremarkable. They were contemporaries of Simon & Garfunkel in late 60’s, so it’s not entirely surprising that they made an appearance in a Simon vehicle. Their part in the movie is during the scene where Paul Simon’s […]
One Trick Pony is a 1980 Paul Simon movie with a soundtrack that doubled as Simon’s Warner Brothers debut. The vehicle is technically a fictional biopic about a successful 1960’s rocker named Jonah Levin (Simon), as he endures the 1980s, a dwindling fan base, tepid record executives, and a marriage on the rocks. It’s part road […]
The Girl Can’t Help It John Waters waxes poetic on the the gaudy greatness of Frank Tashlin’s The Girl Can’t Help it, one of Hollywood’s first Rock N’ Roll musicals.”He understood how beautiful bad taste could be.” (Via http://www.theseventhart.org) More praise for Tashlin’s craft. (via Projectorhead) Rabbithole: Cat People Stevie Ray Vaughn shreds on Cat People […]
Not traversing any uncharted territory here, just spinning some warm Giorgio Moroder vibes to fend off the impending winter. In 2015, Cat People probably plays like a b-movie to some, but when compared to a true changeling b-movie, like 1981’s The Howling, Cat People is a cut above. A psycho sexual horror flick with some […]
Stanislaw Zagorski – Cover Artist The other day I dissected the cover art of The Velvet Underground’s Squeeze, and it’s similarites to the Loaded cover artwork. Loaded was designed by graphic designer Stanislaw Zagorski, one of the trailblazing Polish graphic designers who founded the Polish School of Posters. Click above to read a great article […]
Found this used this week for 4 dollars. Couldn’t resist. A young and happy Debbie Winger, a guy I thought was Michael O’Keefe, a murder mystery with a Joe Jackson audio backdrop? Sign me up. The soundtrack opener, “Cosmopolitan,” picks up where Wings’ “Live And Let Die,” left off, with an intro that nods to […]