Rule, Brittaniea! Miss Beehive 1963
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!, originally uploaded by ~BostonBill~
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your [...]
Cowboy in Polynesia
In Wake of the Red Witch (1948), John Wayne plays a pearl-hungry sea captain obsessed with revenge after a love is stolen from him. Wikipedia refers to his portrayal of Captain Ralls as villainous but I see it more as bitter, not evil. Wonderful B-movie, complete with everything from stock images of dancing natives to [...]
Hello. Is it me you’re looking for?
Met a girl at the dog park today. She asked my name and replied with I know you!
Oh yeah, how?
From your blog!
That’s never happened to me before. Hello, Cortney.
Too bad that dog park smelled like and was covered in shit. Humans, there is a poop scoop law in Houston you know.
Bathtub
When I get real sad I go to a club, drink enough beer to fill a bathtub. — Women’s room graffiti at Rudyard’s in Houston
The Raven, Alma and Hemingway-esque
The Raven (1963) has pretty fantastic credentials. It’s four main stars are Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a very young Jack Nicholson, and it was directed by Sixties B-movie deity Roger Corman. Only loosly based on the Poe poem (like, only the first and last lines), the movie fails to live up to [...]
You can have your Cake
Here is a psychedelic performance by Sixties girl group Cake that pretty much embodies everything I love about the mod/psych era. Especially the dancing. And the makeup.
Link comes from Mod-ified Music, who has more info on the NYC trio.
Two Thousand and Great!
Thus begins The Year of The Experimental Living Apart Project, round one of which is a week underway. (Please ignore the fact that we are already 8 percent finished with the year. I have been spending my days moving more than 2,000 pounds* worth of possessions from one hemisphere to another so can we just [...]
It’s a little late, but…
Your guide to 2008. Thank me later.
Okay, so…
Maybe I got an iPhone for Christmas. But I still refuse to watch movies on a screen the size of a mailing label.
In other news, David Lynch = my hero.
“CD-ROM disk”
Common errors in the English language.
The Seoul of Houston
…It seems that many of the Korean-owned businesses aim at Spanish-speakers more than Anglos. (Someone should open a restaurant out here called Jose Cho’s TaKorea.)
John Lomax and David Beebe explore Houston’s Long Point neighborhood. I’m not missing kimchi or gamjatang enough yet.
The Never-Ending Past
Travel often brings about feelings of inadequacy. You feel that you’re doing the same ol’ thing as everyone else, experiencing the same things, following a predetermined path set out by the gods of Lonely Planet, and so on. And you meet people half your age doing the same things and having identical reactions to their [...]
Money is exponentially related to problems
I don’t care if it’s old. It still cracks me up.
Chili Peppers, eat your heart out
Updated: Do you like how this is basically turning into a tumblelog? I’ll have something actually written by me soon enough. (Including pictures!)
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