The Pogues and Kirsty McColl Fairytale of New York
December 21, 2010
For my Brits! Happy Christmas xo
Holiday Song: Beach House: I don’t care for the winter sun.
December 20, 2010
i’d have to paint the walls an incredible color, but this I love
Dean Martin – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
December 19, 2010
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Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Dean MartinIt seems like the most appropriate Christmas song to post since it’s been snowing here for four straight days now and apparently it’s going to keep going until tomorrow too. I originally wanted to post the Vaughn Monroe version of this song that plays at the end of the Christmas classic Die Hard, but it seems that particular version so incredibly rare that you can’t find it anywhere online (so much for the internet, pfft!). So instead I’m reblogging myself from two years ago, because this version is at the very least second best.
(via ckck)
via The Seventh Seal (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
“The final scene when Death dances off with the travelers was, as I said, shot at Hovs Hallar. We had packed up for the day because of an approaching storm. Suddenly, I caught sight of a strange cloud. [Cinematographer] Gunnar Fischer hastily set the camera back into place. Several of the actors had already returned to where we were staying, so a few grips and a couple of tourists danced in their place, having no idea what it was all about. The image that later became famous of the Dance of Death beneath the dark cloud was improvised in only a few minutes.
That’s how things can happen on the set. We made the film in thirty-five days.”
–Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Films
R.I.P. Captain Beefheart, 1941-2010
Sad, sad news today: Rock and visual art legend Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, has passed away in California due to complications from multiple sclerosis, Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone are reporting. Van Vliet, one of the most influential figures in rock history, was 69.
Markets of Britain by Lee Titt
December 17, 2010
Filmed in Titt Vision
It Ain't Hemingway 