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  1. Doctor Strange

    Northwest Hats, Eugene, Ore.

    Selfie with the beautiful "early thirties" fedora I just got from Mike. I only wanted a center dent to start, but I may decide to add front or side dents later. This my first custom hat - and my all-beaver-felt hat - and I'm very glad I decided to go with Northwest. The quality of Mike's...
  2. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Tetro, a Francis Ford Coppola film from a few years ago - 90% of it in stunning b/w. In present-day South America, two damaged brothers - sons of a world-famous German conductor - attempt to reconcile after many years apart. Talk about a dysfunctional family! Not great, but it's very...
  3. Doctor Strange

    What Have You Acquired From Family?

    My grandparents had a candy store in Manhattan from the early thirties to sometime in the fifties. It was well before my time, but I believe it was somewhere on 1st or 2nd Avenue near the 59th Street Bridge. I've got a little display set up of artifacts from the store, most notably the "No. 25...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    David Cronenberg is a unique filmmaker. I don't like all of his films, but some (The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, etc.) are masterpieces. And I think his more recent run of less-body-horror, more mainstream films are all excellent - A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, A...
  5. Doctor Strange

    Northwest Hats, Eugene, Ore.

    Yesterday I received the custom early thirties fedora I recently mentioned here. Mike did a wonderful job, it's a thing of beauty. I will try and get some head shots up in the next few days.
  7. Doctor Strange

    Carol -- a New Film Set in the early 50s

    Note that Far From Heaven takes a very different approach, in that it was explicitly made to look exactly like the overwrought fifties melodramas made by someone like Douglas Sirk (e.g., Rock Hudson in All That Heaven Allows). It uncovers the ugly realities beneath the glossy surfaces and the...
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    Carol -- a New Film Set in the early 50s

    I finally saw this on cable yesterday. As I said way back at the start of this thread, I love many of Todd Haynes films, but some leave me cold. This one left me cold. Sure, it's gorgeous to look at, but Haynes' fetish for surface details has become worse: I can only handle so many loving...
  9. Doctor Strange

    Schott 141 Classic Racer Leather Jacket (Size 42)

    I've got a 654. It's a great casual jacket, but you should be aware that it's not a "real" moto jacket like the 141: No removable liner No bi-swing or action back No side waist adjustment buckles Sleeve zips are purely cosmetic - there's no internal loop of leather, they don't tighten the seal...
  10. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I plead guilty to turning on the close captioning in situations like that.
  11. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Timeless is okay, and I agree that it's doing more with the ramifications-of-timeline-changes-to-personal-lives than even The Flash, which is surprising, since that show thrives on that trope. I am hoping that the show will get away from too-famous events like the Lincoln assassination as it...
  13. Doctor Strange

    What hat are you waiting for today?

    Wow FedOregon, yours is a beaut too!
  14. Doctor Strange

    What hat are you waiting for today?

    I'm awaiting a custom beaver fedora from Northwest Hats. It's coming UPS slow boat and won't be here for a few days. A classic style seen in countless late twenties and early thirties films and pictures: pale gray, wide black ribbon, straight sides with just a center dent, 2-5/8 bound brim...
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    Show us your photography

    Thanks. It's been a couple of years since I last did b/w, and I wasn't really sure the results were going to be worth the effort of dragging around that heavy Nikon F2. But they were! Of course, "effort" is relative. In the forties and fifties, my dad used to shoot weddings with a 4x5 Crown...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I also checked out the pilot episode of Timeless. Its regular-characters-visit-famous-events-in-the-past-every-week approach reminds me of Time Tunnel... but without all the stock footage from old Twentieth Century Fox period films that Time Tunnel was built around. It's not great out of the...
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    Show us your photography

    Okay, how about some actual old-school photochemical b/w photography? On a recent trip to Seattle, I shot good old Tri-X in a 1971 Nikon F2 (with the 45mm GN Nikkor lens - the smallest/lightest Nikkor - along with a handheld circa-1950 GE Selenium light meter). I developed in the classic soup...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I've owned a 16mm print of Bride of Frankenstein since the 1970s. I have it (and some of the others in the series) on VHS and DVD too. Friend good! But the point I wanted to make about Desperate Journey is the classic scene where Reagan "explains" their new high-tech equipment to their German...
  20. Doctor Strange

    You know you are getting old when:

    Okay, I went through a period of intense Jefferson Airplane fandom in my early college years (the mid-seventies, after they'd already started morphing into Jefferson Starship). They were a tremendously influential psychedelic band with really strong musicianship, and the textbook example of...
  21. Doctor Strange

    Agent Carter

    Okay, I watched the Conviction pilot last night. I don't think it's got a chance of succeeding. Do we really need another legal procedural set in NYC?!? I found the two cases in the episode, and the costar members of the team, hopelessly boring. Atwell is, of course, great, bringing her...
  22. Doctor Strange

    You know you are getting old when:

    I'd like to know who do you think is a great songwriter if not Bob Dylan?!? I'm no fan of his voice/performance, but he's a remarkale songwriter.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Despite being in my sixties, I only heard the earlier incarnation of Mac for the first time recently... and was thoroughly unimpressed. More Brits playing blues, and not at the rarified level of say, Clapton. I guess you had to be into them back then. The post-1975 Mac however, is classic, a...

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