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Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!
Postmodernism for Dummies. Po-mo ought to involve a basic respect and understanding of the source culture, even as one repurposes its artifacts.- Fletch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you listening to?
That piece kicks a. Not written for the movie, but inspired by it. -
What are you listening to?
Top of the Town - Gertrude Niesen with orch. dir. Cy Feuer, 1937 Torch singers aren't usually my thing. Neither are songs about New York. But this one is unusual because it is not overdone. You can imagine sitting on the Zilch-Plaza Moonlight Roof with some mellow band playing, knocking back... -
What are you listening to?
That is pretty damn remarkable. Of course today, Metropolis is something you put electronic trance music over. Because everybody knows movies are timeless art, but their music is just drivel and fluff. -
The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.
A British Land Girl, reason enough to go back to the land. -
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We Deserve Better--Or Do We?
Welcome to the club, bub. This woman is an undiscovered national treasure and could probably be the next Joe Bageant if she cared to quit being undiscovered.- Fletch
- Post #58
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
Oriental Illusions - Slim Lamar & His Southerners, 1928 Weird expressionist grotesque chinoiserie. Listening to this is like snorting mah jongg tiles. And I mean that in a good way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islzpVrZqMI -
What are you listening to?
Jerry the Junker - Clarence Williams & His Washboard Band, 1934 "Junker" used to mean "junkie," and it still means a man who scrounges for records at thrift shops and garage sales. Clarence's description of his "ragged clothes and worn out shoes...everything just seems to ooze" applies either... -
Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
Hoagy Carmichael, whistling past the poorhouse in 1930 with a thing called High and Dry. Irving Mills' Hotsy Totsy Gang provides the horsepower. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtOH1UwhPkE -
Interview with former CEO of Wilis & Geiger
Even if Sears were willing to sell off the brand - companies have egos; many would sooner half-arse a thing themselves than let someone else do it right - a marketing team that was wide-awake and hip enough to really do such a project might never get the chance. Mass marketers only talk to, and...- Fletch
- Post #4
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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What are you listening to?
I Wish I Were Twins - Emil Coleman & Orch., 1934 Another of Frank Loesser's clever pre-Broadway lyrics, which he disowned in later years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyjJisnKeyo -
Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo - California Ramblers, 1927 Kazoo only heard in last chorus. Otherwise quite a bang-up performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKufiE7imSk -
What are you listening to?
Old Joe's Hittin' the Jug - Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys, 1936. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEm3KxpwkI -
Interview with former CEO of Wilis & Geiger
"It’s all speculation, but they were afraid that we would get it back and embarrass them by making it into a phenomenon." And they didn't want to cash in themselves...and now, neither does the Sears-K mart combine. Shame on them. Someone who's seriously passionate about the W&G type of...- Fletch
- Post #2
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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What are you listening to?
Cokey - Benny Goodman & Orch., 1934. The King of Swing before Swing had a name. -
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The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works
It's to go with the dancing esthetic. Dancing ain't about music anymore. It's about being faaaabulous!- Fletch
- Post #411
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Vintage Polo Shirts
Who is that devoon young thing in the sandals? She's tan as a nut. French, of course. From 1932, the "Do X Shirt," named for the famous giant flying boat, and also for the doeskin feel of the chamois lisle fabric (up till then used mostly in gloves). It opened with a Talon half-zipper, an...- Fletch
- Post #65
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Vintage Polo Shirts
I associate the pre WW2 polo shirt with a sewn self-fabric collar, rather than a knit one. The one I'm wearing here is a cheap Italian make called Stile di Vita.- Fletch
- Post #63
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What are you listening to?
I've Got An Invitation to a Dance - Paul Pendarvis and his Orch., 1934. One of those great forgotten dance bands. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FkCuTHZRk -
The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.
Lawrence Gray, star of the MGM film Children of Pleasure, 1930. The lid might easily be one of Simonds' current line.
