December 2011
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ListenLet’s Start the New Year Right Bing Crosby ...
Dec 31st
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Turner Classic Movies alert - tonight (actually, tomorrow morning, technically), TCM Underground will broadcast Charles Burnett’s great movie Killer of Sheep (1977), starting at 4:15 AM (EST). The movie is available on (a very expensive) DVD, but nonetheless not very easy to see, due to rights issues with the music, I believe. I was able to see it at the IFC Theater in Manhattan back in...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– ― Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve 1947 (via amdial) I couldn’t resist re-blogging this, either!
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow...”
– The Dead, James Joyce (1914)
Dec 29th
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A quick note - in the new year, I intend to make my tumblr an outlet for my writing. That doesn’t mean I’ll stop re-blogging posts that interest me; I just won’t do it as often. I’ve been working in that direction in the past couple of days already, but the holiday rush has been making it difficult to find time to write (and as I get older, I get much less sentimental about...
Dec 29th
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ListenI’m a Cuckoo Belle and Sebastian (from Dear...
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Dec 29th
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“A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to...”
– William Butler Yeats, The Mermaid (via seabois) (part of A Man Young and Old)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Anonymous asked: As an interesting bit of trivia that particular version of "Stack O'Lee Blues" was actually written by Cliff Edwards himself. :)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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ListenHelix Sam Rivers (from Dimensions and Extensions,...
Dec 28th
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Listenfyeahcliffedwards: Cliff Edwards - Stack O’Lee...
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Listencountryandwestern: The Handsome Family - After...
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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ListenJust Like Christmas Low (from Christmas, 1999,...
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my...”
– What I Have Learned So Far by Mary Oliver (via growing-orbits)
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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theatlanticvideo: A 1908 Silent Version of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ Courtesy of the Internet Archive, this example of early cinematic storytelling from Thomas Edison’s production company includes live reindeer and sweeping miniature model landscapes.
Dec 23rd
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“But music has a strange power to move us in ways that slip past our intellectual...”
– Jim Reeves’ “An Old Christmas Card”: When kitsch becomes classic Noel Murray, Onion A.V. Club
Dec 23rd
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Listenfyeahcliffedwards: Cliff Edwards - Half Way To...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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  readingwritingandarithmetic replied to your post: confidential to thefinestexampleisyou - there are… I’d agree with some of that. I also like Nice Day For A Sulk, and The Model. For all its imperfections though, you always have a soft spot for the album that introduced you to a band! Very true!
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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confidential to thefinestexampleisyou - there are a few songs on Fold Your Hands, Child that I do love! There’s I Fought in a War; Don’t Leave the Light On, Baby; and The Wrong Girl. Some of the other songs, though, I find very hard to take. Scott Plagenhoef cites Family Tree as the band’s worst song (and quotes Sarah Martin as thinking the same), and I have to agree. It sounds...
Dec 22nd