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Capitol Records at Christmas

Looking down Vine St. in Hollywood- 1977

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the autism thing of having to learn to preface every question you ask with Holy Shit I'm Just Curious Please Dont Yell At Me because it turns out a lot of questions seem to Mean Something and people will get mad if you ask them

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I enjoy those you tube "firsttimelisteningto" Zappa videos. This is the face:

Like the thought of actually discovering this music today? What even can you think? It was fuking weird since forever. But today? When everything is compartmentalized and sanitized?

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this is the single greatest line of dialogue that has ever or will ever exist im so glad the big bang happened and life progressed to the exact line of circumstances that allowed this to happen

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Like, really, who wouldn't love him??

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My 1970s Ace Books copy of Swords against death has an ad for Kent cigarettes just one page into the third story: “Thieves’ House.” Is it a sign of cheap pocket books being such a fast market back then you can have ads in them, like a magazine would? I guess a cigarette ad in a book with death in the title is apt. And the the story is fun, fast, and has a nice ending. I think this was my favorite of the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser books. I only read the first 3 or 4, though, I might be wrong. There was some thing about these stories being less stand-alone than Conan, but still not really planned, that really worked for me. A tone. A feeling. It isn’t Tolkien (of course) but something seedy and chaotic. And feeling is a big part of Fantasy (and horror). It might be one of the reasons it’s so hard to get Fantasy movies right.

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…psychiatry assumes that society does not cause distress in biologically normal people, who are considered biologically normal at least in part because they are economically productive. This assumption permits the conclusion that if a person is distressed to the point of unproductivity, it is because that person—not society—is abnormal. Thus, psychiatry’s commitment to biological essentialism not only masks the role of the constructed sociopolitical environment in creating distress but depoliticizes it by characterizing that allegedly irrational distress as induced by biological abnormality.

– Kiera Lyons, “The Neurodiversity Paradigm and Abolition of Psychiatric Incarceration” (2023)

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Pink 70s sci-fi.

Tim White, Angus McKie, Bruce Pennington, Richard Powers, and others.

So more on my pink tag.

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No movie made in the last year, or 5 years, or 10 years "blew the hinges off the world of cinematography." That will not, cannot, happen. Just as it will not, cannot, happen with oil painting. It just can't. If you think it can, you maybe still have a bit to learn. That's also ok.

Doesn't mean it can'¡t look nice, or be good, though.

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Batman Returns dir. Tim Burton | 1992

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something I really enjoy about Mr. C is that despite being a complete monster who has terrorized Cooper's loved ones with the worst case scenarios possible

his motive is like…absolutely sympathetic, he doesn’t want to go back to the black lodge. we watch him get born screaming in agony from the weight of Cooper's trauma. and inheriting that trauma has made him a miserable paranoid bastard. wretchedly insecure, and wrestling with performing a different kind of masculinity than the version Coop clings to.

as a crimelord he's just as bad at his job as Coop is at being an FBI agent. he’s constantly getting double crossed and betrayed. the only time he’s able to relax is with the Hutchens, who he seems as fond as he can be of them.

when we see him back in the lodge where he belongs there’s such a miserable sense of melancholy about it. the cycle isn’t broken. the suffering doesn’t end. it was for nothing.

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Behring Automotive Museum - Blackhawk, CA (1988)

Designed by Doug Dahlin 

Scanned from a 1990 issue of Designer’s West Magazine 

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Just some of Steve R Dodd’s painted output 2022-24. Many more in the planning I’m told!

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I've been playing 'Cyberpunk 2077' and, while rummaging through one of my hard drives, I happened to unearth a folder of "cyberpunk related aesthetics" that I acquired from who knows where. This is my version of a lazy post.

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Concept art by Robert McCall for Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979). Images from Star Trek The Motion Picture Inside The Art & Visual Effects by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki