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lizzygrantarchives · 13 years

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GQ, September 19, 2011

"My look? I'm going for 'I live in Monaco but don't f*** with me'," laughs Lana Del Rey. A delightful combination of wide-eyed naivety and trash-talking savvy, the 24-year-old New Yorker (born Lizzie Grant) is dressed in vintage high-waisted jeans by Versace and a folksy horse-print jumper when GQ.com meets her in London's Soho. Currently riding a colossal wave of hype thanks to viral hit "Video Games", Del Ray is slowly adjusting to her life in the spotlight: "I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me" she says guilelessly. Here she talks about admiring Kurt Cobain, dancing like Snoop Dogg and asking the "invisible whoever" for advice...

Which question are you bored of answering already?

I'm a little embarrassed by the "gangster Nancy Sinatra" thing. That was supposed to be a joke. No one listened to anything I did for eleven million years so I put all this stuff up on my Facebook page, [but I was] just kidding. You know how these things happen - if a big blog prints something about you then everyone just takes it. I remember one day I had eleven Google Alerts about it…

Are you more comfortable with the whole David Lynch association?

I would have been more comfortable with it if it had been something that was only mentioned a few times. But of course the David Lynch tip is not a bad way to go, is it? I didn't really know he was an influence but when I was 17 I kept singing in bars and everyone kept coming up to me saying, [adopts quizzical hipster tone] "Are you a fan of David Lynch?" I looked it up and realised that basically everyone thinks I'm a f***ing weirdo. I think it was because I was singing about disturbing things while being sort of happy.

Can you describe the way you dance?

I drop it like it's hot. You should come to my show. My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs. I get down. Literally. You'll see. [laughs]

Which British man do you think has great style?

I would have to jump on the Mark Ronson bandwagon. [adopts indeterminate "British" accent] He always looks really noice.

Which lyric are you most proud of?

There was an older song that you've never heard called "Pawn Shop Blues". [sings] "In the name of higher consciousness / I let the best man I met go / Because it's nice to love and be loved but it's better to know all you can know." Because I remember I'd met someone so special and famous but I knew he wasn't enlightened about how to be a good person. I knew it would get in the way of me becoming a nice person. That's a difficult choice to make.

What's your hangover cure?

I don't drink. I used to a long time ago. I used to drink a lot, but that was seven years ago now. It's something I still think about all the time but I'm much safer without it.

How did you meet this famous person?

Um, it was in a self-help group. [laughs]. He wasn't that famous. I just thought he was famous…

TV famous or movie star famous?

Rock star famous. Just middle of the road ish. To me he was famous because I didn't know anyone who was wildly recognisable. I remember thinking it was exciting at the time.

Do you get chatted up a lot?

By boys, you mean? Yes! I do. [giggles]

Do they hope you're going to sing about them?

Maybe so. I think the musicians do. The rest of them just hope I'll be their girlfriend. [squeals with delight] People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says hi during the day. I always say, "Oh, it's nice to meet you, thank you, but I'm actually married." Then I've had a lot of people say, "But are you happy?" I think that's the creepiest question. It's funny, but nothing is f***ing sacred!

You're a huge Nirvana fan. How exited are you by the Nevermind reissue?

Well, I'd have to say I'm not that excited because I already have everything. Bootlegs? No, I have all the stuff regular people would. But I mean, on a scale of one to ten how excited am I about ever having heard them and loving them? Just off the charts. Come to think of it, the first music video I ever saw was "Heart-Shaped Box" on MTV when I was eleven. It wasn't even the music at first, it was just him. [deep breath] Him is enough - totally. [smiles]. Two nights ago I watched Live At Reading, which I never saw [before]. I was sitting there watching it with my friend. It's weird when you see something that you have never seen about someone you love. It's like finding a gem. You don't want it to end.

Can you recommend a good book?

Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill - that will help you. I'm listening to audio books now. I've actually been listening to newscasts on this new movement in biology of creating human life through synthetic chemical compounds. I couldn't believe that was really happening.

What's the oddest request you've had from fans?

I've gotten strange messages. I've had people be really persistent - asking me where I'll be all the time and can they come and just meet up. You know, you get it all. But it was kind of the same fanbase for a really long time since I was 17. I can honestly say it's only in the last three months that there have been more people at all who have listened to me. There are new fans out of nowhere, which is strange. I've gotten poetry - it's good too. Are there lots of "sweater / better" rhymes? No, that's all me. [laughs] I can't believe that's the one you like.

What was the first hip-hop record you became obsessed with?

The first Biggie Smalls track that I really loved I would say, just like everyone else, was "Juicy". I realised what cool was. I wasn't that young - I was 15 and my best friend at school, who is still my best friend today, was actually my teacher. He was a white English teacher who played basketball and listened to hip-hop. I didn't know what everyone thought was cool. He played Biggie Smalls for me in his car. I didn't really know that there was that space for storytelling in songs. I thought, "Everything I thought I could do, I was right about." You could keep it really smart. Some of the people I met were pretty traditional and I was [already] singing some sort of weird things pretty young.

The video for "Kinda Outta Luck" features a number of well-dressed men. What should every man have in their wardrobe?

I guess it does - I've never thought about that! That's a good question. I go for almost everything because I'm jumping worlds a lot. I like a good suit - Scott Disick-style. I like the whole pocket-square style but I also like getting back to basics - the wife-beater and jeans.

What's the most important item on your rider?

I don't have a rider. [giggles] I'm not that demanding. In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee. In New York, The Waverly is a good place to be if you want to relax because of its big, sparkly red booths.

Have you ever fired a gun?

Only a few times. I'm much worse than I thought. My uncle takes me to the shooting range sometimes - just a rifle and a handgun. It's really loud too. Last time the shells were flicking back and skimming my face - I thought, "Jesus Christ!" I think if I was a little stronger I'd get into it.

How many tattoos do you have?

I only have one. [reveals small design on her hand] It was scarily unpainful. I looked away and then looked back and it was there. I thought, "You can do a lot of bad things in one second that you can't take back." I did it five years ago. I think by the time I die I'll only have one more.

What music do you love that would surprise people?

I don't have that many guilty pleasures because I don't like that many things. It's hard to say what people think of you - my tastes haven't changed. I've listened to the same thing since I was 15. I've been listening to film scores lately because that calms me down. Particularly Thomas Newman's score for American Beauty - it's just sick.

You're up on the ceiling covered in roses?

Yeah, in my mind! [laughs]

How important is religion to you?

Like so many people, they always state the difference between faith and religion. The faith that I've come to find is a science of my own through lots of trials and errors. I've been through so many different walks of life that I've needed to ask a lot of questions that no human power can answer. I've had to seek a lot of guidance. I've had to pray a lot because I've been in trouble a lot. But it's not until you do that that you realise there are answers out there to be found.

What's the best piece of advice you've ever received?

To thine own self be true. Seek and ye shall find. There's a science to prayer, I would say. I think sometimes when you're really faced with a huge life dilemma or problem and you've turned to every sort of thing for answers, sometimes the last resort is to pray and to put out a question to the universe in your mind. Even when you put your question out there, you ask that invisible whoever "What do I do?" you sort of get answers; you forget the problem all over again.

Who, in your opinion, is overrated?

I wouldn't answer that even if I knew! Everyone? [laughs] I can think of many people. As Fran Lee said, "Just because you feel entitled to share your life with everyone doesn't mean you should do so." [pauses, smiles] Such a bitchy thing to say...

Originally published on gq-magazine.co.uk with the headline GQ&A: Lana Del Rey.

#2011 #GQ #Andy Morris

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therecordconnection · 2 years

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Ranting and Raving: "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney & Wings

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1973 is a major year for Paul McCartney. It’s the year he finally started seeing success again after the Beatles. His new band, Wings, finally starts taking flight that April after the single “My Love” tops the Billboard Hot 100. Its subsequent album, Red Rose Speedway, finds success that the first Wings album didn’t find. At the end of the year, Band on the Run comes out and through the strength of its title track and “Jet,” it becomes the top selling album of 1974 in the U.K. and Australia. In between Red Rose and Band on the Run, McCartney finds another success, this time within the world of film. The latest installment in the famous 007 James Bond film series (based on a series of novels by Ian Fleming) is set to release in late June. This time, an adaptation of Fleming’s Live and Let Die will be gracing the silver screen. McCartney and his lovely wife Linda (who is also the backing vocalist/keyboardist in Wings) are the ones who will be tasked with providing the theme song for it.

Even in 1973, being the artist that provided the Bond theme for the newest film was considered a great honor. Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, and Nancy Sinatra are a few of the famous voices who had delivered great Bond themes just a few short years before the McCartneys wrote one. Bassey and Jones even scored Top 40 hits out of them (“Goldfinger” peaked at #8 for Bassey, “Thunderball” at #25 for Jones). Paul and Linda however will do one better: “Live and Let Die” will peak at #2 on Billboard, being the Bond song that performs the best until Duran Duran takes the #1 title in 1985 with “A View to a Kill.”

But more importantly than that, “Live and Let Die,” to me, serves as the turning point for Bond themes. Starting with this song, Bond themes officially breach containment and begin to live second lives as pop songs that are almost completely divorced from the movies they’re written for. The nature of the Bond theme changes with McCartney’s contribution, but that might also be due to the fact that ‘73 was the year the nature of the Bond film series itself underwent major change.

Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who originated the role of James Bond in 1962, played 007 in every film (except On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969) until Live and Let Die. After Diamonds Are Forever in 1971, Connery refused to return for another film. When Connery declined, producers needed to find a new actor to become James Bond. Sir Roger Moore ended up getting the job, starting with Live and Let Die and ending his tenure, after seven adventures, with A View to a Kill.

(Roger Moore and the main cast of Live and Let Die)

I admit that I’ve always found myself gravitating more towards Moore’s time in the role over Sir Sean. The campier nature of those films and the cheesy escapism of them makes for a fun movie night. They’re larger than life stories and they revel in the absurd. They don’t take themselves that seriously, which I see as a positive. On the negative side of things, Moore’s era is often criticized for being too campy and over the top. More action, more car chases, more ridiculousness and snark, and none of the more serious, gritty, cinematic elements that Connery’s era cemented into legend. If you ever wondered where Michael Scott might have gotten ideas for Threat Level Midnight or wondered what fueled the Austin Powers series, Moore’s time as Bond was the model.

Live and Let Die suffers from these criticisms. It’s dated as all hell, mostly due to the film being made during the height of Blaxploitation. Because of this, the movie suffers from a good number of bad 70s stereotypes. Let me paint a picture for you: Black gangsters all speak like Dolemite, pimpmobiles are present, Bond is referred to as “honky” at least three different times. At it’s best, Live and Let Die is a fun and silly action-adventure film and serves as a ridiculous time capsule from a different age. At its worst, the movie would be considered problematic by today’s standards. One very good thing can be said though: McCartney’s song has aged wonderfully.

This most likely has to do with the fact that McCartney didn’t have much to really work from. When writing “Live and Let Die,” the screenplay for the film was unfinished, which meant that his only source material to pull from was the Ian Fleming novel, which in itself is a gambit because he couldn’t be certain just how closely the film was going to follow the book. In Paul’s 2021 book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, he writes about the backstory of how “Live and Let Die” was written:

"Writing a Bond song is a bit of an accolade, and I always had a sneaking ambition to do it. Ron [Kass] told me the film was called Live and Let Die. The screenplay wasn't finished at that point, so I got the Ian Fleming book, and it's a real page-turner. I just spent that afternoon immersing myself in the book, so when I sat down to write the song, I knew how to approach it. I didn't want the song to be, 'You've got a gun. Now go kill people. Live and let die.'" That's just not me. I wanted it to be, 'Let it go. Don't worry about it. When you've got problems, just live and let die.' Once I had that thought in my head, the song almost wrote itself."

Just as McCartney had the pressure of bringing a new Bond theme into the world, Roger Moore had the pressure of having to reintroduce the world to James Bond. How do you breathe new life to a character and adapt it to your specific strengths? How do you do this while still retaining all of the things that made people fall in love with the character in the first place? Ultimately, it was Moore that had the bigger pressure to deliver the goods, but McCartney’s song certainly helps and I think McCartney’s more pop direction for the theme served Moore’s first outing as Bond more than something orchestral, sweeping, and cinematic like the themes to From Russia With Love or Goldfinger did. “Live and Let Die” has a “movie theme” vibe to it, but it’s much more over the top and silly sounding by comparison, which suits the direction that the seven films made with Roger Moore would eventually go. Getting a pop songwriter like McCartney to provide the theme just feels right when considering that.

Roger Moore’s first outing in Live and Let Die immediately separated his Bond from Connery’s version. For starters, Moore had a more dapper look than Connery and a kinder looking face. He had the look of a classic playboy, natural with a cigarette and a martini in his hand at the bar. While both Bonds were charming womanizers, Moore’s Bond was more of a smooth talking ladies man, where Connery was often rude and chauvinistic. Most importantly, Moore was a witty son of a bitch, having an utter mastery over one liners and elite quickness with a joke. The man had snark on lock and was the kind of Bond who looked and sounded like he talked his way out of situations rather than solve them with violence and weaponry. Connery’s version of Bond wouldn’t have fared well with the campier, goofier “popcorn movie” direction the series would take through the rest of the 70s and 80s. It was clear that Eon Productions (the company behind every Bond film) wanted to create movies that not only made a lot of money, but appealed to a wide variety of audiences. Action! Adventure! Romance! Thrills and chills! Bond delivers on all of this and more.

As does McCartney’s song. I’ve spent a lot of time so far writing about Bond and the movie that the song was written for, but really, it almost doesn’t matter when you look at the song itself. There are probably plenty of McCartney fans who are completely unaware that the song is the theme to a movie of the same name. There’s nothing in the song’s lyrics that is exclusive to the movie. Granted, songs like “Thunderball” and “You Only Live Twice” don’t have anything exclusive to their respective movies either, but they still don’t sound like pop songs you could hear on the radio or out in the wild. McCartney made a smart move by playing to his strengths and writing just a straight, well constructed pop song, which is always a good use of your Paul McCartney.

The song itself contains at least three different and distinct musical ideas. Think like how “Band on the Run” is three little songs strung together to make a single piece. The first part starts very simply with McCartney at the piano, delivering a damn fine melody. The lyrics are vague enough that you can either relate them back to James Bond or relate them to yourself, which adds to the listener’s ability to divorce it from the movie. It’s a hopeful song. If you have problems, if something just won’t go right, just let it go. “Live and let die.” McCartney takes the title of a pulp spy novel and turns it into a philosophy of casting aside the things that don’t work anymore; the things that mess with you.

When you were young and your heart was an open book / You used to say live and let live / (you know you did, you know you did, you know you did) / But if this ever changing world in which we're living / Makes you give in and cry / ... / Say live and let die

Those three little piano notes and that brief empty space in the song right before McCartney sings, “Say live and let die” kills every single time I hear it. The explosion and combination of guitar and horns gives the song that grand, cinematic feeling. It’s fantastic. The way that the orchestration takes over and drives the song. You can almost picture car chases and gunfights in your head as it’s going. It rises and builds until it crescendos and becomes... a reggae tune?

What does it matter to ya? / When you got a job to do / You gotta do it well / You gotta give the other fellow hell

It becomes a reggae tune for about ten seconds before rising again with “You gotta give the other fellow hell” and letting the orchestration back in the driver’s seat. It’s a weird shift and even weirder, it still works. That bit came from Linda McCartney, a woman who had a love of reggae music and somehow found a way to work it in, proving that she enjoyed off-the-wall musical ideas in much of the same vein that her husband did. It’s one of the most memorable parts of the song and it adds to the fun of the whole thing. There’s no way to know if it was fully intentional on Linda’s part, but the movie does have a good number of scenes that take place in the Caribbean, so the idea of this sweeping, loud, grand movie theme turning into a reggae tune real quick is a musical idea that does tie into the film. If you’ve seen the film, the connection makes sense. If you haven’t, it’s just another oddball idea in a McCartney song. “Live and Let Die” gets to enjoy the best of both worlds.

The major reason I think “Live and Let Die” has gotten to live a life beyond the movie it was written for is due to the fact that it’s just a well constructed and well executed song. When McCartney plays the song live, he makes it as wild and over the top as any Moore-era Bond film. When he sings “Say live and let die” in concert, the explosion of sound following it involves a good deal of pyrotechnics, fireworks, and sweeping spotlights. It’s a fantastic number and it’s not just a great Bond song, it’s a great song, period. There’s no dead weight that could be trimmed from this thing. It doesn’t even suffer from the classic McCartney songwriting issue of not knowing how/when a song needs to end. It’s a perfect three minute affair that has great musical ideas stuffed into it. It’s pure and classic McCartney in its greatest form. There’s so many little moments in this song that you wait for and you fall in love with every single time. It's a fun ride that's just as exciting and thrilling as the movie it was written for.

“Live and Let Die” is the song that proved a Bond theme didn’t have to just be tied to the movie it was written for. It can exist beyond it. Marvin Hamlisch and Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better,” Sheena Easton’s “For Your Eyes Only,” and Duran Duran’s “A View to a Kill” are all great pop songs that followed in the wake of what “Live and Let Die” pulled off. You don’t have to have seen The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, or A View to a Kill to love those songs, just like you don’t have to have seen the movie Live and Let Die in order to enjoy the song that borrowed its name. Great pop songs have a way of living their own unique lives and finding an audience beyond what they were written to be, whether commissioned for a movie or not.

When you got a job to do, you gotta do it well and this song does its job very well.

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Lana’s alternate titles and noir aesthetic

#lana del rey #lizzy grant #elizabeth woolridge grant #lolita #gangster nancy sinatra #queen of saigon #not all of them though #noir #noir aesthetic #black and white #cherry-interlude #i found a great website

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fruitchouli · 3 years

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born to die as a fragrance

key words: heart-shaped sunglasses, american flags, roses, cigarettes, lolita, chateau marmont, coney island beauty queen, red nail polish, money, chunky gold jewelry and hoops, hip-hop gangster nancy sinatra, red dress, james dean, converse, flower crown, pumped lips, gold tooth, diamonds

possible notes: cherry cola, cherry pie, cherry schnapps, daddy’s cherry pipe tobacco, cherry lollipop, cherry chapstick, rose, vanilla ice cream, champagne, dark liquor, normal girl florals, sugar, hairspray, lipstick

born to die lana could wear: lady danger by mac (amber, cherry, patchouli, saffron)

14 year old girl who wants to be born to die lana could wear: tubereuse 2 virginale by histoires de parfums (tuberose, cherry, frangipani)

40 year old in a crop top dancing at the dive bar who thinks she’s a lolita could wear: bendelirious by etat libre d’orange (cherry, champagne, leather, iris)

honorable mention: modern muse le rouge gloss by estée lauder (cherry, vanilla, rose, vinyl)

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thealmightyemprex · 4 years

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1960′s Bond films ranked

,1960′s was the era of Bond mania ,and it was the decade with the most movies ,with 7 movies(Second to it is the 80′s with 6 movies ,then the 70′s with 5 ,90′s and 2000′s both only had 3 each ,and 2010′s only had 2 ) ,and since the 60′s is the most classic era of Bond ,I decided to rank the 60′s Bond films

7.Casino Royale(1967)

Yup I am counting the unofficial movies too and this is the only film on the list I would say is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.This is a crappy movie,pure insanity with no clear vision and it commits the biggest sin of a comedy :ITS NOT FUNNY .....Woody Allan as a Bond Villain is a funny joke though

6.Thunderball(1965)

Only Bond film in which I have read the book.It’s an OK book ,love some of the characters but it was just fine .....But I like it better then the movie .This is a boring movie to me ,Largo is only remembered fondly cause he has an eyepatch as he is a lame villain ,Domino is a lot less interesting then her book counterpart ,there is a cringeworthy scene with Bond blackmailing a physiotherapist into sleeping with him ,there is a random character who is important to the plot but the film doesnt treat him this way ,the Q scene feels less playful and more meanspirited and underwater battles sound cool in theory ,but are dull in practice .That said I do like aspects ,Connery is good ,I like the SPECTRE scene (Love Shadowy Blofeld ) ,the pre title action scene is great (Complete with ACTUAL WORKING REAL JETPACK ),The theme song performed by Tom Jones is AMAZING ,and I do love the films main henchwoman Fiona Volpe ,she is such an awesome baddie I wish she was the MAIN villain .I know it’s considered a classic but I just cant get into it

5.You Only Live Twice (1967)

THis one I am .....Mixed about . I think it’s directed well ,there are some cool camera movements,the Little Nellie gyrocoptor is awesome ,the fight scene against the driver (Played by Peter Maiva ,the grandfather of Dwayne “The Rock “ Johnson ,which is awesome ) is pretty badass , The Volcano Lair is SPECTACULAR (PRobabbly the best villain lair in the series ) ,Tiger Tanaka is a likable ally ,Aki is a great Bond Girl,Nancy Sinatras theme song is good ,it’s cool seeing a snapshot of 1960′s Japan ,the final battle is epic ,and Donald Pleasence is FANTASTIC as Blofeld ,bringing such a creepiness to a character who has been built up for 5 movies .....But what holds it back for me is Connery looks so damn bored throughout the entire movie ,the plot I dont really care about ,Helga is just a rehash of Fiona and not even in a interesting way ,KArl is such a boring henchman ,Aki is killed off just to be replaced by Kissy who is less interesting and I dont know why they didnt just have one Bond girl ,DOnald Pleasence is barely in the movie ,and then you have Bond going undercover as a Japanese man......Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah.This is just such a mixed bag of a movie for me

4.Dr No (1962)

Now lets get to the good ones.This is a lowkey Bond adventure(As they couldnt afford to do one of the bigger stories ) ,and I imagine that can be jarring for someused to the high octane globe trotting adventures of the other films,and I have seen some calll it Vanilla .....And I kind of like the simpler vibe of this film .Connery comes out the gate swinging ,he is suave and with moments of brutality.Both the Bond girl and villain arent in the film long but Ursula Andress is memorable as Honey Ryder and Joseph Wiseman as Dr No while only getting really one scene to show off has a cold detached delivery to his lines that makes him extremely eerie (Would’ve preferred a Chinese actor and am distressed none were even considered but thats the 60′s for you ) .Anthony Dawson makes for a good secondary villain as Professor Dent ,Jack Lord is a cool Felix Leiter ,John Kitzmiller is great as Bonds ally Quarrel ,the film sets up Bonds dynamics with both Bernard Lee’s M and Lois Maxwell’s Miss Moneypenny ,both making strong first impressions ,the film is brutal with it’s action ,and overalll it’s a good introduction to the world of Bond

3.Goldfinger(1964)

The iconic Bond film .This film is fun ,plain and simple. It has flaws (Mainly there being a whole section of the plot involving gangsters that makes absolutely no sense and how Pussy Galore turns good is REALLLY cringeworthy) but I feel like the rest of the film is awesome .The villain Auric Goldfinger is one of the best (Easilly my second favorite in the series )ruthless and greedy but with an odd sense of charm ,I just love watching him .The films main henchman Oddjob is also awesome ,a super strong silent loyal thug who kills people with a toss of his killer bowler hat .Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore is fantastic ,easily one of the best Bond girls,and while I dont like how her arc is handled,I do like that she starts off as a baddie .The film is full of classic moments from Goldfinger and Bonds golf game ,the laser scene (And the classic exchange “You expect me to talk”*Chuckles*”No mr Bond ,I expect you to DIE!!”),the fight between Bond and Oddjob in Fort Knox (Which is a gorgeous set by Ken Adam ) and of course the iconic image of the dead woman painted gold .I also have just a personal fondness for this film as when I was a kid we had a whole bunch of Bond films on VHS (From Dr No to Live and Let Die ) and this was the one I watched the most

2.From Russia With Love (1963)

I flip flop on whether I like Goldfinger or From Russia With Love more ,and I think I prefer From Russia With Love ,for one simple reason :Goldfinger is a fun action romp .....From Russia With Love is a genuinely intriguing spy movie .It’s also cool cause it is a direct sequel to Dr No which is an anomaly in the classic Bond films. There isnt one villain in this film ,it’s an organization ,SPECTRE ,meaning we get a whole ensamble of villains (Including creepy evil genius Kronsteen and SPECTRES head thug Morzeny),but the stand outs are Red Grant played by Robert Shaw of Jaws fame, a sadistic assassin who is sort of Bonds dark mirror and Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb ,a former SMERSH agent now working for SPECTRE ,who is commanding in every scene .....EXCEPT fore when she is around the films true villain Blofeld,in those scenes she is TERRIFIED ,and thats a detail I love cause it adds to Blofeld mystique,that if he can scare KLEBB he is a force to be reckoned with .I also love that we dont actuallly SEE Blofeld beyond his hands stroking his cat ,and yet personality wise we get everything we need to know (That and his deep commanding voice which I LOVE ) .We also get Kerim Bey who is hands down the BEST Bond sidekick ,he is so lovable and charming,it’s hard not to like him.Connery is excellent as usual ,all the action is awesome including Bond evading a helicopter ,a climatic boat chase,an encounter with a deadly piece of footwear,and a absolutely brutal fight between Grant and Bond on the Orient Express .If I have one complaint I am not that fond of how the Bond Girl Tatiana is written but Daniela Bianchi does a good job .Overall this is a great movie

1.On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

This is my favorite Bond movie .It is at it’s core a love story and a damn good one .Diana Rigg steals this entire movie as Tracy ,she is the best Bond girl .Telly Savals is charming ,intelligent ,but also tough as hell as Blofeld ,he is my third favorite Bond villain and hands down my favorite Blofeld .I think the film contains one of the best evil plans (And surprisingly relevent over 50 years later ),Irma Bunt is a terrific henchwoman ,Gabriele Ferzetti is entertaining as Tracy’s criminal father Draco ,Louis Armstrongs We Have All The Time In The World is a terrific love song ,I love the setting of the Swiss Alps ,the film somehow makes a BOBSLED chase badass ,and the ending is unforgettable .Now the one common complaint people have is George Lazenby ,and while I agree he isnt great ......He is a good Bond ,and he hits the dramtic notes when he needs to .I adore this movie and reccomend it to non Bond fans even

#James Bond #007 #1960's #casino royale #thunderball #you only live twice #on her majesty's secret service #from russia with love #goldfinger #dr no

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lanadelreydailysource · 5 years

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The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s:

Lana Del Rey, ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ #32

The most potent work from pop’s “gangster Nancy Sinatra.” In collaboration with Jack Antonoff, Del Rey continued to harness the Sixties and Seventies American nostalgia that has echoed throughout her work since she first reached public consciousness. With this round, however, the nostalgia is less a camp rouse than a PhD thesis on and tribute to the era’s greatest poets, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, in which Del Rey dissects the Americana she once fetishized. From the moment she sings “goddamn, man-child” on the opening, title track, NFR! feels both timely and timeless, chock full of political and cultural references du jour (“Kanye West is blond and gone”) alongside on-brand nods to her jukebox heroes (Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy; Crosby, Stills, and Nash). “It’s not like I’m always trying to evaluate the state of the American dream, or my version of the white picket fence,” she told Rolling Stone this year, “but there was some kind of version of [that], where [Antonoff and I] both felt the culture was.” —B.S.

#alternativequeens #lana del rey #dailylarina #ldredit #ldreyedit #lanadelreyedit

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tfc2211 · 5 years

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01 - Ennio Morricone - Comandamenti per un gangster 02 - Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice 03 - Eden Ahbez - Myna Bird 04 - Lee Perry - Bird In Hand 05 - Psychic TV - Orchids 06 - Riz Ortolani - Love With Fun 07 - The Congos - Congoman 08 - Martin Denny - Simulau 09 - The Frantics - Werewolf 10 - Ennio Morricone - Dies irae psychedelico 11 - Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Willow's song 12 - Boyd Rice - Disneyland Can Wait 13 - Bobby Beausoleil - Movement The Third 14 - Lalo Schifrin - Enter The Dragon 15 - Scientist - Red Shift 16 - Leonard Nimoy - Visit To A Sad Planet / If I Had A Hammer 17 - Butthole Surfers - Hurdy Gurdy Man 18 - Lee Perry - Kimble The Nimble 19 - Leonard Nimoy - Music To Watch Space Girls By 20 - Honey Ltd. - The Warrior 21 - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Sand 22 - Ennio Morricone - Scusi, facciamo l'amore 23 - Priscilla Paris - My Window 24 - Crescent - Shadow 25 - Boyd Rice - Theme from Pearl Before Swine 26 - William Shatner - Theme from Cyrano / Mr. Tambourine Man 27 - Eden Ahbez - La Mar

#music compilation #A Wild Mix #audio #This Is Special #nancy sinatra #lalo schifrin #butthole surfers #Leonard Nimoy #william shatner #ennio morricone #martin denny #lee perry

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fornpt1 · 5 months

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#nancy sinatra #gangster nancy sinatra #video games #polls #born to die #paradise #usa #donald trump #lana del rey #coquette #fashion

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cesarescabinet · 5 years

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Unosuke, Inspector Zenigata, Luke Skywalker

Unosuke

favorite thing about them: I genuinely love how he looks--his aesthetic. If he were an anime character he’d have arguably my favorite character design. It all works together so well--the scarf, the pistol, and even the way he presents himself in his kimono. I love how he’s equal parts foppish and intelligent. He’s the youngest brother, he’s the smartest brother, and he’s going to make sure he’s one good looking gangster damn it. I also love the brief comedic touches Nakadai adds to the character that really scream “yeah this is the youngest sibling alright”.

least favorite thing about them: Well...he is a gangster, and a bastard at that. A lovable bastard, but a bastard nevertheless. (Alternatively: He’s a character that deserved more focus. I feel like he has potential to be fleshed out more, but I know Kurosawa’s whole point was not making a sympathetic gangster ala Matsunaga from Drunken Angel. Not saying Unosuke should be sympathetic—but rather explored more from a character front.)

favorite line: "Who’s banging that prayer drum? I don’t need any prayers…” (Here I think the audience gets that Unosuke is self aware and knows that he’s getting what he deserves. It’s bits like this in the movie coupled with Nakadai’s acting that I think flesh out the character a bit for me.)

brOTP: Sanjuro and Unosuke, because Kurosawa robbed us of a great bromance that could have been. Mainly, though, because they recognize each other as equals and seem to see each other as necessary threats. Unosuke even calls Sanjuro “two-bit” like some sort of nickname at some points.

OTP: None. Tbh I think Unosuke would probably be a pretty shit boyfriend considering.

nOTP: None, thankfully.

random headcanon: Unosuke is a spitting image of his father, except his father was actually a good man. Another is that he has a drive to prove himself and is more insecure than he comes across.

unpopular opinion: I think in general I probably like this character moreso than Kurosawa intended for the audience to—but I don’t think I’m alone on this front. You cast a charismatic actor in a villain role--what do you expect, exactly?

song i associate with them: His theme (which sounds like something out of The Jungle Book so it’s appropriate), and a certain Nancy Sinatra song (for obvious reasons).

favorite picture of them: Dat jawline tho.

Koichi Zenigata

favorite thing about them: His devotion to justice. I love the fact that he’s willing to work with Lupin when he recognizes that there are bigger criminals to take down and does have respect for him.

least favorite thing about them: His ego tends to get the better of him.

favorite line: None—he has too many good lines to pick just one.

brOTP: Lupin and Zenigata. It’s a delightfully love-hate relationship for the both of them and Lupin referring to him as Pops cements it.

OTP: None in particular.

nOTP: None

random headcanon: None

unpopular opinion: None

song i associate with them: Zenigata March variation. I think it encompasses all the aspects of his character.

favorite picture of them: Does this count?

(courtesy of just-zenigata-things)

Luke Skywalker

favorite thing about them: I like how Luke has limits, interestingly enough. He’s willing to believe in the best in people up to a point—in the OG trilogy he wants to believe in the good in his father but recognizes that it may be too late for him. Regardless, he keeps that hope. It’s a realistic bit of character building that people can emphasize with.

least favorite thing about them: He’s too stubborn at some points and that costs him quite a bit over the course of the story. Also he was originally whiny but then again—he changes over the course of the story.

favorite line: “You failed, your Highness. I am a Jedi like my father before me”. Beautifully poetic line and gives me all sorts of feelings.

brOTP: Luke and Han

OTP: None

nOtp: Luke and Leia for obvious reasons.

random headcanon: Luke wonders quite often what could have been if his father had survived and carries the grief of his death for decades.

unpopular opinion: None

song i associate with them: Binary Sunset

favorite picture of them: Kevin Wada, baby.

#thanks for the ask!#long post #unosuke #star wars #lupin iii #ask

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popstarryeyed · 5 years

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I don’t know much about Lana del rey, can I ask how she’s problematic?

- a lot of her earlier songs (off born to die specifically) kind of glamorize a older man/younger woman, sugar daddy/sugar baby kind of relationship (she literally has a song called "lolita"). i'm not really offended by it because i read it as a persona she's putting on, but i think at the time there was some worry about her teenage audience internalizing harmful messages, which i guess is fair.

- her musical style (again, mostly on born to die) is a unique mix of vintage-y pop and hip-hop beats, leading her to, at one point, call herself things like "gangster Nancy Sinatra" and "Lolita lost in the hood".

- she wore a native american headdress in the video for her song "ride".

a lot of these things were early in her career so i'm not really bothered by them. she's moved on artistically in a lot of ways. i also think people had a lot of problems with her because she's one of the main Tumblr Indie Girl artists, which meant she was seen as cringy and pretentious. not that that isn't true to a certain extent but it was also a bit of tumblr outrage culture, let's make a list of Why This Is Bad And You're Bad For Liking It.

saying "yeah i know she's problematic" was sort of a defense against that, like, yeah, i know, i'm not blindly praising her and i'm allowed to point out the merits of something that isn't 100% Morally Pure.

#ask #anonymous #lana del rey

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rufusrant · 5 years

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Tag game

Thanks@casafrass for the tag! <3

BIRTHDAY? july 9

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN? ♋️

HEIGHT? 1.6m. or as i’m told, 5 foot 2

LAST SONG I LISTENED TO? some velvet morning by nancy sinatra and lee hazlewood

HOBBIES? drawing, writing, comics, reading, playing card games and daydreaming. i do this the most out of everything here.

FAVOURITE COLOUR? pinkpinkpinkpink

LAST MOVIE I SAW? who framed roger rabbit 🐰

FAVOURITE BOOKS? too many for me to list here. here’s my goodreads

DREAM JOB? cartoonist

MEANING BEHIND MY URL? rufus is an old gangster pal. rant is because i complain a lot in real life. lol

and thus i tag,,,,, @meyaclaw33 . and @brandnewovernight ! and anyone else who wants to do this x>

#tag!#queue me

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cherry-interlude · 6 years

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Making Out - Lana Del Rey Lyric Breakdown

Requested by @vwxyz56789

Hiya, honey

Her informal greeting sets the tone for the song - she’s a young, wild girl who likes to have fun

What ya doin'?

I been hula-hoopin' waiting for you, aah

Hula-hooping is something quite young children do, so she is still young and has no responsibility; she’s been waiting for this person so she knows who they are

Whoa haters, fakers, mass-manipulators

Don't know what you're tryin' to prove

She can’t understand people who don’t act themselves - she does what she wants without thinking about how she looks or what people think of her, so she criticises those who hate on her, pretend to be something else or lie for their own gain

I'm the New York City queen queen

Lana has referenced being the queen of New York and other variations of such a title, and she doesn’t feel bad about who she is and the way she feels about herself

You should hear me sing sing

Baby I'm the real thing, check one two

Lana knows of her own talent and that she has something real rather than, say, autotuned

Stop looking at my train-wreck life and start

Listening to the way I sing the blues

Lana is troubled and has a lot of things going on that are a “train-wreck” (possibly drugs, her alcoholism, the trailer park, her frequent allusions to being a stripper/prostitute) but wants people to focus on her music

You know, I know what they say about me

I know that they think I'm danger

People know that these things (listed above) make her into a wild and possibly bad-influence, and she is aware that people may be wary of her for that

So what if it makes me happy, happy, happy?

Lana likes being “danger” and having a wild life, as she loves being the ‘gangsta Nancy Sinatra’; she likes the way she comes across and possibly standing out

It doesn't really matter what you say

'Cause I ain't gonna quit 'til the day I die

Lana is herself and she won’t change just because people are talking about her

I'll be taking drugs, doing shots, making out in parking lots

Lana does all of these wild things that people tend to look down on because she loves it; she wants to be who she is; she descends her order of bad things she does, most likely using the worst (“drugs”) to be shocking

With any little boy I spot

The boys are “little” to her so she doesn’t think much of them

Baby you can't stop me, stop me, no

When I'm hot, I'm hot

She’s too hot to stop, which could mean if you try and stop her you’ll get burned (metaphorically), though in the literal sense she’s a beautiful young woman that may be considered cool

Hi ya honey

How's it goin'?

Saw you skipping up on TV looking blue aah

She’s speaking to someone she knows who made it famous but seems to be unhappy

You're shakin', makin' music and you're famous

This girl she knows is a dancer and a singer, possibly like her; this girl reflects Lana herself

Deep down you're the same girl I knew

The girl hasn’t changed, the same way Lana may not change when she becomes well-known

She said, “I know what they say about you

The girl she knew tells her that she is aware of Lana’s reputation

I know that they think you're crazy

I know that they are mistaken, baby, baby”

The girl still knows the real Lana and doesn’t think she is what everyone says; the criticisms of her behaviour don’t mean Lana is actually a bad person

CHORUS

Singing for the gangsters

Lana likes the bad boys and the gangsters so she wants to perform for them - and possibly with them - so her music is aimed at that kind of audience

Chasin' all that paper

She wants to earn a lot of money

Living life so dangerously

She’ll do all the dangerous things even if it may end up killing her

And there's nothing for my anger

Lana’s a very passionate person and she can’t get rid of her aggression (which does link to her “singing for the gangsters” lyric of how they often have aggressive music and she may write that kind of music too); she doesn’t try to hide her anger, she is uncontrollable

Money is my saviour

Lana loves money because it can get her out of bad positions

I can be whatever I think

Lana wants to be what she wants without people’s opinions

It's like heaven heaven

Though it’s dangerous, it’s still her idea of heaven, which her actions very much oppose

Living on the edge never knowing where I'm going to be

Lana hasn’t got any responsibilities or ties; she doesn’t have her life planned out

And I'm dreading, never settling down

The possible meaning is secretly she is dreading never being sensible or planning her future properly as a responsible person, though she may just be pointing out she is “never settling down”

That's when dying is beginning to please

“Dying is beginning to please” could actually mean “becoming older (being responsible) is something people actually enjoy” - meaning when you settle down, you feel happy that you’re a mature adult living a life that keeps going until you get old and die; she may be “dreading” never having the feeling of that; she refers to getting old as “dying” because she has a pessimistic view of no longer being free

CHORUS

I like requests

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