Mr. Willie Mays is 82 today. happy birthday sir, and many more.
my childhood nostalgia happy place is baseball on the radio.
games:
Indians - Braves, 1948 WS Gm 1
Braves - Indians, 1948 WS Gm 5
Red Sox - Yankees, 1949
Giants - Indians, 1954 WS Gm 3
All-Star Game, 1956
Cubs - Dodgers, 1957
Dodgers - Reds, 1957
Giants - Dodgers, 1957
Yankees - Red Sox, 1958
Dodgers - White Sox, 1959 WS Gm 1
White Sox - Dodgers, 1959 WS Gm 5
Mets - Cardinals, 1962 (the very first Mets game)
Yankees - Cardinals, 1964 WS Gm 7
White Sox - Red Sox, 1967
don't sleep on the archive of grateful dead shows over there. extra credit if you read this terrific New Yorker article on grateful dead recordings.
i never had a vision or dream for a wedding. my honeymoon, however, was always a cerulean fantasy of white beaches and tumblers of white wine. i am not one to deny the dreams of youth and slim aarons' photos of attractive people doing attractive things are my current inspiration.
(here i am in greek ruins, steeping in history.)
Movies i watched in March, in order of viewing. This is month three towards my 365 movies in 2013 resolution.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2009) / no.
Sling Blade (1996)
Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)
Rosemary's Baby (1968) / rewatch
Meatballs (1979) / bill murray forever
Public Enemies (2009) / long and full of nope.
Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (2006) / rewatch
Splendor in the Grass (1961) / smoldering.
The Imposter (2012)
The Thin Red Line (1998) / rewatch / the most beautiful devastating movie i know.
Barbarella (1968)
Paris is Burning (1990) / rewatch
Inception (2010) / rewatch
Bellflower (2011) / do not recommend
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) / sorry, but i hated this movie
The Fifth Element (1997) / rewatch
Team America: World Police (2004) / rewatch
Captain America: The First Avenger (2001) / rewatch
The Master (2012)
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
January and February movies
Photo sources: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
Lee Friedlander
Stanley Kubrick
René Groebli
Brassaï
Peter Keetman
Susanne Schapowalow
Bert Stern
Francesca Woodman
Cecil Beaton
Vivian Maier
Richard Avedon
Willy Ronis
Ed Feingersh
marvelous! famous versions of the oft-maligned social media/dating profile selfie from some incredible timeless photographers. i've taken some of these exact self shots, in store windows and reflections. i love these so much. via everyday-i-show
Movies I watched in February, in order. This is month two towards my 365 Movies in 2013 resolution.
How to Survive a Plague (2012)
Bernie (2012)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Wreck it Ralph (2012)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Mermaids (1990) / rewatch 
Closer (2004) / rewatch
The dialogue in Closer struck me upon second viewing, particularly Clive Owen's delivery.
Velvet Goldmine (1998) / rewatch / Velvet Goldmine is always a good idea.
Jeff Who Lives At Home (2012)
Mea Maxima Cupla (2012)
The Wedding Singer (1998) / rewatch / Always.
Rushmore (1998) / rewatch / Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.
Valentine (2001)
Moulin Rogue (2001) / rewatch
F for Fake (1973)
Cronos (1993) / Unexpected Ron Pearlman.
This is Spinal Tap (1984) / rewatch
Savages (2012) / Terrible.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Les Miserables (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Planet of the Apes (1968) / rewatch
This Is England (2006)
Dreams of a Life (2011)
Stake Land (2010)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) / rewatch
Cape Fear (1962) / Robert Mitchum in this movie is menace personified.
Animal House (1978) / rewatch / This movie gets better the older I get, which is such a treat.
Cabaret (1972)
Clue (1985)
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My January Movies
The Plague Years, In Film and Memory
Garance Franke-Ruta, The Atlantic
ACT UP worked because America worked. I'm not sure we expected that, even as we hoped for it.
Seth MacFarlane and the Oscar's Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night
Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
What the women actually showed during the evening was that they worked a lot harder, and a lot smarter, than Seth MacFarlane.
Why Clothes Cost What They Do
Well Spent
Only thing I can say about that graphic is, to quote Ed Lover, “C’mon SON!”
David Lynch is Back...As a Guru of Transcendental Meditation
Claire Hoffman, The New York Times Magazine
Bob Roth had told me that Lynch said he was working on a new script and that it was typically dark. When I asked Lynch about this, he paused, annoyed. “Bobby’s got a big mouth,” he said.
Anne Helen Peterson, The Hairpin
But back in the early ‘50s, Brando was operating on an entirely different level than everyone around him — kinda like LeBron before he betrayed the entire state of Ohio, Blake Lively when she was still a Sister of Traveling Virginity-Losing Pants, or Kanye when he was the sixth headliner at the Sasquatch Music Festival in 2004 and you got too drunk on vodka you’d smuggled in using plastic ziplocs shoved into your bikini bottoms and all you can remember is Kanye strutting across stage in a purple sequined suit yelling JESUS WALKS WITH MEEE!!!!!, but bygones.
American Idol Recaps
Dave Holmes + Paul F. Tompkins, Vulture
Cristabel Clack has the best name I’ve ever heard, and the hair of a Mexican Morrissey superfan, and I’m going to have to set a keyboard shortcut for “slowed-down version of” because everyone is doing slowed-down versions of pop songs tonight.
(I have not watched one single moment of American Idol since Kelly Clarkson won, but these recaps are so funny I shake with laughter. You don't need to watch the show to appreciate the clever genius of Dave Holmes. For a special treat, revisit Paul F. Tompkin's Season 10 recaps as well.)
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