Well you started here to earn your pay (Yeah, yeah, industrial estate) Clean neck and ears on your first day (Yeah, yeah, industrial estate) Well we tap one another as you walk in the gate (Yeah, yeah, industrial estate) And we'd build a canteen but we haven't got much space #FallFriday

Statue of Ieyasu Tokugawa in Nikko, Tochigi prefecture, Japan. Photographer Bernard Languillier of Flickr. Ieyasu Tokugawa was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate.

If your girl quietly murmurs, "mmm," whenever you say something... that's not your girl. That's legendary Japanese actor and frequent Yasujiro Ozu collaborator Chishu Ryu.

The importance of wearing appropriate attire while exercising cannot be overemphasized.

As he marches along the prison corridor, he wipes away a tear from each eye, gradually turning back into the hardened, self-assured version of himself he needs to be amongst his fellow inmates. But that inimtable Cagney strut is starting to falter - his resilience has a limit.

I had that dream again

Current #mood

I bet Wile E Coyote has a really pretentious Substack. #TCMParty #BugsBunny

Le Partant (Guy Gilles, 1969)

Tonight's viewing - "Carême" - Continued

I've been around a while now and if I've learned anything, it's that sometimes in this crazy old world you've got to blow up your own bullfrog. As in, nobody's going to volunteer to do it for you. Hermione Yerfrog

You get a 5 minute head start head start before I tie the lasso.

Ah, sweet mystery of life!

Lupe Velez, actress, hams it up and glams it up on passenger train (1929) Photos: Chicago History Museum

Heading outside, but on full alert.

Surreal television ad for Beefheart’s Lick My Decals Off Baby LP, 1970. youtu.be/X8gwhaWV_OU?...

Jonathan Richman, mid-70s.

Havana

Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose (M. Nijinsky, Le Spectre de la Rose), by Emil Otto Hoppé English, born Germany, 1878–1972 1911, printed 1913 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/215401

He: In my newest acquisition, all the ladies are naked! She: Please trade it in for one where the men are naked too. Collector's Gallery by Cornelis de Bailleur, born OTD 1607.

Katharine Hepburn and John Carradine in Mary of Scotland (1936)

Fan made cut up using a documentary on William Burrough's cut-up technique as the source material.

Errol Morris (with scenes from his 1978 documentary about the pet cemetery business "Gates of Heaven") - BOTD

“Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.” -John Carradine #BOTD

$27.2m for Michelangelo’s foot at Christie’s. That’s $1.15m per square inch.

Herman Leonard, Billie Holiday’s Glasses and Music, New York City, 1955.

John Carradine #BOTD In Mary of Scotland, 1936 publicity photo

Marcello Mastroianni

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ” -William S. Burroughs #BOTD Francis Bacon and William S. Burroughs in London, 1989

Faster Pussycat, skate, skate!

"The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?" -H. R. Giger #BOTD

And the winner is......

Good morning!

I had that dream again

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis - Gay porn was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Flower girl, 2004 by Cynthia Consentino, US sculptor and ceramics artist #WomensArt

A man playing the William Tell Overture by himself on a musical machine he designed and built solely for that purpose.

A demon making a condemned person into noodles. ~ Nichosai (late 17th early 18th Century)

Chemin des Chats — Claude Cahun, 1948

The Young Rajah Wanda Hawley and Rudolph Valentino 1922 • Phil Rosen

I had that dream again

Macbeth. 1948. Directed by Orson Welles.

Feed / Mind cleanse ... Some Victorian #cats inside boots