Shades of the “Brian’s back!” era of Beach Boys live shows.

Ad for costumes for ushers to wear during screenings of the perverse horror classic THE BLACK CAT (1934) #Caturday

#NowPlaying After his tiptoe into new territory with Swordfishtrombones was a success, Tom Waits followed it with his confident full-strength masterpiece Rain Dogs. Playing this again, I find I’m word-perfect on the lyrics.

The endless loop on BBC News of Mandelson emerging from his front door and getting into a police car is like the end of the first Dr Strange movie.

Porridge remake: casting latest

Enjoying this vibrant design for the menu at The Harbor Restaurant on Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara. Its owners, incidentally, have included actors Jimmy Cagney and Ronald Colman (1957) www.santabarbara.com/attractions/...

#KennethWilliams100 I have this photo by my work desk, Kenny forever suggesting, Are you quite sure about that?

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist

The Fencer by Sven Brasch, 1919.

I’ve long thought Meat Is Murder would be considered The Smiths’ masterpiece if the wheels hadn’t come off with the last two songs (The Queen Is Dead is crammed with filler). So here it is, as glorious as it might have been. open.spotify.com/playlist/75x...

#sammydavisjr meets #godzilla 🤯🤯🤯

#NowPlaying A great bluesy record in the New Orleans style, the band led by the great Buck Clayton.

#NowPlaying Languid vocals accompanied by just guitar and bass—a lovely late-night record in the Julie London style.

Picked this up for a quid yesterday (and it includes a second disc of remixes), and who’d have thought the Manics were a singles band? It’s banger after banger.

Epsloot shah

Listening to ABC’s The Look of Love and its line "Martin, maybe one day you'll find true love", I recall that I love songs where the singer names themselves. Others are The Human League’s “Love Action” and Bowie’s Can’t Help Thinking About Me” AND Teenage Wildlife. Any others?

#NowPlaying Feat. Valentine’s Day. Martin Fry’s Citizen Kane.

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The Betrayal (1966): The cruelty and injustice of the world incarnated as hundreds of murderous swordsmen encircling and surging towards one noble individual. The last twenty minutes are among the most cathartic in cinema.

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. Boiled eggs and Cornishware (2nd Picture Book, 1970) Artist: Harry Wingfield

#NowPlaying Hold on, you say, harp and flute jazz? Yes, but it swings!

#NowPlaying Oscar Peterson recorded a mountain of songbook/show albums, and many are straight run-throughs of the tunes, but this one is markedly more ambitious.

#NowPlaying I pair this lovely valedictory jazz-with-strings record with Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin.

Film star Albert Finney, a bookmaker’s son from Salford, died on this day 2019, aged 82. Here he is at his dad's betting shop, Broughton Road, Salford, 1970s.

Art Deco door at Villa Leihorra in Ciboure, France designed by Joseph Hiriart in the 1920s

Moved on to this chilly masterpiece, Nat King Cole stepping into Sinatra territory with the assistance of Gordon Jenkins. The magnificent title track opens with bonhomie and resolves in sheer despair.

King of Queens

Twitter was ruined, but Bluesky offers a replication of how it used to be. Is there an app that’s doing what Instagram used to do before they decided to make it another TikTok?

The future we were promised. What we got—[surveys world and throws self off cliff]

Saturday

#CatherineOHara An authentic comedy genius.

Along with Romita and his big brother, Sal Buscema was what Marvel looked like in the Bronze Age. Sal coming onto a title like Captain America or Defenders was like those bits in Mission Impossible where the mask is pulled off and you go, Ah, THERE you are.

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Portrait of Orleans - 1950 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104088

"Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A." Charles Mingus, 1974. youtu.be/OTRf9Ef6nuA?...

Cobra Woman is delirious fantasy exotica scrambling Tarzan, the Wizard of Oz, Thief of Baghdad and MGM musicals. It has good/evil twins, a murderous unblind peddler, poison blow-darts, sequinned bodysuits, cabaret-style religious rituals, a sewing chimp in a sarong and phallic symbols galore.

A film company logo that tells you you're about to see highly entertaining greatness

Something I love about older, less scholarly compilations like these is the wild non-chronological stylistic mash of them. They remind me of car trips with well-loved cassette compos and going, “Oh, here’s the country-and-western / live one.”

Jeanne Moreau and friend

Remembering Jeanne Moreau on her birthday 🎂 📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1978 “When her personality is engaged, we have the feeling of an intelligent, intuitive woman wanting to commit herself to the inner rhythm of the movie.” - David Thomson

English garden, Emily Carter.

Blue Night - Edward Hopper, 1914. Source : Whitney Museum of American Art 🇺🇸

Forever fascinated by the green feet suspended at the very top left of the frame. Is it the Boy Wonder?

I’m playing the Harry Maslin mix. Punchy, dry, Bowie to the front.

This charity shop bunch is me in a nutshell. Not bad for four quid.