Joe's On The Road, So ...

I'll take his Vintage Pinup Friday. Submitted for your approval, Lillian Parker (AKA Adrienne Stoute). Miss Parker was an innovator. If you Google her - and you should - you'll quickly notice that she was trimming the infield 40 years before that was an acceptable practice.

Bonus!

I Propose Vintage Pinup Friday

I'll start things off with Debbie Westmore.

What He Said

This week's been a pain in the ass. Enjoy your two day reprieve, bastards.

Grinderman 2

I'm out of FTP acronyms...

Happy Labor Day

You bastards try to stay out of trouble.

That Barton Fink Feeling

I've come to the realization that my favorite Coen Brothers movie is the one that I saw last. Having said that, the wife and I caught Barton Fink last night. It was the first time I'd seen it in 13 years or so, and I had forgotten what a truly bizarre film it is. So, in my usual obsessive compulsive way, I looked online for reviews and interpretations at my earliest convenience. Here's a quote from the best (and ugliest) site I found, Cinepad:

Barton views most of the people around him as incomprehensible grotesques because they're so much coarser, so much more animated and alive than he is. They curse, they drink, they sweat, they spit, they vomit, they have sex -- but Barton is so repressed that he's become completely disconnected, not only from others but from his own body. So, he sits behind his typewriter, imprisoned in his own head and his own room, and stares dully at a framed tinted photo of a beautiful girl gazing out over the ocean at a sky as blank as the paper in Barton's typewriter. Barton's life of the mind is composed of nothing but barren abstractions. It takes Charlie to bring Barton crashing into the real, physical world.

You can read the rest of it here, if you so desire.

And as a bonus, there's an interview with Joel & Ethan Coen, conducted by the same writer before Barton Fink's release. Right about ... here.

I'll see your crappy cover and raise you one.......

This abomination is A Perfect Circle covering 'Imagine'. The vid is kind of cool, but taking this song of peace and hope and casting it in minor key veiled-threat mode really, really sucks. Great song, shit band.

Under The Black Light

New Rilo Kiley album is full of disco moments and prickly kiss-off lyrics. Listen to it for that, or for the fact that Jenny Lewis is yummy yummy yummy.

Also, the Earlimart mentioned earlier is up as well.

Flight of the Conchords

I caught one of the episodes while I was staying at my mother's house. It's damn funny. You get the impression that they can write these songs in their sleep. Once again, HBO is the best thing on TV.

This Is Doing It For Me Today

Belle & Sebastian doing "Dress Up In You" live.

Working For The Balls?

Oh, To Be a Neanderthal...

So it turns out cavemen had WAY better sex lives than Mike Lurker or I ever will.

Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies as a way of building up cultural ties.

Not that that's really saying anything...