Auntie M swapping shots with niece Gabby. Arroyo Grande CA, 08.20.2011
From an old mid-century book called ‘Modern Short Stories’, this quote from Joseph Conrad sums it all up:
“You [the writer] must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image — mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse; you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain. . . . And you must do it so that at the end of your day’s work should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing — nothing left in you.”
— Joseph Conrad
Trees! Cable cars! Old-school street lamps! Nobody dressed as Shrek or Michael Jackson! Via Vintage Los Angeles. Facing northwest.
The Hollywood Hotel during the Golden Age, located on the corner of Hollywood and Highland. Now home to the Hollywood & Highland mall and the Kodak Theater.
Excellent. Via San Pedro Fish Wrapper, a few shots of the old San Pedro Drive-In Theatre, located just blocks away from my childhood home back in the seventies. Its marquee during those years would’ve been sporting titles like Halloween, The Exorcist, and JAWS.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office has posted a gallery of 21 before-and-after mugshots that reveal the toll of drug abuse.
During the 1940s, Warner Brothers bought the rights to Robert Lindner’s book, Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath, and began turning it into a film. A partial script was written, and a 23-year old Marlon Brando was asked to do a five-minute screen test in 1947. For whatever reason, the studio abandoned the original project, and eventually revived it eight years later with a new script and a new actor — James Dean, of course. Dean’s own screen 1955 test for Rebel Without a Cause appears below.
While it’s been a full 20 years since the release of Metallica’s highly anticipated self-titled record, it will always be “new Metallica” to me.
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