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1964 Bill Thomas Motors Cheetah by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Jeff Taylor

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Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show presents The Mysterious Traveler on April 27, 2024 at the Farmland Community Center at 3:00pm! The show also features two original radio plays by local playwrights, Cliff Lowe and Beth Nahre! A lucky audience member will get a chance to play It Pays to Be Ignorant and Judy Cole sings!

Starring Sean Orlosky, Bob Green, Missy Donahue, Katy Wolfe, Jeff Shull, Jeff Rapkin, Larry Beck, Debby Girtman, Thomas Nelson III, Todd Terrell and the sound squad, Judy Cole and Cliff Lowe!

That’s April 27 at 3:00 pm at the Farmland Community Center (100 N. Main St, Farmland, Indiana)! Tickets are just one dollar! For more information, please call 765-468-7631.

Publicity Photograph King of the Rocket Men (1949) Republic Pictures

Tristram Coffin as Jeff King (of the Rocket Men) Mae Clarke as Glenda Thomas

India Amarteifio, Corey Mylchreest and Arséma Thomas photographed by Jeff Vespa for The Wrap

Colleen Cole - 📷 Jeff Thomas - Vertex Photography

part 2 / 2 (part 1)

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(fyi, all these photos are gathered from tumblr posts, just to make a nice collection of the photoshoot)

Birthdays 3.14

Beer Birthdays

Anthony J. McGowan (1869)

Brad Kraus

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Caine; actor (1933)

Billy Crystal; actor, comedian (1947)

Albert Einstein; physicist (1879)

Meagan Follows; actor (1968)

Casey Jones; railroad engineer (1864)

Famous Birthdays

Eva Angelina; porn actor (1985)

Diane Arbus; photographer (1923)

Les Baxter; singer, bandleader (1922)

Frank Borman; astronaut (1928)

Les Brown; bandleader (1912)

Eugene "Gene" Cernan; astronaut (1934)

Pierre-Louis Couperin; composer (1755)

Hannah Cowley; writer (1743)

Rick Dees; radio D.J. (1951)

Paul Ehrlich; bacteriologist (1854)

Victor Emmanuel II; 1st king of Italy (1820)

Horton Foote; playwright, screenwriter (1916)

Adolph Gottlieb; artist (1903)

Sasha Grey; porn actor (1988)

Jerry Greenfield; co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream (1951)

Quincy Jones; record producer (1933)

Hank Ketchum; cartoonist (1920)

Laura Leighton; actor (1969)

Brianna Love; porn actor (1985)

Thomas Malory; writer (c. 1405; date of death, 1471)

Isadore Gilbert Mudge; librarian (1875)

Peter Musschenbroek; Dutch physicist (1692)

Arthur O'Shaughnessy; British poet (1844)

Walter Parazaider; rock woodwinds, "Chicago" (1945)

Kirby Puckett; Minnesota Twins CF (1960)

Meredith Salenger; actor (1970)

Giovanni Schiaparelli; astronomer (1835)

Shirley Scott; jazz/blues organist (1934)

Max Shulman; writer (1919)

Johann Strauss; composer (1804)

Georg Telemann; composer (1681)

Edward Tufte; designer (1942)

Rita Tushingham; actor (1942)

Jerry Jeff Walker; country singer (1942)

Tad Williams; writer (1957)

Kevin Williamson; screenwriter (1965)

Adrian Zmed; actor (1954)

Veruschka von Lehndorff and David Hemmings in Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

Cast: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Peter Bowles, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin. Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond, based on a story by Julio Cortázar. Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma. Art direction: Assheton Gorton. Film editing: Frank Clarke. Music: Herbie Hancock.

Back in the day we would discuss for hours the significance of Thomas (David Hemmings) fetching an invisible tennis ball after having photographed an invisible murder. Then later we scrutinized the thematic relationship of Blow-Up to Antonioni's great trilogy of L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962). More recently, Blow-Up has figured large in discussions of the "male gaze." But lately it has become a historical artifact from the "swinging London" of the mid-1960s. And there I think it best belongs. What perhaps needs to be discussed is the tone of the film: Is it a document, or a celebration, or an exposé, or a satire? I think it is a bit of all of these, but mostly the tone is satiric. Thomas's aesthetic detachment, not to say voyeurism, makes him the perfect vehicle for an exploration of the era, from the grim flophouse he spends a night photographing to the home of the drug-addled wealthy, by way of a fashion shoot, a glimpse of what seems to be adulterous affair but may be a murder, a mini-orgy with some teenyboppers, a peek at two of his friends making love, and a performance in a rock club. All of it viewed with the impassive gaze of Thomas, Antonioni, and Carlo Di Palma's movie camera. Is it meant to be funny? Yes, sometimes, as when Thomas encounters the model Veruschka at the party and says, "I thought you were supposed to be in Paris," and she replies, "I am in Paris." Or when we see the audience watching the performance of the Yardbirds in the club, showing no signs of enjoyment, but then going crazy when Jeff Beck smashes his guitar and flings it into the audience. Thomas escapes from the club with a piece of it, eludes the pursuing crowd, but throws it away when he realizes it's worthless. (A passerby picks it up, looks it it, and tosses it away.) It's a portrait of a cynical era in which people, as Oscar Wilde put it, know "the price of everything and the value of nothing." Hemmings, with his debauched choirboy* face, is the perfect protagonist, and Vanessa Redgrave, at the start of her career, is beautifully, magnificently enigmatic as the woman who may or may not have been involved in murder. I'm not sure it's a great film -- certainly not in comparison to Antonioni's trilogy -- but it will always be a fascinating one. *Almost literally: Hemmings started as a boy soprano who was cast by Benjamin Britten in several works, most notably as Miles in the 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw. He can be heard on the recording made that year with Britten conducting. . 

Packing :  Bags to Trunks

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1964 Bill Thomas Motors Cheetah GT by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Jeff Taylor

Last Book I...

Yoinked from @literary-illuminati because it looked fun.

‣ Bought:

Random Sh*t Flying Through The Air by Jackson Ford. I picked it up last time I was in Waterstones because the title was funny, and the blurb sounded good. (I have started it, and the POV flip-flop is a bit wierd so it's been shelved for now)

‣ Borrowed:

The Potion Master by Liz Williams. My uncle lent me this one before Lockdown... and I still haven't finished it ^.^'

‣ Was Gifted:

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. The Danish Gent gave this to me as part of my Xmas present after I told him I'd never read the Dragonlance books.

‣ Gave/lent to someone else:

N/A: I haven't really seen anyone to lend anything to.

‣ Started:

The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A yearbook of Forgotten Words by Paul Anthony Jones. I'm really enjoying this. It's a word per page, related to something that happened that day with a bit of explanatory blurb about the event and the world's meaning. It's been fun learning some of these archaic words.

‣ Finished:

The Pirates! In An Adventure with Napoleon by Gideon Defoe. The Pirates! series is always good for a nice quick, silly-fun read <3

‣ Gave 5 Stars:

Watch How I Soar, a Firefly Graphic Anthology. Written by Jeff Jensen, Ethan Young, Jared Cullum, Jorge Corona, and Giannis Milonogiannis; Art by Jorge Monlongo, Ethan Young, Jared Cullum, Jorge Corona, Giannis Milonogiannis, and Jorgi Perez; Colored by Jorge Monlongo, Ethan Young, Jared Cullum, Fabiana Mascolo, Giada Marchisio, and Maxflan Araujo; Lettered by Fabio Amelia.

I really enjoyed the dive into Hoban “Wash” Washburne's backstory, and alternate future. The art is fantastic, the stories were wonderful - just an all-round wonderful read.

‣ Gave 2 Stars:

Sea Journal by Lisa Woollett. The blurb for this is:

This beautifully illustrated book brings together a year’s wanderings along Britain’s shores with stories of their natural history, geology and evolution — from ancient myth to current science.

Which was what drew me in - I get to read and see photographs about all the types of shore on the Isles! Amazing! Only, it doesn't. There's mention of a beach in Norfolk, one on the Scottish coast, and all the rest take place in Cornwall, where the author lives. Sure the pictures were nice, and some of the text interesting, but I just really felt it had too narrow a scope for the broad claims in the burb and so it was a bit of a let down.

‣ Didn’t Finish:

The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest by Thomas Pakenham. The detail about the trees is interesting; Pakenham's casual racism and sense of entitlement is not. I got maybe 1/4 into the book before I bailed because the narration style was just so difficult to read. I came here to learn cool things about trees and arboretums, not to feel like I'm listening to my 80yo uncle bitch about the natives.

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On this day in Wikipedia: Wednesday, 15th November

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