I'm still going through pics of our Las Vegas trip (we went last month to see some friends get married) and uploading them to Flickr,. but I did get all my Holga pics scanned and uploaded today.  I took a B&W roll out on the strip one day, and a color roll downtown on a different day.  I'm tickled at how they came out, especially the black and white ones.

Last weekend while we were out grocery shopping, I found a DVD that contained a remastered version of the 1973 movie The Harder They Come, starring reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, and that also included the soundtrack on CD.  Having been aware of this movie since I was a teenager, and having heard the soundtrack a LOT in college and thereabouts, I picked it up.


I was home sick from work today, so I watched it...  it's not a perfect movie by any means, but really fascinating.  It was the first feature film ever made in Jamaica, and the soundtrack is thought to have helped popularize reggae in the U.S., coming out a year before Bob Marley's first album.  Apparently there's an earlier,  Criterion edition of this movie, too (the one I have is a 2006 restoration by a company called Xenon)...  I'm still trying to figure out if there are any major differences in the two versions, as far as the cuts of the films.

Trailer for the upcoming film about the brilliant, strange, groundbreaking but sadly insane 1960s music producer, Joe Meek. It looks fantastic. Some history and a whole bunch of songs behind the cut.



( The strange, sordid tale of Joe Meek. )

One of my musical heroes, Jarvis Cocker, is working on songs for a stop-motion animated film (!) based on a Roald Dahl story (!!) to be directed by Wes Anderson (!!!). What's not to love??

He mentions this in the 7th paragraph of this interview. Awesome.
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One of my heroes, David Lynch, talks about creativity and how ideas "work."
(Sorry about the commercial at the top of the clip- it's short.)

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Some of this is taken from his book, Catching The Big Fish, that came out last year.

I just got an email telling me I won a Diana+ camera!