barnaclebrian spent all night and morning mixing this POPCAST together in honor of MCA
POPINSKI POPCAST #24:
Author: The Junk Drawer of Shawn's Mind (Page 21 of 23)
I love The Swanky Modes!
“That’s bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Rail.”
Soundtrack for a glum, wet day….
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Gathering of the Gods II: Pele and Ali, date unknown
Giorgio Chinaglia, lighting up Seattle at Portland’s Civic Stadium. (Soccer Bowl, 1977)
How can this not be a GREAT album?
El rey
Good for one ride on some awesome beats
A 26-year-old actor, 1915
Kool kat
Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Check please…..
Christopher Marlowe
John Donne
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Louise Bogan
Byron
….in black and white….with an acoustic guitar….and a small drum kit….simpler times….
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Stephen Crane (best known for his fiction, of course, but a BRILLIANT, inventive poet)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Concrete jungle
Six-on-one…and my money’s on the one.
Perfection: the final moment of À bout de souffle
John Ashbery
Emily Dickinson
William Blake
“You look more like a soda jerk, or maybe a plasterer, maybe….”
“Why don’t you talk a little Yeats to her? Show her what a treat that is.”
Philip Larkin
Gary Snyder
Ravishing: “The Deep Blue Sea”
“….because you despise me you’re the only one I trust….”
It’s absurd to speak of human perfection, and yet…. (Fred Astaire at opening day of New York’s Jamaica Park raceway, 1939)
“…Strange day out here at Windswept Fields….”
Shawn Levy's books include the best-sellers The Castle on Sunset, Rat Pack Confidential, Paul Newman: A Life, King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, and Dolce Vita Confidential.
He also wrote and narrated the podcast Glitter & Might. The former film critic of The Oregonian and KGW-TV, he has written for Sight and Sound, Film Comment, American Film, Interview, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Black Rock Beacon. He jumps and claps and sings for victory in Portland, Oregon.
