Monthly Archives: September 2010

Arts and Culture

Cool Thing of the Day: Cap’n Rotnclaw Vinyl Collectible by Greg Craola Simkins

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Avast Ye Maties!

Surrealist painter Greg “Craola” Simkins is one of my favorite contemporary artists. Since his amazing paintings sell for thousands and thousands of dollars (and deservedly so), the chances of a working gal like me being able to add one of his masterpieces to my modest collection of artsy fartsyness is somewhat slim. Fortunately, Greg has just released this totally cool new vinyl collectible toy, the Cap’n Rotnclaw – Custom Brine edition.
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Music, Pop Culture

Stories Behind The Beatles’ Album Covers

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Just when you think you know everything there is to know about The Beatles, Neatorama runs a post with a few cool stories behind different Beatles album covers. I especially love this one about HELP!, a film and album which already hold so many cool memories for me:

For the HELP! photo shoot, photographer Robert Freeman warmed up by shooting publicity stills of the band playing around in the Austrian snow. In the process, he realized that their arm motions reminded him of semaphore, a system of emergency naval communications using waving flags. Because the album title was conveniently four characters long, the photographer had each member of the group spell out a letter using the code. However, Freeman found that the arm motions for H-E-L-P were much less aesthetically pleasing than the positions for N-U-J-V, so he decided to use those letters instead.

Read more stories behind the covers for The White Album, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road at This Link.

Film and Television, Pop Culture

Movie Review: Going the Distance is Surprisingly Hilarious and Fun!

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Drew Barrymore and Justin Long
Drew Barrymore and Justin Long Grope Each Other in Going the Distance

As big of a movie fan as I admit to being, generally speaking, I would much prefer to have my eyes gouged out with a hot poker than sit through a Romantic Comedy. Because contrary to popular belief, the lowest form of humor is not the pun, it is the romantic comedy: which is almost without exception neither romantic nor funny. So, when I made the decision to attend a screening last evening of the new Drew Barrymore flick, Going The Distance, I was hedging bets that I’d find it irredeemably heinous: especially based on the commercials which make this film seem like viewing it would be only slightly more fun than root canal therapy. But, surprise! I was wrong: Going the Distance is awesome!

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