The Life and Sad Ending of Eli Wallach

                         

adios Tuco..

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

                             

WATCHED CHINATOWN AGAIN LAST NIGHT...

Let There Be Surf

                         

spot the surfboard? lol!...

                

Why JOHN WAYNE REFUSED TO WORK WITH CLINT EASTWOOD & denounced HIGH PLAI...

                         

interesting.. Eastwood putting his former Directors names on the headstones in this movie?

very Hitchcock! ... personally I liked it-found it entertaining and from a Psychology point of view could write a book about it..bible verses etc.. but reviewers have also provided an insight...

The Stranger uses the town's fear and guilt to manipulate and humiliate them. Sergio Leone is not the only Italian director whose influence is apparent in this film: the Stranger turns the town into a Fellini-esque carnival, setting up a midget as mayor and sheriff. The lengths to which the town will submit to avoid the retribution that they deserve turns this Western into a dark farce. The eerie score by Dee Barton works with the dark flashbacks to hang an ominous shadow over the townspeople’s comical interactions.

The supporting cast includes Billy Curtis as the Stranger’s protege Mordecai, Verna Bloom as the object of the Stranger's rather perverse affections, and Mitch Ryan (Dharma & Greg) as the manager of a mine--the source of Lago’s livelihood. Frequent Eastwood costar Geoffrey Lewis (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Bronco Billy, and Every Which Way But Loose) plays Stacey Bridges, the leader of the trio who've vowed to burn the town to the ground for framing them and sending them to jail.

http://imagesjournal.com/issue10/infocus/ 

Though Westerns often show the injury and recuperation of the hero as an essential step toward his triumph, this film goes further by showing the humiliating death of an inadequate lawman who is then "reincarnated" into an imposing and seemingly omnipotent torturer. Instead of linking this film to earlier Westerns, High Plains Drifter may actually be more significant as a bridge to Vietnam films like First Blood (Ted Kotcheff, 1983) that display the powerful rage of the abused and discarded hero.

Geoff Lewis seemed to be in every movie made in the 80's..

Out on the Floor

                          

Drift Away

                     

AN OLD LENNY HENRY MOVIE SET IN LIVERPOOL..

'COAST TO COAST' [THINK IT WAS CALLED?] USED THIS MUSIC..NICE..

I Don't do it no more - old dogs

                         

Comprising two distinct but interrelated plots, the narrative runs back and forth between both plots, taking up each plotline in alternating chapters.

The odd-numbered chapters tell the 15-year-old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister.^[1] After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in Takamatsu, run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the intelligent and more welcoming Oshima. There he spends his days reading the unabridged Richard Francis Burton translation of One Thousand and One Nights and the collected works of Natsume Sōseki until the police begin inquiring after him in connection with a brutal murder.

The even-numbered chapters tell Nakata's story. Due to his uncanny abilities, he has found part-time work in his old age as a finder of lost cats (Murakami's earlier work The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle also involves searching for a lost cat). Having finally located and returned one particular cat to its owners, Nakata finds that the circumstances of the case have put him on a path which, unfolding one step at a time before him, takes the illiterate man far away from his familiar and comforting home territory. He takes a gigantic leap of faith in going on the road for the first time in his life, unable even to read a map and without knowing where he will eventually end up. He befriends a truck driver named Hoshino, who takes him on as a passenger in his truck and soon becomes very attached to the old man. What appear to be random and irrelevant occurrences and situations are actually crucial to the final outcome for all.[Wikipedia]

KAFKA ON THE SHORE- Haruki Marukami

Sad Steps by Philip Larkin

                        

Mike Curb Congregation - Burning Bridges (with lyrics)

                        

The monsters were born long before the Conquest, in the indigenous cultures that populated and still populate the different regions of Mexico: Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs, Toltecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Tarascans, Totonacs, Otomis, Huichols, Tarahumaras, Yaquis, Coras...

Almost five hundred years ago, the Spanish conquerors arrived with their ideas and their weapons to impose themselves on the people who lived in these lands. Each group had its own rites and gods - often represented in the figure of a winged serpent - but all of this was crushed by the conquering monster: a military man on his horse, half man-half beast, who brought a new god and fired his gunpowder archers like a dragon's belch.

https://www.mexicanist.com/l/mythical-creatures/

Smokey Robinson. I Second That Emotion.

                        

Mike Oldfield - Tubulars Bells Pt. 1 (Excerpt) 1973

                       

two books the same story same title but can you spot the [non pictorial]difference?

'Neem' oil, is useful in Ayavurdic medicine for people undergoing radiation treatments...

Miss Grace The Tymes

                              

funny ? there's no such thing as love? any existentialist knows that granddad.

Musicians eh? who needs them..

Baby's In Black (Remastered 2009)

                       

c'est la vie...

Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (Medley / Remastered 2009)

                     

bye bye Mr orange

Haitian Divorce

                       

wah wah..

Never Been To Spain

                          

i've never been to Oklahoma? 

The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind (1966)

                        

Neil Diamond ~ Forever In Blue Jeans

                            

My missus Karaoke choice.. suitable for philosophers..

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - The Night

                        

this is often called a 'power classic'...?...how many other 50+ yr old songs have this ?

good stuff...good lyrics

Dreader Than Dread

                        

“There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day of creation: 'Yes, this is true, this is good.' This . . . this is not tenderheartedness, but simply joy. You don't forgive anything, because there is no longer anything to forgive. You don't really love — oh, what is here is higher than love! What's most frightening is that it's so terribly clear, and there's such joy. If it were longer than five seconds — the soul couldn't endure it and would vanish. In those five seconds I live my life through, and for them I would give my whole life, because it's worth it. To endure ten seconds one would have to change physically . . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Demons

https://bookquoters.com/book/demons#:~:text=%E2%80%95%20Fyodor%20Dostoyevsky,%20quote%20from%20Demons%20%E2%80%9CThere%20are,man%20cannot%20endure%20it%20in%20his%20earthly%20state.

Forgiving you was easy Willie Nelson with Lyrics.

                        

What are Mexican pork chops?

A delicious Mexican dish of pork simmered in tomatillos and chiles. Tender pork chops are cooked up Mexican-style with tomatoes, corn, beans, and rice. Boneless pork chops are cubed and combined with black beans, diced… This is an easy to make tostada-type breakfast that will definitely satisfy your… A different way to start your day.

I Second That Emotion

                         

"Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines" by Pablo Neruda (read by Tom O'...

                         

Carolina in My Mind

                           

 over produced musically..

Don't You (Forget About Me)

                         

never read it , never went to college...but...

Elvis Presley - If I can Dream (Lyrics)

                       

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

                         

Ra was the solar deity, bringer of light, and thus the upholder of Ma'at. Apep was viewed as the greatest enemy of Ra, and thus was given the title Enemy of Ra, and also "the Lord of Chaos".

Apep was seen as a giant snake or serpent leading to such titles as Serpent from the Nile and Evil Dragon. Some elaborations said that he stretched 16 yards in length and had a head made of flint. Already on a Naqada I (c. 4000 BC) C-ware bowl (now in Cairo) a snake was painted on the inside rim combined with other desert and aquatic animals as a possible enemy of a deity, possibly a solar deity, who is invisibly hunting in a big rowing vessel.^[3]

While in most texts Apep is described as a giant snake, he is sometimes depicted as a crocodile.^[4]

The few descriptions of Apep's origin in myth usually demonstrate that it was born after Ra, usually from his umbilical cord. Combined with its absence from Egyptian creation myths, this has been interpreted as suggesting that Apep was not a primordial force in Egyptian theology, but a consequence of Ra's birth. This suggests that evil in Egyptian theology is the consequence of an individual's own struggles against non-existence.^[5]

[wikipedia]

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (2011 Remaster)

                       

connect

 The Panel of the Sorcerer has both black drawings and engravings, and features animals such as lions, a horse, two mammoths and a musk ox, but also an odd shape known as the ‘Sorcerer’. It seems to be a composite creature made up of a woman’s lower body crowned with the upper body and horned head of a black bison. The last few animals in this chamber are a red rhinoceros, a sketchy rhinoceros, and a mammoth (drawn in charcoal and engraved).

https://www.ancient.eu/Chauvet_Cave/