Gland Prix

laughingsquid:

American Manhood, “The Virile Magazine,” 1950s

(Source: newmanology)

Zuck

Hmmm…

Lartigue → Zissou → Wes Anderson → Zissou!

Zissou, Rouzat, 1911 (1911-25) by Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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Multi TV Screens by Fred Herzog

It’s incredibly treacly and nostalgic to say so, but I miss seeing black and white sets. Tube sets, at all, even. My writing detracts from this image - I apologize.

Pierre Boucher - “Chute des corps”

(via Pierre Boucher (1908-2000) | La chute des corps, 1936 | Old Master & Early British Paintings Auction | 1930s, Photographs | Christie’s)

The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami →

patrickjoust:

If you want to find a magical situation, magical things, you have to go deep inside yourself. So that is what I do. People say it’s magic realism — but in the depths of my soul, it’s just realism. Not magical. While I’m writing, it’s very natural, very logical, very realistic and reasonable.

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- Haruki Murakami

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Differences of Opinion

Diane Selwyn

Mulholland Drive remains one of my favorite movies. Yesterday while browsing around on Netflix I inadvertently found two interesting bits of trivia surrounding one of the personaes played by Naomi Watts.

Watts plays Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn. They are alter egos of one another but also reflections and dreams of one another. Both are actresses. On Netflix I saw a cover for a movie that had, in the background, The Selwyn Theater.

That Selwyn theater, now the American Airlines Theater according to wikipedia, was located in NYC. There is another Selwyn theater: The Harris and Selwyn Theaters in Chicago.

The connection between theaters and Diane Selwyn is clear.

The derivation of the name Selwyn itself also interests me:

Selwyn is originally an Anglo-Saxon name, also occasionally spelt Selwin, deriving from ‘Sel’ (castle/house) & ‘wyn/win’ (friend), roughly meaning “friend in the house” or “friend in the castle”.

That’s also from Wikipedia.

And, of course, not only are Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn of the same host and could be considered companions in the dream world. There is also the pairing of Diane and Rita (aka Camilla Rhodes) played by Laura Harring. They become friends in Betty’s apartment building when Rita cannot remember who she truly is.

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Potato, trike, stairwell

First lines of Murakami's 1Q84 →