Matt conducts a swell interview, but who’s that douchey loudmouth he’s talking to?
http://smithlahrman.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-with-derrick-bostrom-january.html
http://smithlahrman.blogspot.com/2012/02/interview-with-derrick-bostrom-february.html
http://smithlahrman.blogspot.com/2012/06/forbidden-places-and-too-high-to-die.html
… i tripped and fell into this awesome-sauce
Greetings from La Posada - Winslow, Arizona.
Happy National Train Day.
Auld Reekie (by National Library of Ireland on The Commons)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Monitor’s 1981 LP finally available on CD (w bonus tracks).
Orson Welles removes his makeup on the set of Citizen Kane.
Cinephilia & Beyond has an amazing find: the complete collection of Orson Welles’ Sketch Book: “a series of six short television commentaries by Orson Welles for the BBC in 1955. Written and directed by Welles, the 15-minute episodes present the filmmaker’s commentaries on a range of subjects. Welles frequently draws from his own experiences and often illustrates the episodes with his own sketches.”
All the essential documentaries on Orson Welles, including Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (1960), Filming ‘The Trial’ (1981), The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996), Shadowing the Third Man (2004), Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995), With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1990), Filming ‘Othello’ (1978), F for Fake (1973), Orson Welles with French film school students, Orson Welles “Its All True” Citizen Kane and RKO, and seven-minute video of a very young-looking Welles (he was 23 at the time) addressing an onslaught of press members on October 31, 1938, the day after The War of the Worlds broadcast.
A futuristic cityscape that Jack Kirby penciled as a gift for Don Heck in exchange for Heck inking some work for him.
Amazing Adventures #39, November 1976, cover by P. Craig Russell
These are great interviews! I’ve read much of the Derrick interview and just started the Cris one. I plan on savoring them over time…great story telling in those answers…
Good stuff Derrick, keep it coming. Curt was a Shakespeare guy ehh… I dunno, although you would certainly have far more insight than me. Free word association meaning nothing seems a bit too easy. Are you telling me I have spent 20 plus years placing meaning to these very abstract lyrics, and it was all for naught?
Never for naught. The meaning you derive is what matters, not his. Give yourself a little credit!
Back in the early days, if someone complimented the band, Curt’d say, “Hey: you’re the one that heard it.”
Which isn’t to say, the songs had no meaning to him. But he’d change the words to make sure his original meanings were deliberately obliterated.