#Edgars Field

[hepdenerose]

Banks, Bridges and Rows

On a variable Wednesday, we headed down Frodsham Street onto Eastgate and left down St. John Street, where we waited for a bunch of students to shift for a better look at the Welsh church. Peeling blue railings barred the three-arched doorway, atypically clad in yellow sandstone. At the end of the street, we crossed to the amphitheatre to see small kids being drilled as Roman soldiers. Having…

[metiredlr]

I can't believe they even have angel x demon toxic yaoi in this sports anime bro I wasn't expacting that

[marlenacantswim]

are we sure Shaun and Russell aren't related?

Danger! 50,000 Zombies (2004) / Shaun of the Dead (2004)

[weirdlookindog]

The Man from Planet X (1951)

[citizenscreen]

Quite the line-up for a 1939 episode of “The Charlie McCarthy Show” on NBC Radio:

W.C. Fields, conductor Robert Armbruster, Nelson Eddy, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Dorothy Lamour, and Don Ameche.

Aka “The Chase and Sanborn Hour”

[tundrafloe]

In 2016, comedian Dan Clark (Johnny Two-Hats) interviewed Rich on his podcast and discussed Julian and Noel’s immediate chemistry:

Dan: “Even way back to the first show in Edinburgh, this 100 seater, you could just tell they have this thing that makes people obsessive about them.”

Rich: “Yeah.”

Dan: “They capture people.”

Rich: “I’m obsessed with them!”

[gatutor]

Margaret Field "El hombre del planeta X" (The man from planet X) 1951, de Edgar G. Ulmer.

[ozu-teapot]

Flesh and Fantasy | Julien Duvivier | 1943

Edgar Barrier, Betty Field

[teledyn]

Come Up and See Me Sometime…

I'm curious about pop icons. For earlier eras, a single phrase immediately identified a single person, a skirt blown up by a passing subway below said Marilyn, a face with a lightening bolt makeup was Bowie.

Somehow I got to be this age before I ever really noticed Sammy Kaye. A chance interview from the mid-70s made me wonder how that happened: Sammy Kaye was a top-tier star of the Swing Era, and I'm not unfamiliar with Swing, yet the name, if it ever came up, was glossed over, I had no recordings, not even in Various Artists complilations. Intrigued, I looked up the movie Sammy mentioned, endorsing it for the artistic freedom and respect it afforded the band

and yes, that's your Star Wars intro, on a film released on D-Day 1944.

But, being curious, I asked my 25 year old (who has led many a swing band) and no, never heard of him. Really. What about W.C.Fields?

And there I got my Future Shock. W.C. who? Ok, well, Edgar Bergen then? Blanks. A paper I read on music history had pondered this, as to why some artists are remembered as iconic for their time but not the many eligible others, the many who were as honoured, sometimes more, by their era. The paper concluded the 20th Century would likely be identified as the era of Bob Dylan.

Here in the 21st century, who are our cultural symbols? Who are the pop icons so distinctive and ubiquitous that a single phrase, a graphic line, a gesture or a feature of their face even badly drawn instantly recalls who they are?

[thursdaymurderbub]

The Pirates' Den night club, Hollywood 1940s

[eternal--returned]

Edgar Allan Poe declared, "All experience, in matters of philosophical discovery, teaches us that, in such discovery, it is the unforeseen upon which we must calculate most largely." Poe is consciously juxtaposing the word "calculate," which implies a cold counting up of the facts or measurements, with "the unforeseen," that which cannot be measured or counted, only anticipated. How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

Rebecca Solnit ֍ A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005)

[clown-baby]

one of my all time favorite music videos

[argyleheir]

Dir. Edgar Wright (2002)

[weirdlookindog]

Margaret Field, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, and Pat Goldin in The Man from Planet X (1951).

[citizenscreen]

George Marshall’s YOU CAN’T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN premiered 85 years ago today #OnThisDay W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Eddie Anderson star.

[thehumanwiki]

My lifelong dream is to get a bag of nuts and start feeding crows then make friends with the crows then have them bring me little trinkets they find and I say “that you Poe, that’s very sweet of you” and one day when I get murdered they track down the guy that did it and tear their eyes out.