#robert c. smith

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V/A

"I have to paint my Face : A random Collection of Mississippi Delta Blues"

(LP. Arhoolie rcds. 1969 / rec. 1960/63) [US]

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Vivien Leigh in a publicity photo for Waterloo Bridge (1940)

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Milestone Monday

Poetry in Punk

On this day, December 30th, 1946, Patti Smith, a singer, songwriter, author, poet, photographer, and painter, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Often referred to as the "Godmother of Punk," Smith is known for her influential music that blends rock and poetry. Her debut album, Horses, released in 1975, is considered a landmark work in the punk rock genre. Beyond her music career, Patti Smith has written several books, including the acclaimed memoir Just Kids, which explores her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and their experiences within the New York City artistic scene. Throughout her life, she has been a prominent cultural figure, advocating for artistic freedom and social change.

Images featured come from:

Our first edition of A Useless Death, a poem by Patti Smith that was published as a chapbook and distributed by Gotham Book Mart and Gallery in New York in 1972.

Ha! Ha! Houdini!, a poem written by Patti Smith and published as a chapbook. It was distributed by Gotham Book Mart and Gallery in New York in 1977.

Robert Mapplethorpe, released by Peter Weiermair and published by Robert Wilk in 1981. The contexts come from a catalogue of an exhibition sponsored by the Frankfurter Kunstverein, April 10-May 17, 1981, and features an introduction by Sam Wagstaff, the artistic mentor and benefactor to Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.

Some Women by Robert Mapplethorpe that features an introduction by one of the pioneers of New Journalism, Joan Didion. Our first edition was published in Boston by Bulfinch Press in 1989.

Robert Mapplethorpe by Richard Marshall with essays by American poet, literary critic essayist, teacher, and translator Richard Howard, and South African-born American writer and editor Ingrid Sischy. Our copy is the first cloth edition, published in New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; Boston: in association with Bulfinch Press: Little, Brown and Company in 1988.

Mapplethorpe prepared in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation with an essay by American art critic, philosopher, and Professor Arthur C. Danto. This first edition was published in 1992 by Random House in New York.

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-Melissa, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[leckiestrike]

to the dearest @rcbertleckie, our best and beloved h company boys - from your no longer secret santa, with lots and lots of love. <3

HBOWAR SECRET SANTA 2024

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Waterloo Bridge (1940) Mervyn LeRoy

February 4th 2025

[theersatzcowboy]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

One of the weirdest films of the Classic Hollywood studio era, this surprisingly dark (and refreshingly lurid) take on Robert Louis Stevenson's iconic horror / science fiction novel about a man split between good and evil got a surprising amount of psychosexual imagery past era censors (including a particularly infamous "whipping" scene that must be seen to be believed).

Director: Victor Fleming

Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, C. Aubrey Smith.

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Vermont Governor DILFs

Peter Shumlin, Jim Douglas, Phil Scott, Howard Dean, Deane C. Davis, George Aiken, F. Ray Keyser Jr., Franklin S. Billings, Charles Manley Smith, Richard A. Snelling, Harold J. Arthur, Horace F. Graham, John A. Mead, Joseph B. Johnson, Lee E. Emerson, Thomas P. Salmon, William Henry Wills, Mortimer R. Proctor, Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Robert Stafford, Philip H. Hoff, Allen M. Fletcher

[ruleof3bobby]

HUSTLE (2022) Grade: C-

Nothing special at all. Char's we've seen before. Predictable. No good basketball scenes. Lame.

[dreamcastingbroadway]

Dreamcasting Broadway: SUNSET BLVD.

"No words can tell the stories my eyes tell."

Dreamcasting Broadway: Sunset Blvd.

Anne Hathaway as Norma Desmond (rumored)

Colton Ryan as Joe Gillis

Jisel Soleil Ayon as Betty Schaefer

Michael C. Hall as Max Von Mayerling

Alizé Cruz as Dorothy/Ensemble (Betty u/s)

Ashley Merritt as Jean/Ensemble

Cait Fairbanks as Mary/Heather/Ensemble (Norma u/s)

Christopher Robert Hanford as Sheldrake/Ensemble

Colin Anderson as DeMille/Stan/Finance Man/Ensemble (Max u/s)

Daniel J. Maldonado as Morino/Hog-Eye/Ensemble (Joe u/s)

Gillian Jackson Harper as Young Norma/Patsy/Ensemble

Jake David Smith as Artie/Ensemble (Joe u/s)

Jenny Mollet as Lisa/Ensemble

Keirsten Hodgens as Joanna/Guard/Ensemble

Michael Ivan Carrier as John/Ensemble

Peli Naomi Woods as Katherine/Camera Operator/Ensemble

Preston Mui as Myron/Jones/Camera Operator/Ensemble

Rachel Simone Webb as Nancy/Ensemble (Betty u/s)

Tristan Hill as Frank/Finance Man/Ensemble

Usman Ali Mughal as Sammy/Ensemble (Max u/s)

Amaya White as Swing

Daniel Thimm as Swing

Emiliano Morales as Swing

Sabrina Imamura as Swing

Taylor Sage Evans as Swing

Travante S. Barker as Swing

Lena Hall as Alternate (Norma Desmond)

Janet Dacal as Standby (Norma Desmond)

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December 1934. A Margaret Brundage cover announcing that this issue of WEIRD TALES features a Robert E. Howard novelette, along with a short story by Bassett Morgan ("The Vengeance of Ti Fong"); the novelette "Xeethra" by Clark Ashton Smith; and the novelette "Black God's Shadow" by C.L. Moore. Other contents include a translation of the Jean Ray story "Le gardien du cimetière"; a chapter of the serial "The Trail of the Cloven Hoof" by Arlton Eagie; short stories by Brooke Byrne, August Derleth, and Frank Owen; and interior art by H.R. Hammond.

[genevieveetguy]

. You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.

Trouble in Paradise, Ernst Lubitsch (1932)

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So now today I've gotten some new pick ups for today!

[anneliesengland]

Cool As fuck

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Rainfall over the Sacred Mountain, Taos, NM. Photo: Geraint Smith (Sep 3, 2023) :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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The landscape's silent immensity—and the God to whom it points—is able to absorb all the grief one can give it.

-Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality [beguines]

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Very Cool stuff at the American visionary art museum

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20 Book Challenge

I saw this challenge on a post by @theresebelivett. The idea is you pick 20 of your books to take with you to a desert island, but you can only pick one book per author and series. Here are two further guidelines I set myself: They have to be books I actually own, as if I really am gathering them up under my arms and heading to the island; and I'm defining "book" as a single volume -- so if I just so happen to have 100 novellas squashed between two covers, it still counts as one book.

We'll go alphabetically by author.

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. An old standby, a classic, I can jump into it at any point.

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca. Have only read it once, but loved it and I suspect I'll get more from it each time.

Clare B Dunkle: The Hollow Kingdom. If I can only take one book from this excellent and unusual goblin series that captivated me in the mid-2000s, it'd better be the first one.

William Goldman: The Princess Bride. This book had an outsize influence on my own writing. I can quote a lot of it, but I wouldn't want to be without it.

Shannon Hale: Book of a Thousand Days. I love the warmth and humility of its heroine Dashti. Plus, Shannon Hale very kindly wrote a personal response to a fan letter I sent her years and years ago, so her work always has a special place in my heart.

Georgette Heyer: Cotillion. I don't actually own my favorite Georgette novel, but the funny, awkward, and ultimately romantic Cotillion is definitely not a pitiful second-stringer.

Eva Ibbotson: A Countess Below Stairs. Countess was my introduction to Eva's adult romances, and she is the past master of warm, hardworking heroines who should really be annoying because they're way too good to be true, but somehow you just end up falling in love with them.

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth. I first read this when I was like eight, and even for an adult, its quirky humor and zingy wordplay hold up, no problem.

Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera. Can't leave without Erik, nope, the French potboiler has got to come. Perhaps I will spend my time on the island writing the inevitable crossover fanfic, The Phantom of the Tollbooth.

CS Lewis: Till We Have Faces. Faces is my current answer for what my favorite book is, so I'm taking that, though it feels criminal to leave The Silver Chair behind.

LM Montgomery: The Blue Castle. As much as I love Anne and Emily, it came down to Blue Castle and A Tangled Web, and I'm a sucker for Valancy's romantic journey.

E Nesbit: Five Children and It. Probably the most classic Edwardian children's fantasy, though still a hard choice to make. Nesbit is another author who had a huge influence on me as a writer.

Robert C O'Brien: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. A childhood book I'm really sentimental about. I should re-read it.

Meredith Ann Pierce: The Darkangel. The first in the archaic lunar vampire trilogy. This will always be frustrating, only having the first in the series, but if I can only read the first, maybe I'll forget about how angry the third novel left me.

Sherwood Smith: Crown Duel. At one time, this swords-and-manners fantasy duet was one of my absolute favorite fandoms, and clever me has both books in one volume, so I don't have to choose.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl: Starflower. My favorite of the Tales of Goldstone Wood series. We'll have to test whether I can actually get sick of Eanrin.

JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings. I've never actually read it through as an adult and, look at that, I have a three-in-one volume. Cheating!

Vivian Vande Velde: Spellbound. I've read much of VVV's YA fantasy and liked a lot of it, but none more so than The Conjurer Princess and its fast-paced tale of revenge. The Spellbound edition includes the prequel and a bonus short story, so I'm good to go.

PG Wodehouse: The World of Mr Mulliner. There are some hilarious novels I'm leaving behind here, including all the Bertie Wooster stuff. But there are some absurdly fun Mulliner stories and this edition is like three hundred pages. That'll keep me happy for a long while on my island.

Jack Zipes (editor): Spells of Enchantment. This is an enormous compilation of western fairy tales. I've owned it since 2004 or so, and I've still never finished it. Now, on my island, I'll no longer have the excuse.

Tagging anyone else who feels like doing this!