Sigur Rós playing a free gig in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (2006)
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Sigur Rós playing a free gig in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (2006)
Roger: Look, I wanna tell you something because you’re very dear to me. And I hope you understand it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I ever had and I don’t care who knows it. I’m so glad I got to roam those hillsides.
Joan: Stop it.
Roger: I mean it. I’ve had a lot of time to think about the things I’ve done and been sorry about - and being with you is not one of them.
[Mad Men S01 E11 - Indian Summer]
(Coarse, sexy, touching, beautiful, and so real. This scene totally devastated me.)
= 9 hours’ wait + 0 plumbers
Marilyn Monroe, photographed with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and her admittedly superior breasts on the set of Some Like It Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder) (via drmacro)
“[The tailor on Some Like It Hot] measured me, 16, 34, 43, 18, 19, 18,” Tony Curtis later recalled, “and then he goes to Marilyn - this is all in the same day and this is the truth…He comes in to Marilyn’s room and Marilyn had on a pair of panties and a white blouse and that’s all. He put the tape around her legs, looked up at Marilyn and said, ‘You know, Tony Curtis has got a better-looking ass than you. She was standing there, she unbuttoned her blouse, and said, “He doesn’t have tits like these!’”
For once, I think we need these salty stories, because Monroe needs all the salt she can get. The Marilyn industry is so deeply soaked in her crack-ups-shaking the poor woman until we can hear the slosh of booze and the rattle of pills-that it’s a relief to get back to the floozie with the forked tongue.
-Anthony Lane, excerpted from “On Billy Wilder”, The New Yorker
It’s 10.07 and the plumber is only two hours and seven minutes late.
I rang the company he works for and they told me “he’s on his way”.
Guys in ties #43, courtesy of
Malcolm McDowell in If… (1968, dir. Lindsay Anderson)
“One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.”
(…and the right kind of tie, sir.)