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Floyd | Monday, 15th of March 2010 at 06:12:38 AM
I had a picture of Julius Caesar getting murdered… Big Government and many others have the same pic. Since I can’t stand to be part of the crowd I’m changing my pic.
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Floyd | Friday, 12th of March 2010 at 06:52:53 AM
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Floyd | Thursday, 11th of March 2010 at 09:55:17 PM
This is genius.
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Rufus | Wednesday, 10th of March 2010 at 04:07:34 PM
Has there ever been a funnier TV show than this?
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Floyd | Monday, 8th of March 2010 at 02:21:18 PM
Throne of Blood (1957)
Spurred by his wife and a witch’s prediction, a samurai murders his lord to steal the throne.
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki Dir: Akira Kurosawa BW-109 mins, TV-14. 10:30 PM EST. TCM
This is my favorite Kurosawa film. I’m not enough of a film student to say if it’s [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 7th of March 2010 at 06:25:34 AM
You know you woke up this morning and went said to yourself… “Self. I wonder if Floyd will post some Baroque music from Bolivia this morning for Sunday Gospel?” Well wonder no more.
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Floyd | Saturday, 6th of March 2010 at 11:17:51 AM
Sideshow by George Seurat
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Rufus | Thursday, 4th of March 2010 at 02:21:17 PM
The quote, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” has been attributed to everyone from Thelonius Monk to Frank Zappa to Elvis Costello to Steve Martin. Its origin is hard to pin down, but I’ve always liked the sentiment; the two things (writing/music or dancing/architecture) are so unrelatable that it is nonsensical to attempt [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 28th of February 2010 at 10:31:18 AM
Boys in a Pasture by Winslow Homer
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Floyd | Saturday, 20th of February 2010 at 11:04:51 PM
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Floyd | Tuesday, 16th of February 2010 at 05:50:33 AM
Burning of the frigate USS Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor, Feb. 16, 1804 by Edward Moran
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Floyd | Monday, 15th of February 2010 at 07:42:20 AM
Titan’s Goblet by Thomas Cole
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Outlaw13 | Saturday, 13th of February 2010 at 04:39:17 PM
She’s a Jew and she’s almost nekid…
Al Queda must be s#$tin’ bricks.
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Outlaw13 | Thursday, 11th of February 2010 at 05:42:35 PM
In honor of The Who and the wonderful weather the majority of the USA is having, these Minnesota lads (and lass) fired up the instruments and gave us this masterwork…
H/T Uncle Jimbo
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Rufus | Thursday, 11th of February 2010 at 06:41:23 AM
[I received the below e-mail and the above picture from an avid threedonia reader in China. I know we've also got some readers in Russia. If we could just get a few in Cuba we'd have the Communist world covered. (Brian, I deleted your last name. If you want folks to know more about [...]
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Wankette | Monday, 8th of February 2010 at 09:07:24 AM
It’s a geostationary banana.Thank heavens we got that straightened out.
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Wankette | Friday, 5th of February 2010 at 06:55:02 PM
Your (Canadian) tax dollars at work:
An Argentine artist called Caesar Saëz applied to the Canada Arts Council and le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and was given, between the two bodies, a grant of $130,000 to create a 300-metre long flying banana that would float over Texas protesting the policies of George W. [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 2nd of February 2010 at 02:48:50 PM
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Spirited musical biography of the song-and-dance man who kept America humming through two world wars.
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf Dir: Michael Curtiz BW-126 mins, TV-G. 12:15 PM EST. TCM
Another banner day on TCM. Earlier tomorrow check out The Champ with the Mighty Mighty Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 1st of February 2010 at 03:20:54 PM
The Thin Man (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan, Nat Pendleton Dir: W. S. Van Dyke BW-91 mins, TV-G. 8:00 PM EST. TCM
I’m not even sure where to begin… as films go this is [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 1st of February 2010 at 05:43:46 AM
The Desperate Man — Gustave Courbet
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Floyd | Sunday, 31st of January 2010 at 09:54:26 PM
Tomorrow TCM begins its annual “31 Days of Oscar” celebration so the picking will be difficult and feel free to respectfully disagree in the comments. The first night is nearly impossible from the get-go…. because I don’t like Babs (though I do like Funny Girl) I’m going with these two: I’m biased — [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 31st of January 2010 at 09:10:21 AM
St. Jerome by Caravaggio
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Floyd | Saturday, 30th of January 2010 at 08:30:44 AM
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Floyd | Tuesday, 26th of January 2010 at 07:25:15 AM
Self Portrait by Vigee LeBrun (1782)
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Floyd | Monday, 25th of January 2010 at 07:44:20 AM
Empire of Lights by Rene Magritte
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Rufus | Sunday, 24th of January 2010 at 08:57:59 PM
I’m way behind on the posts and comments, so if someone’s already posted this, forgive me. I see Floyd did a post on Mrs. Simmons’ death. If anyone is having trouble understanding why she was such a big deal this clip from Guys and Dolls ought to add clarity.
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Floyd | Saturday, 23rd of January 2010 at 10:17:41 AM
Jean Simmons has died of lung cancer at age 80.
Plucked out of a dancing-school class at 14, Ms. Simmons appeared in three classic movies before her 19th birthday, typically eliciting adjectives like “lovely,” “radiant” and “luminous” in the reviews.
She was Estella, the mocking girl who was raised to break men’s hearts, in David Lean’s “Great [...]
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Rufus | Friday, 22nd of January 2010 at 09:25:13 AM
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Floyd | Friday, 22nd of January 2010 at 07:04:29 AM
Detail (showing the Americas) of a large 1602 world map made by Matteo Ricci presented to the Chinese.
Here’s a fascinating New York Times review of an exhibition at The Library of Congress (through April) of the “Ricci Map”. From the review:
When a map of overwhelming dimensions and detail is presented to the ruler of [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 16th of January 2010 at 08:23:24 AM
The Good Samaritan by Northern Netherlands Master (16th c.)
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Floyd | Friday, 15th of January 2010 at 05:40:25 PM
Rio Grande (1950)
A cavalry unit located on the Mexican border must control Indian uprisings. Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson. Dir: John Ford. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC. 4:00 PM EST, TCM
One of my all-time favorites. “This music is not of my choosing.” “I’m sorry Kirby. I wish [...]
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Floyd | Friday, 15th of January 2010 at 04:52:10 AM
As a child of the Atari 2600 generation I find this Space Invaders tribute video amusing — though I am glad it’s only about 1:20 long.
And here’s Pole Position:
h/t: JJ
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Floyd | Thursday, 14th of January 2010 at 12:50:32 PM
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Floyd | Wednesday, 13th of January 2010 at 06:44:53 AM
Chop Suey by Edward Hopper (1929)
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Floyd | Tuesday, 12th of January 2010 at 01:51:31 AM
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway’s biggest starmaker. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. C-185 mins, TV-G, CC. 4:50 PM EST, TCM
Yet another Powell/Loy classic, but Luise Rainier won an Oscar for portraying the first Mrs. Ziegfeld in addition to the [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 11th of January 2010 at 09:55:00 AM
Kudos to The College Widow
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Floyd | Thursday, 7th of January 2010 at 07:15:35 AM
Christopher Lee, Charlemagne, heavy metal, symphonic music, singing… What about this could go wrong?
From the A.V. Club:
Videogum and The Guardian have the news that the 87-year-old actor plans to release a “symphonic metal” album about the life and career of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor and a direct ancestor of Lee himself. “To my [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 6th of January 2010 at 06:53:18 AM
Epiphany by Hieronymus Bosch
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Floyd | Tuesday, 5th of January 2010 at 03:04:53 PM
Big Hollywood links to the above photo with the headline Lost Final Season Art Mocks “The Last Supper” at #7 on its marquee as of this posting. In a very literal sense it’s a “mock” up of Leonardo’s fresco “The Last Supper” of course, but the headline reads in a very condemnatory way to [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 24th of December 2009 at 09:56:41 PM
Gerard (Gerrit) van Honthorst, Adoration of the Shepherds
1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register.
4So Joseph also went up from [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 24th of December 2009 at 04:36:00 AM
Adoration of the Shepherds by Jean-Honore Fragonard
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Rufus | Tuesday, 22nd of December 2009 at 03:02:40 PM
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Floyd | Tuesday, 22nd of December 2009 at 01:10:02 AM
The Annunciation by Caravaggio
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Floyd | Monday, 21st of December 2009 at 01:00:33 AM
Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Reubens
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Floyd | Monday, 14th of December 2009 at 04:15:34 PM
“Epic Misney” from T Campbell and John Waltrip
Disney buys Marvel…
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