Posts by Juliet Clark
Back in 2003 when I had the good fortune of working on this series, Wiseman's career was already monumental, and that was before he made another dozen movies.
bampfa.org/program/fred...
(A website "upgrade" left this archived page in ruins but I'm sharing anyway in a moment of nostalgic weakness)
Can't stop thinking about the two words my grandparents used over and over to describe the German forces in Vienna in spring 1938: “lächerlich” and “teuflisch.” Laughable and diabolical. Ridiculous and fiendish.
Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset"
Chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine
youtu.be/2dbEZIq-LkI?...
Day 13: Summer #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Undertones, "Here Comes the Summer"
youtu.be/UYZzFUzwoV8?...
Day 12: Fire #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Shocking Blue, "Venus"
I'm your venus, I'm your fire
youtu.be/aPEhQugz-Ew?...
Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, "Stay a Little Longer"
Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner
Don't see why you don't stay a little longer
youtu.be/KZBVAGBYPos?...
Day 10: Anything #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Clean, "Anything Could Happen"
youtu.be/7tf1wzg4rdE?...
A sign in a child's handwriting, advertising catsitting services: "we don't care if your cat is grumpy and eny kind of cat is fine"
Local advertising
Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Pink Floyd, "Apples and Oranges"
youtu.be/Vymc2lD701E?...
Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Billie Holiday, "All of Me"
You took the best, so why not take the rest?
youtu.be/5J18k5Sx3Dw?...
Day 7: Country #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Davitt Sigerson, "It's a Big Country"
youtu.be/cu7MMTJgONc?...
Day 6: Mine #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Zombies, "Friends of Mine"
youtu.be/w4rWROFJQPQ?...
(I know the Chantels version has already been posted, but this is the one that sticks in my head!)
Day 5: Maybe #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Shangri-Las, "Maybe"
youtu.be/UKoP8FHY-B0?...
Day 4: Run #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Flanagan & Allen, "Run, Rabbit, Run"
youtu.be/SE7-VdCkRDY?...
Day 3: Fist #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Scrawl, "Take a Swing"
You’re talking big
So you can save face
Show me your fists
Put me in my place
youtu.be/XYQrcQB4ek4?...
Day 2: River #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Al Green, "Take Me to the River"
youtu.be/9FBUgdhxe9M?...
Day 1: Nothing #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Happenings, "I Believe in Nothing"
Perhaps tomorrow I'll believe in something . . .
youtu.be/4D1NP4YG7i4?...
@pseudopodium.bsky.social and I did this recently and can agree it's apropos
Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth
Badge from A F of L Local 681, Welders & Burners, 1942
Unearthed my immigrant grandpa's union badge from the WWII shipyards to mark the day
"Fury [sic] friends are welcome on the patio, if leashed & well-behaved!"
Welcome, fury friends!
Cat: What makes a life worthwhile? Girl: Improving OTHER lives. Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working for other lives' comfort. Working for other lives' meaning Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working to allow other lives to DETERMINE and ESTABLISH their own dignity. Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working to make the world a BETTER PLACE for ALL people and animals and plants and minerals Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Holding back the HOWLING VOID Cat: Still sounds like a ponzi scheme Girl: We just need to find the next sucker
Eight years ago, continued
"Triangle of Life"
youtu.be/YuDv6Y_3v6s?...
Getting Rid of What's Buggin' You (Unless It's an Unplanned Pregnancy), Chillicothe, MO
Screen shot of a call to action from the Guardian newspaper: "Sign up for the Overwhelm newsletter"
Thanks, my inbox was sorely lacking in overwhelm
Sunday evening in line at the Trader Joe's near the college campus. Van Halen comes on the sound system.
Student 1: I kinda like this, what is it?
Student 2: I think Nirvana?
Come for the Midnight Mass, stay for the Liebestod
I love to imagine unprepared moviegoers going to see a Christmas movie starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly and finding themselves trapped in this sordid hallucination.
youtu.be/sBVWLwwkt3I?...