❂ September 17, 2011
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One day I hope to either attend or make an art show with nothing but framed cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic movie intro text.
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The Pharcyde - She Said (Jay Dee remix)
Call me when Odd Future sounds like this.
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The Specials photographed by Janette Beckman, 1981.
“The brilliant Specials’ song ‘Ghost Town’ has been called a ‘crisis’ theme song for the current riots by the some of the British newspapers. It is still so relevant to Britain’s inner cities 30 years later.” - JB.
Beyonce got nothin on Shirley Bassey
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Brian Jones & Mick Jagger
Photo by Linda McCartney
1966
This is a good look
“I consider myself neither poet, composer or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.” — Gil Scott-Heron
Nancy Kwan
b. May 19, 1939
In the pantheon of radical Asians/Asian-Americans in cinema, the two most notable figureheads were Anna May Wong during the silent film era and of course Bruce Lee, who went from TV sidekick to kung-fu movie star in the 1970’s. When Anna May Wong died in 1961, it was fitting that another Asian actress rose to fame around the same time and would serve as the one to pass the torch from the former to the latter.
Nancy Kwan made her debut showcasing her singing and dancing talents in a few Hollywood adaptations of Broadway plays including The World of Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song. She would then become a fashion icon after being the first to model Vidal Sassoon’s bob haircut for her role in the 1963 film The Wild Affair.
After doing a few more movies as the token hot Asian girl, she eventually starred in the 1968 Dean Martin film The Wrecking Crew, where she met up with another destined Asian-American star: Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee served as the film’s stunt/martial arts coordinator and trained both Nancy and actress Sharon Tate for their fight scenes. Although not amazing by any means (all the Matt Helm movies were like the American Austin Powers basically, or vice versa), the film has historical significance not only with Bruce Lee’s involvement, and Chuck Norris’s first acting role, but was also the last film that Sharon Tate acted in (Manson’d!).
Many many years later, the circle would be complete when Nancy Kwan starred in the Bruce Lee biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and in 2007, narrated the Anna May Wong documentary Anna May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows.
more info via nancy-kwan.com
Last night PBS aired Stanley Nelson’s documentary Freedom Riders about the men and women who refused to ride segregated and traveled together on trains and buses during the Jim Crow era South.
Watch the entire documentary online HERE.
via Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
Saletime at Simpson
Designed by Tom Wolsey
1961
