Paul Newman and Louis XIV, photographer Sanford Roth’s cat, 1956 (via Lomography, photographer: Sanford Roth)
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I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
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Aldous Huxley, Limbo (via larmoyante)
Huxley, that just ain’t right. But I understand.
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Sinatra is just so great in this movie. I think it’s the pinnacle of his acting career. To me, it’s the peak of his vibrant middle period, if he has a three-act acting career…He had a great run in the ’50s, From Here to Eternity on, but this is the best Rat Pack movie of all time. I think this depiction of him is a guy just like himself, like Sinatra. He was never a soldier; he played them. But here, he is an artist. …I think he plays himself incredibly well. Just as the way he would put himself into a song and just interpret it, I think he’s so aligned with Dave Hirsch. I think probably this is so close to him and who he was at that moment. And it was a lot of the way he saw himself too. I’m not surprised that he would watch this film later in life and look back. It’s him: that’s the guy on the album cover, that’s the guy on the lamppost alone, the cigarette burning. He’s forlorn, and other happy people are walking by—but he’s conflicted. Maybe if he had a shot of whiskey? There might be some floozy nearby. But fundamentally, he’s alone. Maybe, in his heart of hearts, he was that kind of lonely, conflicted guy. I always imagined Sinatra as hugely torn and ambitious.
— Richard Linklater on Frank Sinatra’s performance in Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running (via tinasinatra)
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Frank Sinatra and his welcome mat, photographed by John Bryson, 1965
Yeah, we’d get along just fine I think.
Ratatatatatatat greatness.
Very into this. DOIN’ IT IN THE PARK: PICK-UP BASKETBALL, NEW YORK CITY.
Found the Sydney Opera House! I took this back in March at Taronga Zoo. Just glorious.
Peter Zumthor’s home studio is just astonishingly beautiful. This is like dream home status in my book. More pictures here.
46 minutes of Selah Sue. You’re welcome. Honerable mentions go to “This World”, “Crazy Vibes”, “Black Part Vibes”, and “Raggamuffin”. Actually, all of them. I choose all of them.
