merci beaucoup to all of you...
thx tsparks got a card from yah today...and a few others came through the week. Now, I don't know all of you by name and if your Tumblr identity isn't on the card, I'm such an ol'Geezer, I am not sure from whom the lovely cards came....but heaps of thanks...makes my little desk look all festive and bright....!!!!
Dec 11th
It’s been a long long long time, How could I ever have...
Dec 11th
Winter Remembered
Two evils, monstrous either one apart,...
Dec 11th
The Friday iPoddy Playlist
As some know who follow, Friday is the day I hit out off the beaten track of Ol’Geezerdom and...
Dec 11th
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The Lines - white night
Certainly not a seasonal tune but and it’s a big one…I used to...
Dec 11th
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Christmas Is Coming - Vince Guaraldi Trio
Just one of those personal fave tunes that means Xmas to...
Dec 11th
Best thing about being home:
i add the smell of fresh ground pepper as i make my canadian bacon and scrambly eggs breakies for...
Dec 11th
….there is a new Barbara Kruger exhibition here in...
Dec 10th
The Flimwell Papers thought from the soapbox at Hyde Park...
Dec 10th
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Raise Your Hand (Live) - Janis Joplin & Tom Jones 1969
Tom was no slouch when it came to give...
Dec 10th
Christmas 1944 - Somewhere near Bastiogne, France — My...
Dec 10th
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Soulful Christmas - James Brown
Yule cool tune number one in the funk slot this one! I...
Dec 10th
from the philosopher's desk at the...
Written by Brian Eno It’s odd to think back on the time—not so long ago—when there were distinct...
Dec 9th
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle...
Dec 9th
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I Threw It All Away - Bob Dylan
I like to put on a lot of Dylan around Xmas time…it helps me...
Dec 9th
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Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
Ah, the perfect tune for this Ol’Polar Bear Geezer to pad...
Dec 9th
I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all. Many...
Dec 9th
From the Led Zep to Blur with Bowie and the Clash in there...
Dec 8th
RIP Richard Todd — Richard Todd & Marlene...
Dec 8th
From the All Things Vintage & Poster Like files comes...
Dec 8th
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Jingle Bells - Wilson Pickett
Well, I pretty much loved everything that The Wicked One every did,...
Dec 8th
Non-Christmas tunes that do Christmas?
Was trying to ask this one earlier, but I have this thing about certain songs that aren’t...
Dec 7th
…just pondering the cold miserable day outside as I...
Dec 7th
You called me beautiful You called your mother-she was very...
Dec 7th
Clown - photog Milton Inman
As many who follow these pages...
Dec 7th
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Christmas Island ~ Leon Redbone
Well, the sun is over the yardarm…time for this lad to head...
Dec 7th
Curative Playlist from the ol'Geezer's...
Once again things have got a little out of hand but I’m glad to report a bit of sleep, a...
Dec 7th
Once again, the cutesy animal pics aren’t the usual...
Dec 7th
Behind these “nice” school walls… A...
Dec 7th
i love pictures that capture that wild, reckless moment of...
Dec 7th
Over or tot of rhum the editorial board of the Flimwell...
Dec 7th
Just a thought….I have seen so many hurt at the hands...
Dec 7th
Camille was only 22 when I loved her
I loved her like the...
Dec 6th
I keep imagining another place
somewhere from one of those...
Dec 6th
this one of my fave Jayne Mansfield pics…thx psychor!
...
Dec 6th
that’s devoooon, Darling, simply devooon!
but do you...
Dec 6th
Merry Xmas and a lucky new jahr..err…year to you too for...
Dec 6th
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Judy Collins - Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Bob Dylan Cover)
one of the purest voices in music from...
Dec 6th
Prometheus
Monarch of Gods and...
Dec 6th
serious thoughts over java fix
serious music and serious...
Dec 6th
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Tom Waits “(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night”
there were three of Tom’s songs the...
Dec 6th
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Please Come Home For Christmas - Charles Brown
I think Mr. Brown topped it with this one, it is one...
Dec 6th
The photographer, Jean Loup Sieff, musing upon...
Dec 6th
that’s Peter Jennings…he was my...
Dec 6th
Mr. Geezer....
..Yes, WhitsunThe game is afoot, sir!
..ahh..yes..on with my deerstalker and tweed cape and off I go into the early and eerie dawn mists of London town.....taxi.......
Dec 6th
Rules, not sleeping, writing and...
Just punched out another 500 words on the "project" and haven't been too distracted by the new iPod plays and the Tumblr amigos and my postings to the old Tumblr world...then I went to one of my "guides"....Unc Kurt as I call him...read this again...Eight rules for writing fiction:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
-- Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999), 9-10.
Dec 6th
The Flimwell Papers has not opened this file in awhile but...
Dec 5th
this is inventive and fresh use of a shower curtain for a...
Dec 5th
“Having a lascivious twist from the hip.”...
Dec 5th
stuff and then some part II
seems i've hit the motherload for emails lately...sorry but I don't get time to answer too many of them in a timely fashion. i have been working on an editing job for an anthology of "erotic" writings. they brief (pun intended) has changed more times that I've been off to the medicos but I'm still working away on it. I had a lovely live chat with Violet Blue over Skype and she was so helpfull on things...sorry if some of that work has crossed over into the Tumblr line of things....
Dec 5th
She untied the belt and then, while staring at the floor in...
Dec 5th
there is something almost unfemine about this...
Dec 5th
there are no voices singing
the songs of our race
no eyes...
Dec 5th
The Flimwell Papers’ Down From the Shelves pick of the...
Dec 5th
someone sent this to me…cuz i gotta lost 4 or 5...
Dec 5th
My Sister’s Kitchen
I could tumble home there on any...
Dec 5th
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one of the great lions of the piano and i did get hear him roar….past midnight and tipple of...
Dec 5th
“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have...”
— Oscar Levant (via quote-book) ...
— Oscar Levant (via quote-book) ...
Dec 5th
there be dragons…..ayea
(via intoxicatedrats)
Dec 5th
hey feastin’ what does the camera logo stand for...
Dec 5th
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JONQUIL - “SUBTLE STRAINS”
softer dreamstate to tranquil up my fever’d brow….
...
Dec 5th
cause it’s late and i’m weird’in on this...
Dec 5th
That love is weak where fear’s as strong as he ;...
Dec 5th
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ohoh…sad like Jimmie Dale Glimour sad….sad like don’t leave him alone in a room...
Dec 5th
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16 Tons - Billy The Kid
So young, so good, so wonderful to hear….Billy the Kid….no hype...
Dec 5th
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Allegro non troppo - Bruno Bozzetto
I loved this flim when I frist saw it and thought it better in...
Dec 5th
winner of the Durer prize and one can see why..is work in...
Dec 5th
Ms Kelly is one of the best photog’s on...
Dec 5th
Here's hoping....
just got an invite to the year end backgammon tournament over in Camden at year's end. I am hoping that all goes well with the medicos and I can attend and lose gloriously even....better that sputtering a few wins and fading....no chance of winning the whole thing as my skills aren't honed enough these days but I do love the game so!
Dec 5th
always the way with a fella to like to be tad...
Dec 5th
cookie cutter frames and all…or are they...
Dec 5th
A tad under the weather and this grizzled old gnome likes to...
Dec 5th
But if drinking a brew that is truely from the peat and...
Dec 5th
The Flimwell Paper's Best Graphic Novels...
The Walking Dead Criminal Peter & Max: a Fables Novel The Hunter (Richard Stark) Stitches...
Dec 5th
Oh no not that...The Lists....???
So you know what’s in the papers, on the tv and everywhere…ayup you go it, it’s...
Dec 5th
“Speed is like a dozen transatlantic flights without ever...”
— It’s a cold, chilly too...
— It’s a cold, chilly too...
Dec 5th
the tatoo’in daddy photo of the month from the...
Dec 5th
Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast by Patrick McGilligan
I...
Dec 5th
Destiny ~ Director: Fritz Lang
It’s Mr. Fritz...
Dec 5th
Has the look of a Currier & Ives….that is...
Dec 5th
The B & W photo reblog of the day from The Flimwell...
Dec 5th
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Be My Baby - Complex
oh oh oh nooooooooo….i got duped into seeing this clip again…and I...
Dec 5th
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Santa - Little Joey Farr
Uhuh - We are back on the Theme…..and for...
Dec 5th
oh the joys of late nights at the local...
Dec 4th
actually, most commercial porn is dangerous because it might bore you to death
Dec 4th
The Tatooo by Kimbei
At the Flimwell Papers’ All...
Dec 4th
…..t’is the stuff of lighter dreams and no war...
Dec 4th
The Sisters - Sally Mann
The last in the series of fine B...
Dec 4th
another fine photography by the fine photog Margaret M de...
Dec 4th
photo by Margaret de M. Lange from her collected work...
Dec 4th
Mask by Wangechi Mutu
“Wangechi Mutu’s Mask draws...
Dec 4th
Adult Female Sexual Organs by
Wangechi Mutu (ex libris)
...
Dec 4th
overheard in court
..."so, as you told us, with 20 to 30 young men approaching you in a threating manner, some with hands down their trousers, another having just said 'Get da ting and buss it', you would think the most logical and sound thing to do would be to call for help, wouldn't it? You would ring 999 wouldn't you?Answer from T: "Listen, right, I'm not..like I'm not saying I wouldn't but I'm a celebrity, right. And everything I do impacts on my life, right. I call the police and next thing the press has it and it's all twisted and my career is over. So...like I was screaming, yeah, and I know this boy's got a gun right, and he could kill me or Adam or Dappy but like...I gotta think about my life you know my job. I get up in the morning and everyone does everything for me, cars, shopping everything cause it's not safe for me to be like doing things normal and logics like. So calling 999 isn't like a real thing you understand.
Pros. Csl: Really, so you were more worried about your career that your fiance's life being threatened as you told the jury?
Anwer from T: You don't know it, you don't get it -- you don't know what it's like being a celebrity in this world today. I didn't want us to get banned from our music, you know, like they could twist the story and next thing, like, they go we can't play your music anymore cause of this.
(oh the joys of being a Z list celebrity in England)
Dec 4th
Christmas with Motown……ahhh…..tinsel,...
Dec 4th
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Blue Jay Way - The Beatles
A lovely atmospheric piece by George here…always thought it was...
Dec 4th
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Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea
I used to trek about 300 miles home in my late 20’s...
Dec 3rd
The All Things Art Reblog of the Day….love...
Dec 3rd
the word akimbo comes to mind…merci beaucoup La...
Dec 3rd
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Purple Snowflakes - Marvin Gaye
The Flimwell Papers’ Musical Corner Xmas Calvalcade of tunes...
Dec 2nd
The Xmas Playlist -- got any you'd like...
Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus are just around the corner and here at the Flimwell Papers...
Dec 2nd
“probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well...
Dec 2nd
sometimes I dip my arrowroot in applesauce
sometimes I dob...
Dec 1st
I, I can remember (I remember) Standing by the wall (By the...
Dec 1st
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There are klingons off the starboard bow! It’s worse than that, he’s dead Jim!...
Dec 1st
Well, I stand up next to a mountain And I chop it down with...
Dec 1st
. “The best source for a film is an anecdote.” ~...
Dec 1st
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Christmas In Prison - John Prine
Oh, Oh, Oh, the season has started with this little ditty by one...
Dec 1st
you cannot stop it
you cannot delay one little bit
nor can...
Dec 1st
i dig to know the photog daddyo…..i’m...
Dec 1st
a thought.....
"The deep sadness some of us hold is the sins of our fathers we have been given; given to some in measure for reasons we will never understand. It is exorcised, transformed, and made beautiful in our art (the most beautiful act). We feel this sadness because we must - it lets us see. And in seeing is the opportunity for purification". (Bill Stone - sent February 2006)
Dec 1st