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Friday, December 29, 2023

Laurel Canyon . . . Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:28 pm

Image suggested by a New York Times obituary this afternoon —

The above YouTube date — May 29, 2018 — suggests a review
of a post in this  journal on that dateThe Schwartz Meme.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Once Upon a Time in Laurel Canyon

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:00 pm

In memory of a screenwriter who reportedly died today —

“Ms. Frank lived in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills….”
The New York Times  today

“Here, under the shadow of the great tree, I have found peace.”
Mike Nichols in 1965

Saturday, November 25, 2023

“On Hold”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:14 am

"Moats, and boats, and waterfalls
Alleyways, and pay phone calls
I've been everywhere with you"

— "Home" lyrics,
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros,
from an album recorded in Laurel Canyon
and released in July 2009 (Wikipedia).

It does sometimes seem  that way.

A related remark —

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Dreaming in Episodes

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 7:45 am

From Twilight Zone , Season 1, Episode 9, "Perchance to Dream " . . .

HALL: And you don't believe it's possible to dream in episodes?
RATHMANN: I don't say it's impossible.

Other entertainment that is more up to date:

Destiny . . .

"Maybe one night driving over Laurel Canyon
I'd look up in the rearview mirror, and I'd see
somebody or something coming up out of the darkness.
I had to drive the Canyon twice a day. It's a rough road.
One slip and you're over the edge."

— Actor Richard Conte in "Perchance to Dream " (1959)

For more on Laurel Canyon and the number 47 
(the length in minutes of the above Loki finale),
see The Beckinsale Letter.

As for "Shadow Play " . . . See last night's The Intimate Monad.

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

“The Pattern of the Thing Precedes the Thing” — Nabokov

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:51 am
 

Subtitles from “Laurel Canyon,” a 2002 film —

7
00:01:05,732 –> 00:01:07,651
Oh, God.

8
00:01:07,818 –> 00:01:11,905
Oh, Lord. Oh, Jesus.

Related logo with “Fork me on GitHub” ribbon

When you come to a fork . . .” — Yogi Berra

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Hollywood Nights

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:01 am

The conclusion of an obituary for a former resident of Laurel Canyon —

“He would go to all these old junk shops and buy
black-and-white photos of nobody actors,’’
Mr. Klein said. “He didn’t want stills of the stars.
He said, ‘Actors that never made it — that’s
the real Hollywood.’ ’’

— Guy Trebay in The New York Times , June 23

Related music and art — Posts tagged Hollywood Nights.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

The Graduate (Alternate Version)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 am

Kate Beckinsale plays a young Harvard Medical School graduate
working on a doctoral thesis in “Laurel Canyon” (2002).
From the subtitles of the opening scene —

8
00:01:06,713 –> 00:01:08,632
Oh, God.

9
00:01:08,799 –> 00:01:12,886
Oh, Lord. Oh, Jesus.

Saturday, May 9, 2020

Comedy Team: Tedious and Rigged

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:15 pm

“Much of ‘Laurel Canyon’ proves tedious and rigged as it moves from Cambridge, where both Sam and Alex have graduated from Harvard Medical School, to California, where Sam will intern as Alex completes her doctoral thesis on the sex lives of fruit flies.

Malcolm Johnson in The Hartford Courant
      on March 28, 2003

See as well this  journal on the above Courant  date — March 28, 2003 —

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas.”
— Saying attributed to Harvard linguist Anthony Oettinger

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