Antenne 2 jingle, 1978
There is something very haunting about this jingle/ident for France’s “Antenne 2″ – it sounds like Tangerine Dream or something. If I had seen this as a petit garcon, I would have hid underneath my bed!
From Scottish Krautrockers to Worldly Khristians
One of my very favorite bands is Scotland’s Simple Minds. Isn’t just about everything from Scotland around this time amazing?! It may be the most fruitful period of vanguard rock music in all of British history. Simple Minds during this […] More »
Font flavor of the week!
It’s a killer mix of the geometric and the grotesk – with a few Peignot-esque flourishes on the accents. It also reminds me of modern Turkish.
This is the title card to “Masculin Feminin” by Jean-Luc Godard.
It is apparently […] More »
Tu aimes lire?
This is another drawing from the mystery man who created the Roxy Music comic that I previously wrote about. I wish I could figure out who this guy is, because I want to give him proper credit. If I […] More »
Summer forever
Donna Summer is one of my female heroines. I used to think that the genius behind “I Feel Love” and other songs that she sang were all about Giorgio Moroder, but once I learned that she wrote many of […] More »
Selected stills from ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This’
I don’t have a single favorite Almodóvar film, I have three – all with relatively equal standing for different reasons. “What have I done to deserve this”, i.e. “Que he hecho yo para merecer esto!!!” is brilliant for its parody […] More »
