Bryan revisited

A previous post about Bryan was one of my first small town photography-themed posts, back in 2006. I recently passed through again and snapped a couple of pics in the historic downtown area.





The Queen Theater - opened in around 1924 and remodeled in 1939.

Culture Club reunion?

I'm by no means a fan of Culture Club, but I like this kind of thing (I just wish The Beatles could have done it for real!). Boy George has recently been quoted as saying the group may reunite (again, again) next year to mark the three decades since their founding.

It may easy to discount them today, especially in light of Boy George's troubled recent years. But back in the day, Culture Club was taken fairly seriously by rock critics. Growing up in the '80s, I wanted to be a rock critic along the lines of Lester Bangs, Robert Christgau, Dave Marsh, and even my childhood hero, Pete Townshend, so I paid attention to such things. I remember there being almost unanimous critical praise for the band's first single, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", and perhaps less so, but some serious, positive appraisals of something like:

EBiN fanpage @ facebook

My goodness, someone has created an Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches fanpage at facebook. As of this posting, there are five six (danke, Diedrich!) fans (not just the page's creator and me)! What an honor! I'm so touched. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

"Walk Between the Raindrops"

Someone made a pretty cool video to go with "Walk Between the Raindrops," off of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly (1982).

"Season Cycle"

XTC
Because it's the vernal, or spring, equinox...

Seeing signs in Austin

The Austin Motel

The old Don-Mar Motor Court was torn down back in 2005, and condos are set to fill the empty space. Maybe they will leave the sign up? I was very pleased and surprised to find it still stood.









Sandy's Hamburgers


The Continental Club, c. 1957


Nau's Enfield Drug has been around since 1951.




Anthony's Laundry & Dry Cleaning, since 1951, with my new favorite:

Coppola directs Twilight movie?

It'll never happen, but the people behind the Twilight movie franchise want Sofia Coppola to direct the third movie in the trilogy, Breaking Dawn.

The bigscreen adaption of Stephenie Meyer's final book in the Twilight "saga" (ha) is said to end up as two separate films. I've never seen, nor have I ever read a Twilight film or book. But I might be interested in seeing one done if it was done by Coppola. She directed one of my favorites, Lost in Translation, and I really liked parts of Marie Antoinette. That movie was sort of like a remake of Barry Lyndon.

The creators of the Twilight saga have also offered Breaking Dawn to Gus Van Sant and Bill Condon. I'd say Condon is the most likely of the three to accept. Wouldn't a Van Sant film be interesting?!