Eddie Selover
@eddieselover.bsky.social
Writer, communications exec, coach, speaker. Topics mostly movies, storytelling and spiritual adventuring. My biography of Basil Rathbone coming next year from UPK. ♊️🦄🍸
These people were exactly the same 60 years ago. Reactionary racism ages like a white whine.
1966.
This whole record is demented. Also extremely scarce.
I got my copy at Peter Dunn's Vinyl Museum in Etobicoke back in the day.
The John Birch Society sponsored this ill-fated attempt at a satirical rock song concerning the Watts uprising:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHL3...
This whole record is demented. Also extremely scarce.
I got my copy at Peter Dunn's Vinyl Museum in Etobicoke back in the day.
The John Birch Society sponsored this ill-fated attempt at a satirical rock song concerning the Watts uprising:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHL3...
John G. Croff - The Song Of Watts [1960s Political Rock]
YouTube video by ThriftStoreVinyl
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November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
These people were exactly the same 60 years ago. Reactionary racism ages like a white whine.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 27: Favourite film noir featuring food.
MILDRED PIERCE, in which Joan Crawford rises from home baker to waitress to restaurant entrepreneur. She gradually loses touch with food itself (we see less of it as the film unfolds), as she does with her other most important values.
Day 27: Favourite film noir featuring food.
MILDRED PIERCE, in which Joan Crawford rises from home baker to waitress to restaurant entrepreneur. She gradually loses touch with food itself (we see less of it as the film unfolds), as she does with her other most important values.
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 27: Favourite film noir featuring food.
MILDRED PIERCE, in which Joan Crawford rises from home baker to waitress to restaurant entrepreneur. She gradually loses touch with food itself (we see less of it as the film unfolds), as she does with her other most important values.
Day 27: Favourite film noir featuring food.
MILDRED PIERCE, in which Joan Crawford rises from home baker to waitress to restaurant entrepreneur. She gradually loses touch with food itself (we see less of it as the film unfolds), as she does with her other most important values.
In my early 50s I was having drinks at a Manhattan hotel bar with a woman I adored, when there was a sudden fierce rainstorm stranding us there. I managed to procure an umbrella out of nowhere... and suddenly becoming Psmith was one of the highlights of my life.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In my early 50s I was having drinks at a Manhattan hotel bar with a woman I adored, when there was a sudden fierce rainstorm stranding us there. I managed to procure an umbrella out of nowhere... and suddenly becoming Psmith was one of the highlights of my life.
Disfruté mucho de esto.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Disfruté mucho de esto.
THE LONG GOODBYE and CHINATOWN are my other two favorite Neo-noirs. Not the most original choices, but they're both so damn tight.
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
THE LONG GOODBYE and CHINATOWN are my other two favorite Neo-noirs. Not the most original choices, but they're both so damn tight.
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
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November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
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I'm enjoying this Laurel and Hardy series from Flicker Alley so much. Some of these shorts are as great as Chaplin or Keaton, and the restorations are beautiful in spite of the sources often being problematic. Highly recommended.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm enjoying this Laurel and Hardy series from Flicker Alley so much. Some of these shorts are as great as Chaplin or Keaton, and the restorations are beautiful in spite of the sources often being problematic. Highly recommended.
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The right wing's supposed reverence for the military has always been 100% performative. Same for their attitude toward law-enforcement, the flag, and the Constitution. These things are only cudgels to be wielded in their quest to utterly subjugate the Left. Fuck these people, man.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The right wing's supposed reverence for the military has always been 100% performative. Same for their attitude toward law-enforcement, the flag, and the Constitution. These things are only cudgels to be wielded in their quest to utterly subjugate the Left. Fuck these people, man.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 26: Favourite Neo-noir
THE GRIFTERS is the only movie that gets Jim Thompson exactly right. His cynicism is so raw, his people so lost, his bleakness so total that usually his books are unfilmable. This movie solves the problem by leaning in hard, with a gleeful brio.
Day 26: Favourite Neo-noir
THE GRIFTERS is the only movie that gets Jim Thompson exactly right. His cynicism is so raw, his people so lost, his bleakness so total that usually his books are unfilmable. This movie solves the problem by leaning in hard, with a gleeful brio.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 26: Favourite Neo-noir
THE GRIFTERS is the only movie that gets Jim Thompson exactly right. His cynicism is so raw, his people so lost, his bleakness so total that usually his books are unfilmable. This movie solves the problem by leaning in hard, with a gleeful brio.
Day 26: Favourite Neo-noir
THE GRIFTERS is the only movie that gets Jim Thompson exactly right. His cynicism is so raw, his people so lost, his bleakness so total that usually his books are unfilmable. This movie solves the problem by leaning in hard, with a gleeful brio.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 25: Favorite film noir featuring a boat.
Maybe the most chilling scene in Noir is in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, when Gene Tierney takes Darryl Hickman out on a lake for swimming practice. The fresh outdoor locations in Technicolor only add to the horror.
Day 25: Favorite film noir featuring a boat.
Maybe the most chilling scene in Noir is in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, when Gene Tierney takes Darryl Hickman out on a lake for swimming practice. The fresh outdoor locations in Technicolor only add to the horror.
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 25: Favorite film noir featuring a boat.
Maybe the most chilling scene in Noir is in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, when Gene Tierney takes Darryl Hickman out on a lake for swimming practice. The fresh outdoor locations in Technicolor only add to the horror.
Day 25: Favorite film noir featuring a boat.
Maybe the most chilling scene in Noir is in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, when Gene Tierney takes Darryl Hickman out on a lake for swimming practice. The fresh outdoor locations in Technicolor only add to the horror.
Note to self.
Niche post for critics and movie-awards-season nerds: Don't sleep on The Plague, a superb, excruciatingly tense American debut film--not horror, but in its way terrifying--about being a 12- or 13-year-old boy among other 12- or 13-year-old boys. Opens next month; it's haunted me since I saw it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Note to self.
He's an evil clown, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
He's an evil clown, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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This week brought sharp drops in Trump’s approval, a clear show of strength for Democrats, a major breakthrough on the Epstein files, and a string of legal setbacks for the Trump administration. Team Big Picture broke it all down.
Our Wins Of The Week
Just ten months into Donald Trump’s second term and more than a year since he was reelected, the American people are sending a clear message in poll after poll that they are just not that into him.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This week brought sharp drops in Trump’s approval, a clear show of strength for Democrats, a major breakthrough on the Epstein files, and a string of legal setbacks for the Trump administration. Team Big Picture broke it all down.
Reposted by Eddie Selover
This album's orchestrations are excellent but I'm not sure Wainwright, with his Liberace-on-quaaludes singing style, is the right guy to put across Weill's sour ironies.
Rufus Wainwright channels his enduring fascination w/ Kurt Weill into new album, I’m a Stranger Here Myself-Wainwright Does Weill. The album unites the 3time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter w/ LA’s premier 40-piece orchestral jazz ensemble under the baton of Chris Walden
Interview: Rufus Wainwright brings Kurt Weill’s music into the 21st century
Rufus Wainwright’s fascination with Kurt Weill began early. “I first came in contact with Kurt when I was about 12 or 13,” he recalled. “I was at a record store and I saw an album with Lotte Lenya …
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November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This album's orchestrations are excellent but I'm not sure Wainwright, with his Liberace-on-quaaludes singing style, is the right guy to put across Weill's sour ironies.
Relatable.
fuck Celebrezze
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Relatable.
One of those internet lies that will not die. "Twice" is supposed to give it credibility, I suppose.
TIL that Basil Rathbone (early Hollywood actor) really was an excellent fencer - he was British Army fencing champion twice.
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One of those internet lies that will not die. "Twice" is supposed to give it credibility, I suppose.
#NoirvemberChallenge
23. Film Noir actor who stole every scene they were in.
The magnificent Laird Cregar could play *anything* and you couldn't take your eyes off him. In his noir films, he suggested depths of tortured weirdness no other actor of his era could come close to. A literal giant.
23. Film Noir actor who stole every scene they were in.
The magnificent Laird Cregar could play *anything* and you couldn't take your eyes off him. In his noir films, he suggested depths of tortured weirdness no other actor of his era could come close to. A literal giant.
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
23. Film Noir actor who stole every scene they were in.
The magnificent Laird Cregar could play *anything* and you couldn't take your eyes off him. In his noir films, he suggested depths of tortured weirdness no other actor of his era could come close to. A literal giant.
23. Film Noir actor who stole every scene they were in.
The magnificent Laird Cregar could play *anything* and you couldn't take your eyes off him. In his noir films, he suggested depths of tortured weirdness no other actor of his era could come close to. A literal giant.
Seeing a lot of posts calling Trump bi after his crushing on Mamdani and being outed for dick sucking. Sorry, no, I won't allow it. Let him pick some other sexuality, preferably Ace.
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Seeing a lot of posts calling Trump bi after his crushing on Mamdani and being outed for dick sucking. Sorry, no, I won't allow it. Let him pick some other sexuality, preferably Ace.
This would be my second favorite musical performance in a Noir. It hits even harder if you know the real life backstory and who her "baby" was.
Day 22 #NoirvemberChallenge Fav #filmnoir musical performance. Submitted by @rmrfromgso.
Ida Lupino in Roadhouse (1948). All hail the badass. She sings hauntingly, raspy, & with perfect smoky depression the classic Johnny Mercer song "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)".
Ida Lupino in Roadhouse (1948). All hail the badass. She sings hauntingly, raspy, & with perfect smoky depression the classic Johnny Mercer song "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)".
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This would be my second favorite musical performance in a Noir. It hits even harder if you know the real life backstory and who her "baby" was.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 22: Favorite musical number in a Noir.
Rita Hayworth destroys Buenos Aires in "Put the Blame on Mame" from GILDA, the sexiest goddamn thing I've ever seen.
It's Rita's show, but kudos to Anita Ellis, Jack Cole, Jean Louis, Rudolph Maté, Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher.
Day 22: Favorite musical number in a Noir.
Rita Hayworth destroys Buenos Aires in "Put the Blame on Mame" from GILDA, the sexiest goddamn thing I've ever seen.
It's Rita's show, but kudos to Anita Ellis, Jack Cole, Jean Louis, Rudolph Maté, Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher.
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 22: Favorite musical number in a Noir.
Rita Hayworth destroys Buenos Aires in "Put the Blame on Mame" from GILDA, the sexiest goddamn thing I've ever seen.
It's Rita's show, but kudos to Anita Ellis, Jack Cole, Jean Louis, Rudolph Maté, Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher.
Day 22: Favorite musical number in a Noir.
Rita Hayworth destroys Buenos Aires in "Put the Blame on Mame" from GILDA, the sexiest goddamn thing I've ever seen.
It's Rita's show, but kudos to Anita Ellis, Jack Cole, Jean Louis, Rudolph Maté, Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher.
How it started/how it's going
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
How it started/how it's going