Exactlyyyy

gang is this song eruri coded

Obsessed with this song right now. It captures such a specific feeling, but I don’t know the name for it. Can’t believe this beautiful, fantastic album turns 45 this year.

it occurred to me that i didn’t have this epic and iconic video on my blog. i had to make things right.

Alec guiness’s hatred of star wars makes so much sense when you remember lawrence of arabia because imagine you make one of the greatest films of all times. No one even cares you were in brownface for it. Then years later youre taken back to the desert. But now youre in a bath robe saying things like “darth vader” and “lightsaber” hanging out with some kind of gay robot. He probably thought his career was over lmfaoooo

“I’m learning to lie. I’m learning to be insincere.”

Becoming the Fly

This video was inspired by Kelly Eddington's words in her article:

"In my mind, late 80s Bono was a mysterious figure. He was nowhere near as accessible as he is today, and he came across as intelligent and even brooding when discussing the band’s rise to fame. He didn’t seem to belong to that decade. His long hair wasn’t teased and sprayed (well, not anymore). He didn’t sing about rock ‘n’ roll debauchery. He possessed an above-it-all purity and even dressed like a Depression-era preacher. Then he and his band disappeared for a while.

They surfaced briefly in 1990 with “Night And Day,” a gorgeous Cole Porter cover I loved immediately. It left me wanting more and made me curious. U2 seemed to be on a new sonic path with Bono’s sensual/tortured performance and that doom and gloom synth. The shadowy video seemed to be a message transmitted from the center of the band’s own dark chrysalis. 

And one year later, a black butterfly emerged".

Excerpt from Kelly Eddington's article: #AB30: U2 Know How Beautiful U2 Are (@kellyeddington)

Duane Michals photographed The Police during the album cover photo sessions for 'Synchronicity', in 1983.

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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) | dir. David Lean

stolen from r/tennis 🫣