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THE BEST ALL NIGHT SURFING SITES OF 2007, plus CARY GRANT ON LSD AND ON BECOMING CARY GRANT!
With over 1200 links the past year here at ALL NIGHT SURFING it was difficult to pick the top dozen. I might even pick a different dozen if I waited a day. You can always go back by using the calendar on the side of these posts and clicking on the arrows above the calendar to find links you may have missed. But for tonight, here are my picks for the best posts of 2007.
From January of 2007:
This gallery of stunning erotic photos, which includes celebrities as well in kinky clothes and nude, is a must see. But not ok for work! Brilliant artist!
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| Gwyneth Paltrow, New York 1999 WOW! |
From Feburary:
Everything you ever wanted to know about the BetelNut Girls of Taiwan!
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/12/betelnut_girl_photos.html
From March:
There was something in the air in the early years of commercial aviation. Perhaps more excitement, perhaps more glamorous stewardesses... in any case, it's worth savoring once again.
From April:
When a successful pop singer announces they want to write their own music you can bet the record companies get worried. When 19 year old Joss Stone announced she was writing her own material I'm sure they were nervous and afraid. Guess what? She pulled it off! 19 years old, an incredible voice (Aretha Franklin called her the best soul singer around) and a really good songwriter. DAMN!
From May:
Here's something you could do if you're bored on a Friday night and need food and fun. OL Shabu Shabu Shomuni is a shabu shabu restaurant that just opened in November, and it serves more than just boiled beef and vegetables. The waitresses are all dressed like Office Ladies, and are required to strip down to the nude and then put on a slutty outfit at request, while you eat out of their hands. Yes, their hands! No chopsticks here. http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/01/new_restaurant_.html#more
From June:
From July:
Hello Kitty Hell is the best, funniest website on HELLO KITTY I have ever seen. Yet while keeping tongue firmly in cheek, you are also informed of all the goings on in the Hello Kitty empire. Did you know there was a Hello Kitty musical for example? Like Hello Kitty or hate it, you will love this blog: http://www.hellokittyhell.com/
From August:
This gallery of mostly-Polish vintage movie posters, many for American-made films, is absolutely amazing. via: BOING BOING. These are true stunning works of art. They put our movie posters to shame.
From September:
DR. WHO in cartoon form! On the net!
From October:
From November:
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. The Library of Congress presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints.
When he offered the collection to the Library in 1965, Adams wrote, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment…All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/aamsp.html
From December:
As a few of you may know, I am a fan of the Lyric Opera http://www.lyricopera.org/ Yep. You are as apt to run into me at a DJ Tiesto event, The Decemberists, White Stripes, The Shop Boys, Regina Spektor- or the Lyric Opera. I was fortunate to see Danielle de Niese as Cleopatra, the most sexy and amazing Cleopatra I have ever seen in any medium in Handel's JULIUS CESARE (Giulio Cesare). Look at this (and yes, those are World War 1 and 2 weaponry in the backdrop), here is her war victory dance:
The days of the fat lady singing are long gone. This is opera today!
Uncut sex appeal
This opera from 1724 performed for over 4 hours is great fun and speeds by- too fast.
Just kill me now!
As a Lyric Opera subscriber for several years now, let me request more Danielle De Niese, doing ANYTHING. The standing ovation at the end of the show was deserved- and earned. If you'll excuse me, I have to watch this again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcVg1UtQLNQ
OK, NOW THAT'S DONE, SO HERE'S A NEW LINK FOR BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
WHY CARY GRANT STILL MATTERS
Cary Grant was one of the first people to speak out in public about LSD and how it had expanded his life. Here is what he wrote:
"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point." That meeting—when Archie Leach, the Bristol-born son of a part-Jewish suit presser, came to be fully assimilated by his creation, Cary Grant—amounts to one of the great events in the annals of twentieth-century culture. It created what the critic David Thomson (in A Biographical Dictionary of Film, the finest reference book on the movies) flatly declares to be "the best and most important actor in the history of the cinema." And it's a joy to watch: although the meeting was years in the making, you can actually see it come to fruition in a single movie, Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (1937). Grant's performance in that film was, in every sense, transformative. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200701/schwarz-cary-grant
Sat. January 12
Did the Atomic Bombs End the War with Japan?
Meetings # 2847 - Michael Flores, local playwright and filmmaker, returns with recently declassified CIA / OSS, German, Japanese and Russian documents that present a very different version of the war than what we thought we knew
Saturday Jan 12
Presentation at 8:00 PM
Lincoln Restaurant
4008 N. Lincoln Avenue
intersection of Irving Park & Damen 4000N - 2000W
Free Parking Lot Available
1 block from Irving Park Brown Line EL Stop
Tuition $3 Mark your calendar now!
Plus $5 toward food or drinks, booze served to 21's and over
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