s*w*a*c

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Odd music, old movies, avian friends. FOT.

Poster for the New Zealand romantic comedy The Breaker Uppers.
s*w*a*c's Last Four Watched: I Love Boosters Creepshow Starting Over The King's Vacation
MC Escher self-portrait in an orb, on display at a special exhibit in Montreal.
Jack Nance as Henry from David Lynch's Eraserhead.
Movies s*w*a*c watched in June, Part 1.
Poster for Sonic Youth's only appearance in Halifax, and Nova Scotia College of Art & Design cafeteria, on Aug. 9, 1984.
s*w*a*c's Friday Last-Four-Watched list from Letterboxd: Lee Cronin's The Mummy Stolen Face Alpha French Cancan
Photo of the early '90s Halifax band Kearney Lake Rd. featuring future Sloan members Jay Ferguson & Chris Murphy and Henri Sangalang, later in the Flashing Lights.
Liberace dressed as a cowboy in the early 1950s.
Poster for the comedy The Heat starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as cops. Hence the title.
LP cover for archy and mehitabel, based on the Don Marquis poems, with Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken and David Wayne.
Pippi the Pup enjoys Canada Day at Good Robot Brewing Beer Garden in Halifax.
Nutty Club mascot Can-D-Man, from Winnipeg.
Hooty the Halifax Halloween Holiday Owl shows off his maple leaf sunglasses and deely-boppers.
Big empty Washington mall, for the "Great American State Fair".
Protester on Trump's Scottish golf course elevates the discourse around his true nature.
An adult male moose in the majestic wilderness of Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland & Labrador, living his best life.
The very '60s paperback cover for humourist S.J. Perelman's The Road to Miltown (Or Under the Spreading Atrophy), a collection of pieces written for the New Yorker.
Josh O'Connor in Ratatouille, uh, I mean Disclosure Day
Al Pacino, with a cigar, in makeup as Lips Manliss for Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy.
Recent thrift shop vinyl finds: Henry Mancini - More Peter Gunn (German stereo!) Eartha Kitt - Revisited and I Love Men Julie London - Calendar Girl (U.K. reissue)
Former comedian Rob Schneider aptly dressed as a cockroach for a pro-literacy READ poster. He is also holding a copy of Kafka's Metamorphosis for some reason.
Picture of a small lobster leg in a human mouth with the instruction: "6. The small claws are excellent eating and may be placed in the mouth and the meat sucked out by chewing on the shell."
An iPod Classic portable music device, which doesn't require wi-fi, 5G or Bluetooth to enjoy.
Enamel Dartmouth City of Lakes pin with city crest
Logo for An RKO Radio Picture, showing the famous radio tower atop the Earth.
My #LastFourWatched: Ladies of the Chorus with Marilyn Monroe, Ozu's Early Spring, the MGM all-star musical Till the Clouds Roll By and Chandler Levack's Montreal-set coming-of-age roman a clef, Mile End Kicks.
The term prat (often spelled pratt) has two primary meanings. Informally—especially in British slang—it refers to a foolish, incompetent, or annoying person. Anatomically, it is a slang term for a person's buttocks.1. As a Noun (Informal/Slang)A fool or idiot: Used to describe someone who behaves stupidly or incompetently (e.g., "He looked a right prat in that outfit.").The buttocks: A colloquial term for a person's bottom (e.g., "He fell flat on his prat.").Pratfall: A related term meaning a fall onto one's buttocks, often used to describe any humiliating or comical blunder.
Amyl & the Sniffers at Place Bell, Montreal, June 5/26
Onscreen message at Place Bell, Montreal that reads: "Amyl and the Sniffers want everyone to be able to enjoy the show. They have a zero tolerance policy toward sexual assault or discrimination of any kind including age, gender, race, sexuality or class. Take care of each other."
Album cover for the mod '60s spy thriller Modesty Blaise, based on the popular comic strip.
Bag of PC "World of Flavours" potato chips, Halifax Donair flavour.
Aerial pic of downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, taken in the early-to-mid 1980s.
Alfie the African Grey Parrot considers his political future.
Josie & the Pussy Cats in Outer Space in a rather phallic rocketship.
Screenshot of s*w*a*c feed, just after making an unrelated 7-Up reference.
Ad for Eno antacid. Not endorsed by musician/producer/inventor Brian Eno.
The cover of Willie Nelson's first album And Then I Wrote. He is cleancut, wearing a suit jacket and tie.
Gloryhallastoopid, a late Parliament LP that still rips.
Cover for Danny Coughlan sings songs from Treehouse LP.
Harpo Marx LP.
Ed McMahon LP, a talk show second banana classic!
Screengrab of news story about Keifer Sutherland cancelling U.S. concerts due to low ticket sales.
Ad for Dairy Queen's deadly breakfast items: Cinnamon Toast Crunch dipped cone, Fruity Pebbles shake and a chco-frosted donut Blizzard. The best part of waking up ... and immediately falling into a sugar coma.
Poster for Roger Corman-produced Moving Violation starring Nova Scotia's Stephen McHattie and Kay Lenz.
Another Eurovision bingo card
Eurovision bingo card
Screencap of news story about disgraced Order of Canada recipients Peter Daiglish, and his equally evil twin, Jacques Lamarre.
McDonald's receipt for a Sausage McMuffin with a total for $6.66. Hail Satan.
Cover of Switched On Country, played on a Moog synthesizer.
Poster for Andy Hines' Little Lorraine, inspired by the Adam Baldwin song (with a Hines/Baldwin screenplay).
Spines of the three WILDWOOD fantasy novels.
Screengrab of Colbert YouTube video thumbnail of Kimmel, Colbert, Oliver, Myers, and some amorphous blob in a suit.
Cover of the 7" EP version of Magoo in Hi-Fi.
Alfie the African grey parrot sits on his cage door and looks upwards.
Cory the conure snuggles into his human's hoodie.
What I Watched in April - Part One
Films I watched in March.