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posts from 2025 / 05 / 26

  1. at the picture shop a few days ago getting a julian lage sf jazz residency poster framed (I caught the solo acoustic show and the duo with marc ribot, who is just the coolest šŸ˜) and while I was trying to decide on a ready-made or not, the other table became the center of attention w/a full size (huge) star wars poster, which looked mint.

    the owner helping him says he worked at lucasfilm in the 80s and that this was one of two sizes or something? he was very excited

    a normal sized (18x24ā€) poster for Julian Lage’s SF Jazz residence in dark blue, dark green, and maroon over cream featuring an abstract guitar, a telecaster control set, flowers, and a hand holding a pen for some reason.I was trying to decide between the closest wood I could get to an acoustic guitar, and a metal that in hindsight looks a lot like fret wire. the metal was 1/3rd the cost of the wood, so I went w/ the metal."Julianā€ is horizontal in a script font on the left in red and LAGE is in all block sans in blue and green. the bottom left corner lists the dates and says:plays 4 nightssoloduo????

    a giant table-covering poster labeled ā€œSTAR WARS REURN OF THE JEDI SERIES B ONE SHEETā€which had been stored rolled, never folded, and in mind condition, I assume for 42 years (circa 1983) but maybe a repro?This is one of the illustrated headshot ones with darth vader in front of the second death star top center, luke under him, han under that, and the rest of the cast horizontal below Junior and I just happened to watch this one last weekend and it is pretty hokey, but the people in the store were all pretty excited by it.

  2. at least a band famously hostile to tapers (or passive to Peter Grant) and infamously noted for onion-on-belt songwriting credit lag didn’t profit off of tapers I guess? weird decisions.

    also, it is full of stock footage cultural contextualization, which, as a device, ugh, the worst dreck of romanticism imo.

  3. the high school fan in me was pretty disappointed w/ the ā€œbecoming led zeppelin" thing that just came out. I bailed.

    the second half is full of neat ā€˜68, '69, and ā€˜70 film of the band live, but not with the definitely available and in some cases highly regarded audio of those shows. Instead, studio or bbc session releases for completely different songs, and not even particularly good songs were used.

    "Living Loving Maidā€, to pick one they used, sucks, and was never in their actual live sets.

  4. half way through nabokov’s ā€œpale fireā€ and istg every aside story in the commentary about stuff in zembla reads like a wes anderson scene