23 Monday Dec 2013
Posted in Advertising, Fashion and Beauty, Film, Lana Del Rey, Music
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#WPLongform, Blue Velvet, Chelsea Hotel, Deluxe Edition, EP, Lana Del Rey, Paradise, Ride, Summer Wine, The Great Gatsby, Young and Beautiful
Lana Del Rey’s Paradise EP was released in November 2012, on CD in Australia and Germany; as CD or digital download in the US; and on vinyl worldwide. For most music buyers, though, it’s simply the second disc in ‘The Paradise Edition’; a reissue of Born to Die, first released in January 2012. Continue reading
19 Thursday Jan 2023
Posted in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe
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Photo by Tim Mantoani
Douglas Morley Kirkland was born in 1934 in Toronto, and moved to the small town of Fort Erie, Ontario with his parents when he was three years old. His father, Morley, was a tailor who made and sold men’s suits from a store on Jervis Street, and his mother Evelyn kept the books.
“The first picture I took was with a Brownie box camera,” Douglas told American History magazine. “I was about seven or eight, and I was allowed to take a photo of my family standing at the front door on a very cold Christmas Day. It was a big deal to take a photo at that time because film wasn’t much available during the Second World War. There were eight exposures on that camera, and I had one opportunity to photograph my family. I pushed this box camera into my stomach to hold it very steady. So I heard that magic click; there it was for the first time. That is what has been pushing me ever since. And it’s taken me into worlds that I could never have imagined.” Continue reading
29 Thursday Dec 2022
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A Year in Music, All the Good Times, And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, Angel Olsen, Angelo Badalamenti, Big Time, Black Obsidian, Bobbie Gentry, Buddy's Rendezvous, Caitlin Rose, CAZEMI, Compilations, Country Music, David Lynch, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Dream-Pop, Euphoria, Father John Misty, Finally Enough Love, Fun Boy Three, Ghost Town, Grapevine, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Irene Cara, Julee Cruise, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Remixes, Ronnie Spector, Ska, Soundtracks, Terry Hall, The Colourfield, The Girl From Chickasaw County, The Ronettes, The Specials, Watercolour Eyes, Weyes Blood
My favourite album of 2022 – Weyes Blood’s And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow – arrived quite recently. It’s dream-pop with passion, as Natalie Mering’s cut-glass vocal mines for hope amid post-pandemic isolation. Continue reading
23 Thursday Dec 2021
Posted in Amy Winehouse, Books, Film, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Music, Non-Fiction, Television
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A Year in Music, Ace Records, Alabama 3, Amy Winehouse, Barrie-James, Beyond Black, Blue Banisters, Charlie Watts, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Choctaw Ridge, Documentaries, Instead of Dreaming, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Kate Solomon, Lana Del Rey, Lives of the Musicians, Lyndsy Spence, Madame X, Madonna, Maria Callas, Marissa Nadler, Naomi Parry, Nico, Rickie Lee Jones, Riverside, Rolling Stones, Sleep Walk, Tyler James, Yolanda
As the world’s big sleep entered its second year, Lana Del Rey turned away from social media and gave us not just one, but two albums: Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. Continue reading
08 Sunday Aug 2021
Posted in Books, Lana Del Rey, Periodicals, Poetry
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Jenny H. Batlay, Lana Del Rey, Marcelline Block, Nouchka Van Brakel, Ruth LaSure, Sam Nortey Jr., Samm Deigan, Soledad, Sunmates, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, World War II
Issue 6 of SOLEDAD Arts Journal – out now via Amazon for just £3.13 in the UK, or $3.78 across the pond – is also the 20th volume from Nostalgia Kinky Publications, including predecessor ART DECADES (and I’m proud to have appeared in all but five.) This issue is peppered with lyrics from French singer-songwriter Véronique Sanson.
The cover story is an exclusive interview with Dutch filmmaker Nouchka Van Brakel, in conjunction with a new triple-boxset on Blu-Ray from Cult Epics. Editor Jeremy Richey has also spoken with film historian Samm Deigan about his new book, The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema. Marcelline Block interviews author Sam Nortey Jr., who shares an extract from his novel, Thumbwars. Marcelline also contributes a scrapbook history of feminist artist and scholar, Jenny H. Batlay. There’s poetry from Marcelline and Ruth LaSure, and Emily Clare Bryant meets Sunmates, a synth-pop band from Lexington, Kentucky.
And finally, I’ve written a 24-page essay on Lana Del Rey’s debut poetry book/spoken-word album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. I hope you’ll enjoy delving into this fascinating project as much as I did.
Tara Hanks 
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