8 responses to “A Photo for Friday”

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   CSK

   November 19, 2021 at 6:19 am

   Nice. Very Edward Hopper.

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   Steven L. Taylor

   November 19, 2021 at 9:56 am

   @CSK: Thanks–I’ll take the comparison!
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   CSK

   November 19, 2021 at 10:13 am

   @Steven L. Taylor:
   It was my immediate reaction: the lone figure, the framing, the overall darkness, the occasional shafts of light.
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   Flat Earth Luddite

   November 19, 2021 at 11:06 am

   Dude! I missed you at breakfast. You missed a great cuppa coffee!

   BTW, really really nice work!
5. 

   OzarkHillbilly

   November 19, 2021 at 11:10 am

   Cool. Makes me wish I had a camera capable of night time photography.
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   de stijl

   November 19, 2021 at 12:49 pm

   The Replacements have a great song called Portland.

   It is an early, aborted version of a song that got eventually released on Don’t Tell A Soul called Talent Show.

   Listening to Portland back to back with Talent Show is a trip. Same song but a different song.

   The Orpheum used to have that same sign design. Same aesthetic, same basic construction. I walked by it a billion times. To and from work every day. The image is stung into my brain.

   You are whipping up major nostalgia.

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   de stijl

   November 19, 2021 at 1:06 pm

   Portland was written as an apologia. They had a show there (Oregon, not Maine) where they famously flamed out.

   Showed up drunk to the gills, flailed about for twenty minutes trying to perform but incapable of doing so. Walked off.

   Westerberg felt bad after. Wrote Portland as an “I’m sorry”.

   Portland is deep track shit. An obscure oddity. Literal apochrypha. Turned up when the demo versions of songs got released.
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   Mr. Prosser

   November 19, 2021 at 1:28 pm

   Oh, very fine. My first impression wasn’t Hopper but a high quality Noir film.