Disco sample identification request

Can anyone identify this disco sample (some horns and strings)?

MoKA, IMDb by tag cloud

IMDb presents a new tool for finding and discovering film titles within their large catalog. MoKA (Movie Keywords Analyzer) lets you find titles that have a particular keyword and then presents a tally of all keywords (presented as a tag cloud) from the titles that matched your keyword set.

Bonjour Tristesse (1954) – Françoise Sagan

Related: sadness – boredom – melancholy – pessimism – depression – spleen

After Laughter (Comes Tears) – Wendy Rene

Antonym: happiness – pleasure

Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Japanese soundtrack

Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Saul Bass film poster

Bonjour Tristesse (in English, Hello, Sadness) is a novel by Françoise Sagan. Published in 1954, when the author was only eighteen, it caused an overnight sensation.

The 1958 film Bonjour Tristesse was directed by Otto Preminger, featured music by Georges Auric, and had Jean Seberg and David Niven as lead actors. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour Tristesse [Sept 2006]

Bonjour Tristesse (1958) Otto Preminger
Image sourced here.
Styling by Hubert de Givenchy

RIP Adam Goldstone

Adam Goldstone (aka Tiny Trendies, Cultural Mambo, etc.) , an American house music DJ and producer died in a sudden accident late Tuesday.

 

You can read Kurt Reighley’s interview with him, circa the release of his Nuphonic studio album, Lower East Side Stories, here. Here is more from The Stranger. A couple of his DJ mixes live here and here.

Adam at Discogs.com, with links to his MySpace profile to commemmorate him.
See also: dance music
Via Boris

Social cataloging applications

• http://www.librarything.com/
• http://www.ymdb.com/

A social cataloging application is a web application that allows users to catalog items (ie., books, CDs, etc.) owned or otherwise of interest to them. Once cataloged, such applications generally allow users to share their catalogs with others, and interact with others based upon shared items.

YMDB still exists, but is now located at shompy.com. YMDB now re-directs to IMDb, probably due to a lawsuit.

Museum of broken relationships

“You recently broke up and have this irresistible urge to erase all memory of it?” asks the museum on its website (www.brokenships.com). “This museum allows you to get rid of things that trigger bad memories.”

Rationales for movie sex and nudity

Found a good article titled Rationales for movie sex and nudity:

“To avoid the charge of presenting scenes involving “gratuitous sex and nudity,” Hollywood filmmakers often suggest a reason (or at least an occasion) for their stars’ behavior, offering various rationales for movie sex and nudity during each decade of the twentieth century.”

In many ways this phenomenon was also apparent in European art from the Middle Ages until the 1850s. But the rise of modern art and the related rise of realism in the arts in France changed all that. Artists no longer wished to hide behind artistic pretexts to represent nudity and eroticism. An important example of this is Manet’s Olympia.

The boing boing effect

Vintage Italian pulp comix cover art

Curt of Groovy Age of horror says:

Thanks to FLOG!, Groovy Age just got its first BoingBoing hit so traffic’s through the roof. If you’re here from one of those links, looking for all those Italian pulp comics covers, HERE THEY ARE (indexed links to the relevant posts). For related sites, check out the “fumetti” links in the sidebar (I can also recommend Arboles muertos y mucha tinta).

Boing Boing’s post said:

Sites like The Groovy Age of Horror showcase a lot of [Italian pulp comics cover art] and link to other galleries of pulp art masterpieces.

Boing Boing, which according to Technorati is the 5th most popular blog in the world (66,490 links from 20,790 blogs), has put Groovy Age of Horror in the spotlight. Its traffic shot up from an average of 250 daily visitors to 1,100. I’ve been a fan of Groovy Age for over a year now. In a kind of mission statement in 2005 Curt described Groovy Age of Horror as follows.

“My real ambition, a large part of what I want to achieve here, [...], is the creation of the Groovy Age of Horror as a kind of escapist fantasy world, sort of like the Hammerscape. In a sense, I’d like the story-worlds of all these novels I review to melt into one grand, sleazy, sexy, monster-haunted, cult-ridden, distinctly 1960s-1970s world of groovy horror. And I’d like the images I post–whether paperback covers or fumetti or movie posters or screenshots–to serve as windows on that world. When you come here, I want you to feel like you’re going to that place, and when you click away, I want you to feel like you’ve been somewhere dark, fun, and fascinating. That’s the experience I’d love to evoke.” –Curt via http://groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com/ [Jun 2005]

Groovy Age of Horror is your best point of entry for a very lively internet community (another center of which is the Yahoo! group Euro Trash Paradise) dedicated to 1960s and 1970s pulp culture.

Also watch out for Curt’s upcoming novel.