what once was lost has been found!!!!!!!

and now The Spy Who Loved Me Lotus Esprit Series 1 ‘Submarine’ Car CAN BE YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this car was one of six Esprit body shells used in the making of the film, but the only one to be built into a fully operational, self-propelled ‘submarine’.  at the time, the car was said to have cost over $100,000 to create (equivalent to nearly a half million dollars today)

not sure if the sub-car still comes with these features or not

• ability to turn into a submarine, complete with a telescopic periscope, retractable wheels, four control fins, four rear propellers and two stabilizing fins (rudders)
• liquid cement-spraying jets behind the rear license plate on land and a squid-like ink/oil-spraying jet for underwater use
• mine dispenser under the car
• two under-bonnet harpoons
• four under-bonnet heat-seeking missile launchers (for underwater use)
• four surface-to-air radar-guided missiles

one version of the car is on display at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum, as a part of their ‘Bond In Motion’ exhibit 

Beck
Prospect Park Bandshell
August 5th

Beck, five years of no shows between shows you’ve shown me is unacceptable.  You need to play for me every year, or every two years, and I’d even settle for every three years.  I love you Beck.  We all do, all us 30 somethingers who you won over when you gave the world ‘Loser’, and pretty much every song you’ve gaven us since then, even the loud annoying ones that sound like mucous ruckus.  When the dust settles in the decades to come, and McCartney and the Stones and Robert Plant and all those other rock gawds are gone, it will be juss you and Jack White to pass as our neo-rock gawds.  But don’t worry, you don’t need to pass as a rock gawd cause you is one.  We bow

Your back catalog is purty darn hefty, and we re-did our homework on you cause it had been awhile since we listened to ALL yer albums, and you know what, we’re f#$%ing stupid for not listening to them albums always cause they are forever.  You are forever.  You are strange and weird. Who releases an album as sheet music and has other people play it?  It’s genius, but I can’t read music and don’t want to hear other people play your music (well, mostly), but I wouldn’t care if you release music in a balloon that you could only hear once when deflated. Wait, have you tried that yet??

Your show at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell couldn’t have been more perfecter – the weather especially, but you have no control over the weather.  The rest that you had control over was even more perfecter (see that setlist), although you should have played for 4 hours, or at least added a second night, or played Midnite Vultures from top the bottom, considering you didn’t play a single song from it, and it’s one of the 90s’ best albums, but all yer albums are the best albums, although we still think Sea Change kinda blows cause it was no Mutations, oh wait you also played ZERO MUTATIONS songs at this concert and yer concert was STILL amazing

setlist - Devil’s Haircut / Black Tambourine / Soul of a Man / One Foot in the Grave / Modern Guilt / Think I’m in Love / Gamma Ray / Loser / Hotwax / Que Ondo Guero / Girl / Soldier Jane / Chemtrails / The Golden Age / Lost Cause / Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime (The Korgis cover) / Just Noise / Heaven’s Ladder / Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods / Sissyneck -> Billie Jean (Michael Jackson cover) 

encore - E-Pro / here it’s at (Extended Remix)

 

the informations:

Hear Change

Beck To The Future

Coachella Hellz Yealla So Much To Tella Lets Spread On The Nutella Part II

The Spectacular Now
Collapse Into Now
Official Website | Trailers & Mo 
R | 95 min

I wanted it, I got it… for the most part

What did I want?  More movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which are movies more like John Hughes movies, you know, awesome teen movies from the 80s with heart and soul and humor!

What did I get?  Director James Ponsoldt + writers Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (The 500 Days of Summer dudes)’s cinematic take on Tim Tharp’s novel The Spectacular Now

For the most part?  Ok, so you can’t call your movie Spectacular and be anything but, but Spectacular is not full-on spectacular, but the movie certainly has the elements to be, and is closer to it more than not, and is certainly closer to it than a majority of the garbage teenage movies handed to us over the past decade

So what is this movie?  It’s the story of a popular, funny-mouthy, easy-breezy, Big Gulp with liquor swilling kid named Sutter Keely (Miles Teller).  Sutter has no real direction, unless that direction is headed toward fun.  He’s recently single (not by choice, and of course no one would choose to ever be apart from Brie Larson), and one hungover morning wakes up on the lawn of socially clueless Aimee (Shailene Woodley), and the next week they’re sorta blossoming into item, much to everyone’s surprise, including their own.  She seriously gets into him, but he’s kinda loosy-goosy on her, but he’s that way about everything – like his part-time job at the haberdasher (his boss is Bob Odenkirk, cause why not?), dealing with his stressed-out mom (Jennifer Jason Leigh, cause why not?), and with his future (he’s soon to graduate, but college schmollege?).  Maybe what he needs is a dose of reality, from his poshed-up sister (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), or estranged drunken father (THE Kyle Chandler), or perhaps Aimee can smack some sense into him, and if she can’t, who can????

Where it all ends up isn’t exactly some well-drawn out conclusion, but heck, we fell for Sutter Keely and would follow his hit or miss-adventures wherever they did done do roam!  That Miles Teller as Sutter Keely, I tells yea, that performance feels so mad mad mad real (and kinda reminds us of ourselvesz at that age, hence the attraction), and Woodley’s Aimee – even more more more genuine (she’s quite a talent, and it’s a shame the fanboys hated her out of Spider-Man reboot 2), and their coupling – even more than faux real, it’s like five real/reel!!!  Can we be their third wheel, six reals?  Hmmm, maybe this affair was spectacular after all, just not now.  Maybe then?

Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Spectacular is NOW today in NY & LA and elsewhere elsewhen

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

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Dave Parker has time for a quick cigarette in the dugout before a spring training game in 1980

Classic Photos of the Pittsburgh Pirates

btw, Dave Parker now owns a Popeyes!!