Juliet Clark

Back in 2003 when I had the good fortune of working on this series, Wiseman's career was already monumental, and that was before he made another dozen movies.
bampfa.org/program/fred...
(A website "upgrade" left this archived page in ruins but I'm sharing anyway in a moment of nostalgic weakness)

Can't stop thinking about the two words my grandparents used over and over to describe the German forces in Vienna in spring 1938: “lächerlich” and “teuflisch.” Laughable and diabolical. Ridiculous and fiendish.

YouTube video by The Kinks The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Official Audio)

Day 15: Evening #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset"

Chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine

youtu.be/2dbEZIq-LkI?...

YouTube video by The Undertones - Topic Here Comes the Summer

Day 13: Summer #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Undertones, "Here Comes the Summer"

youtu.be/UYZzFUzwoV8?...

YouTube video by Music Videos Shocking Blue - Venus (Official Video)

Day 12: Fire #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Shocking Blue, "Venus"
I'm your venus, I'm your fire

youtu.be/aPEhQugz-Ew?...

YouTube video by Bob Wills - Topic Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer)

Day 11: Coat #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, "Stay a Little Longer"
Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner
Don't see why you don't stay a little longer

youtu.be/KZBVAGBYPos?...

YouTube video by Flying Nun Records The Clean - Anything Could Happen

Day 10: Anything #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Clean, "Anything Could Happen"

youtu.be/7tf1wzg4rdE?...

A sign in a child's handwriting, advertising catsitting services: "we don't care if your cat is grumpy and eny kind of cat is fine"

Local advertising

YouTube video by HDPinkFloyd Syd Barrett /Pink Floyd -"Apples & Oranges

Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Pink Floyd, "Apples and Oranges"

youtu.be/Vymc2lD701E?...

YouTube video by BillieHolidayVEVO Billie Holiday - All of Me (Official Audio)

Day 8: Rest #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Billie Holiday, "All of Me"
You took the best, so why not take the rest?

youtu.be/5J18k5Sx3Dw?...

YouTube video by Davitt Sigerson - Topic It's A Big Country

Day 7: Country #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Davitt Sigerson, "It's a Big Country"

youtu.be/cu7MMTJgONc?...

YouTube video by happening45 Zombies - Friends Of Mine

Day 6: Mine #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Zombies, "Friends of Mine"

youtu.be/w4rWROFJQPQ?...

(I know the Chantels version has already been posted, but this is the one that sticks in my head!)

YouTube video by The Shangri-Las - Topic Maybe

Day 5: Maybe #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

The Shangri-Las, "Maybe"
youtu.be/UKoP8FHY-B0?...

YouTube video by Flanagan & Allen - Topic Run Rabbit Run

Day 4: Run #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Flanagan & Allen, "Run, Rabbit, Run"

youtu.be/SE7-VdCkRDY?...

YouTube video by Scrawl - Topic Take A Swing

Day 3: Fist #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

Scrawl, "Take a Swing"

You’re talking big
So you can save face
Show me your fists
Put me in my place

youtu.be/XYQrcQB4ek4?...

YouTube video by Al Green Al Green - Take Me To The River (Official Audio)

Day 2: River #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
Al Green, "Take Me to the River"
youtu.be/9FBUgdhxe9M?...

YouTube video by The Happenings - Topic I Believe in Nothing

Day 1: Nothing #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025
The Happenings, "I Believe in Nothing"
Perhaps tomorrow I'll believe in something . . .
youtu.be/4D1NP4YG7i4?...

@pseudopodium.bsky.social and I did this recently and can agree it's apropos

Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth

Badge from A F of L Local 681, Welders & Burners, 1942

Unearthed my immigrant grandpa's union badge from the WWII shipyards to mark the day

"Fury [sic] friends are welcome on the patio, if leashed & well-behaved!"

Welcome, fury friends!

Cat: What makes a life worthwhile? Girl: Improving OTHER lives. Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working for other lives' comfort. Working for other lives' meaning Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working to allow other lives to DETERMINE and ESTABLISH their own dignity. Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Working to make the world a BETTER PLACE for ALL people and animals and plants and minerals Cat: What makes those lives worthwhile? Girl: Holding back the HOWLING VOID Cat: Still sounds like a ponzi scheme Girl: We just need to find the next sucker

Eight years ago, continued
"Triangle of Life"

YouTube video by Cindy Lee Berryhill - Topic Song For Brian

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Getting Rid of What's Buggin' You (Unless It's an Unplanned Pregnancy), Chillicothe, MO

Screen shot of a call to action from the Guardian newspaper: "Sign up for the Overwhelm newsletter"

Thanks, my inbox was sorely lacking in overwhelm

Sunday evening in line at the Trader Joe's near the college campus. Van Halen comes on the sound system.
Student 1: I kinda like this, what is it?
Student 2: I think Nirvana?

Come for the Midnight Mass, stay for the Liebestod

YouTube video by Screamin Munkee Christmas Holiday 1944

I love to imagine unprepared moviegoers going to see a Christmas movie starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly and finding themselves trapped in this sordid hallucination.
youtu.be/sBVWLwwkt3I?...

Took a family member to the hospital last week and found the surgical reception area completely decked out in Grinch merch. Just the thing to make patients feel at ease before going under the knife.