I hate everything

René Magritte’s Little-Known Art Deco Sheet Music Covers from the 1920s

nineteen-fifty-four:

Billy Wilder.

(Source: grottu)

Strange promotional picture from The 5,00 Fingers of Doctor T. Featuring Tommy Rettig.

“Do you know, last time I was in Paris I really did ring Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir answered the phone and said he was out distributing leaflets. Or was that a sketch?”

– Graham Chapman, A Liar’s Autobiography

oldhollywood:

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir gather to distribute copies of the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on the street after it is banned by the government (Paris, 1970).

Photographer: Bruno Barbey (via)

oldhollywood:

Billie Holiday, 1958. Photographer: Dennis Stock (via)

“I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do. Or the word ‘love.’ Maybe I remember what those words are all about. Maybe I’m proud enough to want to remember Baltimore and Welfare Island, the Catholic institution and the Jefferson Market Court, the sheriff in front of our place in Harlem and the towns from coast to coast where I got my lumps and scars, Philly and Alderson, Hollywood and San Francisco, every damn bit of it.

All the Cadillacs and minks in the world - and I’ve had a few - can’t make it up or make me forget it. All I’ve learned in all those places from all those people is wrapped up in those two words. You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave. Everything I am and everything I want out of life goes smack back to that.”

-Holiday, quoted in Lady Sings the Blues (1956)

(via sibbotery)

California School of Artistic Whistling by Namey McNamerson on Flickr.

blamoscience:

Of course Nikola Tesla had the coolest letterhead ever. Would you expect anything less?

More famous letterheads here.