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cava sound
from belle and sebastian posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
Belle and Sebastian recorded their first album Tigermilk at CaVa Sound in Glasgow, Scotland. Stow College's in-house record label Electric Honey released the album in 1996 as part of their music business program, and CaVa studios hosted the record launch party.
CaVa has been around since 1974 and among other groups has worked with Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai, and The Black Eyed Peas.
(via If You're Feeling Sinister - Pitchfork Classic)
view full location details...sweatshop
from banksy posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
It's no longer here. Sorry. Someone chiseled it off the wall and put it up for sale on an auction website, which I guess is something you can do if you're a cretin.
farmer john murals
from zabriskie point, carrie (1976) posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
In 1957, the Clougherty meat-packing company hired Les Grimes to paint a farmland mural on side of their plant just south of downtown Los Angeles in Vernon. Grimes died in 1968 after falling from a scaffold while painting and Arno Jordan completed the murals that span several blocks. The deteriorating murals were later touched up by muralist Philip Slagter and his crew. Say what you will about cavorting happy pigs in an idyllic country setting on the side of a slaughterhouse in industrial California.
The Farmer John murals make an appearance in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point and Brian De Palma's Carrie.
view full location details...the village gate
from janis joplin posted in music by donkeyoti
Located in a building built in 1898 as a flophouse for transient men, the Village Gate nightclub opened at the corner of Bleeker and Thompson in 1958.
The Village Gate was a popular jazz club for many years. John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, and many more played here. Aretha Franklin had her NYC debut at the Village Gate.
From 1971 to 1973, a musical comedy revue called National Lampoon's Lemmings had a successful run at the Gate. Starring John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest, the show lampooned the 1969 Woodstock Festival, calling it Woodchuck.
In 2001, the off-Broadway theater in the basement, the Village Theater, hosted a play based on Janis Joplin called Love, Janis.
view full location details...kew gardens parking lot
from superheroes (documentary) posted in movies by pete_nice
The parking lot for the Kew Gardens station became infamous for the location of the Kitty Genovese incident, where a young woman was assaulted and murdered in a populated neighborhood.
The incident became a rallying cry against social apathy, and articles were written about the "38 witnesses who did nothing." Details of the case do not support this scenario, but the case still motivates. It is referenced several times in the HBO documentary on real-life superheroes called Superheroes.
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