September 18 2007
Lounge Links
posted by Steven Shaw at 4:56 pm
The Captain America flag patch, worn by Peter Fonda in the counter culture classic Easy Rider, goes up for auction next month. It’s part of Peter Fonda’s memorabilia collection being auctioned through Heritage Auction Galleries. Also going under the hammer are Fonda’s Department of Defense badge that also decorated his leather jacket, a gold Rolex he wore in the film, a gold record of the soundtrack, and other personal items unrelated to the film. The flag is estimated to bring in over US$50k… (via BoingBoing)
The New York Times is launching a new weekly comic strip by Daniel Clowes, the creator of the alternative comic Eightball and the Ghost World graphic novel. The strip, Mister Wonderful, will run through mid-January in the Funny Pages section of The New York Times Magazine. (You may have to register, but it’s free)…
More Daniel Clowes: He’s also co-writing the screenplay to The $40,000 Man, with director Terry Zwigoff, who directed the screen adaptation of Clowes’ Ghost World. Think Steve Austin on a budget…
Narnia Movie Poster: The upcoming kids’ film the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian…
“The kind of beats that I was going for were tribal beats, more punk rock, more direct,” says The Cult’s Ian Astbury about their new indie rock flavoured album Born Into This…
Nice jumper, mate: Queens of the Stone Age show a sense of good humour, appearing on TV chef Anthony Bourdain’s holiday special…
RIP: Bobby Byrd, musical collaborator to the late James Brown, died last weekend…
Dancin Little Thang: Seems appropriate to have some dancing lessons with James Brown: