#amlistening Red House Painters' first eponymous LP, aka the Rollercoaster album. Melancholy indie rock for a rainy day. #rockMusic #nineties
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Museum director and public historian of medicine based in the United States. PhD Purdue University. He/him.
#amlistening A Pagan Place (1984) by The Waterboys. Soulful folk rock, bears a family resemblance to Grant Lee Buffalo.
Martin Scorsese should have cast Brad Dourif instead of Robert De Niro as Max Cady in Cape Fear.
I've been wanting to see this film for years and finally found it streaming on YouTube. Jonathan Demme is a great documentary filmmaker but nothing he had done before this was as politically charged or as emotionally devastating. Father Robert Castle is an Episcopal priest with a ministry in Harlem during the height of the crack era and the War on Drugs. But it's not a white savior film. Demme is careful to place Castle in the context of a community-led movement.
#amlistening You're Living All Over Me (1987) by Dinosaur Jr. and Clairvoyance (1986) by Screaming Trees. Early #grunge sounds from the #eighties. You can hear how this music distinguished itself from hardcore with more traditional, melodic songwriting and vocals. #rockmusic
#amwatching The Men (1950). This film is primarily known for being Marlon Brando's debut. He is really good as usual but the film is also notable for having a sensitive and insightful script about living with #disability and overcoming #ableism in society as well as internalized ableism. #Filmstodon #filmclassics
N.B. This is NOT an image of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895), the first Black woman to earn an MD in the U.S. It is Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), the first professionally trained African American nurse in the U.S. No images of Crumpler taken during her lifetime are known to exist. Be careful because several websites and publications mistake Mahoney for Crumpler. #medhistory #historodons #blackhistory
#amlistening More Fun in the Modern World (1983), by the LA-based punk/psychobilly band X. This band should have been as big as The Clash and The Sex Pistols but life is unfair. They were a tight band. John Doe (who turned 70 on Feb 25) and Exene Cervenka were great songwriters with lots to say about the world and their vocal harmonies blended beautifully. Poor Little Girl should have been a massive radio hit. #punkRock #eighties #rockMusic
#justwatched Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), a documentary by Banksy. I am totally amazed that this is the work of a first-time filmmaker. Also that he made a compelling, funny, first-rate film out of a chaotic archive of raw footage taken by Thierry Guetta. Is it for real? Who knows! A mindfuck on many levels. #Filmstodon #ContemporaryArt
Find of the day: a Percocet-branded tape measure, compliments of DuPont. #MedHistory #historodons #BigPharma