Theremin Interview; Alex Gross's Green Lantern; TM:SNC Quote

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• Recently we watched the Criterion version of the 1945 Hitchcock classic Spellbound, a film that made use of the Theremin. Here's one of the DVD extras, an episode of the Fishko Files in which WNYC radio host Sara Fishko takes a Theremin lesson.
• Do yourself a favor and check out the work of Alex Gross. I saw a copy of his new book today, and it was far out! Here's a painting of an old photograph he saw of a guy who kind of looked like the original Green Lantern. A little artistic license, and voilà!

• A real good music film -- Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser. Monk is one of my three favorite jazz musicians (the other two being Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck). Interesting side note -- TM:SNC is the film that (as far as I know) has the first use of the phrase "You'll flip. I mean flip for real." later adapted and immortalized in The Usual Suspects as follows: Fenster - "I said he'll flip you." Cop - "He'll what?" Fenster - "Flip you. Flip ya for real." Monk actually used the phrase (at 01:07:38) after Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter gave him an expensive magic marker, and he was commenting on the illegibility of his autographs: "Get somebody that can decipher that for you, you know, and say what it means... and get what it means... you know. It'll upset you. You'll flip. I mean flip for real." (I just updated the Wikipedia page on Unusual Suspects to make that clarification.)