Michael Jackson's Dangerous album cover has been called everything for tasteless to ugly. Like the album itself (one which bears as songs as angry as Who is it, as saccharine as Heal the World and as sexually provocative as In the Closet) it's an interesting paradox. It's the least we see of Jackson of all his albums (his eyes only) yet at the same time the accompanying illustration of figures and animals speak strongly of his interest an idiosyncrasies

In my eyes, Dangerous is Jackson's most innovative and dynamic era. His experimentation with a new sound (new jack swing) and new producer (Teddy Riley) may have been a gamble after the winning recipe of that made up his previous albums, but was probably a needed artistic move. It's interesting that this should come across in his short films, world tour (wearing the infamous fencing jacket inspired gold outfit) and album cover.

 

5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14.

Thank you, Roger. I can now tell my grandchildren of the time when I met the greatest tennis player ever in a Virgin Megastore in Dubai and he fulfilled my request for a photo with wary politeness.

Repulsion (1965) ( Dir. Roman Polanski )Film Posters.

The second one from the left, top row and the one next to it are my favourites.

 

“I shall personally see to it, that the demented slime-breath little Lilliputian who owns this disgusting ribbon, shall never see the light of day again!”

“There’s glass between us!”

“Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.”

“I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as your mistress?”

“Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.”

“I must get this crack mended.”

 

 

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”

“The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.”

“From a medical standpoint, there's just no way to prove that this thing is an immune system breakdown, much less one based on environmental factors."

 

“Pierre, please, don't let the cats out.”

“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.”

Oklahoma kid. That's me. I'm the Oklahoma kid. You fuckin' varmint! Dance. Dance”

 

“There's more vodka in this piss than there is piss!”

“I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid.”

“You taught me everything”

10 films to watch…when I get the time.

Images obtained from this great collection of movie posters on Flikr.

( here )

 

Michelle Pfeiffer in Fabulous Baker Boys(1989)

10 Great Song Moments in Film.
 
This list does not contain little red dresses and grand pianos.

( List here )

Urology, gynaecology, obstetrics and Deneuve. Who da thunk it?

Yet, somehow, the elements fit together in my head.

Image from Flikr.

 

Jude Law, in ‘The talented Mr. Ripley’ (1998)

I’ve rediscovered my coffee habit after a couple years of being a casual drinker.  Let’s hope it helps with the study. Three guesses as to what triggered my craving…

 

What am I meant to be? A neurotic endocrinologist? A psychotic psychiatrist? An over involved neonatologist?  A middle eastern posing as a Russian Doctor? Dr.  Nick?

A brief look at Medical Specialities

WARNING: For the sake of my ethical requirements as a daughter of doctors, a medical student and a future player in this field, take my following analysis in jest. I don’t really mean what I say. It’s all for fun, folks.

 

 

( From Allergy Med to Urology )

I’ve never wanted so much to slip into inexpressive girlishness as now. Excuse me while my brain experiences an abnormal hypersynchronous electrical discharge of neurons of epic portions.