Archive | March, 2011

Alma mater

30 Mar

Any fans of the documentary Alma in the house tonight? The film shows little clips of Margie Thorpe’s band Miss Margie and the Tall Boys performing, but here’s a full song – gospel hymn “I Saw the Light,” live at Austin Avenue Cafe (was this in Inman Park?).

Here’s the part where we would normally tell you to go rent Alma (set mostly in Hapeville and, I think, the West End; IMDb key words: “Exhibitionism,” “Southern U.S.,” “Mother Daughter”) at Movies Worth Seeing as we were once also wisely instructed to do, but now there’s a special urgency to that assignment because they’re closing soon forever!! And all the movies are not only for rent, but for sale!

(Don’t worry, WEEKS AGO we bought all the VHS documentaries that had anything to do with Georgia or food, if only to spite the person who tried to throw away our VCR last month.)

Previously: Blue Christmas

Still life with meat

13 Mar

Simon Doonan and Barneys have nothing on the window dressers working Dowtown. And we’re not talking about the glorious old Rich’s at Christmastime. We mean the religious candle store, and now Park Place Bookstore on Decatur Street.

Park Place Bookstore enjoys a prominent spot on the stretch between most of the GSU classroom buildings and Five Points. The shop has not shied away from spectacle – a live iguana resided in one of the front windows for a while a few years ago – while still sticking to the traditional college used bookstore decor, like hand-written signs that say “LEAVE ALL BOOKBAGS AT COUNTER.”

The iguana’s home has since been vacated (including the branch it sat on and its heat lamp) leaving a blank, high-profile canvas for this retailer’s creative expressions.

What is the world the Park Place window dresser was trying to create when designing this scene meant to lure passers-by into the storefront? What is the imagined setting for this sad tableau that includes cut-out magazine photos of meat and a jar of peanuts?

Oh, now we see!

The modern past

10 Mar

Atlmalcontent re-posted these photos of the now-terrifying/awe-inspiring C&S bank on Moreland from DOCOMOMO. LOOK AT THEM ALL. (There are only three.)

Previously: Latest obsessions

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