Originally posted by Birdsong:
I know we've been discussing "My Lost City" for instance and the F. Scott Fitzgerald essay on that thread, as well as the superb photographs of 1950s New York, but I felt that material deserved a thread of its own so that we could expand on it more.
Influential films, paintings, authors etc
I'd been meaning to reply to your post but this new thread is a better place to reply.
When JF sings about a
mission bell in
Drive I'd always assumed it was a reference to
The Eagles'
Hotel California but now I'm thinking it might be a reference to
Ernest Hemingway's
For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Of course, the
He's a Liquid homage is well known (and has been discussed here before).
Europe After The Rain is taken from a title of a
Max Ernst painting (a
direct pinch as JF once remarked in a radio interview).
Twilight's Last Gleaming is the title of a movie made in 1977 with Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark.
This Side of Paradise was the title of
F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. It took its title from a line of the
Rupert Brooke poem
Tiare Tahiti. Its also the title of episode #24 of
Star Trek (TOS).
Bryan Adams also wrote a song with the same title.
JG Ballard, of course, is supposed to be his most influential author.
Show room dummies?
