Asbury Park Fire Dept. By Michael Goldfinger, Blogfinger staff. 2014.
JOHN WILLIAMS, ITZHAK PERLMAN. Il Postino (movie theme)
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Exhaustion
Posted in Music from the movies, Photography by Moe Demby, Photography: Fire Department series, tagged Asbury Park Fire Dept., Fireman series by Moe Demby on April 30, 2025|
The Fountain Motel: “Same Sun as the Beach. Come See Us.”
Posted in Music from the movies, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: Florida, tagged Fountain Motel on April 25, 2025|
Fountain Motel. Fort Myers, Florida. Paul Goldfinger photos © 2014. Click left
Fountain Motel. “No vacancy.” ©
THOMAS NEWMAN. “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” from the movie of the same name.
Inside out. A view from the park.
Posted in Music from the movies, Photography by Stephen R. Goldfinger on April 22, 2025|
April, 2015. By Stephen Goldfinger, Blogfinger NYC correspondent.
BETH ROWLEY from the movie “An Education.”
What red flag?
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Music from the movies, tagged On the beach in Ocean Grove on March 25, 2025| 1 Comment »
What are they discussing? Where did she hide her cell phone ?—it’s ringing. August 19, 2014. Ocean Grove beach. Aerial shot. © Paul Goldfinger photo.
THE BIRD AND THE BEE
Portrait of Eileen: Paris West Bank.
Posted in Music from the movies, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photography Gallery France, tagged Portrait of Eileen in Paris on March 6, 2025| 1 Comment »
Somewhere in Paris, on a rainy afternoon, a French chef speaks to Eileen. She is speechless. Paul Goldfinger photo Click once to enlarge.
MICHAEL GIACCHINO, composer of the “Main Theme” from the film Ratatouille
Does life seem jolly rotten? Then always look on the bright side (and give a whistle).
Posted in Music from the movies, tagged Chewing on life's gristle? on March 3, 2025| 2 Comments »
Music from “The Life of Brian” by Monty Python: There is one four-letter word here, so we’ll rate it PG 13, but the music is so much fun that we will overlook that issue. Anyhow, we could have used a five letter word and received an R rating, but, on Blogfinger, we do not go all the way, and the letter X is not found on our keyboards. —PG
MONTY PYTHON.
“Life is a colorful carousel…” *
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Music from the Broadway stage., Music from the movies, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Asbury carousel--a portrait in the snow on February 28, 2025| 1 Comment »
January 23, 2014. By Bob Bowné © Special to Blogfinger
BARBARA RUICK. From the movie soundtrack to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL.
* Headline quote from the off-Broadway show “The Fantasticks.”
Memories—-2013. Those oldies but goodies…
Posted in Music from the movies, tagged Keansburg on February 26, 2025|
Keansburg, New Jersey. Amusement Park destroyed by Sandy. 2013 Paul Goldfinger photo.. Click once for larger size.
KENNY VANCE, JOHN CAFFERTY AND THE BEAVER BROWN BAND. From the score of “Eddie and the Cruisers”
Charles Pierre sends us a snowy poem.
Posted in Guest photographer, Music from the movies, Poems by Charles Pierre, tagged Andre Kertesz photographer, Snowy New York poem by Charles Pierre. on February 13, 2025| 2 Comments »
Hi Paul:
Greetings from Manhattan and Happy New Year. We’re having our first snowfall of the year, and it comes as a welcome relief after the hectic rush of the holidays. There is nothing that so quickly changes the tenor of life in the city as a covering of the white stuff. Here is “Manhattan Snow” from my 2008 poetry collection, Father of Water.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre,
January 6, 2015.
André Kertész, NYC, 1954. Washington Square Park.©
Manhattan Snow
By Charles Pierre:
The hard edges of the city are softened now.
Buildings shimmer in speckled mist, streets
lie buried and still, and the crackle of talk
at each corner is silenced from river to river.
Tonight, no human walks, no vehicle moves,
no noise vibrates across the white landscape.
From our window, an arabesque of lampposts
lends an elegance to the empty, unshovelled
steps and pathways below: a gentle curve
of pendant lights encircles the frosted trunks
and limbs of trees, the drifted-over benches
and trash cans, and the silver tips of bushes.
The island this moment has a numinous shine,
and in the quiet ease of evening, we can hear
our own muffled breathing, the only sound
in the air, as edgeless as snow, hovering above
yet deepening the softness of this winter scene.
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD “Snowstorm” from the film Snow Falling on Cedars.
Misty moment
Posted in Music from the movies, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, tagged Misty moment in Ocean Grove, Yo Yo Ma on February 3, 2025|
Ocean Grove beach. 2014. By Paul Goldfinger
YO YO MA. The Mission–“The Falls” composed by Ennio Morricone
Fletcher Lake winter…
Posted in Music from the movies, Ocean Grove photographs, tagged Fletcher Lake in winter, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Song: My one and only love on February 1, 2025| 3 Comments »
Ocean Grove skyline, as seen from the Bradley Beach side. Photo by Paul Goldfinger © 2005. Click once to enlarge.
JOHN COLTRANE AND JOHNNY HARTMAN:
Catch of the Day: Swordfish
Posted in Music from the movies, Photographic Gallery, Color, tagged Fishing for swordfish at Wegmans on January 27, 2025|
Swordfish. Wegmans’ fish department, Ocean Store. May 18, 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click photo for full view
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net
When I go fishing, I go to Wegmans because you can definitely catch a fish there. As the hunter in the family, the modern-day version of the cave man, you have to confront danger in the Wegmans parking lot and then finesse your way around all the other game hunters in the store, the most crafty being the young multi-tasking moms racing around pushing little kids driving basket trucks.
Then I bring home the game: fish or chicken or whatever. As a kid, sometimes I would complain to my mother that she should cook something different, and she would say, “Sure, as soon as they invent a new animal.”
Swordfish skeleton from the National Museum of Natural History. Internet photo
Anyhow, I turn over my fish to the gatherer in our house—Eileen, who fires up the stove and cooks it like the gatherers of old.
Do you think the cavemen ate sushi? They probably did before they invented fire. I should listen again to Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner’s record of the Two Thousand Year Old Man to find out. Today those guys are probably eating bagels and lox at the Carnegie Deli or Russ and Daughters in New York City.
Hemingway with a marlin that he caught off Cuba. Marlin can weigh 500 pounds and are related to the swordfish.
The catch of the day today at Wegmans is swordfish. Xiphias glades is a powerful and fast fish which has no teeth. But it has a sword to slash its prey. They gave me a sword in the Navy, but I didn’t dare take it out of its sheath. It’s currently in my Ocean Grove bedroom in case a Barbary pirate invades my house.
I took a photo of the swordfish before the Wegmans’ chefs dismantle it for barbecue steaks this weekend.
Did I buy swordfish? No, I chose cod loins so that Eileen can make some sort of French/Italian heart-healthy dish that she does so well over our campfire in the Blogcave in Ocean Grove. Then, if I can persuade her, we can jump into the Blogmobile and go for Days’ ice cream, something the cave men sadly never experienced.
—-Paul Goldfinger, Editor
Fred Mollin and the Blue Sea Band from the Disney film Ratatouille
Girls in their summer clothes: Central Park
Posted in Music from the movies, Photography Girls in their summer clothes, tagged Central Park New York, Daniel May on Blogfinger, Midnight in Paris music on January 19, 2025| 1 Comment »
Central Park, New York City. By Paul Goldfinger ©. Blogfinger.net. 2014 Click to enlarge.
DANIEL MAY. “I Love Penny Sue.” From Woody Allen’s movie Midnight in Paris