{"id":12151,"date":"2012-10-10T02:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=12151"},"modified":"2012-10-10T02:55:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:55:17","slug":"salome-by-upside-down-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/10\/salome-by-upside-down-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Salom\u00e9 by Upside Down House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/36054563\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/salome1985.jpg\" alt=\"salome1985.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Mr. Kenneth at <a href=\"http:\/\/radioshirley.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Shirley<\/a> for drawing my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/36054563\" target=\"_blank\">this 1985 music video<\/a> by Australian group Upside Down House. From their brief listing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Upside%20Down%20House\" target=\"_blank\">Discogs<\/a> the group don&#8217;t seem to have lasted long or released a great deal, <em>Salom\u00e9<\/em> being their second and final single. Given the quality of the music that&#8217;s not too surprising, you need someone like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelivingjarboe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jarboe<\/a> to do justice to this theme. But the video is remarkably good for a low-budget imitation of silent cinema. The verisimilitude is no doubt a result of director Bob Eagle having used a hand-cranked camera which gives that distinctive flickering effect, a common feature of silent films which sound cameras and digital filters seldom replicate with any accuracy. The wildly emoting <em>femme fatale<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathleen_Stewart\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Stewart<\/a>, now better known as a novelist.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-salome-archive\/\">The Salom\u00e9 archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big thanks to Mr. Kenneth at Radio Shirley for drawing my attention to this 1985 music video by Australian group Upside Down House. From their brief listing at Discogs the group don&#8217;t seem to have lasted long or released a great deal, Salom\u00e9 being their second and final single. Given the quality of the music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/10\/salome-by-upside-down-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Salom\u00e9 by Upside Down House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[4147,4146,4148,4145,123],"class_list":["post-12151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-music","tag-bob-eagle","tag-jarboe","tag-kathleen-stewart","tag-radio-shirley","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-39Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}