{"id":736,"date":"2016-05-25T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=736"},"modified":"2016-05-25T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T07:10:16","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-last-days-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;Last Days&#8221; (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPP ART 4 SALE! I thought <em>Last Days <\/em>was wonderful but someone who grew up with <em>Nirvana <\/em>once told me they despised the movie &amp; I said I understood because since I grew up with <em>The Sex Pistols <\/em>I despised <em>Sid &amp; Nancy<\/em> (1986)! Chronicling the chronic humdrum of <em>Kurt Cobain\u2019s<\/em> catastrophic collapse days before blowing his own brains out in 1994, <em>Last Days<\/em> translates (condenses or stretches, you be the judge) the mundanity of his eternal nod into 97 gloriously lensed minutes of confounding contemplation! Extended footages of the most infuriatingly monotonous &amp; inconsequential elements transform the dreary into inexplicably poignant meditative moments! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2005 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cIrony is Dead!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/last_days.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-737 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/last_days-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"last_days\" width=\"627\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/last_days-674x1024.jpg 674w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/last_days-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/last_days-768x1167.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/last_days.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPP ART 4 SALE! I thought Last Days was wonderful but someone who grew up with Nirvana once told me they despised the movie &amp; I said I understood because since I grew up with The Sex Pistols I despised Sid &amp; Nancy (1986)! Chronicling the chronic humdrum of Kurt Cobain\u2019s catastrophic collapse days before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}