Lolita Story 2

The song that went around the world has, like its story, long ago become a legend, and several times the subject of film plots. A cloth from which dreams are cut: One was named Betty, was called Lili and worked in a vegetable cellar. The other was a nurse and was named Marleen. The young soldier, who had to stand watch at the army base, loved them both. So much, that he immortalized them in a poem, in which both girls into merged one figure: Lili Marleen. A quarter century later the song became a hit that was sent nightly into the ether from a German soldiers’ radio station in Belgrade, overnight beginning its triumphant advance around the world.

Glenn Miller's reign as the most popular bandleader in the U.S. came relatively late in his career and was relatively brief, lasting only about three and a half years, from the spring of 1939 to the fall of 1942. But during that period he utterly dominated popular music, and over time he has proven the most enduring figure of the swing era, with reissues of his recordings achieving gold record status 40 years after his death. Miller developed a distinctive sound in which a high-pitched clarinet carried the melody, doubled by a saxophone section playing an octave lower, and he used that sound to produce a series of hits that remain definitive examples of swing music. Miller's approach is not much appreciated by jazz fans, who prefer bands that allow for greater improvisation than was found in his highly disciplined, rigorously rehearsed unit. But he brought the swing style of popular music to a level of sophistication and commercial acceptance it had not previously achieved and would not see again after his untimely passing.

Maid Cafe on Electric Street is a leisurely maid cafe adventure set in the otaku haven of Nipponbashi, Osaka.

This gorgeous, over-sized hardcover has 220 pages packed with over 400 incredible color and black and white photos from some of cinemas best movies. To accompany these amazing photos are 8 cds containing the memorable music from the films that have left their mark on the silver screen. This book is an absolute must-have for any film/ music enthusiast. –blurrpy.com, July 2015
The book itself is great, but the music (included on eight accompanying CDs) is the real star.The book is arranged in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and makes logical sense you will never lose track of where you are in Movies because it's laid out so well. –rebeatmag.com, September 2015 Layer that impressive collection of sound with some 400 photographs from classics and 216 pages and the result is a highly desirable tome. [It] oozes production value and has a surprising amount of insight on the featured music themes and movies…what a perfect gift it would be for any cinema buff. –geeknative.com, September 2015

Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer includes eleven of the joyful modern-dress comedies, westerns, satires, dream-fantasies and romances which, though mostly seldom-seen, made Fairbanks a tremendously popular hero. In addition to Fairbanks' unique talent, these ebullient films showcase his gifted collaborators including writer Anita Loos and directors Allan Dwan, Victor Fleming, and John Emerson.