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This Means Something! I've Seen This Before! It's Better Than Goofy Golf!

Hey folks, Harry here... I love this poster. Why? Well, among the zillion or so things that I collect - I have a sizable vintage Rock Poster collection going back into the 50's - including the prized Winter Dance Party poster for the concert that Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens died on their way to. Amongst my fave Rock Posters of all time are those of the Vulcan Gas Company and the Armadillo World Headquarters - from here in Austin. Sure, those Avalon and Fillmore posters are out-fucking standing, but there was a common surreality that permeated rock artist's minds at that time - and the colors they used in their posters... Well the simple green, yellow, blue, black printing on an off-white poster stock... Well it gives the poster a seeming vintage feel that I dig. Plus - just the imagery... it's that communal compulsion to go... because if you go, who knows who else may go... cuz after all... this means something...







Click on the poster for more information about the show! Poster By Jay Ryan!

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  • July 15, 2005 9:32 PM CST

    Looks like my 9th grade school notebook cover

    by Dataset

    Just replace Close Encounters with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire or Public Image Ltd. About the same quality of art. And I suck at art.

  • July 15, 2005 9:38 PM CST

    potatoes

    by andreirublev

    Andrei Rublev is the greatest movie around.

  • July 15, 2005 10:27 PM CST

    it means you forgot the gravy.

    by dr.bulber

    and you obviously are obsessed with the color blue. and your rabbitt is a vegetarian. i hope you washed your hands.

  • July 15, 2005 11:04 PM CST

    This reminds me of Carnivale

    by ALUCINOR11

    Which is upsetting because they need to bring that show back right fucking now arg! ARG I TELLS YA!!!!

  • July 15, 2005 11:10 PM CST

    Hello Art Students!!!

    by andrewgd

    Wow, finally something that's not a bunch of pretty boy portraits plastered together into a shit movie poster. Congrats on that!

  • July 15, 2005 11:17 PM CST

    The poster made Harry Knowles hungry for mashed potatoes

    by acroyear77

  • July 15, 2005 11:22 PM CST

    pretty cool

    by shelby

    Pretty cool, got the retro thing going.

  • July 15, 2005 11:38 PM CST

    funny..

    by superdaveyboy

    my potatoes did the same thing tonight..

  • July 15, 2005 11:41 PM CST

    Alcuinor is right. BRING BACK CARNIVALE!

    by Johnny Smith

    That is all.

  • July 15, 2005 11:42 PM CST

    busy friday evening

    by goondock

    since I'm making the post while at work...I'd like to point out how pathetic it is for someone to be spending a friday evening trying to get the first posting...firstman#01 must be on the bottom of the social feeding chain

  • July 16, 2005 12:00 AM CST

    Even more pathetic

    by Mister Man

    to comment on it.

  • July 16, 2005 12:11 AM CST

    Heh, this is the closest I've ever been to First

    by Freakemovie

    this is definitely worth posting, right? just like the rock poster...

  • July 16, 2005 12:28 AM CST

    anathema1973.....

    by kdoc13

    If that was on your notebook, and there was a guy who sat next to you in History with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, and random Sex Pistols or Clash images in his notebook, it was probably me. I was the one who wore all black and a lot of "The Cure" T-shirts.

  • July 16, 2005 12:33 AM CST

    This is a time when movies had plots and pacing and character de

    by Orionsangels

    Yep yep yep yep yep, Those were the days.

  • July 16, 2005 12:33 AM CST

    I just saw the trailer for Rent: The Movie. One word: yikes.

    by Serious Black

    I realize it's a musical, but damn. Some things are better not turned into films.

  • as it is it's some graphic designer trying to fit his style on something it doesn't belong on. lame.

  • July 16, 2005 1:46 AM CST

    Holy UHF Reference, BATMAN!!!

    by Spaz Medicine

  • July 16, 2005 3:10 AM CST

    WHAT THE FUCKING HELL DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!!!!!!!!

    by Cpt Kirks 2pay

    HARRY IT'S JUST A POSTER!!!!!!!!!! So f'ing what? Who cares? You really do waste our times mate. Some dodgy Rock concert that no one here's ever gonna go to, and you start bragging about your poster collection too. Man there's no decent news here lately, and this is the best that you can come up with? If you toss off over stupid stuff like this and other crap you shove up against your wall no wonder you ain't getting nay, and your whole neighborhood and friends are shoving up against their wall, your mother, sister, every girl that you fancy etc, etc, as they bang the shits outta them.

  • July 16, 2005 4:22 AM CST

    Children, point your fingers at the pathetic lastman#01 and laug

    by SalvatoreGravano

    Loudly.

  • July 16, 2005 7:39 AM CST

    Geez Harry

    by Dawgpile

    If you like posters like this, head on over to continental club on congress, or any other college band venue accross the US and look at all the pretty band posters plastered above the urinals advertising upcoming bands. Or walk accross any campus and look for the pretty signs advertising the 70's party thrown by a frat or sororiety. You could add all those signs to your collection.

  • July 16, 2005 8:21 AM CST

    The poster screams "I want to be R. Crumb!" as much as Captain_W

    by Negative Man

    No offense meant Cap, but Close Encounters is an amazing movie and a milestone no matter how you cut it. Three 70's movies broke the mold editing, sound, and cinematoraphy-wise to define movie making even up to this date. Star Wars, Jaws and Close Encounters. The reverberations of those movies are still felt today. All three (even in their untouched 'updated' states) still hold up to the best of todays cinema. Where so many (certainly not all) 70's movies were cursed by 'Euro' inspired slow pacing and plodding editing coming out of the late 60's, those three movies created such a balance that they became the formula of movie making. Alien (as great as it is) is another great example, but I'm not sure if it would be as well remembered as those three if Aliens would not have been made years later. And, of course, there was The Exorcist...but that's a movie that truly defies movie making by nearly every standard. Now...if they played The Exorcist on a big screen on a loney street in Georgetown...

  • July 16, 2005 9:55 AM CST

    Love the way the family is simply forgotten halfway through...

    by JackRabbitSlim

    Oh that damn pesky wife and those annoying chilluns - fuck they can be such a drag. Deadbeat Dad anyone?

  • July 16, 2005 10:08 AM CST

    Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite

    by Kentucky Colonel

    Now THERE was a fucking rock & roll poster.

  • July 16, 2005 10:53 AM CST

    Mom, I thought we scared the retarded kids away....

    by Mister Man

    but they snuck through the fence. Can I use a taser???? PLEEEAASSEEEEE?

  • July 16, 2005 12:24 PM CST

    Um, JackRabbitSlim...

    by Tinfang

    ...you do realize that the man was compelled to go to the Devil's Tower because of his Close Encounter with the alien craft, yes? Anyway, cool poster harry and thankee kindly for putting it up.

  • July 16, 2005 12:59 PM CST

    Poster is COOL!

    by Lukecash

    YEah, I got a love for 60's & 70's graphic style. And this is awseom. It's great because it takes a scene from the film and the local signifigance in mind. And it's hip because its aimed at the campground type people!

  • July 16, 2005 3:47 PM CST

    yea

    by freak2thec0re

    this is definitely the lamest "news" story I've ever seen here

  • July 18, 2005 4:55 PM CST

    that poster

    by tell-a-thon

    i actually own several of jay ryans posters. he's a nice guy who creates sweet little prints and sells them online. before you start knocking someone