{"id":9170,"date":"2010-05-31T21:09:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T01:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2010-05-31T21:09:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T01:09:48","slug":"blue-velvet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9170","title":{"rendered":"Blue Velvet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were in Wilmington NC this weekend, doing an overeating \/ overdrinking marathon. Good times.<\/p>\n<p>By coincidence, Wilmington is the town where they filmed a lot of David Lynch's \"Blue Velvet\", in which Dennis Hopper plays the crazed and evil Frank Booth. And, of course, Dennis Hopper died this weekend. So, we did a quick tour of the places which show up in the movie (and which are still around).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/carolina_apts.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>This is the building used for the exterior of the apartment where Isabella Rossellini's character lived.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/barbarycoast.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>This is a great little bar called the \"Barbary Coast\" which was used as the exterior of a nightclub\/brothel. Word is that there are interior scenes from here in the outtakes on the DVD.<\/p>\n<p>The police station was used in the movie, but was recently demolished - so recently that it's still on Google maps. And there's a coffee shop which was a diner in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that's probably as close as I'll ever get to the late great Dennis Hopper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/newcastle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>Newcastle? Fuck That Shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!<br \/>\n(from Lula's, a basement, backalley pub)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in Wilmington NC this weekend, doing an overeating \/ overdrinking marathon. Good times. By coincidence, Wilmington is the town where they filmed a lot of David Lynch's \"Blue Velvet\", in which Dennis Hopper plays the crazed and evil Frank Booth. And, of course, Dennis Hopper died this weekend. So, we did a quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}