Icon: Harry Dean Stanton

Inspired by the new Bob Dylan video starring Harry Dean!

My love for HDS is no secret. If loving an 82-year-old Kentucky born character actor with, according to Jeff, an almost religious respect for the Lakers is wrong then baby, I don’t want to be right.

I fully intend to follow through on my mission to watch every film with HDS in it. In fact, now that I’m finally done with The Wire, I will go back to project Harry. Yes, I will watch them all, even down to the The Care Bear Movie, even though that was just a soundtrack gig.

Well, maybe not the soundtracks. Because that will get in the way of my plan to the fly out to La La and have an awkward moment with him where I’m all, “I fucking love you, man!” and he’s like, “Whatevs. Acting’s retarded,” which is a version of what he told my friend over a whiskey.

Classic Harry Dean moments:

Singing Just a Closer Walk with Me in Cool Hand Luke

Bizarre Australian trailer for Paris, Texas. Do it.

Playing Love Potion No. 9 at The Mint in L.A., which he does regularly.

Trailer for Two-Lane Blacktop. If you haven’t seen this classic, c’mon! Also, James Taylor is HOT. True story. Strange, yes, but true.

Icon: Wanda Jackson, Rockabilly Queen

Check out this video to see what we mean. Believe.

If you know nothing of Wanda Jackson, Queen of Rockabilly, bathe yourself in God’s spittle and haul your fingertips to Wikipedia, her official bio page.

I Gotta Know on Tex Ritters Ranch Party.

The Wanda part of a documentary on women in rockabilly.

An interview from just a few weeks ago.