From 1928, "Maggie Campbell Blues" by Tommy Johnson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNVk...
Maggie Campbell Blues (Remastered)
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'You sunburnt sicklemen of August weary Come hither from the furrow & be merry Make holiday; your ryestraw hats put on, And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing' (Shakespeare/Corn Mother photograph Benjamin Stone, 1902) #WyrdWednesday
Happy 102nd Anniversary to Little Orphan Annie, who made her debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News.
Merzz. 53. Red Bonbon. by Kurt Schwitters, 1920 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137832
Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.
A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
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"I pushed him back into the chair. The rich joy was waning. It was high time I destroyed him but he must understand why he was being destroyed. His condition infected me, the weapon felt limp and clumsy in my hand."
"I just found out the name of your best friend You been talkin' about yourself again And no one seems to share your views Why doesn't everybody listen to you kid?" A ska-pop merger: from 1980, "Best Friend" by The Beat, a/k/a/ The English Beat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSlt...
Best Friend (2012 Remaster)
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"I hate stars. They're not actors. I've been around actors all my life and I like them, but I never had an actor as a friend. Except Dad. And Dad never thought of himself as an actor. But the best actor I ever worked with was Dad. Dad was a man who never tried to sell anybody anything."
"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it." John Huston, born 5 August 1906.
Mickey's Dining Car, St. Paul, Minnesota, opened in 1939 ~ a diner design inspired by Art Deco and trains. Source: Bettmann Archives / Getty
Today's Just Because moment: Paul Robeson and José Ferrer in the Broadway production of "Othello" which ran from October 1943 to July 1944. (Photo by Gjon Mili)
This sweet girl's been gone six months now. How she loved this spot when the afternoon sunshine was pouring in and a light breeze lifted the curtain.
Louis Armstrong #BOTD and His Savoy Ballroom Five - "St James infirmary" www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9vs... #Jazzsky
Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five - St James infirmary
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'Sleep Well' said Peter Grimm 'I wish you the very pleasantest of dreams'....As long as you don't wake up and see a scary clown perched above your bed. ('The Return of Peter Grimm' David Belasco, 1912)
Wrote about Tom Waits for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bonus: This is the first time hi-res video of his duet with Neil Young has ever circulated! (The version on YouTube for years looks like it was filmed on a flip phone)
When Tom Waits Came Out of Concert Retirement at the Rock Hall
“They say that I have no hits and I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.”
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One of my biggest influences, the great and powerful Hazel Scott ❤️🎹
A mitjanit, il·luminat pels fars d’un cotxe que passava pel carrer i el soroll del vent que xisclava entre els batents de la finestra.
Marvelous Marbled Paper What is marbling? Marbling involves floating paints or pigments on a liquid bath and moving the paint around to create designs before laying down paper to pick up the patterns. by Allison Rein www.aip.org/library/ex-l... #books #literature #MarbledMonday
Landscape and Four Young Girls (Paysage et quatre jeunes filles) by Henri Rousseau https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5521/
The Mirror, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975
18. Sartre creates 47 alt accounts. 19. Beauvoir calls out Sartre's ghostwriter. 20. Camus starts a TikTok about absurdity. 21. Foucault gets shadowbanned for discourse analysis. 22. Habermas argues in every comment section. 23. Chomsky refuses to join any platform.
Dr. Alec Harvey: "Forgive me?" Laura Jesson: "Forgive you for what?" Dr. Harvey: "For everything. For meeting you, in the first place. For taking the piece of grit out of your eye. For loving you. For bringing you so much misery." Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in "Brief Encounter" (1945).
His strength, his actions, his tenacity, his cleverness and his decency saved upwards of 100,000 lives. Architect, businessman & diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was born on 4 August 1912. (That he survived the Nazis only to be captured and murdered by Stalin's thugs is too cruel to dwell upon.)
