David J. Clarke
@jazzphreak.bsky.social
Seeking work as a Peer Bridger or 988 Support Agent. Jazz fanatic & amateur photographer. Former philosopher & logician. Disciple of Richard Rorty. Francophile. 💙🏳️🌈📸🎷 🇫🇷
Like words & how to use them for pleasure & insight? Give 'Sentence First' a look. Today the post embraces Lorrie Moore and the 'thingliness' of her words. Thingliness! stancarey.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/t... #LorrieMoore #Words #SentenceFirst #WritingWell #Interesting @stancarey.bsky.social
The thingliness of Lorrie Moore’s words
Lorrie Moore’s 2009 novel A Gate at the Stairs offers among its attractions several passages and exchanges of lexical and linguistic interest. This post looks at some of them. The book’s narrator, …
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Mapplethorpe meets Little Shop of Horrors. #EastCoastKin #BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Vase #Glass #Flora #FlowerPhotography
Billy Joel wrote it, but for my ears Carmen McRae owns it. New York State of Mind #Ballad #Classic #Jazz #Vocalist youtu.be/RFv5xSBYIGQ?...
New York State of Mind
YouTube video by Carmen McRae - Topic
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Fine Young Cannibals with a great cover of 'Suspicious Minds'. #FineYoungCannibals #Elvis #Covers #LondonRecords www.youtube.com/watch?v=13iM...
Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds (Official Video)
YouTube video by London Records
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Alfred Molina kills it as a critic of children's theater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kF-... #FunnyOrDie #Space #Move
Children's Theater Critic with Alfred Molina
YouTube video by Funny Or Die
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Dafoe was made for this role. Can't wait to see him as a 'man of letters.' #LateFame #Poetry #Rediscovered #WillemDafoe #GretaLee @blu-dot.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX-x...
Late Fame - Official Trailer (2026) Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
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Ravel is kind in offering us the influence on his music beyond France. Chamayou's playing is spirited and matches the compositon perfectly. #MauriceRavel #BertrandChamayou www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdzW...
Bertrand Chamayou records Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso (Miroirs)
YouTube video by Warner Classics
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Unsquare Dance A different and imagination fueled time; when people danced to jazz music with a 7/4 time signature. youtu.be/_yExwkQYcp0?... #Jazz #TimeSignature #DaveBrubeck #ModernDance #CarluCarter #BillMcGrath #RonPoindexter #ClapThoseHands
Dave Brubeck - Unsquare Dance
YouTube video by Hollodaro
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Imagination, Blues, Sitar and Beats. Behind the scenes with Beck and creating 'Loser'. #Images #Blues #Beats youtu.be/r5uV-wHENnI?...
Behind the Track｜'Loser’ by Beck
YouTube video by Mix with the Masters
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Downtown view from orchard with emphasis upon underexposure and 4:00 p.m. sunlight overhead. #MonoChrome #EastCoastkin #Dodge #Burn #CityView
#BlueSkyMonday Blue skies with hill fires moving in.... #EastCoastKin #BlueSkies #FireSeason #Saturation #Vivid
Few advantages to aging, but one is, if you're old enough and your neurons are aligned, sometimes when you look through a lens Bob Dylan sings you a love song. #Stunday #LandScape #BlueSkies #EastCoastKin #Narrative #Visual #Zimmerman #Alternate #Bootlegs youtu.be/dO-sb8Tb_CQ?...
Frances McDormand photographed by Annie Leibovitz in 1999.
'So long Jimmy Reed, so long Muddy Waters, and so long Howlin Wolf.' —Woke Up This Morning —Alabama3 #Chicago #Blues #Heroes #SweetHome #AncientToTheFuture #Monochrome #Blackandwhite #FilmGrain #Contrast
The restaurant has a large chandelier #blueskyartshow #big #blackandwhitephotography #ClassicMono #bnw
One idea guiding the poem is the beauty of the ephemeral, but this is what a great poet can do with that notion. #MarkDoty #Poetry #Poet If beauty is burning, what would you save? / The house of beauty is a house of flames. youtu.be/-sbyQzGue1c?...
Mark Doty reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival
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#ColorADay + #GreenSat Flora in film grain mode + Polaroid mode with saturation. #FilmEmulation #FilmGrain #FujiFilm #Superia800 #Flora #Flowerphotography #Green #Dodge #Burn #Cellulose #EastCoastKin #Polaroid
Great Covers - Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Patti Smith, from her recording 'Twelve'. An album of covers and she makes each one her own. I like the original as a pop song, but with her phrasing Smith gives the song a sense of infinite longing. youtu.be/CZYFt0Zwmnk?... #PattiSmith #Covers
Patti Smith - Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Official Audio)
YouTube video by pattismithVEVO
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Dark shadows casted by plastic road barriers spreading across the pavement - Vauxhall, London #shadow #barrier #pavement #urbangaze #alphabetChallenge #weekDforDark #classicMono
