Discovered the Fairmont has a random display of films and tv with an association to the hotel and have to say I appreciate the solo Connie Sellecca highlight.

Train Dreams (2025) Dir. Clint Bentley, adapted from the Denis Johnson novella.

I very much liked the slow-burn anti-heist shaggy-dog film that is The Mastermind (2025, Kelly Reichardt).

Happy 85th Birthday Faye Dunaway (Eyes of Laura Mars, 1978)

Saturday and Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson

The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers) on rewatch has really grown on me.

Happy New Year and here’s to a better 2026!

Hampton Hawes live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, 1976

A San Francisco jazz pianist made ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ a holiday classic.

Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York in THE SILENT PARTNER (1978) with original music by Oscar Peterson.

And here we find ourselves again. Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick

THE WHO presents the movie QUADROPHENIA (1979)

Remembering Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come (1972)

Growing up the (now long gone) KJAZ 92.7 FM was always on, so loved seeing this come across my screen and while I’m a sicko $168 is way too steep for an old sweatshirt.

Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966) Recorded at the Both/And Club on Divisadero Street and the cover photo taken a few blocks away on McAllister (maybe someone at the club lived there?)

Alright, Mamdani and I both own shares of Real Oviedo, and are big Arsenal fans … keeping that in my back pocket in case I ever get stuck in an elevator with him.

November and a Morgan 4/4 and autumn leaves.

And in other baseball news, I learned yesterday that this plaque is on the back of a building in the park near-ish me, so that’s cool.

Happy Halloween from Farley's Coffeehouse in (on?) Potrero Hill.

I wrote this @sfchronicle.com column and still can't believe it happened. Photos of a high-speed auto race in Golden Gate Park. Cars going 100+ miles per hour, often with no barriers separating them from the crowd. (And then neighbors got involved.) 🏎️ 🏎️ 🏎️ 💨 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Happy 74th birthday to the legendary conguero Poncho Sánchez! #JazzSky Composition: Guachi Guara Chiсk Corea - Rhodes Piano Arturo Sandoval - Timbales and Conductor Dave Samuels - Vibraphone Dave Valentin - Flute Poncho Sánchez - Congas Pete Escovedo - Timbales Horacio "El Negro" Hernàndez - Drums

Deep Red (1975) Dir. Dario Argento

Altered States (1980) Dir. Ken Russell

Joyeux anniversaire to Catherine Deneuve, an absolute icon. (The Hunger, 1983)

Vertigo and Día de los Muertos with the San Francisco Symphony sounds like a good time.

#SFGiants #GiftLink 🔓 R.I.P. Kai Hutchins ⚾️🎷 #JazzSky

“Choose the sword and you will join me. Choose the ball, and you will join your mother, in death.” Shogun Assassin (1980)

THE SOUL REBELS ft. Roy Hargrove - “Spanish Joint” - D’Angelo cover, both brilliant artists gone way too soon. youtu.be/mThpYjdy6J4?...

Happy birthday to the one and only Thelonious Sphere Monk.

Happy Friday, and I hope everyone enjoys a few small beers. One Battle After Another (2025)

Reading Werner Herzog’s diary of filming Fitzcarraldo, and didn’t expect it to start so hard and with a local angle…

“I’ve lived more than 150 lives, prostitute, saint, romantic, every kind of woman, and that is marvellous to have this opportunity to change yourself,” Claudia Cardinale RIP 1938-2025

“Inherent vice in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant.”

now watching Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Just one of those nights, Robert Redford, Singing in the Rain and Legal Eagles (1986)

More Wings of Desire (1987) appreciation.

September and Wings of Desire and Nick Cave.

New Jim Jarmusch movie alert, and with Tom Waits(!)

Repo Man (1984)

And worth pointing out that one of stars represents Rabbit motor scooters.

Eze. Next.

Happy Saturday Arsenal 5-0 That game had just about everything, wow.

Really lovely movie… Perfect Days (2023) dir. Wim Wenders

Happy Birthday Robert Mitchum

The Polo Grounds and San Francisco miscellany

I love Louise Brooks, this New Yorker profile from 1979 is really great.

now watching D.O.A. (1950) dir. Rudolph Maté

Streets of San Francisco — Mercedes W123, Jackson Square and Nissan Pao, Mission District.

Cal Tjader's centennial birthday is tomorrow (July 16) so no time like the present to get the party started. #JazzSky