Happy birthday Brian Auger 🎂 📷 Michael Putland, 1975 "Auger is a London Zelig of sorts – a musician whose connections & creativity saw him serve as a pivotal figure in the centre of what are now fondly considered the Swinging 60s’ jazz, blues & rock scenes." - Garth Cartwright

Chez Eames… je crois

Getting ready for #NoirAlley tonight... #FilmNoir DARK PASSAGE (1947) #TCMParty *Humphrey Bogart reading Dark Passage by David Goodis

Looking to take a trip?: watch 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, a special shown on NBC (!) on April 14, 1969. The show's concept involved Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger as a sort of pre-MST3K Mads, & The Monkees showing off their schtick & their songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Yn...

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Oh my god, this is the greatest band ever, I think. Today, anyway, it’s late where I am.

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Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is on HBOMax. I bet both Safdie brothers have seen it 50 times. Ben Gazzara is perfect as a flesh peddler & underworld bottom-feeder who thinks he's the only soulful, classy guy in this fallen world. The use of onscreen music as soundtrack is brilliant & haunting.

THE BREAKING POINT (1950) — 12:00 am ET — 1h 37m (TCM Special Theme: Summer of Darkness) John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Juano Hernandez; directed by Michael Curtiz A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam. #TCM #TCMParty

Sade performing “Nothing Can Come Between Us” live in a 1993 concert in San Diego. The song reached #3 on the U.S. R&B chart. From her third studio album, Stronger Than Pride. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xcJ-...

Oh my god, this is the greatest band ever, I think. Today, anyway, it’s late where I am.

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Looksmaxxing in the 15th Century, from the latest @lrb.co.uk

Dang they really got a category for everything

I don't know, Chief, if he's very smart or very dumb.

Not the biggest Dom fan, but couldn’t keep having prime age guys running contracts down. Hope Iraola can unlock something more here, even if it might be less box office. With Gravenberch, too. They should both just watch Hendo/Gini. Channel that and their natural ability will take care of the rest.

Billie Holiday, April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 THE DAY LADY DIED By Frank O'Hara It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner

It is awful here today.

RIP. Used to tune into that 227 stoop all the time. Flipped past an episode randomly the other week, and Winston-Salem legend Jackée cracked me up five times in 30 seconds giving love advice to a young Regina King. Had forgotten how funny she was doing her modern Mae West thing.

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Today In 1979: Pittsburgh #Pirates OF Dave Parker loses sight of the ball in the Kingdome roof - but recovers just in time to throw out Boston #RedSox star Jim Rice at third base in the #MLB All-Star Game! #Baseball #History

While Chicago was burning on October 8, 1871, a massive firestorm turned 1.5 million acres of Wisconsin to ash a few hundred miles to the north. The devastation centered on Peshtigo, where over a thousand people were killed.

Lithuania’s best team cannot play the home leg of a historic first Champions League qualifier at their own stadium. Why? Because of a Pitbull concert. Yes, you read right. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Why’s this guy in a Duke shirt? Cool sounds, though.

“I have one weapon," [Perry] Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it." "What weapon is that?" Della Street asked. "The truth," Mason said.” Erle Stanley Gardner

"I feel like they're raping the land, stealing our children, our culture,” says Ronda Kauk, tribal historic preservation officer for the Mono Lake Kutzadika'a Tribe. Tribes asked for a 2-year delay and real co-management, but a court said no. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...

A herd of wild horses in California is sacred to the Kauk and other Native people. But against the objections of the tribe, last week the federal government started rounding the horses up.

Friday *Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past (1947) #FilmNoir

1985, Glasgow

these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them

Remembering Desmond Dekker on his birthday

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Herbie Hancock literally in the studio

Vinyl is sold out and we’re down to a measly 12 copies of the CD, which feels good. *May* re-press at some point but not for a few years at least, so if anyone fancies a copy, you know what to do ;)

A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo. https://cnn.it/3RmlRp9

The greatest screen actor in history was born Ruby Stevens, and into abject poverty in Brooklyn, 120 years ago today.

viking outdoor cinema, anderson, south carolina, 1988

Happy Barbara Stanwyck's birthday. #FilmSky

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Priory School (16th July 1986). Lord Saltire (the ten-year-old son of the Duke of Holdernesse) has disappeared. But Holmes is soon on the trail.