Remembering William Peter Blatty on his birthday 🎂 📷 Steve Schapiro, on the set of The Exorcist, 1973 In 1961, when Blatty won $10,000 on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, he quit his job to write full time. He never had a regular job again.

Remembering Red Allen on his birthday 🎂 With Ben Webster & Pee Wee Russell in a great photo by Milt Hinton "When I pass is when I retire. I love to play; that horn is good for me." youtube.com/watch?v=azEQ...

Remembering Paramount Pictures head Adolf Zukor on his birthday 🎂 📷 Irving Chidnoff, January 14, 1929 So many great films were made at Paramount, but... “The movies did not interest Adolph Zukor: he wanted just power, empire, and profit.” - David Thomson

Frank Zappa Richard Thompson Robert Fripp Phil Manzanera John McLaughlin Mike Bloomfield Al Di Meola Prince Link Wray Jimmy Page

Part of a great thread marking Robert Longo's birthday today

It was the best of hair times, it was the worst of hair times:

Happy birthday Robert Longo 🎂 📷 Michel Delsol, 1986 "America, meet your modern masters." In a 1987 Esquire story Lynn Hirschberg introduced "The Four Brushmen of the Apocalypse,” Eric Fischl, David Salle, Julian Schnabel & Robert Longo. classic.esquire.com/article/1987...

Honorable mentions: Ricky Wilson Johnny Marr Duane Allman Richard Thompson Robbie Robertson Neil Young Mike McCready Nile Rodgers Jimi Hendrix Carlos Santana Jeff “Skunk” Baxter Mark Knopfler John Frusciante Eddie Van Halen Slash Dicky Betts Tony Iommi Peter Buck David Byrne

Top 10 all-time favorite guitarists, top of my head: Tom Verlaine Lindsey Buckingham Jack White Steve Cropper The Edge J. Mascis Prince Keith Richards Pete Townshend Nels Cline

Who are your top 11 all-time favourite guitarists. Top of the head stuff John Lee Hooker Jim Hall Sister Rosetta Tharpe Neil Young [whose work apart from electric 🎸 I don’t much care for] Marc Ribot Willie McTell Grant Green Hendrix Jerry T-Bone Walker Gabor Szabo

Jimi Hendrix Duane Allman Terry Kath Steve Howe Jorma Kaukonen Jerry Garcia Carlos Santana Mark Knopfler Jeff Beck Martin Barre

Jeremy Renner for the biopic, NOW!

Literally

Quite the ladies' man too, I think.

Remembering Charles Addams on his birthday 🎂 📷 Albert Fenn, 1946 "To the people who were surprised that Addams did not seem sinister in the flesh, he said, 'I try not to let it show'." - Linda H. Davis

Archie Shepp and Roswell Rudd - Slug's, New York, 1967. Photo by Hervé Gloaguen

I’m in love.

For some reason the great fashion photographer Genevieve Naylor was assigned shots of automobiles in 1948. She makes this Fiat 500 “Topolino” look as elegant as any of her models. From 1937, I believe.

"Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface." - Hugo von Hofmannsthal 🎨 Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952

Louise Nevelson, one of the most revered and unique sculptor and artist of the 20th century. From a series of collage lithographs from 1966-67 Double Imagery, 1967 #LouiseNevelson #Sculpture #ModernArt

What a wonderful Harry Bliss cover for the latest issue of The New Yorker. I couldn’t wait until #caturday to post this.

Emil Otto Hoppé Book Trolley, British Museum, 1931 “Librarians are always smart, a little nuts, and know how to party.” - John Waters "a little..."

Remembering Syd Barrett on his birthday 🎂 📷 Mick Rock, 1969 "The charismatic Barrett as a guitarist was as capable of severe dissonance as serene, if echo-laden, melody, & his vocal style was as English as Elvis Presley's was American." - Alan Clayson

Aww! This thread! 🧵 Has lots of Marylin Monroe in it. 😂 Been thinking lately I need to read some Sandburg. Have to get a book.

What a lovely portrait. I'd forgotten it was Sandburg's birthday. I didn't even get him a card.

Remembering Carl Sandburg on his birthday 🎂 📷 Arnold Newman, 1955 "The late Mr. Sandburg was a public performer of the first rank, a poet of the second rank and a biographer of awesome badness." - Gore Vidal

Remembering John Singleton on his birthday 🎂 📷 Aaron Rapoport, 1991 "By the end of Boyz N the Hood, I realized I had not simply seen a brilliant directorial debut, but an American film of enormous importance." - Roger Ebert

Benjamin Britten by Cecil Beaton (1942).

Remembering Capucine on her birthday 🎂 📷 Georges Dambier Café de la Paix on the Boulevard de la Madeleine, 1952 "Capucine" is French for "Nasturtium".

Remembering Wright Morris on his birthday 🎂 📷 Judy Dater, 1975 "As much as he was interested in people, Morris was equally obsessed, in both his prose and photography, with what he saw as the populated emptiness of abandoned spaces." - Peter Orner

Günter Rössler, Berlin, 1963

Even the Latin names of these fungi are fun. Stereum complicatum sounds like something from a Roadrunner-Coyote cartoon. Oh, BTW, I wouldn’t eat Questionable Stropharia if I were you.

Even the abominable HH seems genuinely enchanted by her. (He deserves credit for these shows.)

Ellis Larkins comps so well.

Listening to the 1958 album Beverly Kenney Sings for Playboys, with pianist Ellis Larkins & bassist Joe Benjamin. She a lovely voice, & a real way with lyrics. “Try a Little Tenderness” is outstanding. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_kL...

Django Reinhardt Wes Montgomery Grant Green Gabor Szabo Richard Thompson Bert Jansch Link Wray Stevie Ray Vaughn Johnny Marr Pete Townshend

Who are your top 10 all-time favourite guitarists. Top of the head stuff Knopfler Stevie Ray Hendrix Beck Prince Mother Maybelle Albert Lee Gilmore Wilco Johnson Scotty Moore

Who are your top 10 all-time favourite guitarists. Top of the head stuff Jimi Hendrix Andres Segovia Robert Fripp Jim Hall Julian Bream Robbie Robertson Sister Rosetta Tharpe Barney Kessel John McLaughlin Steve Howe

Heart and passion, always antifascist — Happy Birthday to one of the greatest and most important mangaka and filmmaker alive, Hayao Miyazaki! #botd #HayaoMiyazaki #FilmSky #ComicSky

This is very absorbing and inspiring ✨

Why I💙Bluesky, despite all the handwringing. Today, via @dean.bsky.social I learned two photographers' names I didn't know, but should have. It's worth looking up their lives & work. L: Anna Riwkin-Brick (1908-1970) 1945📷Moderna Museet, Stockholm R: Denise Bellon (1902–1999) 1934📷Pierre Boucher

Ronald Searle New Yorker, October 4, 1976 Happy #NationalBirdDay

Happy birthday Hayao Miyazaki 🎂 📷 Takahiro Kaneyama, 2023 "His visual style is at once commanding & intimate, a mix of fluid, loose lines & an accumulation of detail that enables him to invoke the immediacy of life without being beholden to its precise contours." - Ligaya Mishan

50 years ago today (January 5, 1976) the best damned TV show ever - and Norman Lear's labor of love - debuted. It caused an immediate uproar, and we never took our foot off the pedal. We did 325 episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman in 18 months, and taped 2 shows a day to get the Holidays off. 1/

Absolute chaos on the field, this team.

That's a lot of 111.

Remembering Yves Tanguy on his birthday 🎂 📷 Denise Bellon, 1938 "His work represents the words of a language which we cannot yet hear but which we shall shortly be reading & speaking, & which we shall recognize as being ideally suited to the exchange of new ideas - André Breton

Folks, it should go without saying that this dunk gets its own page in "Moses and the Doctor." How could it not?

Miss him. And Said, I miss him too.

Remembering Umberto Eco on his birthday 🎂 📷 David Alan Harvey, 2002 "Whatever his merits as a novelist, Eco was an exceptionally shrewd self-promoter: it is not often that an academic keeps company in the book charts with Jackie Collins & Dick Francis." - Ian Thomson