Jack Stallings
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Joined August 2022
America has produced no greater genius of conception and communication than Miles Dewey Davis III.
Trumpeter Mark Kelly playing “Milestones” for a 3rd grade class in 2017. The tune was requested by one of the students.
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“I’ve been asked a thousand times why people love that picture so much. I think it’s because it reminds them that each man’s life is important… and that got to me too.” Jimmy Stewart on It's a Wonderful Life.
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Fleet Street looking towards Ludgate Circus and St. Paul's Cathedral, 1894. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a splendid pub, is still there; I frequented it as often as I could afford to, during my London job hunting days.
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[MCCABE & MRS. MILLER] Everything is in motion, and yet there is a stillness about the film, as if every element in it were conspiring to tell the same incredibly sad story: that the characters are lost in their separate dreams. (1971)
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I’m pretty tired of being told I have Trump Derangement Syndrome by those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. They are so deranged they can’t see his narcissism, sociopathy, ignorance, vindictiveness & decline. They don’t even see that he couldn’t care less about them.
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Apparently, it is now “fake news” to ask Trump about something he said five days ago.
Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.” Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.” Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”
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Rare footage of Miles in the studio, building the soundtrack with nothing but mood and instinct.
Fun Fact: Miles Davis improvised the entire “L’Ascenseur pour l’échafaud” soundtrack in one overnight Paris session while watching the film on a projector. He only gave mood cues, and the band created the score on the spot.
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14 years ago... December 8, 2011: Four days after his death Mick and Keith decide to pay for the funeral services of blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin, best known for his role in the legendary Howlin’ Wolf’s band. @RollingStones #RollingStones
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This series of posts has been simultaneously an essential historical accounting and breathtakingly sad.
8 December 9:00 AM. John Lennon left The Dakota to have breakfast at Café La Fortuna on West 71st Street. He had eggs benedict and a cappuccino. He then decided to get a haircut at his favourite local hair salon called Viz-à-Viz before returning to his apartment.
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Fun Fact: Miles Davis improvised the entire “L’Ascenseur pour l’échafaud” soundtrack in one overnight Paris session while watching the film on a projector. He only gave mood cues, and the band created the score on the spot.
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Thanks for posting @JulianLennon ! Love you!
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Just so.
And yet again, everyone stands by and takes it. I will never understand what it is about this pathetic, whining, abjectly uncouth man that renders people silent in the face of his incessant indignities.
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Rachel Scott is a great reporter and truly good person. To my friends in the press corps: Stand up for each other. “Sir, that’s wrong, what you said to Rachel. She’s a good person.” That’s all. He’ll hate it, yell at you. But you will have done the decent thing, told the truth.
Trump to ABC's Rachel Scott: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you -- you are an obnoxious-- a terrible reporter. And it's always the same thing with you. I told you."
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George Harrison and Ringo Starr talking about John Lennon. George being typically spiritual and at the end Ringo says he’s seen John twice. #JohnLennon #RIPJohnLennon #GeorgeHarrison #Ringo #Beatles
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John Lennon photographed by Annie Leibovitz, December 8th 1980.
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15 years ago I got to do this with about the nicest bunch of people you could meet, including Danny Thomson, Kate St John and Joe Boyd. (My wife filmed a bit) Nick Drake certainly made his mark, like a name carved in a quiet wood, but there forever. https://t.co/VL2djIShud
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The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman Dyson
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Akira Kurosawa on making Seven Samurai (1954): "Japanese films all tend to be assari shite iru [light, plain, simple but wholesome] just like ochazuke [green tea over rice], but I think we ought to have richer foods, richer films. And so I thought I would make this kind of
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'By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation ... Poetry is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.' Joseph Brodsky
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