Chris cLArkE

i said it and it was mine

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

the wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

@DJRTistic no city has partied in 100 years like these NYC niggas finna do when they win. and when the knicks win WE ALL WIN. it will balance society

[DJ R-Tistic @DJRTistic]

Yooooo they were going at it though!!

And I partially agree with both of their points. Only bc it totally killed the L.A. hood movie genre. That’s why I feel Friday left the hood for the sequel….the original script had them in the hood again

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

@DJRTistic well said my G and thank u for sharing this it’s absolutely fascinating and makes me want to dig up their takes on other classics especially when they have differing opinions

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

he was just too much too funny in real time that’s why everyone that knows knows it’s him like it’s jimi and it’s jordan

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1980, Richard Pryor agreed to an interview with a Mormon high school public access station while on his lunch break from filming STIR CRAZY in Arizona, but literally none of the footage was usable for tv because Pryor was high on cocaine and let it all loose

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

chris isaiah and pino is a monster trio

[Terrace Martin @terracemartin]

My residency starts tomorrow night at the Blue Note NYC May 26.

That’s Miles Davis’ birthday.

Every note I play this week will be dedicated to the art of Miles Davis.

Every breath I take between the notes will be dedicated to my brother, Ryan Porter.

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

@terracemartin that’s beautifully said my brother

[DBillz @DBillz]

@DJRTistic Long Live Bandana P aka Prodigy

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

Denzel has been having a conversation with us that spans half a dozen movies. It’s him, not the writers. He loves us

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

which take is your favorite ?

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

When does a person's life change?
Socrates: When he knows that he does not know
Senka: When he knows the limits of his ability
Dostoevsky: When he suffers alone
Nietzsche: When he transcends himself
Sartre: When he believes in his freedom
Frankl Victor: When he finds meaning in his life
Schopenhauer: When he exceeds his will
Cioran: When he dies
Spinoza: We change according to the requirements of necessity and not in response to our freedom
Milan Kundera: We change when we realize that this world is beyond repair
Simon de Beauvoir: When a person vomits his heart
Carl Jung: When we understand ourselves and see the dark side of it and the seeds of evil.

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

Willie Colòn some of my favorite shit. He and Hector were in a zone like no other !!!!!

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

something to ponder

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

Alan Watts poses a question that stops you in your tracks:

"Suppose you are God, suppose you have all time, all eternity, and all power at your disposal. You were given the power to dream any dream you wanted to dream every night, what would you do?"

He walks through what would happen, step by step.

At first, you'd fulfil every wish imaginable. "You would have all the pleasures you could imagine: the most marvelous meals, the most entrancing love affairs, the most romantic journeys. You could listen to music such as no mortal has heard and see landscapes beyond our wildest dreams."

You'd spend night after night in paradise. Maybe a whole month of nights.

But then something would shift. Perfection would get boring.

"You'd begin to think, 'Well, I've seen quite a bit. Let's spice it up. Let's have a little adventure.'"

So you'd introduce danger. You'd rescue princesses from dragons, engage in battles, become a hero. And as time went on, you'd push further and further.

Then comes the real turning point. Watts explains:

"At some point in the game, you would say, 'Tonight I am going to dream in such a way that I don't know that I'm dreaming,' so that you would take the experience of the dream for complete reality."

You'd forget you were God entirely. You'd dream yourself into poverty, disease, agony not out of cruelty, but for the contrast. For the moment you wake up and realise none of it was real.

"And you would say, 'Wow man, that was a gas.'"

Then Watts delivers the punchline:

"How do you know that that's not what you're doing already? You sitting there with all your problems, with all your whole complicated life situation it may just be the very dream you decided to get into."

And his final line reframes everything:

"If you like it, crazy; if you don't like it, what fun it'll be when you wake up."

It's a perspective that doesn't dismiss suffering. It recontextualises it. What if the struggles, the uncertainty, the messiness of life aren't things happening to you, but experiences you chose for yourself?

What would change about how you approach today if you believed you'd chosen this exact life on purpose?

[DJ P👀H @DJPooh]

Michael Jordan is a Daytona 500 champion!

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

After this you'll never fear problems..

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

it’s edifying to learn that an artist
(in this case an actor) u are first starting to get familiar with
was a part of things in the past that u loved, and u are now just grasping their greatness and contributions throughout the years

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

congrats to Ty Dolla $ign

[Chris cLArkE @CHRISCLARKEEE]

“CITY OF GOD”
just learned today that there is a sequel called “City Of Men”
with all the little niggas from the first movie grown now. Not the characters, the actors. So it might not be considered a sequel. *One of them young boys that got smoked in the first movie is in here

[Best Movie Moments 🍿 @BestMovieMom]

Robert De Niro only agreed to star in Heat after reading the legendary diner scene.

He, Al Pacino, and director Michael Mann all admitted they were counting the days until they could film it.

De Niro refused any rehearsals for the sequence, wanting the raw tension between the two characters to feel absolutely authentic and unrehearsed.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Moonlight is the least expensive film to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture. This cost $1.5 million- less than a 30 second Super Bowl commercial. But guess what? None of that fucking stopped Barry Jenkins. Real artists find a way. Don’t ever let money stop you from a dream.