Eli

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

Mood

[Namwali @namwalien]

Nope. "My Christian Dior" is already a volta after the first two lines; can't pre-empt it. And the unexpected rhyme is another volta--brings it home, just like the Knicks in the fourth quarter. That singsongy scheme of yours would ruin the whole effect.

[john @johnsemley3000]

Jon Taffer should play the Judge in the Blood Meridian movie

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

Farm fresh has a whole different meaning in the Middle East. Picking out vegetables for my smoothie that just arrived at the market by horse, straight from the farm.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Barring several scientific breakthroughs and assuming continuity of the universe past ~2100 there will be a day sometime in the future when LeBron James and I will technically be equally good at basketball. Humbling to think about

[best of al pacino @bestofpacino]

April 18: Al Pacino step out on rare outing with Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and more stars.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

Rip Florida oranges, subject of the best book ever written about a particular fruit

[alex sammon @alex_sammon]

Orange production in Florida has collapsed over 95% in less than 25 years. 100% of trees are now infected with a disease officially deemed “incurable.”

Who killed the Florida orange? My investigation, in @slate, into the lost empire of the old citrus state.

[helmet girl @sbodrojan]

They’re clip farming Mike Leigh now

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

@IndiciaObscure @SamAdlerBell Knausgaard

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

The final words spoken in Frederick Wiseman's final film: "Everything is Beautiful"

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

@tnyfrontrow Your review of In Jackson Heights got me to watch the film, and it changed my life. Thank you.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

It is impossible for me to imagine understanding the world without his body of work. Rest in peace to an immeasurably great artist.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

If you throw a dart at Frederick Wiseman's filmography, the movie you land on has a 60% chance of being so good that if it was the only film he ever made, he would still be among the greatest directors ever. He made 49 feature films.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

The summer of 2020 was the worst period of my life. I watched In Jackson Heights and felt as if I'd been struck by lightning. Some days I told myself I couldn't end it before watching all of his films. Lucky for me there were so many of them.

[Lime and Mets @LimeMets]

The "direction" the Wilpons want SNY to head in

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

I would add that in "Upside Down," we don't just anticipate the b-flat major because of the ii V (or i IV) vamp. We actually already hear it in passing within the vamp! Makes the minor version hit that much harder.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

This is great. There should be a place for music theory in music criticism. So often, the emotional effect of a pop song depends on its composition prompting the ear to expect something, and then subverting that expectation in different ways. Theory illuminates this.

[Andy Cush @cushac]

I've wanted to do this for a while: technical writing about songs (naming chords, &c) that is legible to non-technical readers, put together with more broadly interpretive criticism in hopes of getting to a deeper understanding of what the music is doing https://t.co/mVf8e8kmB5

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

Set in a Mamdani stronghold with a huge South Asian population. With cameos from Bill DeBlasio and Joe Crowley.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

On this first day of the Mamdani era, may I recommend 2015's In Jackson Heights, a film about, among other things, immigration, policing, gentrification, religion, lgbtq rights, community organizing, the world cup, real estate capital, local governance, and taxi cab drivers.

[Eli @Eli_Maskin]

Happy 96th birthday to our greatest living artist