Haroon

Poet | Playwright | Musician | Podcast Host | Actually Autistic | ADHD

[highlydustedmusic @80sBank]

imagine going to the club during this era and you hear this knocking at the entrance? 😮‍💨
That bass line Oscar Alston laid down for Teena Marie's "I need your lovin" should have secured his retirement.
This is PEAK LEVEL, dance floor funk.

"I need your lovin"
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[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

BEST NEW ARTIST: Sade Olutola⁠
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Next up out of London, Sade Olutola's debut EP 'Arrow Heart' and its accompanying visual world introduces a confident new voice.

Following an EP release show in partnership with Tumblr, this summer includes her debut headline show and first festival appearances. We can't wait to see what happens next.⁠

[Haroon @harooncreates]

@OfficialHuey Facts

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Economist Mariana Mazzucato says Brexit led to businesses leaving the UK, shrank market opportunities and damaged investment.

She tells The Fourcast that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have still not been held accountable for what she calls one of the country's biggest economic mistakes.

Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have both denied lying to the public.

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

In Heat, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino’s characters were deliberately written as polar opposites. Pacino’s Vincent Hanna is extroverted and highly intuitive, while De Niro’s Neil McCauley is deeply introverted and rigid in his thinking, bordering on fanatical in his adherence to his self‑imposed code as an elite criminal.

But underneath all of that, they share one crucial thing in common: as Michael Mann puts it, “both of them are the only fully conscious people in the entire movie.” He explains:

“It's all on the page, all in the design. The design of the character is to have counterpoint. And real oppositional counterpoint, very much like a dialectics. There's a thesis and antithesis, which means that the parts that they have in common are identical and that's their awareness.

Both of these men are the only two people in the fictional universe of the film who author their fate. They determine, they are aware, they are not just walking through life. And then what's different about them is oppositional, is exactly 180 degrees.

So the temperament of Pacino, his methodology as a detective on a quest to capture people for information is intuitive, it's psychological. He manipulates his own subconscious the way an actor would.

De Niro is absolutely rigid, he's somewhat sociopathic. And he's disciplined and he's Zen and he has a formula that he invented about how to succeed in professional crime and then get out of here and go live a real life in Fiji as he imagines it from postcards.”

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Donuts is by far J Dilla's most famous album. But a humble beat tape created eight years prior perhaps best illuminates the ongoing influence of James Dewitt Yancey. Read about "Another Batch," the tape that was never officially released—and likely never will be: https://t.co/GKFhovFwAc

📷 J Dilla in 2000, by Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

“Study the old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas.”

— Martin Scorsese. #filmtwt

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

Lupe Fiasco gives an update on the Rap Theory college course he teaches as a professor at MIT, revealing whether the public can access his classes, and breaks down what separates a chorus from a hook.

(🎥 Lupe Fiasco/IG)

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The most important skill in life isn’t predicting the future. It’s adapting to the one you didn’t expect.

[Ableton @Ableton]

Watch @throttleclark @rivalconsoles and @SebMullaert prepare for and perform a one-off improvised set for @circleof_live. Link in comments.

[Daddy @directordaddyy]

My short film, Supernigga, got rejected every major festival but got 400k views on YouTube organically in a month and had A24 and hella studios begging to make the feature. Moral of the story is there is no one path for all. I choose the internet over festivals.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Gene Hackman was First Team All-Shouter, next to guys like Al Pacino, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Daniel Day-Lewis. When these guys raise their voices on screen, my god, it is absolutely electric. I don’t want to accept that Hackman & Tony Scott are no longer with us anymore.

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

So many of our phrases about time treat it as the enemy. David Whyte flipped that for me and showed how changing your relationship with time can make you more generous and forgiving:

"Time is not slipping through our fingers. It is we who are slipping through the fingers of time. We're losing the opportunity to live in time in a spacious, generous, timeless way.

If you spend time, a good forty-five minutes or an hour, with the image of that person, the essence of that person, and what they're trying to say to you, it would only be a matter of time before you came to a place of forgiveness and understanding."

[Mauricio Ruiz @mngrsplaybook]

There is a massive difference between knowing how to make beats and knowing how to make records.

[Mauricio Ruiz @mngrsplaybook]

The artists who win are usually the ones who can keep showing up without needing every day to feel extraordinary.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The hardest thing to do is start.”

— Jack Dorsey

[Brady Watt @Nyceonthebass]

4 years ago today we dropped this classic. Bass & Bars EP45 ft. @ONYX_HQ SLAM!
This also marks being 4 years cancer free. Lota people thought I shaved my head for this. It wasn’t for the video! @REALDJPREMIER @Ian_Schwartzman