Marshall N Armintor

English Department at UNT; British modernism, theory, the graphic novel, games and plenty other things. Currently undoing the Enlightenment one tweet at a time.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

The very definition of a masterpiece.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@saintsoftness That's wonderful -- Sorrentino is practically the only writer I "collect" -- his prose poetry's great too.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@deesnider A "one-lunger"! My dad rode one (at least one) in the 60s, before I was born...and learned how to fix bikes on that one, as I'm sure a lot of people did.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@stalecooper Farms. The Home and the Tomb of Abraham Lincoln.
I once toured the Home with a good friend. One of our tour group asked, "How much of the furniture is original?" The guide said, "about 20%. Before they left for DC, the Lincolns held a yard sale."

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

At the family’s behest, this sad news is finally being shared. I’ve known since Friday that he left this plane on Wednesday morning.The feeling of loss, for me, & many in my circle, is profound. Blood was 1 of 1. He was made of the stuff that Blues is made of. Raw. Pure. Elemental.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@dcherring I read once (good guitar info was hard to come by in the 80s) per Lukather that this was one of EVH's favorites, and he'd often practice it note for note.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@_motherslug Envious that you're just starting it -- I've recommended it to a lot of people. Less well known now but important when it came out.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@dcherring I didn't understand anything about what he was doing until I started picking up theory. Stupendous.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

"Mind," "minds." 🤦

On the same topic: there's a quote going around purportedly from Rilke's _Letters to a Young Poet_: "The only journey is the one within." A senior (!) cited that for me in a paper last year, & I got angry in a way I hadn't for a long time. I corrected them.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

I wonder what Socrates would think about the fact that almost all of the quotations attributed to him on Goodreads are fake.

[dj short @_DJShort]

Teddy Pendergrass & Stephanie Mills - Feel The Fire (Peabo Bryson cover)

arranged by Dexter Wansel

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@_motherslug My kids were like 5 and 7 when the first LP came out; I had to play it in the car all. the. time for them. Especially my youngest.🙂 Good bit of it is laugh-out-loud funny & I have no idea why it's good, or what the "hipness" resides in-it's like Fishbone, little kids can get it.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

Saer is cool.

[Charlie j @BUSTYPHILLIPS]

i can't do "best books" lists; i can do 20 books that should be read more... these i adore but don't see talked about much here

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

Saw him about ten years ago when he was touring with Jeffrey Osborne and Howard Hewett; he sounded just as good as he ever did, and it was as if he hadn't aged a day.

[BET @BET]

Tonight we remember Peabo Bryson, the legendary Grammy Award winning singer whose timeless ballads helped define R&B romance for generations.

From "If Ever You're In My Arms Again" to unforgettable duets like "Beauty and the Beast," and "A Whole New World," his voice carried love, hope, and emotion in a way few artists ever could.

Across five decades, Peabo Bryson gave us the kind of music that became the soundtrack to weddings, first dances, quiet nights, and unforgettable moments. His legacy will continue to live on through every note.

Rest in power, Peabo Bryson. 🕊️🎶

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@JohnsonBec32985 @PAHoyeck My impression is this all slowly dawned on Monk as he was writing it. Plus Russell was a hero, & any further digging was going to be a disappointment. It's VERY well researched. Like a lot of utopians (the Beacon Hill school), BR couldn't see past his own self-serving worldview.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@PAHoyeck Severe mental illness ran in Russell's family; he was haunted by it. BR destroyed every relationship he had, it seems. Eldest son was schizophrenic; the book ends w/ BR's granddaughter's self-immolation. Monk's preface even wearily admits his disillusion w/ Russell as a person.

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

George Clinton & Prince performing "Flashlight" live at Paisley Park (1999)

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@deesnider They were a bit before my time, but just reading about their impact, it seems all roads lead back to Slade: KISS, Cheap Trick, and even Joe Strummer talked about how impressive those shows were.

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

@hardfiled A super long time ago, probably somewhere around the end of the 1980s, I had MTV on, and there was a snippet of an interview with Pete Townshend, talking about him: "well, I have about 160 Sun Ra records, and the 3 I've listened to are GREAT!"

[Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor]

Back in the CD era, when everybody started reissuing everything, T-Bone Walker was a revelation to me, along with JB Lenoir -- different ways of doing the blues.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Happy birthday to T-Bone Walker, born on this day in 1910!