@Helen_E_Shaw @VeraCarothers @HannahSeidlitz real pity—for someone who has lived so long among the things that never were—turns up there in yr final two sentences 👏🏻
@DADiClementi “Ellington cried for hours and when asked if he was going to be all right, replied: ‘Fuck no, I'm not going to be all right. Nothing is all right now.’”Duke Ellington’s America (Harvey Cohen)
@backlotsfilm super actor but also, wise. “There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?”
@CharlesLloydSax I was very taken with the close of this piece, ’That Sunday’, on Bill Evans trio & the shadow of Scott LaFaro’s death—“after the other hand is gone” simply stops time. https://t.co/fPZ9bhwGBY
@Izo_ang complete respect not just for campaign, but for helping shift focus to the present rental nightmare & the swiss cheese of Labor’s rent policies
@AriaAber The Age of Reason? Most of the ppl in it are in the chaotic whirlwind of their 20s trying to work out their lives–what to do, how to get ahead, who they are. 1938, Saint-Germain-des-Prés—cdve been written yesterday