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Films, Rock & Jazz, Painting & Photography
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who.... burn, burn, burn"--Jack Kerouac
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who.... burn, burn, burn"--Jack Kerouac
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A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching--
What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?
What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?
May 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching--
What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?
What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?
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Irving Berlin (with Ethel Merman) - BOTD
May 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Irving Berlin (with Ethel Merman) - BOTD
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His transformations of reality were the product of a visionary sensibility that harked back to Samuel Palmer...
The Edge of the Wood
Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889
The Edge of the Wood
Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889
May 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
His transformations of reality were the product of a visionary sensibility that harked back to Samuel Palmer...
The Edge of the Wood
Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889
The Edge of the Wood
Paul Nash #botd May 11, 1889
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Steve Winwood, English musician and songwriter, was born on May 12, 1948. #SteveWinwood
Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...
Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
YouTube video by Alcast3
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May 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Steve Winwood, English musician and songwriter, was born on May 12, 1948. #SteveWinwood
Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...
Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxY...
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Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, was born on May 12, 1928 (d. 2023). #BurtBacharach
Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...
Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...
Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer: her very best performance!
YouTube video by 49metal
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May 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, was born on May 12, 1928 (d. 2023). #BurtBacharach
Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...
Aretha Franklin - "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (1970)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw...
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All eyes on budget reconciliation!
We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill?
Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty...
Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org
We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill?
Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty...
Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org
May 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
All eyes on budget reconciliation!
We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill?
Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty...
Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org
We all know Republicans are gunning to cut Medicaid, but did you know they've also added a bunch of other really harmful provisions to the bill?
Here are some highlights from their compilation of cruelty...
Call your reps NOW to demand they vote NO 👉 5calls.org
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Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime" - BOTD
May 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime" - BOTD
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Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant) - BOTD
May 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant) - BOTD
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Remembering George Carlin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981
"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981
"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson
May 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Remembering George Carlin on his birthday 🎂
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981
"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1981
"There were other court jesters before Carlin and alongside Carlin, but Carlin was more powerful and dangerous to the king."
- Journey Gunderson
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Remembering Frank Stella on his birthday 🎂
📷 Michael Tighe, 1975
"I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."
His cat's name was Marisol!
📷 Michael Tighe, 1975
"I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."
His cat's name was Marisol!
May 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Remembering Frank Stella on his birthday 🎂
📷 Michael Tighe, 1975
"I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."
His cat's name was Marisol!
📷 Michael Tighe, 1975
"I wanted something that was direct – right to your eye - something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."
His cat's name was Marisol!
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Remembering Joseph Beuys on his birthday 🎂
📷 Alastair Thain, 1985
"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."
📷 Alastair Thain, 1985
"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."
May 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Remembering Joseph Beuys on his birthday 🎂
📷 Alastair Thain, 1985
"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."
📷 Alastair Thain, 1985
"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind from all repression."
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Ritchie Valens #BOTD - "Come On, Let's Go" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRv...
Come On Let’s Go
YouTube video by Ritchie Valens - Topic
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May 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Ritchie Valens #BOTD - "Come On, Let's Go" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRv...
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Mary Wells, American singer, "who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s" (Wikipedia), was born on May 13, 1943 (d. 1992). #MaryWells
Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...
Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...
NEW * My Guy - Mary Wells {Stereo}
YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine
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May 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Mary Wells, American singer, "who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s" (Wikipedia), was born on May 13, 1943 (d. 1992). #MaryWells
Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...
Mary Wells - "My Guy" (Smokey Robinson) (1964, probably)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79T-...
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Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (1974)
YouTube video by Musikladen
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May 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...
Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_u...
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Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...
Stevie Wonder - Superstition (1974)
YouTube video by Musikladen
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May 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Stevie Wonder, American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, was born on May 13, 1950. #StevieWonder
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) (1974)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hw...
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Stevie Wonder - I Wish (the original version)
YouTube video by Lukefilter
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May 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Happy birthday Stevie Wonder 🎂
📷 Al Satterwhite
"Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
- Elton John
📷 Al Satterwhite
"Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
- Elton John
May 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy birthday Stevie Wonder 🎂
📷 Al Satterwhite
"Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
- Elton John
📷 Al Satterwhite
"Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of "Songs in the Key of Life". For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
- Elton John
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Chishû Ryû BOTD
repose en Paix 💛
repose en Paix 💛
May 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Chishû Ryû BOTD
repose en Paix 💛
repose en Paix 💛
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Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu's THERE WAS A FATHER (1942)
Ryu was BOTD in 1904
Ryu was BOTD in 1904
May 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Chishu Ryu in Yasujiro Ozu's THERE WAS A FATHER (1942)
Ryu was BOTD in 1904
Ryu was BOTD in 1904
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Chishû Ryû in "An Autumn Afternoon" - BOTD
May 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Chishû Ryû in "An Autumn Afternoon" - BOTD
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Remembering Daphne du Maurier on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Gay, 1949
"Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies."
- Olivia Laing
📷 John Gay, 1949
"Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies."
- Olivia Laing
May 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Remembering Daphne du Maurier on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Gay, 1949
"Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies."
- Olivia Laing
📷 John Gay, 1949
"Her novels are storehouses in which she deposited emotions, memories and fantasies."
- Olivia Laing
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Daphne du Maurier (with scenes from the Hitchcock film adaptation of the du Maurier novel "Rebecca") - BOTD
May 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Daphne du Maurier (with scenes from the Hitchcock film adaptation of the du Maurier novel "Rebecca") - BOTD
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#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908
Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908
Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
May 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908
Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908
Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910
Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval)
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910
Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval)
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich
May 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday**
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910
Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval)
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich
Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910
Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval)
Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich