#John McCracken

[archiveofaffinities]

John McCracken, There's No Reason Not To, 1967

[thetuesdayafter]

John McCracken

[abstracteddistractions]

John McCracken, Untitled, 1980,

Watercolor on paper,

3¾ h × 5½ w in (10 × 14 cm)

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[arspacis]

John McCracken, Magic (2008). Installation view, Napa Valley, CA (2009)

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[100-art]

Simple Art - Posters & Canvas Prints

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[art--me]

One Bedroom House - Minimalism, Modern Art

[tavolgisvist]

…John had, a month earlier, worked with Hugh McCracken on the sessions for ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over).’ Upon meeting Hugh, Lennon said, “I liked your work with Paul. But that was just an audition to get to work with me.”

(The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-1973 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, 2022)

The quote came directly from an interview with McCracken himself, but he didn’t get it exactly right. What happened that evening at the Record Plant was that Lennon was introduced to the group of guitarists who, playing acoustic instruments, were going to lay down the basic track for the song, according to the formula required by Phil Spector. All but one of them were young and inexperienced. He asked them for their names. “Chris.” “Stu.” “Teddy.” “Hugh.” Lennon turned to Yoko Ono and said, “Hey, Yoko, doesn’t Hugh look just like Ivan?” Yoko didn’t respond. “Hugh, you look just like a mate of mine from school. A cross between him and Paul.” <...> A little later, during a break, someone told Lennon about McCracken’s impressive record as a session man, including his contribution to McCartney’s second solo album a few months earlier. “Oh,” Lennon responded. “So you were just auditioning on Ram, were you?”

(Richard Williams)

[greensleeves2107]

Taste was a musical phenomenon. Listening to them play, one could hear echoes of everything that went before and hints of what was yet to come. They had the tight, disciplined professionalism of a Jazz trio, the heart and soul of a blues band and the kind of fire that later ignited the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

[myvinylplaylist]

The Doobie Brothers: One Step Closer (1980)

Warner Bros. Records

[jisreal64]

So I saw the movie “IF” last night with my grand father, and surprisingly, I ended up loving it. The movie has a very fun and whimsical feel to it and is filled to the brim with creativity and child-like wonder, and even managed to make me cry during certain scenes from it’s themes of loss and anxiety. But there is something I want to note about the film, and that is the striking similarities to the Cartoon Network show “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends”.

I always felt that the movie was going to be similar to the show regardless because of the fact that they’re both about imaginary friends, but it ended up having more in common with the show than I thought it would (it’s like my view of the Barbie movie ripping-off the Fat Albert movie all over again), both are about an adolescent helping retired imaginary friends find new kids and involves the protagonist visiting a home for said imaginary friends founded by an elder (and one features a character named Bloo and the other features a character named Blue). So, I created a theory that this movie was originally going to be a live-action film adaptation of Foster’s, but Warner Bros. either wouldn’t green light the movie or didn’t give John Krasinski (the film’s director) the rights, so he rewrote the movie to be a non-ip based film and got it picked up by Paramount instead. But even with the similarities to Foster’s, I still think the movie is great on it’s own and also features elements from other movies and TV shows like Monsters Inc and Drop Dead Fred.

Other than that, I’d give this movie a solid 8/10, and I really recommend it if you suffer from either depression, anxiety, or loss.

[nailwraps]

Pardon the crudeness, first off, but how accurate am I with this?

[80smovies]