#charles watts

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have An Affair to Remember 1957

[waugh-bao]

Keith greets Charlie when he sits down for lunch (1989)

[jackiesarch]

— OH, WONT YOU LET ME IN?

— happy birthday @corvosattano! i love you! 💜

[tactfulsaboteur]

1, 2, 3, 10 reading asks

book i absolutely hate? i put down books i can see i won't like pretty quickly so i don't really have a rant locked and loaded for this one. i can go on and on about whole genres as a whole though because i can tell they're just not worth the paper they're printed on. the shelves and shelves of mediocre fifth-grade level fiction being marketed to grown ass adults. everything by joel osteen. [vomits] romance novels

book that first got me interested in reading? i've been reading ever since i can remember but the first 'real' book i can recall reading is the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas, truly fantastic classic (i'm currently in a reread with the improvised book club right now actually!) i was also a redwall kid growing up of course, and also enjoyed the deptford histories by robin jarvis and gregor the overlander by suzanne collins. lots of anthropomorphic animals killing eachother in gruesome ways for some reason. i will forever be smug about reading suzanne collins before the hunger games got big though and tbh gregor was much better

did i actually read all the books required in school/did i start out that way? i was homeschooled so required reading was mostly public library summer reading programs, but yeah i've mostly always been like that. they couldn't stop me really

tell you about my top (any number i want) favorite books? opening a can of worms here, don't say i didn't warn you. it's no secret i'm a sci-fi guy so top of my list is always blindsight and echopraxia by peter watts. that shit changed me for real. wyrms by orson scott card is another one that, though fiction, contains a lot of very interesting thoughts. (standard 'card is a weird dude' disclaimer here.) i recently read jorge luis borges' short fiction, some very well done and intriguing concepts there. philip k. dick is a long time favorite of mine, the martian time-slip is particularly good as well as his dozens of short stories. and finally i will not shut up about gödel escher bach, i'm still wading through it but it's fantastically written, a lot of fun to read and i can already tell it's going to leave a mark

[best-of-basslines]

Round 1 Part 2

[culturalappreciator]

[preacherman316]

Psalm 98

Isaac Watts was an 18th century English minister and hymn writer, who had become dissatisfied with the songs and quality of singing in British churches. In his book, Then Sings My Soul, Robert J. Morgan credited Watts with ‘inventing” what he called “the English hymn.” Watts, however, had his critics, including minister Thomas Bradbury who called his songs “whims instead of hymns.” Continue…

[jazzdailyblog]

Elvin Jones: The Rhythmic Sorcerer Who Redefined Jazz Drumming

Introduction: There is a pantheon of famous figures in jazz drumming who have left an indelible influence on the genre’s history. Elvin Jones is a titan among these geniuses, a rhythmic magician whose creative approach to the drum kit revolutionized jazz in profound ways. Born in Pontiac, Michigan, ninety-six years ago today on September 9, 1927, Elvin Ray Jones embarked on a musical path that…

[guessimdumb]

The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Till You Get Enough (1969)

Charles Wright and company with some fantastic L.A. funk.