#knox Lawson

[coriel-muroz]

Household 28* - Frederick and Nikki Lawson

Frederick and Nikki have been anxiously awaiting the birth of their first child.

It's time! Nikki is going into labour.

"Are we prepared for this?" Frederick exclaimed.

"Too late now. Ooooooowwwww," replied Nikki.

The labour was over faster than you might think, and Nikki was thrilled to hold baby Knox in her arms.

Frederick was immediately involved, holding his son and giving Nikki a chance to recover.

Welcome Knox Lawson!!!

Huntsville Revived #594

*I miscounted households at some point. Have corrected the error here. If you are looking for household 27, I didn't post anything this rotation.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in June 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy Pride Month!! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ The Shadow of Summer - Marlon Yelich 🧡 Of Stardust - (ed) Avrah C. Baren 💛 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💚 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💙 Same Difference - E.J. Copperman 💜 The Pull of the Tide - Various ❤️ The Misadventures of Getting Lainey a Date - Eija Jimenez 🧡 Surface Pressure - Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 💛 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💙 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💜 One and Done - Frederick Smith 🌈 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis

❤️ She Who Brought the Storm - Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea 🧡 Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights - James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler 💛 London on My Mind - Clara Alves (translated by Nina Perrotta) 💚 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💙 Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 💜 Gay the Pray Away - Natalie Naudus ❤️ Such A Small World - Jordan Clayden-Lewis 🧡 Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner - CeCé Telfer 💛 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💙 We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 💜 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 🌈 The Curse of the Goddess - C.C. González

❤️ The Schoolmaster - Jessica Tvordi 🧡 Cigarette Lemonade - Connor de Bruler 💛 Coil of Boughs - Penny Moss 💚 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💙 Asking for a Friend - Ronnie Riley 💜 Pleasure Principle - Madeleine Cravens ❤️ Perfect Revenge - Jessica Burkhart 🧡 Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli 💛 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💙 Queer Art - Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💜 Morally Straight - Mike De Socio 🌈 Our Bodies Electric - Zackary Vernon

❤️ Love Is All - Various 🧡 Becoming Ted - Matt Cain 💛 Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris 💚 Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones 💙 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke ❤️ Hot Hires - Nan Campbell, Alaina Erdell, Jesse J. Thoma 🧡 Lord of the Empty Isles - Jules Arbeaux 💛 Kissing Girls on Shabbat - Sara Glass 💙 When You Smile - Melissa Brayden 💜 We Could Be Heroes - Philip Ellis 🌈 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson

❤️ A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 🧡 Take All of Us - Natalie Leif 💛 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💚 Why Are People Into That? - Tina Horn 💙 Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity - Jack Turban 💜 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow ❤️ Sea of Broken Glass - Jenna Pine 🧡 Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair - Ella McLeod 💛 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi 💙 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💜 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 🌈 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin

❤️ Act Two - Rochelle Wolf 🧡 Unexploded Remnants - Elaine Gallagher 💛 The Stars Want Blood - Morgan Lawson 💚 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson 💙 Design of Darkness - R.D. Pires 💜 Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ❤️ Meet Me in the Sky - Jeffrey K. Davenport 🧡 A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell 💛 The Lions' Den - Iris Mwanza 💙 Under the Dragon Moon - Mawce Hanlin 💜 A Sea of Wolves - Sarah Street 🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba

❤️ Private Rites - Julia Armfield 🧡 Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous - Mae Marvel 💛 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💚 Keeping Carmen Ruiz - Alyson Root 💙 Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin 💜 Heartwaves - Anita Kelly ❤️ Bound to the Wild Fae - Tavia Lark 🧡 Four Squares - Bobby Finger 💛 The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter 💙 Poison in Their Hearts - Laura Sebastian 💜 Puppy Love - Elle Sprinkle 🌈 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart

❤️ Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni 🧡 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz 💛 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier 💚 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💙 PROUD - Anthology 💜 Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ Fling - Deja Elise 🧡 Too Many Stars to Count - Frances M. Thompson 💛 Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrasekera 💙 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 Freakslaw - Jane Flett 🌈 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab

❤️ A Sense of Shifting - Coco Romack, Yael Malka 🧡 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💛 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 💚 Hide No More - Rita Potter 💙 Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland 💜 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez ❤️ Her, Him & I - Christian Weissmann 🧡 The Sons of El Rey - Alex Espinoza 💛 Show Me Your Teeth - Amy Marsden 💙 Defeating Demons and Breaking Up With My Boyfriend - Dylan James 💜 For Real - Alexis Hall 🌈 The Clarity of Light - Jade Church

[scotianostra]

One of Scotland's' most iconic films, Local Hero was released on February 18th 1983.

In the days before mobile phones we used to use things called phone boxes when we were not at home, and the phone box in Local Hero has become as iconic as the film itself.

There aren’t many films that have a 100% Tomatometer , on the movie website Rotten Tomatoes, backed up by an impressive 87% audience score, it should be all you need to know when choosing a movie to watch, expecially if you haven’t seen it before. IMDb also rate it highly with 7.4 out of 10.

Bill Forsyth’s oil-refinery comedy isn’t billed as a weepy. It is, however, a love poem to Scotland, and that’s what brings the lump to my throat.

Quirky, wry, gentle are words most often used for this comedy on the movie database site, IMDb, the starting point for many of my posts about those Scots in the acting profession in my posts. They brief story line on the site does not hint at the emotional turbulence you might soon be experiencing. So maybe it’s just me being a big sissy. Wouldn’t be the first time I lost the plot. All it says is "An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected." The film is so much more than this and it stands the test of time much better than other Forsyth films like Comfort & Joy and Gregory's Girl, well in my opinion anyway!

Crackpot Texan oil magnate Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) gets the idea that a small Scottish fishing village would be a marvellous acquisition for his so-rich-it-makes-you-sick company, Knox Oil and Gas, so he sends an executive gopher named MacIntyre (because that sounds Scottish, yeah – played by Peter Riegert) to close the deal and get the pipeline pencilled in.

“Mac” is met by some local “dork” called Oldsen (a young Peter Capaldi), who attempts to steer him through a tartan microculture that includes a lawyer-cum-publican/hotelier (Denis Lawson) who tapdances while standing on a chair shouting “Stella” – the name of his ever-randy wife; there is a super-hard marine biologist played by Jenny Seagrove who, after delivering a short lecture on the North Atlantic drift, ends up helping Oldsen to find that pistol in his pocket; and then there is a scene in which a very whisky-sodden Mac calls Texas from a red phone box on the harbourside, a phone box that has featured in so many peoples snaps when visiting Pennan in Banffshire.

Other bits of business in the film involve a salty Russian seafarer and overflying warplanes. You can see how it got the comedy tag, and I haven’t even mentioned the thing with the rabbit. And you can see how Mac ends up smitten.

This is all top material from a very talented writer/director, with photography and music from Glasgow born Mark Knopfler matches the acting and direction perfectly. But on first viewing I found myself asking halfway through, “What is this film actually about?” After not very much thought, I came to the conclusion that it was not a How Things Never Go According to Plan story, but a love poem to Scotland and the Scots. A bit slushy, but never mind. It’s only a film.

The scene when Mac phones to describe the Northern Lights, to me is very special, but the scene that prompted the lump in my throat at the end of the movie is when, having failed in his mission to secure the Knox refinery deal and mutilate one of Planet Earth’s most beautiful locations, Mac returns to his frigid steel-and-glass Houston apartment. He stands at his kitchen counter wondering what to do next, the hushed march of oil capitalism buzzing gently outside. He pulls from his coat pocket a handful of pebbles and shells, smelling one of them poignantly remembering as he spreads them on the work surface.

As Knopflers music gently plays he goes to his balcony and looks out to the city......the scene fades to black, then reopens 4,500 miles away, where, on the harbour side of a small Scottish fishing village, we see the phone box, perhaps ringing and the credits begin as the horns of Going Home blast out.

Others in the film include Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Kenny Ireland, John Gordon Sinclair and of course Burt Lancaster.

[countingandsnarkingon]

My guess for Tiffany and Lawson boy names are as follows:

Gunner (I know Joy but cmon)

Banner

Tennessee

Jefferson

Knox

Dallas/Austin

Mordecai

Maverick

Valor

Ulysses

All of these feel like very good possibilities. Ugh, Jefferson Davis Bates. And don’t tell me they wouldn’t because they definitely would

[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

CURTIS FULLER, LA REMARQUABLE RÉSILIANCE D’UN TROMBONISTE

"Curtis' playing was absolutely incredible... almost mystical. Curtis always said, 'I'm not trying to win any Trombone Olympics.' We all knew he could, but loved him because it was never his concern to 'out-play' anyone. He played too pretty and hip for that. He was all music." 

- Steve Davis

Né le 15 décembre 1932 à Detroit, au Michigan, Curtis DuBois Fuller était le fils de John Fuller, un travailleur de l’industrie automobile, et d’Antoinette Heath. Immigrant originaire de la Jamaïque, le père de Fuller était décédé de la tuberculose avant sa naissance. La mère de Fuller, qui était originaire d’Atlanta, était morte d’une maladie des reins alors qu’il avait seulement neuf ans. Par la suite, Fuller avait passé dix ans à la Children’s Aid Society, un orphelinat opéré par les Jésuites.

Fuller avait commencé à se passionner pour le jazz après qu’une des religieuses de l’orphelinat l’ait emmené à un concert du saxophoniste Illinois Jacquet au Paradise Theatre de Detroit. Participait également au concert le légendaire tromboniste J. J. Johnson. Fuller n’avait jamais oublié sa première rencontre avec Johnson. Il avait précisé:

"He was coming out the side of the theater. He stopped and squeezed my hand, and he gave me that look — the J.J. Johnson look. And throughout the years, he never forgot me. And as I got older and went to school, and then went to the service and came out, I saw him again with Kai Winding, and he remembered me. When I got to New York, he told Miles [Davis] about me and about my progress. And as fate would have it, when he left to do his writing in Hollywood, I was chosen to do the two-trombone thing with Kai Winding and Giant Bones, and we had three albums."

Fuller avait fait ses études secondaires au Cass Tech High School de Detroit aux côtés de futurs grands noms du jazz comme Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones et Milt Jackson. À l’époque, la ville de Detroit était en train de devenir une véritable pépinière du jazz. À ce moment-là, Milt Jackson et Hank Jones avaient déjà quitté Detroit pour New York et seraient bientôt suivis par de futures sommités du jazz comme Donald Byrd, les frères Elvin et Thad Jones, Paul Chambers, Louis Hayes, Kenny Burrell, Barry Harris, Pepper Adams, Yusef Lateef, Ron Carter, Sonny Red, Hugh Lawson, Doug Watkins, Tommy Flanagan et plusieurs autres.

À l’âge de seize ans, lorsqu’on avait demandé à Fuller de quel instrument il voulait jouer, il avait fixé son choix sur le violon et le saxophone, mais aucun de ces instruments n’étant disponible, il s’était rabattu sur le trombone. Décrivant sa découverte du trombone, Fuller avait commenté: “I saw symphony orchestras, but I didn’t see anybody like myself. That’s why when I saw J.J. . . . I said, ‘I think I can do this.’” Fuller avait appris le trombone avec des grands maîtres comme J.J. Johnson et Elmer James. Fuller avait été particulièrement influencé par Johnson, Jimmy Cleveland, Bob Brookmeyer et Urbie Green.

Déjà déterminé à devenir musicien de jazz, Fuller avait ajouté deux ans à son âge afin d’augmenter ses chances d’obtenir du travail.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

Après avoir décroché son diplome du High School en 1955, Fuller avait fait un séjour dans l’armée dans le cadre de la guerre de Corée. Stationné à Fort Knox, au Kentucky, Fuller avait joué dans un groupe qui comprenait Chambers, Junior Mance et les frères Cannonball et Nat Adderley. Après sa démobilisation en 1955, Fuller avait commencé à se produire dans des clubs locaux tout en poursuivant parallèlement ses études à Wayne State University. Par la suite, Fullers’était joint au quintet du saxophoniste Yusef Lateef, un autre musicien originaire de Detroit. Il avait aussi joué avec Kenny Burrell.

Après s’être installé à New York en avril 1957, Fuller avait enregistré trois albums avec le groupe de Lateef. Un de ces albums avait été produit par Dizzy Gillespie pour les disques Verve. Après avoir enregistré avec le saxophoniste ténor Paul Quinchette, Fuller avait participé en mai de la même année à ses premières sessions d’enregistrement comme leader avec les disques Prestige. Intitulé Transition, son premier album comme leader avait été publié en 1955.

Parmi les membres du groupe de Fuller, on retrouvait Sonny Red au saxophone alto. Comme ses compatriotes Kenny Burrell et Thad Jones l’avaient fait l’année précédente, Fuller utilisait principalement des musiciens de Detroit dans le cadre de ses enregistrements.

Le producteur Alfred Lion, le co-fondateur des disques Blue Note, avait entendu jouer Fuller pour la première fois avec le sextet de Miles Davis au Cafe Bohemia à la fin des années 1950. Fuller avait éventuellement dirigé quatre sessions comme leader pour Blue Note, même si une de ces sessions (mettant en vedette le tromboniste Slide Hampton) n’avait pas été publiée avant plusieurs années. Lion avait également inclus Fuller dans des sessions dirigées par le pianiste Sonny Clark (albums Dial "S" for Sonny et Sonny's Crib enregistrés respectivement en 1957 et 1958) et John Coltrane (sur l’album Blue Trane en 1957).

Après avoir passé seulement huit mois à New York, Fuller était devenu un participant incontournable des sessions organisées par les disques Blue Note. À ce moment-là, Fuller avait déjà enregistré six albums comme leader et avait fait des apparitions sur une quinzaine d’autres sessions dirigées par d’autres musiciens. Fuller expliquait: "Alfred brought me into dates with Jimmy Smith and Bud Powell. And then we did Blue Train with John Coltrane. And I became the only trombone soloist to record with those three artists." C’est d’ailleurs un peu grâce à Fuller que Coltrane avait rebaptisé une des pièces  de l’album "Moment's Notice." Le titre de la pièce faisait référence à une remarque de Fuller qui s’était plaint que le saxophoniste n’avait donné que trois heures à ses musiciens pour se préparer à l’enregistrement des pièces plutôt complexes l’album. Outre Fuller et Coltrane, l’album avait été enregistré avec une formation composée du trompettiste Lee Morgan, du contrebassiste Paul Chambers, du pianiste Kenny Drew et du batteur Philly Joe Jones. De tous les albums auxquels Fuller avait participé, Blue Train était d’ailleurs son préféré.

Peu après avoir enregistré Blue Train, Fuller avait joué avec Lester Young au club Birdland. Il expliquait: "I remember talking to Billie Holiday about being surprised that Lester wanted me. She said, 'Well, he asked for you. He must've wanted you.'" Après la mort de Young, Fuller se préparait à retourner à Detroit lorsqu’il avait reçu une offre du saxophoniste ténor James Moody. Après avoir fait une tournée avec le big band de Dizzy Gillespie, Fuller avait même failli se joindre au groupe de son idole Louis Armstrong. À l’époque, le tromboniste d’Armstrong, le légendaire Trummy Young, était sur le point de quitter le groupe, car il avait décidé de devenir prêtre. Fuller précisait:

"Trummy told me he got $1,500 a week. I started spending the money in my mind. Those were the early days. If you had $300 or $400 a week, you thought you were rich. Trummy was a mainstay with the group, and he was telling Pops about me — I got a little man, you gotta hear him. He took me to rehearse for him, and I heard Pops talking, and he said, 'Nah, too much bebop. I don't like that stuff.' I started crying. Louis Armstrong, my hero, didn't like me. My whole world crashed down on me."

Fuller avait finalement décidé de prendre le rejet d’Armstrong avec philosophie. Comme il l’avait déclaré avec humour: "He didn't like Dizzy, either, so I don't feel bad."

Un des premiers albums de Fuller comme leader, intitulé Bone & Bari (1957), mettait en vedette une formation composée de Tate Houston au saxophone baryton, de Sonny Clark au piano, de Paul Chambers à la contrebasse et d’Art Taylor à la batterie.

Dans le cadre de sa collaboration avec Blue Note, Fuller avait participé à des sessions avec Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, Clifford Jordan, Hank Mobley (albums The Opener en 1957 et A Caddy For Daddy en 1966), Wayne Shorter (sur l’album Schizophrenia en 1969), Lee Morgan (albums City Lights en 1957 et Tom Cat en 1980) et Joe Henderson (Fuller connaissait bien Henderson pour avoir été son camarade de classe à Wayne State University en 1956). Lorsque sa carrière comme leader avait commencé à s’essoufler, Fuller avait collaboré avec James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie et Billie Holiday. C’est d’ailleurs Billie qui avait conseillé à Fuller de commencer à trouver son propre son dans le cadre de ses improvisations. Fuller expliquait: “When I came to New York, I always tried to impress people, play long solos as fast as I could—lightning fast. And all of a sudden Billie Holiday said, ‘When you play, you’re talking to people. So, learn how to edit your thing, you know?’’’ I learned to do that’’, avait conclu Fuller.

En 1959, Fuller avait fait partie des membres fondateurs du Jazztet d’Art Farmer et Benny Golson. Fuller connaissait déjà Golson pour avoir participé à l’album The Other Side Of Benny Golson à la fin de l’année 1958. La complicité du duo était telle que Fuller avait invité Golson à participer à son album Blues-ette en 1959. La même année, Fuller avait retourné l’ascenseur à Golson en collaborant à trois de ses albums pour Prestige avec différentes sections rythmiques. Le duo avait également collaboré dans le cadre de deux albums de Fuller pour les disques Savoy, ce qui avait jeté les bases du futur Jazztet. Le nouveau groupe, un sextet, avait enregistré son premier album en février 1960. C’est également dans le cadre de cet album que le pianiste McCoy Tyner avait fait ses débuts sur disque. Même si le groupe avait connu un grand succès dès le départ, Fuller et Tyner avaient quitté quelques mois plus tard pour se consacrer à leurs propres projets.

À l’été 1961, Fuller s’était joint aux Jazz Messengers d’Art Blakey, transformant ainsi le groupe en sextet pour la première fois de sa longue histoire. Avec Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Jymie Meritt (bientôt remplacé par Reggie Workman) et Freddie Hubbard, Fuller avait contribué à faire du groupe une des plus importantes formations de hard bop de l’histoire. Fuller était demeuré avec les Jazz Messengers jusqu’en février 1965. Dans le cadre de sa collaboration avec le groupe, Fuller avait perfectionné ses talents de compositeur en écrivant des classiques comme “A La Mode”, “Three Blind Mice” et “Buhaina’s Delight.”

Au début des années 1960, Fuller avait également enregistré deux albums comme leader pour les disques Impulse. Il avait aussi enregistré pour Savoy Records, United Artists et Epic à la fin de son contrat avec Blue Note. À la fin des années 1960, Fuller avait fait une tournée en Europe avec le big band de Dizzy Gillespie qui comprenait également Foster Elliott au trombone.

Dans les années 1970, Fuller avait expérimenté durant un certain temps avec un groupe de hard bop qui utilisait des instruments électroniques. Il avait aussi dirigé un groupe comprenant le guitariste Bill Washer et le bassiste Stanley Clarke. Cette collaboration avait éventuellement donné lieu à la publication de l’album Crankin‘ en 1973.

Après avoir de nouveau voyagé en tournée avec Count Basie de 1975 à 1977, Fuller avait enregistré avec plusieurs compagnies de disques, dont Mainstream, Timeless et Bee Hive. De 1979 à 1980, il avait également co-dirigé le groupe Giant Bones avec le tromboniste Kai Winding. À la fin des années 1970, Fuller avait aussi joué avec Art Blakey, Cedar Walton et Benny Golson.

DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

Dans les années 1980, Fuller avait fait de nombreuses tournées en Europe avec les Timeless All-Stars. Doté d’une remarquable résiliance, Fuller avait de nouveau collaboré avec le Jazztet de Benny Golson après avoir vaincu un cancer du poumon en 1993.

Fuller avait épousé Catherine Rose Driscoll en 1980. Le couple avait eu trois enfants: Paul, Mary et Anthony. Fuller avait également cinq enfants de son mariage précédent avec Judith Patterson: Ronald, Darryl, Gerald, Dellaney et Wellington. Driscoll est décédée d’un cancer du poumon le 13 janvier 2010. Fuller avait enregistré l’album The Story of Cathy & Me l’année suivante pour lui rendre hommage. Tout en continuant de se produire sur scène et d’enregistrer, Fuller enseignait à la New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Jazz Studies (SJS). Il avait aussi été professeur à la Hartt School de l’Université Hartford.

Fuller donnait également de nombreuses cliniques dans des collèges et des universités comme le Skidmore College, l’Université Harvard, l’Université Stanford, l’Université de Pittsburgh, l’Université Duke, le New England Conservatory of Music et le John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, où il avait servi de mentor à de jeunes artistes de la relève comme la saxophoniste Caroline Davis et le contrebassiste Dezron Douglas.

Curtis Fuller est mort le 8 mai 2021 dans une maison de retraite de Detroit à l’âge de quatre-vingt-huit ans. Le décès de Fuller avait été confirmé par sa fille Mary Fuller ainsi que par son associée Lilly Sullivan. Même si la cause exacte de la mort de Fuller n’avait pas été dévoilée, il semblait souffrir de problèmes de santé depuis plusieurs années. Fuller avait enregistré un dernier album intitulé Down Home en 2012. Ont survécu à Fuller ses enfants Ronald, Darryl, Gerald, Dellaney, Wellington, Paul, Mary et Anthony, neuf petits-enfants et treize arrière-petits-enfants.  

Fuller avait enregistré plus de trente-six albums comme leader de 1957 à 2018. Il avait également collaboré à environ 400 albums avec d’autres grands noms du jazz comme Bud Powell, Lee Morgan, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Heath et Count Basie. Reconnu pour sa tonalité riche et profonde, plus particulièrement dans les pièces au tempo rapide, Fuller était également caractérisé par son sens du rythme et sa technique impeccable. Réputé pour son professionnalisme et son tempérament détendu, Fuller était aussi reconnu pour son redoutable sens de l’humour.

Décrivant le style de Fuller, le tromboniste et compositeur Jacob Garchi avait déclaré: "His sound was massive, striking and immediate, a waveform that was calibrated to overload the senses and saturate the magnetic tape that captured it. In our era of obsession with harmony and mixed meters, Curtis Fuller's legacy reminds us of the importance of sound." Penchant dans le même sens, un autre tromboniste et professeur, Ryan Keberle, avait ajouté: "Curtis Fuller's genius can be heard in the warm and vibrant timbre of his trombone sound and the rhythmic buoyancy, and his deeply swinging sense of time." Quant à Mark Sryker, l’auteur de l’ouvrage Jazz From Detroit publié en 2019, il avait commenté: "Fuller was strongly rooted in the fundamentals of blues, swing and bebop, and his improvisations balanced head and heart in compelling fashion. He married a lickety-split technique with soulful expression, and even in his early twenties, he had a distinctive identity ideally suited for the hard-bop mainstream." Le tromboniste et professeur Steve Davis, qui connaissait Fuller depuis le milieu des années 1980, avait précisé:  "Curtis' playing was absolutely incredible... almost mystical. Curtis always said, 'I'm not trying to win any Trombone Olympics.' We all knew he could, but loved him because it was never his concern to 'out-play' anyone. He played too pretty and hip for that. He was all music." 

Fuller semblait d’ailleurs faire l’unanimité auprès des trombonistes. Ainsi, le tromboniste et compositeur Craig Harris avait déclaré: “Curtis Fuller was Gracious and Giving and always encouraging to young musicians. Being a trombone player myself I always marveled the way he combined Spirit, Sound and Skill to create one of the most unique voices on the instrument.” Un autre tromboniste et compositeur, Dick Griffin, avait précisé: “Curtis Fuller what a dear friend and mentor. I really looked up to him as one of the trombone players I put at the top of my list along with the master J.J. Johnson. I really appreciate the respect he gave me as a trombone player.”

Le Berklee College of Music a accordé un doctorat honorifique en musique à Fuller en 1999. Il a été élu ‘’Jazz Master’’ par la National Endowment for the Arts en 2007. Il s’agit du plus important honneur pouvant être accordé à un musicien de jazz aux États-Unis.

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[godzilla-reads]

Books Read in October 2022

Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky

The Secret Lives of Dragons by Professor Zoya Agnis and Alexander Utkin

Mooncakes by Wendy Xu, Suzanna Walker, and Joamette Gil

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter 💛

Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens 💛

What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

The Tea Dragon Festival by Kay O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O’Neill 💛

Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (trans. Geoffrey Trousselot)

Tales of the Mushroom Folk by Signe Aspelin (trans. Polly Lawson)

Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka (trans. Sam Malissa)

Love Notes from the Hollow Tree by Jarod K. Anderson

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell

The Spiderwick Chronicles (1): The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

Bunnicula: The Graphic Novel by James Howe, Andrew Donkin, and Stephen Gilpin

The Dragon’s Boy by Jane Yolen

The Wolf in the Garden by Alfred H. Bill

[hxad-ovxr-hxart]

Sky's OCs List

fandoms include: marvel, marauders, hbowar, call of duty, agents of shield, peaky blinders, titans (hbo), gilmore girls, friday night lights, and top gun/mav

Marvel:

-Jackie Anders -Kenzie Blake -Cam Lawrence -Ali Reigns -Nika Tushenka -Lia Ross -Bridget O'Connor -JJ Jones -Mikkola Nikitovich -Jaxon Jones -Taylor Van Muyren -Lydia Parrish -Tommy McClarren

Marauders:

-Cassie Black -Louise Griffiths -Collin Griffiths -Hana Raimes

HBOWar:

-Jo Mason -Talia Folley -Taylor Larson -Alaina George -Ellie Banks -Jean McCleary -Angie Martinetti -Lia Burkely

Call of Duty:

-Lucille Thatcher -Alexander Kline -Evelynn Porter -Dakota Knox -Jordan Adams -Genevieve Hollis -Lorelei Reynolds -Frederick Hollis -Kara Doyle -Gabriel Chavez

Peaky Blinders:

-Rosetta-Lennor Herridge -Amelie MacDonald -Georgie Sinclair -Reuben Sinclair

Titans (HBO):

-Louisa Van Doren -Gilbert Van Doren -Dakota Abbot -Harrison Bates

Agents of Shield:

-Bailey Kramer -Bryce Diggs -Jacob Lawson -Kayla Newmann -Jackson Porter -Valerie Diggs -Connor Newmann -Caitlyn Moore -Xander Keller

Gilmore Girls:

-Carter Allen -Juniper Foster -Tatum Lewis -Blakely Gilmore

Friday Night Lights:

-Cameron Taylor -Brianna Taylor -Addison Walker -Jay Fields

Top Gun/Mav:

-Sophia Neven -Kade Neven -Jessica Benjamin

Wips:

-Carmen + Group (Rule The World) -Netelia + Family (Crimson Rivers) -Charlotte + Team (The Basics) -Maddison + Team (Vendetta)

[mystlnewsonline]

Missouri Governor Granted 15 Pardons in July 2023

Missouri Governor Parson Grants 15 Pardons for the Month of July 2023 JEFFERSON CITY, MO (STL.News) For the month of July 2023, Missouri Governor Mike Parson granted 15 pardons pursuant to Article IV, Section 7 of the Constitution of the State of Missouri.  Official documents have been filed with the appropriate government agencies and have been sent to the individuals. Families have been or are in the process of being notified. Missouri Governor Parson has instructed his legal team to continue reviewing clemency files and working to eliminate the backlog inherited by his administration. - Regina Rouse - Garry Voight - Mark Lawson - Christopher Graves - Darrell Holt - Cole Wofford - Jeff Niccum - Cecil Jones - Monte Hudnall - Marjorie Knox - Todd Odom - Daniel Webb - Jason Lusk - Danny Jackson - Arthur Cooley SOURCE: Missouri Governor Read the full article

[intomusings]

﹒﹒   male   names   masterlist     !

in honor of my third milestone on here ( thank you sm ) , i’ve decided to release a master list of 400+male names i personally love and think could be used more in the community . this was also requested by a few anons and names will be added to the list frequently . the names are sorted by first letter but not alphabetically within each letter category . if you found this useful , feel free to like or reblog to spread this !

A : alston, ander, adamo, alex, austen, ace, arian, adrian, atlas, augustus, axel, archer, angel, archie, aaron, abel, asher, amir, adriel, andrew, ace, alejandro, arlo, adonis, atticus, abram, ambrose. 

B : bryce, bryson, benji, bellamy, banks, bear, beau, bentley, barrett, brody, brayden, bennett, braxton, bowen, briggs, baker, bruce, benson, bristol, boston, brycen, bryant, brock, brendan, bruno, byron, braden, bronson, braeson.

C : colton, cartier, cyrus, caleb, carter, cedric, carson, cohen, calvin, callum, casper, caspius, chase, cole, connor, camden, colt, caden, cash, crew, chance, clayton, cruz, cairo, corbin, colson, cesar, clark. 

D : damon, damien, darren, dylan, dominic, declan, dean, dario, drew, dimitri, dakota, dawson, daxton, dante, desmond, denver, dax, deacon, drake, derrick, darius, duke, deandre, dash, dilan, dayton, duncan, dior. 

E : eduardo, edward, elias, emilien, evan, easton, everett, emmett, enzo, ezra, elliot, emmanuel, ezekial, elias, emerson, eric, emory, edwin, elian, esteban, edison, emir, everest, eliseo, everley.

F : florencio, flynn, fabio, forester, francis, flynn, fallon, finn, finnick, felix, fernando, finnegan, fabian, ford, forbes, fletcher, fisher, fox, fitz, flint, fulton. 

G : giovanni, gage, gomez, grayson, griffin, grant, graham, gavin, grant, gianni, gunner, gideon, gregory, grey, gustavo, guillermo, gentry, gadiel, gabriel. 

H : halton, herman, holden, hayes, hudson, hayden, harrison, harlow, harvey, hugo, hank, henley, holland, hamza, hugh, houston, hakeem. 

I : isaac, icarius, idris, ian, ivan, isaiah, ismael, ilan, irvin, iain. 

J : julian, juniper, joao, joaquim, jordan, jaxton, joshua, josiah, javier, jayden, justin, jonah, jace, jasper, jay, jj, jackson, jeremiah, judah, joel, jensen, jaylen, jonas, jamal. 

K : kai, kolton, kaleb, klaus, kyrie, kingston, kayden, king, kobe, knox, kyler, kaden, khalil, kane, killian, keegan, kian, kamden, kieran, keanu, kyland, kareem, kasen, 

L : liam, lukas, logan, lucien, lawrence, leo, leighton, leon, lindell, lamar, latrell, larson, lance, levi, luke, landon, luca, lincoln, landon, lorenzo, london, lennox, leonel, lawson, luciano, layton, lux, leroy, lamar. 

M : micaiah, mateo, marcell, manny, mac, malcolm, mckay, meechie, matias, mason, maverick, mitch, murphy, miles, malachi, maddox, marshall, malik, moses, marvin, milo. 

N : noah, nicolai, nasir, nico, nash, neymar, naveen, nehemiah, nixon, nelson, nigel, niles, nolyn, namir. 

O : orlando, ozzy, oliver, omar, orion, otto, odin, otis, oskar, osvaldo, owen. 

P : peyton, parker, pearce, prince, preston, porter, pierre, penn, patton, paxton, paolo, pope, percy. 

Q : quentin, quinn, quint, quang. 

R : roman, rowan, reid, riggs, reece, rafael, ryland, roland, ronan, rhett, rhys, rory, rainer, roscoe, rocco, ryder, ryker, remington, russell, romeo, raiden, ruben, ridge, rex, rudy, remy. 

S : sawyer, spencer, salem, salvatore, stefan, samson, sebastian, samuel, santiago, silas, sutton, sterling, sully, sergio, seth, santino, santibel, soren, saint, samir, saul, sal, santos, slater, santino. 

T : tyson, tyrin, taylor, teagan, tobias, troye, tristan, tucker, theo, torrento, tanner, travis, tripp, trenton, trey, tomas, talon, thad, terrance, teddy. 

U : uriel, ulysesses, umar, urbane, uri, ursel, usher. 

V : valencio, victor, valence, valentino, vance, victor, vaughn, vincent, virgil, vernon, vander, vito, vero, villard. 

W : wick, walker, weston, wyatt, wolfgang, wells, wilder, wesley, walter, warren, wade, winston, watson, wiley, waylen. 

X : xavier, xander, xane, xavion, xavi, xiomar, xackery, xan. 

Y : yosef, yosan, york, yasir, yoel, yuri, yannis.

Z : zane, zakhar, zavier, zion, zahir, zev, zeus, zacharias.

[coriel-muroz]

Household 28 - It's the little things

It wasn't about to get easier. Nikki and Frederick had a lot of challenges, big and small, they continued to have to face.

Like when Nikki realized the fridge was totally empty and everyone was starving.

Frederick took Knox in hand and made sure he was fed with the little that remained.

Nikki ran to the store - they couldn't afford the fee for delivery. It was a quick trip, making Nikki sad she didn't have time to enjoy the outing.

Once Nikki got home, Frederick started to prepare dinner.

Nikki put Knox to bed, while Frederick concentrated on the meal. He managed to burn it anyway.

Exhausted and ready to go to bed as soon as they were finished, Nikki and Frederick smiled as they recounted their days and shared in each other's joys.

Huntsville Revived #604

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in June 2024

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy Pride Month!! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ The Shadow of Summer - Marlon Yelich 🧡 Of Stardust - (ed) Avrah C. Baren 💛 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💚 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💙 Same Difference - E.J. Copperman 💜 The Pull of the Tide - Various ❤️ The Misadventures of Getting Lainey a Date - Eija Jimenez 🧡 Surface Pressure - Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 💛 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💙 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💜 One and Done - Frederick Smith 🌈 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis

❤️ She Who Brought the Storm - Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea 🧡 Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights - James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler 💛 London on My Mind - Clara Alves (translated by Nina Perrotta) 💚 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💙 Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 💜 Gay the Pray Away - Natalie Naudus ❤️ Such A Small World - Jordan Clayden-Lewis 🧡 Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner - CeCé Telfer 💛 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💙 We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 💜 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 🌈 The Curse of the Goddess - C.C. González

❤️ The Schoolmaster - Jessica Tvordi 🧡 Cigarette Lemonade - Connor de Bruler 💛 Coil of Boughs - Penny Moss 💚 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💙 Asking for a Friend - Ronnie Riley 💜 Pleasure Principle - Madeleine Cravens ❤️ Perfect Revenge - Jessica Burkhart 🧡 Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli 💛 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💙 Queer Art - Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💜 Morally Straight - Mike De Socio 🌈 Our Bodies Electric - Zackary Vernon

❤️ Love Is All - Various 🧡 Becoming Ted - Matt Cain 💛 Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris 💚 Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones 💙 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke ❤️ Hot Hires - Nan Campbell, Alaina Erdell, Jesse J. Thoma 🧡 Lord of the Empty Isles - Jules Arbeaux 💛 Kissing Girls on Shabbat - Sara Glass 💙 When You Smile - Melissa Brayden 💜 We Could Be Heroes - Philip Ellis 🌈 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson

❤️ A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 🧡 Take All of Us - Natalie Leif 💛 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💚 Why Are People Into That? - Tina Horn 💙 Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity - Jack Turban 💜 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow ❤️ Sea of Broken Glass - Jenna Pine 🧡 Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair - Ella McLeod 💛 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi 💙 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💜 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 🌈 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin

❤️ Act Two - Rochelle Wolf 🧡 Unexploded Remnants - Elaine Gallagher 💛 The Stars Want Blood - Morgan Lawson 💚 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson 💙 Design of Darkness - R.D. Pires 💜 Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ❤️ Meet Me in the Sky - Jeffrey K. Davenport 🧡 A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell 💛 The Lions' Den - Iris Mwanza 💙 Under the Dragon Moon - Mawce Hanlin 💜 A Sea of Wolves - Sarah Street 🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba

❤️ Private Rites - Julia Armfield 🧡 Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous - Mae Marvel 💛 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💚 Keeping Carmen Ruiz - Alyson Root 💙 Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin 💜 Heartwaves - Anita Kelly ❤️ Bound to the Wild Fae - Tavia Lark 🧡 Four Squares - Bobby Finger 💛 The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter 💙 Poison in Their Hearts - Laura Sebastian 💜 Puppy Love - Elle Sprinkle 🌈 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart

❤️ Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni 🧡 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz 💛 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier 💚 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💙 PROUD - Anthology 💜 Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ Fling - Deja Elise 🧡 Too Many Stars to Count - Frances M. Thompson 💛 Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrasekera 💙 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 Freakslaw - Jane Flett 🌈 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab

❤️ A Sense of Shifting - Coco Romack, Yael Malka 🧡 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💛 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 💚 Hide No More - Rita Potter 💙 Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland 💜 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez ❤️ Her, Him & I - Christian Weissmann 🧡 The Sons of El Rey - Alex Espinoza �� Show Me Your Teeth - Amy Marsden 💙 Defeating Demons and Breaking Up With My Boyfriend - Dylan James 💜 For Real - Alexis Hall 🌈 The Clarity of Light - Jade Church

[scotianostra]

One of Scotland’s’ most iconic films, Local Hero was released on February 18th 1983.

In the days before mobile phones we used to use things called phone boxes when we were not at home, and the phone box  in Local Hero has become as iconic as the film itself.

There aren’t many films that have a 100%  Tomatometer , on the movie website Rotten Tomatoes, backed up by an impressive 87% audience score, it should be all you need to know when choosing a movie to watch, expecially if you haven’t seen it before. IMDb also rate it highly with 7.4 out of 10.

Bill Forsyth’s oil-refinery comedy isn’t billed as a weepy. It is, however, a love poem to Scotland, and that’s what brings the lump to my throat.

Quirky, wry, gentle are words most often used for this comedy on the movie database site, IMDb, the starting point for many of my posts about those Scots in the acting profession in my posts. They brief story line on the site does not hint at the emotional turbulence you might soon be experiencing. So maybe it’s just me being a big sissy. Wouldn’t be the first time I lost the plot. All it says is “An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don’t go as expected.” The film is so much more than this and it stands the test of time much better than other Forsyth films like Comfort & Joy and Gregory’s Girl, well in my opinion anyway!

Crackpot Texan oil magnate Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) gets the idea that a small Scottish fishing village would be a marvellous acquisition for his so-rich-it-makes-you-sick company, Knox Oil and Gas, so he sends an executive gopher named MacIntyre (because that sounds Scottish, yeah – played by Peter Riegert) to close the deal and get the pipeline pencilled in.

“Mac” is met by some local “dork” called Oldsen (a young Peter Capaldi), who attempts to steer him through a tartan microculture that includes a lawyer-cum-publican/hotelier (Denis Lawson) who tapdances while standing on a chair shouting “Stella” – the name of his ever-randy wife; there is a super-hard marine biologist played by Jenny Seagrove who, after delivering a short lecture on the North Atlantic drift, ends up helping Oldsen to find that pistol in his pocket; and then there is a scene in which a very whisky-sodden Mac calls Texas from a red phone box on the harbourside, a phone box that has featured in so many peoples snaps when visiting Pennan in Banffshire.

Other bits of business in the film involve a salty Russian seafarer and overflying warplanes. You can see how it got the comedy tag, and I haven’t even mentioned the thing with the rabbit. And you can see how Mac ends up smitten.

This is all top material from a very talented writer/director, with photography and music from Glasgow born Mark Knopfler matches the acting and direction perfectly. But on first viewing I found myself asking halfway through, “What is this film actually about?” After not very much thought, I came to the conclusion that it was not a How Things Never Go According to Plan story, but a love poem to Scotland and the Scots. A bit slushy, but never mind. It’s only a film.

The scene when Mac phones to describe the Northern Lights, to me is very special, but the scene that prompted the lump in my throat at the end of the movie is when, having failed in his mission to secure the Knox refinery deal and mutilate one of Planet Earth’s most beautiful locations, Mac returns to his frigid steel-and-glass Houston apartment. He stands at his kitchen counter wondering what to do next, the hushed march of oil capitalism buzzing gently outside. He pulls from his coat pocket a handful of pebbles and shells, smelling one of them poignantly remembering as he spreads them on the work surface.

As Knopflers music gently plays he goes to his balcony and looks out to the city……the scene fades to black, then reopens 4,500 miles away, where, on the harbour side of a small Scottish fishing village, we see the phone box, perhaps ringing and the credits begin as the horns of Going Home blast out. Others in the film include Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Kenny Ireland, John Gordon Sinclair and of course Burt Lancaster.

[eternalyouth]

BOY NAMES *

ace

adonis

aiden

alden

aleric

alistair

amiri

ares

armani

arrow

artemis

apollo

archer  /  archie

arlo

asher

ashton

atlas

augustine  /  august

axford

axton

aziel

barrett

baylor

bear

beckham

bennet

bentley

blade

blayden

blaze

bohdi

boston

bowie

bradford

brantley

braxton

brayden

braylon

brenden

brodley

bronx

brooks

bryson

bryon

caden

caesar

cairo

callum

campbell

carson

cash

caspian

cassian

cedrik

cortez

cosmo

crew

cypress

dallas

dalton

damion / damon

dante

dario

darius

dawson

deacon

desmond

diego

dixon

dodge

domonic

draydon

duane

duke

echo

edmund

elias

ellington

emerson

enzo

evander

everett

evrertt

fenton

flecter

flynn

franco

forest

gael

gallagher

gallaway

garrison

golden

graylen

greyson

griffin

gunner

hades

harley

harris / harrison

hawk

hayden

heath

hendrix

holden

holt

houston

hunter

huxley

isaiah

ivory

jace

jackson

jagg  /  jagger

jameson

jase

jax  /  jaxton

jaylen

jericho

jerrick

kaiden

kamden

karson

keaton

kendric

keyston

knox

korren

kyro

lance

lander

lando  /  landon

langston

lawrence

lawson

ledger

leith

lennon

lincoln

lucian  /  lucien

lukas

maclan

madden

maddox

major

marshall

maverick

maxon

memphis

moss

nash

nico

oak  /  oakley

octavius

odell

onyx

orion

ozzy

paxton

pilot

porter

ramsey

ranger

reggie

rhodes

riggs

rocco

rocky

rowan

rush

ryker

saint

sawyer

saxon

sorren

stone

thane

thorn  /  thorin

toronto

trenton

vincent

warren

waverly

waylen

wilder

wolf

wrangler

wylie

xander

xayden

zephry

zeppelin

ziggy

[lauloupi]

Rules are to answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to get to know better/catch up with. I was tagged by two lovely gals: @huccimermaidshirts , @ihearthes love you both!!

Last song: wasn’t expecting that by Jamie Lawson (🥺)

Last movie: the documentary about Amanda Knox (I haven't made up my mind yet...)

Currently watching: RuPaul Drag race 🇬🇧 (obsessed!!!!!!)

Currently reading: book-wise Natural wine for the people : What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It by Alice Feiring Fic wise Someday, someday by @beautifulletdownfics

Currently listening to: Natural Disasters, a podcast about wine and shit. Mostly wine, but who's to say. Join wine professionals Marissa A. Ross & Adam Vourvoulis for the basics, the in's & out's and the latest conversations around natural wine. New NSFW episodes every week (usually).

I’ll tag @imnottherealharrystyles @stylishmuser @dayxoxodreamer @heart-attack-harry @beautifulletdownfics @niallandharrymakemestrong

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[petervintonjr]

Lesson 80: "Things that I thought were liabilities turned out to be assets." Today we look at the achievements of artist and illustrator Simmie Lee Knox, whose likeness I dearly hope I have done justice, in this baseball card-sized watercolour-with-ink.

Knox is perhaps most famous for having painted the official White House Presidential portraits of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton; the first black artist to be selected for such.

Born in 1935 Alabama, a chance baseball-playing injury at the age of 13 led to eye surgery, and drawing was suggested as a possible aid to therapy. From there Knox discovered his latent talent --unfortunately the segregated high school which he attended at the time did not have an art program, but his teachers recognized his ability and found a tutor nonetheless. After a short stint in the Army, Knox went on to graduate from Delaware State College, got his Master's in Art from the Tyler School of Art in Pennsylvania, and became a teacher at Bowie (Md.) State College and at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Knox's art initially leaned towards the abstract, but he soon settled into his favourite challenge: the human face. "If I talk to you for five minutes, I have you pretty much sized up," he says of this subject. Early commissions from celebrities brought him to the attention of the Washington, D.C. art scene, and by the end of the 1990's he was painting such luminaries as Supreme Court justices Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A portrait of Senator Blanche Bruce (see Lesson #24 in this series) and a recommendation from Judge Ginsburg herself brought Knox to the attention of the White House, and in 2002 he was commissioned to paint the official White House portraits of the Clintons, which he describes as his "personal Super Bowl moment."

Knox continues to paint and inspire a new generation of artists (having lately pivoted to more landscapes and flower studies). He painted a four-subject study for Vanderbilt University of four of their most noteworthy African-American alums, including the Rev. James Lawson (see previous Lesson in this series). A more recent project, "The Art of Justice: Honoring and Continuing a Movement for Equality through Artistic Expression," in Mt. Rainier, Maryland, incorporated a group exhibition in protest at the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin.

Learn more about Mr. Knox's remarkable artistic journey at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/18/portrait-artist-simmie-knox/1929157/

[keepingupwithfundies]

BuB 918: The Show Must Go On!

The Bates Family films themselves as the country goes into lockdown due to the coronavirus. 

-T 

The Bates family will be filming this episode on their own with producers helping them remotely.  

The episode opens with the Tennessee governor announcing a Safer at Home order for Tennessee. Kelly says their biggest concern at first was for the elderly, but as they learned more they realized how dangerous it was, they wanted to minimize any threats. Jackson is on the way to ALERT, and they don't know what will happen there. Lawson and Nathan are in Arkansas, where Lawson is getting his pilot's license. Kelly says everyone should stay where they're at. Kelly is worried about her kids, and she wants a healthy fear to keep themselves safe.

At Tori and Bobby's apartment, shutdown is imminent and the Paines are helping to help get everything done for the baby before lockdown. The room will be for both boys, and Erin says she wants it to have space for toys and play. They add shelves with baskets and bookshelves. Tori says she is grateful her family help. Michael also arrives with homemade pot pies, bread and salads for dinner. The nursery get finished, and the next thing is welcoming the baby.

Carlin and Layla facetime her parents. Kelly is calling her kids and saying that the family should stop intermingling and should stay home. Evan is working and going day by day. Evan is essential, but worried about bringing it home.

Kelton and Bobby are in the plumbing truck, and the Safer at Home order has come down, requiring a shutdown of non-essential companies in Knox county for 14 days. Kelton thinks they are essential and they are calling the county to find out. They are essential, so they are good to go. Kelton says if the business went down for a month, that could put them out of business.

In Florida, the Websters are home. John is also considered essential so he is working with precautions. The three little girls are giggling and sticking their tongues out at the camera while he explains.  Alyssa is home with the girls and they have a lot of energy, but they are glad to be healthy.

Jackson is driving from TExas after they cancelled ALERT. Jackson is bummed since he had be training for it for months. Some of the staff are elderly, so it will now be taking place in the fall. Jackson is in Arkansas, and Kelly tells him to meet up with Lawson and Nathan who are also there and stay there.

In Arkansas, Lawson was trying to knock out his private pilot license when the virus hit. They had their own place and the airport let them keep going, so they keep working to get this things done. Nathan shows a video of the crashes to demonstrate what not to do, and then they go fly. Nathan says landing is the real test, and Lawson lands. Lawson says he feels good and he wants to show Nathan he is ready to take the test.

Josie is home with Willow, who has started crawling. Kelly says it was hard not to see the married kids. Josie says Willow is trying lots of new foods, solids and she has started teething. Josie says even though it had been chaotic, it was a special time to slow down, be with Willow and remember what is important.

Tori and Erin go for an ultrasound, maybe her last one before Kolter comes. Tori is excited and anxious to hear about what will happen with her delivery due to the new restrictions. Dr. Vick says she looks good, and that she will just be able to have Bobby there at the birth. Tori says it is nice to be reassured by Dr. Vick and she knows things will be fine.