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SHŌGUN Chapter Five: Broken to the Fist Chapter Ten: A Dream of a Dream

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So many shogun fans absolutely begging for more episodes as if new eps wouldn’t corrupt the entire pathos of the series

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Yard Man rests from his labor and looks upon the sun 🌞

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Me dodging Shogun spoilers every Tuesday

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Weekly shogun shitposting

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New York is the older sibling that got rich, New Orleans is the younger sibling that got rad

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Shogun fans on tuesdays

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Beyoncé photographed by Mason Poole for Renaissance and Renaissance World Tour (202?)

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If he was going for Frankensteins monster here he fr won

Quentin Tarantino, Vanity Fair, May, 1992

Stephen Danelian

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Aretha Franklin, “Rock Steady” on The Flip Wilson Show, aired January 20, 1972. 

Released as a single in February 1971, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #2 on the Soul Singles chart, this Aretha-penned track gets a blazing new life just 4 days before the release of the astounding Young, Gifted and Black LP. Not only have you never heard this song like this before, you may never have heard Aretha like this before: pedal to the metal and soaring, even by her own elevated standards. 

It’s also inspiring to see the Queen of Soul, “Natural Woman” resplendent in natural hair and an African-inspired gown in this pivotal TV appearance, as detailed in Rickey Vincent’s Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music. 

Aretha herself said, “I believe that the black revolution certainly forced me and the majority of black people to begin taking a second look at ourselves. It wasn’t that we were all ashamed of our ourselves, we merely started appreciating our natural selves…you know, falling in love with ourselves just as we are. We found that we had far more to be proud of.

“I must say that mine was a very personal evolution – an evolution of the me in myself. […] I know I’ve improved my overall look and sound, they’re much better. And I’ve gained a great deal of confidence in myself.” 

(More here, although note that Vincent is off on the date of this broadcast, which I verified here. A great read nonetheless.)

This is the sound of Aretha’s newfound confidence, my friends, with one of 1971′s greatest singles taken to new heights. “Rock steady, baby – that’s what I feel now. Let’s call this song exactly what it is!” 

TURN IT UP!

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Just learned that Akira Kurosawa hand-painted to the storyboards for Ran, his gorgeous and soaring adaptation of King Lear.

Here’s one of the doomed Lord Hidetora, paired with the shot it became for the film 🤙🫡

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"Pinball Wizardry," Cleveland, Ohio,

Courtesy: Mr. P. Explores

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Image by Lok Hong