solo&ragtime jubilee

Look what I just found on SoundCloud:...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:18:18 -0600

Look what I just found on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/smithsonian-folkways/birmingham-1963-keep-moving-by

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:47:58 -0500

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:59:08 -0500

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Written by Himself ï»¿ by Gregory Pardlo : The Poetry Foundation

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:53:50 -0500

Written by Himself ï»¿ by Gregory Pardlo : The Poetry Foundation

Middle Passage by Robert Hayden : The Poetry Foundation

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:25:20 -0500

Middle Passage by Robert Hayden : The Poetry Foundation

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden : The Poetry Foundation

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:00:13 -0500

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden : The Poetry Foundation:

What did I know, what did I know
Of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Richard Pryor, Kraft Music Hall special, 1964 (by...

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:21:54 -0500

Richard Pryor, Kraft Music Hall special, 1964 (by morrisoncoursevids)

This is early Pryor brilliance in which you can see the later one about to emerge.

"All we know Is that we are a little early, that Today has that special, lapidary Todayness that the..."

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:16:04 -0500

““All we know
Is that we are a little early, that
Today has that special, lapidary
Todayness that the sunlight reproduces
Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe
Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.””

- ~John Ashbery (via bohemianchick)

abbyjean: The chart of revenues says it all. The beginning...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:03:25 -0500

abbyjean:

The chart of revenues says it all. The beginning revenue of Blockbuster was $6 billion, while the ending revenue of Netflix is $2.2 billion. When the inefficiencies of having retail locations, moving physical inventory, and maintaining overhead/staff are cut out of the ecosystem, far less revenue is needed to support the whole business. (via go-Digital Blog)

i12bent: Joe Tex: I Gotcha - from I Gotcha (1972) Getting...

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:51:18 -0500

i12bent:

Joe Tex: I Gotcha - from I Gotcha (1972)

Getting seriously funky and prefiguring modern rap by a decade or so…

(via thisismyfavoritesong)

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Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:50:57 -0500

i12bent: Billie Holiday: Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m...

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:50:27 -0500

i12bent:

Billie Holiday: Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (1955)

Personnel: Benny Carter, Alto Sax; Harry “Sweets” Edison, Trumpet; Jimmy Rowles, Piano; Barney Kessel, Guitar; Larry Bunker, Drums; John Simmons, Bass

(via fuckyeahbillieholiday)

"Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and..."

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:09:05 -0500

“Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that ”what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops.””

- From an 1890 Harvard Law Review article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis. (Monkey Cage)

"Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and..."

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:09:05 -0500

i12bent: Robert Hayden (Aug. 4, 1913 - 1980) was an...

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:47:06 -0500

i12bent:

Robert Hayden (Aug. 4, 1913 - 1980) was an African-American poet who was Poet Laureate of the USA (or Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, as the Office was called at that time) from 1976-8…

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Robert Hayden: Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday

Lord’s lost Him His mockingbird,
His fancy warbler;
Satan sweet-talked her,
four bullets hushed her.
Who would have thought
she’d end that way?

Four bullets hushed her. And the world a-clang with evil.
Who’s going to make old hardened sinner men tremble now
and the righteous rock?
Oh who and oh who will sing Jesus down
to help with struggling and doing without and being colored
all through blue Monday?
Till way next Sunday?

All those angels
in their cretonne clouds and finery
the true believer saw
when she rared back her head and sang,
all those angels are surely weeping.
Who would have thought
she’d end that way?

Four holes in her heart. The gold works wrecked.
But she looks so natural in her big bronze coffin
among the Broken Hearts and Gates-Ajar,
it’s as if any moment she’d lift her head
from its pillow of chill gardenias
and turn this quiet into shouting Sunday
and make folks forget what she did on Monday.

Oh, Satan sweet-talked her,
and four bullets hushed her.
Lord’s lost Him His diva,
His fancy warbler’s gone.
Who would have thought,
who would have thought she’d end that way?

— from Collected Poems

agooddaytodie: Lenny Bruce, American humorist and social critic...

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:47:08 -0500

agooddaytodie:

Lenny Bruce, American humorist and social critic - died on this day in 1966, aged 40, from an apparent morphine OD…

“If you can’t say Fuck, you can’t say Fuck the government.” — Lenny Bruce

i12bent: Born August 2, 1924 - James Baldwin, American...

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:42:19 -0500

i12bent:

Born August 2, 1924 - James Baldwin, American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist - d. 1987…

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ” — James Baldwin

Photo: Carl Van Vechten, 1955 - The Beinecke

i12bent: Born August 2, 1924 - James Baldwin, American...

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:42:19 -0500

i12bent:

Born August 2, 1924 - James Baldwin, American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist - d. 1987…

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ” — James Baldwin

Photo: Carl Van Vechten, 1955 - The Beinecke

i12bent: Born August 2, 1924 - James Baldwin, American...

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:42:19 -0500

i12bent:

Born August 2, 1924 - James Baldwin, American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist - d. 1987…

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ” — James Baldwin

Photo: Carl Van Vechten, 1955 - The Beinecke

Great Story Pirates Review!

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:26:41 -0500

Great Story Pirates Review!:

shiningstar:

allthelatestmoves:

“It’s like SNL for kids.” :)

Woohoo!