Pretending to ride to the Indie Spirit Awards (which I did, last time I attended.) 📸 @alexshibutani (@shotsbyshibs) Stylistics: @mrmontyjackson @kristenebmakeup Skin & shades: @johnvarvatos Kicks: @paulsmithdesign Time: @omega Bike: @shuttersca Sleep: Fake
Pretending to ride to the Indie Spirit Awards (which I did, last time I attended.) 📸 @alexshibutani (@shotsbyshibs) Stylistics: @mrmontyjackson @kristenebmakeup Skin & shades: @johnvarvatos Kicks: @paulsmithdesign Time: @omega Bike: @shuttersca Sleep: Fake
Pretending to ride to the Indie Spirit Awards (which I did, last time I attended.) 📸 @alexshibutani (@shotsbyshibs) Stylistics: @mrmontyjackson @kristenebmakeup Skin & shades: @johnvarvatos Kicks: @paulsmithdesign Time: @omega Bike: @shuttersca Sleep: Fake
Pretending to ride to the Indie Spirit Awards (which I did, last time I attended.) 📸 @alexshibutani (@shotsbyshibs) Stylistics: @mrmontyjackson @kristenebmakeup Skin & shades: @johnvarvatos Kicks: @paulsmithdesign Time: @omega Bike: @shuttersca Sleep: Fake
Pretending to ride to the Indie Spirit Awards (which I did, last time I attended.) 📸 @alexshibutani (@shotsbyshibs) Stylistics: @mrmontyjackson @kristenebmakeup Skin & shades: @johnvarvatos Kicks: @paulsmithdesign Time: @omega Bike: @shuttersca Sleep: Fake
Pretending to ride to the Indie Spirit Awards (which I did, last time I attended.) 📸 @alexshibutani (@shotsbyshibs) Stylistics: @mrmontyjackson @kristenebmakeup Skin & shades: @johnvarvatos Kicks: @paulsmithdesign Time: @omega Bike: @shuttersca Sleep: Fake
Pretending to ride to the Indie Spirit Awards (which I did, last time I attended.) 📸 @alexshibutani (@shotsbyshibs) Stylistics: @mrmontyjackson @kristenebmakeup Skin & shades: @johnvarvatos Kicks: @paulsmithdesign Time: @omega Bike: @shuttersca Sleep: Fake
Still the same kid, in some ways, except not as fast. And I bring this place with me always. Among other things, the hammering into my head of language happened here. Couldn’t interpret story without that. My thanks. Repost from @staschooldc • From all-star lacrosse goalie at St. Albans to the red carpet in Hollywood 🚀 Join us in congratulating Jeffrey Wright ‘83 on becoming the first STA alumnus to be nominated for an Academy Award in a performance-based category. Make sure to check out his incredible performance in American Fiction in theaters! 📸: Taylor Jewell, Invision/AP
Still the same kid, in some ways, except not as fast. And I bring this place with me always. Among other things, the hammering into my head of language happened here. Couldn’t interpret story without that. My thanks. Repost from @staschooldc • From all-star lacrosse goalie at St. Albans to the red carpet in Hollywood 🚀 Join us in congratulating Jeffrey Wright ‘83 on becoming the first STA alumnus to be nominated for an Academy Award in a performance-based category. Make sure to check out his incredible performance in American Fiction in theaters! 📸: Taylor Jewell, Invision/AP
Still the same kid, in some ways, except not as fast. And I bring this place with me always. Among other things, the hammering into my head of language happened here. Couldn’t interpret story without that. My thanks. Repost from @staschooldc • From all-star lacrosse goalie at St. Albans to the red carpet in Hollywood 🚀 Join us in congratulating Jeffrey Wright ‘83 on becoming the first STA alumnus to be nominated for an Academy Award in a performance-based category. Make sure to check out his incredible performance in American Fiction in theaters! 📸: Taylor Jewell, Invision/AP
Jeffrey Wright after winning Best Lead Performance at the @filmindependent Spirit Awards for his role in American Fiction 🏆 Other notable winners: BEST FEATURE: Past Lives BEST DIRECTOR: Celine Song (Past Lives) BEST SCREENPLAY: Cord Jefferson (American Fiction) BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) #JeffreyWright #AmericanFiction #Movies #Batman #CordJefferson #Oscars
Oh man. Massive thanks to my buddy Edmond up in Scituate, MA. Your support every day we filmed at the beach was felt, as is your support now.✊🏽
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Thank you @naacpimageawards for adding to the embarrassment of @americanfictionmovie riches.
Someone, at a @sagaftra screening last night for @americanfictionmovie, asked me about my preparation to play Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in @RustinMovie. Here’s part of it. 🤣 And then, as a bonus, see the next post for LBJ ordering pants on a call made from the Oval Office (courtesy @putthison). You won’t be sorry. Stay to the end. Some things the imagination cannot makeup. 🥳
DC’s Marion Barry Summer Youth Employment Program. Still rolling after 45 years. Provided access to that first job for me and thousands of other young Washingtonians. Powerful stuff that should be supported vigorously. Beyond glad to lend a hand this morning, as @MayorBowser launches applications for 2024. If it hasn’t been already, this program should be replicated in cities across the nation.
Sound familiar? ‘Les feuilles mortes.’ Sung by Yves Montand in the Italian film ‘Parigi è sempre Parigi’ (‘Paris Is Always Paris’) in 1951. Written in 1945 by Joseph Kosma & Jacques Prévert. ‘The dead leaves.’ Ohh, these lyrics.
Tweeterer (@)VinnyTheApple had a thing to say about @americanfictionmovie. 🤷🏾♂️ Thanks @abcgma3 for the chitchat.
Not me jumping down the Rudy Van Gelder rabbit hole. Van Gelder, a trained optometrist, was the sound engineer who, in 1955, recorded the Cannonball Adderley/Miles Davis Autumn Leaves‼️in a studio squeezed into his parents’ living room 😮in Hackensack, NJ. The house had been built in 1946 and Van Gelder asked that his parents’ architect dial in the acoustics and also place ‘a control room with a double-glass window next to the living room.’ His parents understood his serousness. He was 22. Then, in 1959, he moved to a purpose-built studio (with an apartment above) in Englewood, designed by David Henken, a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright. The building (second pic), which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2022, is just north of the GW Bridge, high in the cliffs there, if you’re driving the Palisades Parkway. I’ve passed it many times and had no idear. Thousands of albums were recorded there, including, among other flames, *gulp* Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. That album’s iconic cover photo was captured at the studio. The original studio was bulldozed at some point, ‘cause, y’know, America. Rudy Van Gelder died in 2016. Me? Mind-blown.
Not me jumping down the Rudy Van Gelder rabbit hole. Van Gelder, a trained optometrist, was the sound engineer who, in 1955, recorded the Cannonball Adderley/Miles Davis Autumn Leaves‼️in a studio squeezed into his parents’ living room 😮in Hackensack, NJ. The house had been built in 1946 and Van Gelder asked that his parents’ architect dial in the acoustics and also place ‘a control room with a double-glass window next to the living room.’ His parents understood his serousness. He was 22. Then, in 1959, he moved to a purpose-built studio (with an apartment above) in Englewood, designed by David Henken, a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright. The building (second pic), which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2022, is just north of the GW Bridge, high in the cliffs there, if you’re driving the Palisades Parkway. I’ve passed it many times and had no idear. Thousands of albums were recorded there, including, among other flames, *gulp* Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. That album’s iconic cover photo was captured at the studio. The original studio was bulldozed at some point, ‘cause, y’know, America. Rudy Van Gelder died in 2016. Me? Mind-blown.
Miles Davis. Milan, 1964. ‘Autumn Leaves.’ (See/hear the previous post.)
Ladies & gents, the President of the United States needs pants. Wooo, lawd. Hear the whole thing.🥴😜
