Tumbles from a Dude named Charles

Hello, my name is Charles. I mostly post movie and music stuff but sometimes I post other stuff as well. Cheers!

[gregorygalloway]

Frank Sinatra's 9th studio album was released on 25 April 1955.

Often considered one of the first "concept albums" (and Sinatra's first 12" LP), In the Wee Small Hours concentrates on the themes of lost love and loneliness.

While Sinatra's career had declined in the early 1950s, with poor record sales, poorly attended concerts, and Columbia Records dropping him in 1952, his comeback began with the film From Here to Eternity (1953), earning the 37-year-old an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which also revived his singing career.

In his 3rd collaboration with arranger Nelson Riddle, the album features material from the "Great American Songbook," featuring songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and others, but unified around its central themes (Capitol record executives did not believe listeners would want an entire album of "dark" songs, but Sinatra was adamant).

Sinatra conceived of the album as a single whole, best suited for the relatively new 12" format, and while it was also released on the then popular 10" discs, In the Wee Small Hours is credited with starting the domination of the 12" album.

The album peaked at #2 in the US and stayed on the Billboard chart for 18 weeks.

In the Wee Small Hours is not only a high point in Sinatra's career, it is also a high point in American popular music, the album is considered to be a masterpiece, and has been cited as one of the Greatest Albums of All Time by numerous publications, including Mojo, Rolling Stone, and Time).

[irisasis]

Paul McCartney in Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band recording session (1967) Source: The Beatles Recording

[davidhudson]

Eadweard Muybridge, April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904.

With an athlete.

[acharlescoleman]

As a part of my grandfather’s birthday, my sister treated him, me and my mom to COSM to see the Lakers play the Warriors tonight. This was planned like a couple months ago.

COSM has a giant screen that makes you feel like you’re at the game. Only issue (s) right now is the NBA season is almost over, and both teams are dealing with injuries. My mom and sis don’t really follow NBA like they used to, they only know the star players. Unfortunately, basically all the star players are hurt, sitting out tonight. No LeBron, no Austin Reeves, no Luka, no Steph Curry, no Jimmy Butler.

I did point out that we will see a Curry and LeBron James, referencing Bronny and Seth Curry. My sis was not amused. Hopefully the game will still be entertaining. 🤷‍♂️

[stydixa]

TWILIGHT (2008) Dir. Catherine Hardwicke

[acharlescoleman]

My bus driver just slowed down to get the digits of the driver driving alongside him aka us (!) and it worked (presumably if SHE calls, I think he gave her his number). It wasn’t a busy street but that was random.

Also, my last two buses were hella late going home. Fun, fun, fun.

[90s-2000s-barbie]

[fibula-rasa]

At Land (1944) 

[letterboxd | imdb | kanopy]

Director: Maya Deren

Cinematographers: Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman

“In my case I have found it necessary, each time, to ignore any of my previous statements. After the first film was completed, when someone asked me to define the principle which it embodied, I answered that the function of film, like that of other art forms, was to create experience—in this case a semi-psychological reality. But the actual creation of the second film caused me to subsequently answer a similar question with an entirely different emphasis. This time, that reality must exploit the capacity of film to manipulate Time and Space. By the end of the third film, I had again shifted the emphasis—insisting this time on a filmically visual integrity, which would create a dramatic necessity of itself, rather than be dependent upon or derive from an underlying dramatic development. Now, on the basis of the fourth, I feel that all the other elements must be retained, but that special attention must be given to the creative possibilities of Time, and that the form as a whole should be ritualistic…”

— An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film by Maya Deren, The Alicat Book Shop Press, chapbook, 1946

[citizenscreen]

Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman during rehearsal ls for 'Anthony and Cleopatra' at the Olivier Theatre, London in 1998. Would I not have minded seeing this!!

[howardhawkshollywood]

Barbara Stanwyck is the center of attention in an original publicity still from Ball of Fire (1942)

[oldshowbiz]

San Francisco Comedy Wars: The Hungry I versus the Purple Onion

[undergroundrockpress-deactivate]

Ray Davies, 1970. Photo : Barrie Wentzell.

[gingerbreadcities]

Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional

[deadpoolian]

Astro Bot

Jak and Daxter

[acharlescoleman]

I was eating dinner at Wendy’s after work earlier this evening when I got an alert from Watch Duty about a half acre fire near my house. This time it was to the East of us, like by the park, not too far from the Lake View Library. Again, luckily, it got stopped relatively fast but I was watching live streams on the Citizen App. Constantly refreshing the app, ugh it was stressful.

Even more stressful because I was like 11 miles away aka 1hr+ on the bus in Van Nuys during the peak hours. It was horrible. But again, got lucky and it was squashed.

Initially, my thought was like there are some shady MFers in my neighborhood. There’s no good timing to start a fire but especially like why now? Like jeez. But then, I also thought about it more and for better/worse, my area is super vigilant and resilient too. We’re not too far from a couple small fire departments. I know there’s one further South in Pacoima and one in Sunland, granted the Sunland one is further West and they’d have to travel on the freeway to get but it’s nearby enough that it gives me some comfort I guess.

The super vigilant thing is I feel like everyone in my neighborhood except for my mother has the Citizen App. Like it feels like so far, anyways, <knock on wood>, if someone is trying to start a fire and enough people are awake, the fire department will get alerted right away. So that’s a plus.

I was initially thinking about finally going to go see a movie tonight too. Paul Dooley was at the NoHo7 for Breaking Away. I told a friend about it, he probably went but I just didn’t want to go home late again especially on a windy night plus it’s just too stressful to be out too long right now. Also, I should say potentially windy night because we’re getting 6 mph winds and the initial forecast was like we’re getting crazy 25-28 mph winds again. I’m hoping they stay right in being wrong because the Pacific Palisades fire is at 18% containment, Eaton 35%, Hurst 98%, and the Auto Fire in Ventura is at 47%.

It’s crazy out there but I’m grateful for all these apps, the fire fighters and first responders.

[toiich]

James Baldwin

[howardhawkshollywood]

Robert Young in a publicity still for Today We Live (1933). Robert is best known on tv as Jim Anderson on 202 episodes of Father Knows Best 1954-60 and as Dr. Marcus Welby on 170 episodes of Marcus Welby MD 1969-76.