#blake mills

[fionaapplerocks]

Fiona Apple and Blake Mills on the 2012 Sara Watkins song Take Up Your Spade (which Blake produced)

[rickybaby]

Who’s your best friend inside the paddock?

The guy I spend most time with is Blake [my manager] and his last name is ironically Friend. I would say that’s probably an obvious one because we spend a lot of time together. Lando [Norris] is one where like, our first year at McLaren, it definitely took us a little bit of time to probably get to know each other and warm to each other a bit. It’s probably no secret that it took us a little bit to become, let’s say, mates.

Who’s your best friend outside the paddock?

Actually, it’s funny. I laugh because I’ve got two Blakes who are very close in my life. Blake who works with me and probably my best friend is Blake who I raced go-karts with…

Do you call them Blake 1 and Blake 2?

Ha. He’s really tall so I’ve called them ‘Tall Blake’ and ‘Manager Blake’. But I raced go-karts with Blake so we’ve known each other since we were like nine years old and we always competed against each other for a long time. He’s always visited me, come to races, visited me when I was living in Italy and wherever I was, and remained a really close friend. I think in those friendships it was easy for him to be like, ‘S**t, you made it, I didn’t’, and there could be like this weird kind of envy or jealousy, and he never had that, he always just stayed a really honest and true friend. We were coming up together and we were both trying to make it ultimately, and I think just the way he handled me kind of living our dream careers, that also could have made our friendship turn and it never did. I also really valued him for not letting that get in the way and we’re super-close.

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[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Joni Mitchell and the Joni Jam - “Both Sides Now” (Live, 2024 Grammy Awards)

The sound of Joni Mitchell’s satisfied laughter may be the best thing to come out of her recent return to the stage.

That’s not to say her better-than-anyone-could-reasonably-expect performances aren’t delightful and poignant. They are both. But Mitchell’s laugh, deep and full of life’s experiences like her modern singing voice, is what proves beyond doubt she’s back in the spotlight out of desire and nothing else.

She performed “Both Sides Now” at the 2024 Grammy awards with the Joni Jam, featuring friends and acolytes including Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell, Jacob Collier, SistaStrings, Lucius, Blake Mills and others and the just-released professional video of the event gives hope life’s second side can bring as much joy as the first. It ain’t musically flawless, but it is kinda perfect in non-musical ways.

Grade card: Joni Mitchell and the Joni Jam - “Both Sides Now” (Live, 2024 Grammy Awards) - B

3/15/24

[nofatclips]

Savior Complex by Phoebe Bridgers from the album Punisher - Video starring Paul Mescal, directed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge [Behind the scenes here]

[knightofleo]

Blake Mills | Vanishing Twin

The walls are thin, I hear a pin drop Somewhere my kin sits on a hilltop Don't cry, my star, I won't be far Free from this jar, wherever you are Vanishing twin, face in the glass, hung on the wind Until the day I see you again Concealed between the flashing screens There is a beam of love supreme That's where I'll be, come shine with me Vanishing twin, face in the glass, hung on the wind I'll never be without you again, vanishing twin Holding your hand, paper thin, folded in half, skin on skin Soon you will know where I've been, my vanishing twin

[takurohtoyama]

Pino Palladino + Blake Mills + Sam Gendel + Abe Rounds Fukuoka, 2022