#downbeat

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat, with Dizzy Gillespie making like a faun in the background, ca. September 1947.

Photo: William Gottlieb via the LoC

[omegaremix]

[awesomegamer1]

The star student's breakdown

@its-ya-girl-phoeni and @azure-aeon-soulstar

Valerie: "B-Bonnie and Giles changed genders, I'm in a video game, and I'm dressed like a hooker?"

Crystal: "Now now, just calm down, young lady"

Valerie: "Robot girls? Limbless things? Aliens? Talking mice?"

Frank: "Kid, listen to her, and let me ex-"

Valerie: "...Oh, I get it. This is all a dream, and I should just play along until I wake up!"

(Cut to Downbeat overhearing it, making him slap himself)

[ourladyofomega]

[kmotiv]

Music video for Squid

kmotiv - Excavations

[detroitlib]

View of singer and actress Lena Horne and musician Count Basie with the 1957 DownBeat magazine Critics Poll award. Stamped on back: "Please credit Charles Stewart, 145 West 54th Street, New York 19, N.Y. Circle 5-1179."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[x-heesy]

​slow dancing in the dark

Zorba the Greek by Ali Kuru

[its-ya-girl-phoeni]

I Have No Mouth And I Must Sing ( @azure-aeon-soulstar + @awesomegamer1 )

"Speaking in the third person, Downbeat - which is I - Downbeat is satisfied with the sacrifice. He - that is to say, I - will spare the village his - that is to say my - wrath for today. I have - as I said before - spoken!"