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XXI, XXIII, XXXVIII | "The things it took to make that room possible—they were awful things. But inside that room was peace. That is what home is to me."

#black sails

one of the funniest things about fraiser to me is that niles is supposed to be straight

#whatever david hyde pierce is doing its not that

radiation

Had a dream where the black eyed peas were bonding over being stuck together during a severe weather / tornado warning like sitting on the floor holding each others pinkies smiling at each other going like “we’re the black eyed peas we can do anything”

some of you spend way too much time talking about girlhood

#you're a 20 smth grown woman

greatviolenceonthatthang

nothing has ever been funnier than this. miranda girl your face. she said james what is that #getyourfuckingdog

#black sails

alvsanne

- What do you do? - What? - What do you do? - I'm in construction.

GOODFELLAS (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese

#cinema

watching spain fail to score while knowing if i stayed for pens i couldn't get home from london until 3am was a special kind of torture

i want to rewatch the third man right now but instead i need to sleep. fuck my stupid life

dogpuppy

ratcity

The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become “person who wakes up early” or “person who reads” no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I don’t know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase “person who x” like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!

tammysneurosis

artworks by David Lynch

bitter69uk

“Billie Holiday named him as her favourite singer and Madonna claims he’s the only vocalist who ever made her cry – how’s that for endurance? Scott was born … with a hormonal deficiency that denied him puberty and left with a voice that is frequently mistaken for a woman’s. Betwixt nature and craft, he developed into a yearning, subtly rhythmic balladeer whose high register casts a heady spell – the ethereal counterpart to the low, chocolaty pulse of baritones such as Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman. Scott has suffered more than the jazzman’s usual share of pain, neglect and betrayal, but in his eighth decade he is doing some of his best work, recorded at last with care and respect, his voice still strong despite a plaintive crack Holiday would surely understand.”

/ From the November 2003 “American Music” issue of Vanity Fair magazine /

“Everything about the singer is a question mark, starting with his maddening, asexual voice. It could shoot stratospherically high, trail off into a sob-stained vibratto, then descend into a cry so low-down it could shatter the toughest R&B singer. And for all the emotion, he never sounded piteous or weak. Jimmy had no use for falsetto histrionics or on-the-knees pleading. No wonder gospel singers whispered his name, women followed him home, junkies and drag queens idolized him. Jimmy Scott understood.”

/ From “Jimmy Scott: For Whatever the Reasons” by Jimmy McDonough, The Village Voice, 1988 /

Born on this day: haunting jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott (aka “Little Jimmy Scott”, James Victor Scott, 17 July 1925 – 12 June 2014). I was privileged to see the unearthly Scott perform several times in London in the 2000s and it was always a powerful experience. (And like Madonna, he made me cry more than once! Scott makes a cameo appearance in the video for Madonna’s 1994 single “Secret”). For anyone unfamiliar with Scott’s work, the lushly romantic 1962 album Falling in Love is Wonderful (widely regarded as his magnum opus) is a good place to start. David Lynch aficionados already know Scott: he crooned the eerie “Sycamore Trees” against a red velvet curtain in the final episode of season two of Twin Peaks.

#music #twin peaks