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(via Bobby Short At The Cafe Carlyle 1979 (Complete) - YouTube) 

(via (8) Buckley, Kerouac, Sanders and Yablonsky discuss Hippies - YouTube)

Steve Jobs 1988 NeXT reveal. Probably Steve Jobs at his most un-Jobs. Nervous, slightly pandering to critics by relying on things he denied in the past — like price point and compatibility — and in a lengthy presentation that’s quite dry for 40 straight minutes until he reveals  NeXT to the sound of Fanfare for the Common Man.

Kerry James Marshall - The Actor Hezekiah Washington as Julian Carlton Taliesen Murderer of Frank Lloyd Wright Family, 2009.

On the afternoon of August 15, 1914, Wright was in Chicago working on the design of Midway Gardens when his mistress and two of her children, 8-year-old Martha and 12-year-old John, sat down for lunch on the porch at Taliesin. Inside the main dining room, at the other end of a 25-foot-long passageway, Wright’s draftsmen and laborers also gathered around a table to be served lunch by 30-year-old Barbados native Julian Carlton, a handyman and servant who had spent the summer waiting tables and performing housework at Taliesin. Carlton’s wife, Gertrude, did most of the cooking.

As the workers ate their soup inside the dining room, 19-year-old draftsman Herbert Fritz and his table mates noticed something unusual. “We heard a swish as though water was thrown through the screen door. Then we saw some fluid coming under the door. It looked like dishwater. It spread out all over the floor,” he recalled.

Having just served soup to Wright’s mistress and her children, Carlton instructed his wife to leave. He then returned to the porch wielding a hatchet and attacked Borthwick and her two children before dousing the floors with gasoline and setting the entire house ablaze.

The dining room burst into flames. The door was slammed shut and locked. With his clothes burning and hair afire, Fritz jumped out the window next to where he was seated and rolled down the hillside to put out the flames. As Fritz looked back, he saw Taliesin in flames and Carlton wielding his hatchet against his co-workers who had broken through the barricaded door or tried to escape through a window to the courtyard.

I’m watching and screen shooting the Cassavetes catalog and writing 4 things about each film I watch. First up:

Love Streams, 1984

1) John Cassavetes was given 5 months to live just before shooting began. It’s safe to say, he knew he was dying every minute the camera is on him.

2) The 1982 Buick Riviera John’s character Robert drives made a recent return to the big screen under the hands of Ryan Gosling in La La Land.

3) Love Streams takes its title from dialogue that appears twice in the film. Both references refer to love as being like a stream. It flows forever. (well not really, but you get the point) Both Robert, and his son, appear in the film with blood streaming down their faces.

"As a writer, I’m a voyeur myself,” Gay Talese says in his documentary about Gerald Foos, a motel owner and peeping tom he’s been chronicling for about 25 years.