Brantner DeAtley

"Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained."

Hands off Haydenville!
They expected 100 protestors in our tiny village… 500 + showed!
#handsoff

Frogs and trees
Clay and paint
Same as it ever was…

Library…..

Frogs
Glazed Ceramic

The Beloved Rogue
1927-Alan Crosland

Great sets by William Cameron Menzies.
Barrymore is always easy to watch, his charisma needs no sound.
#filmsky #silentfilm #cinema #barrymore

The Doorway to Hell
Archie Mayo- 1930

The plot comes from a story confusingly called
“Handful of Clouds”
Which I learned was mobster slang for Tommy gun smoke.

#cinema #filmsky

Jezebel
William Wyler- 1938

Bette Davis… do I need to say more?

“Seagull Stack”
Housepaint, sawdust,
Styrofoam pieces stuck together with chopsticks and old dried up paint brushes.

I always knock down rock stacks on trails, they really annoy me. I even wrote a song about it!
“Rock Stacks(knock em’ down)”

Beware you don’t imitate what you hate

Oriole

Sawdust,housepaint,
Paintbrush,ink,gouache,
Cedar

We are usually lucky to have orioles visit for a few weeks in the spring. They hang out in the quince bush and sing.

Mary Halvorson
Cloudward
Nonesuch-2024

Picked this up when I was lucky enough to see Mary in Tomeka Reid’s ensemble.
Go see either of them do their thing if you have the chance.
Desiderata on side two is a mindblower!
#vinylcommunity #vinyl
#jazz #guitar #maryhalvorson #nonesuch

Killer McCoy
Roy Rowland -1947

After a pretty good song and dance he’s got to go into the ring with his best friend… who he kills with one punch! And has to deal with the guilt for the rest of the movie…oh Mickey?!
Worth watching!
#filmsky #film #cinema
#mickeyrooney

The Domino Principle
Stanley Kramer-1977

A foul mouthed Mickey Rooney gets killed not once but twice in this terrible time waster of film, I don’t think that never happened to Andy Hardy…
#filmsky #film #cinema

George Benson
The Other Side of Abbey Road
1969-CTI

This one ended up in my trade pile because “ jazz guitar renditions of Beatles Songs” but when I brought it in I was told I should keep it, “ it’s better than the original…” ok!
Let these guys do their thing!
#recordcommunity #vinyl
#jazzvinyl

They Won’t Forget
Mervyn LeRoy
1937- Warner Bros.

Bigotry, mob mentality and the manipulation of the public by a power hungry politician and the media…
Some things never change.
16 year old Lana Turner does a pretty good southern accent one month into her Hollywood career.
#filmsky #cinema #film

“Janus”at
Susan Eley Fine Arts
Continues through March
Curated by Katharine Dufault
433 Warren St. Hudson NY

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
Victor Fleming
1941-MGM

Spencer Tracy’s Hyde is a real jerk in this version .. but the movie belongs to Ingrid Bergman. She acts circles around this very good cast.
#filmsky
#cinema
#ingridbergman

Norma Tanega
I Don’t Think It Will Hurt If You Smile

I never heard of Norma until
A few weeks ago, tried to find a copy of this very timeless group of songs but all I found was a $400 copy online.. but then this re-issue appeared! Hooray!
#normatanega
#vinylcommunity#vinyl
#recordcollector

Sabotage
Alfred Hitchcock
1936-Rank Organization

You can’t imagine he’s going to actually blow up little Stevie and that cute puppy, but he does, along with a bus full of passengers. Hitch!
#filmsky#cinema#hitchcock

Bear with Four Cabins
Glazed Ceramic

This cone 6 Coyote Black crawl glaze came pretty raunchy! Yikes!
Don’t feed your neighborhood bears….
#clay#bear #coyoteglaze#cone6
#ceramics

Madam Satan
1930
Cecil B. Demille -MGM

I watched this one because of the name. The beginning was boring but I’m so glad I stuck with it.
Craziness ensued:
Flapper/Art deco musical numbers at a party on a zeppelin, lightning storm, parachute evacuation! Attendee landing in lion cage?!?!YES!

Donald Byrd
Ethiopian Nights
(Blue Note- 1971)

This was one of my favorite surprise finds from last year.
Little Rasti on side 2 is especially deep.
Great band including Harold Land and Bobby Hutcherson.
#vinyl#recordcollection
#donaldbyrd

Not getting along…

Greenware…
Some frogs.. leap forward
Not backwards