I saw a gorgeous sunset sky with very interesting combinations of clouds tonight, but I didn’t bother photographing it because of the freeway below it and the light poles and billboards breaking it up.
There were two annoying phrases overused during the pandemic. The first was, “just what we need right now” in regards to art & creative stuff. Good art is always good art, no matter what’s going on in the world.
The second was, “these uncertain times.” Times are always uncertain. Just before the pandemic, things seemed normal, but were about to change. That’s the one constant, change. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. The present moment is all that we can be sure of.
Last night’s performance of Kendrick Scott’s Unearthed, which had its world premiere at Houston’s Wortham Center and tells the dark story of convict leasing and the Sugar Land 95, was off the chain. More https://www.dacamera.com/2022-2023-season-concerts/kendrick-scott-unearthed/
Ted Lasso is the absolute best show on television (JMO). These articles that talk about how it “lost its way” are just clickbait or people hoping to start a movement against it or people who never got it in the first place. Watching the first two seasons you see it’s the same.
Sorry for the test post. You may return to your (ab)normally scheduled doomscrolling.
The 2023-2024 jazz season of Houston’s DACAMERA looks like another winner.
Bill Frisell & Ambrose Akinmusire; Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut in My Bones; Joshua Redman; Melissa Aldana; Etienne Charles Earth Tones; Kurt Elling with Danilo Perez
I see many people complaining about the media or news organizations. My reply to them is, “what would you replace them with? Something state-run perhaps?”
One of the problems of the “good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun” is that means the bad guy with the gun has probably already shot someone, probably several people.
I’ve been trying to decide if I want to write something about how much I dislike _The Atlantic_ and specifically the “Ted Lasso Has Lost Its Way” garbage it ran recently.
Sorry nerds,
But today 5/4 should be Paul Desmond/Dave Brubeck Day.
