Month: April 2024

Tweet on Bunuel’s Viridiana

Luis Bunuel’s great Viridiana (1961) was banned in Spain where it was filmed.

The Criterion Collection has released it as a DVD.

Polls on importance of climate change

Orioles media guides

The Baltimore Orioles media guides from 1954-2023 are online here.

The Orioles, when they were at Memorial Stadium, used to have a sale of leftover giveaways every year for a week in December. They also sold media guides so I have about a dozen of them. Players would be there too, As I recall, Mike Flanagan filled my order in 1979.

One year (1978 or 1979), after the sale, a neighbor and I were waiting at a bus stop by the stadium to head back downtown. We weren’t trying to hitch. A guy stopped and gave us a ride. It was Don Hardeman of the Colts who was going to the airport. That was kind of him to give us a ride.

Junior Wells by Frederick Brown

This painting of musician Junior Wells by Frederick Brown. It’s at the Smithsonian American Art Museum but is currently not on display. They own five of his works. I’ve seen Stagger Lee and it’s great.

Here’s Brown’s website. He made many paintings of musicians.

The Junior Wells painting was used for an exhibit poster (see my copy below). That’s where I saw the painting.

Direct capture

Frederick Brown, Junior Wells, 1989, oil on linen, 36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by William Cost Johnson, George W. Story, Robert J. Oliver and Mrs. Barwig-Wagner, 1990.31

I downloaded the picture from the Smithsonian.

Capturing the essence of the musicians and the music

I keep saying it – Don’t put liars on TV