#john roseboro

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Currently Listening To:

Waters of March (John Roseboro & Mei Semones)

Step On Me (The Cardigans)

Cigarette Packet (Sorry)

Kidnapping an Heiress (Black Box Recorder)

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I TOOK THE L // JOHN ROSEBORO [Johnny, 2023]

I took the Q ‘cause I love the view of Manhattan bridge

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JOHN ROSEBORO / JohnnyJ

ohn Roseboro（ジョン・ローズボロ）のフルアルバムとしては２作目でしょうか。EPとかSingleがたくさんあって、そういえば最近Mei Semonesと、”Waters of March (Agua de Março)"をSingleでリリースしていました。は、あの三月の水です。でもそれらは本作に収録されていないみたい。 John Roseboroはハイチ系アメリカ人で、ブルックリンを拠点とするシンガー・ソングライターです。2021 年末の時点では、なんと家も車も家族もなく、銀行には全くお金が全く残っていなかったといいます。しかしNYに引っ越して仲間たちと音楽を作り上げます。彼の前作"Human Nature"ももちろん素晴らしかったのですが、どこか素朴な感触があって、それが彼の特色でもあったのです。で本作はどうかというと、そんな感触はそのままに、サウンド面での面白さが際立っています。前作同様ボサノヴァ的な彼のガット・ギターが中心であることは変わりませんが、管楽器、フレットレス・ベース、ウッド・ベース、Rhodes、ドラム、パーカッション。そして仲間たちの暖かいコーラスと動きのあるリズム、もちろん彼の朴訥な歌声とで、賑やかでインティメイトな仲間同士の祝祭のように、しかし聴いたことのないユニークな空気を与えてくれます。これも今年のベストだなぁ。

[thousandisthemaximum]

Puntine #105 - Canzoni da ricordare questa settimana

https://www.dlso.it/site/2023/04/12/puntine-105-canzoni-da-ricordare/

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Sandy Koufax had trouble getting the great Roberto Clemente out.

Someone once asked Sandy how to get Clemente out and he quipped: “I have no idea; roll the ball to the plate?”

But even great hitters struggled against the man known as The Left Hand of God.

What made Sandy Koufax so hard to hit?

Pete Rose answered this question during an interview in which he graphically described Koufax’s curve ball and how precipitously it dropped. Rose found a melon in a basket of fruit and threw it straight down on the floor, hard. “How the hell you gonna hit that curve ball?” Rose asked the interviewer.

And it wasn’t just Rose.

"Hitting against him is like eating soup with a fork," Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Willie Stargell said.

"It drops like a chair whose legs collapse," Koufax’s catcher John Roseboro said.

"Sandy would strike me out two or three times a game. And I knew every pitch he was going to throw: fastball, breaking ball or whatever. Actually, he would let you look at it. And you still couldn't hit it!" — Willie Mays on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series

When Yogi Berra watched Koufax pitch during the 1963 World Series after having gone 25–5 in the regular season, Berra said, "I can see how he won 25 games. What I don't understand is how he lost five." Fortunately, Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills solved the mystery when he responded, “He didn't lose 5 games, we did.”

“He was truly magnificent.” — Hammerin’ Hank Aaron

In an interview, Bud Selig said the only pitcher he ever heard Hank Aaron complain about verbally was Sandy Koufax. After Koufax had out-dueled the great Warren Spahn, beating the Braves 2–1, on the departing plane trip an unhappy Aaron told Selig, “Boy, I’m glad I don’t have to face him again!” And Aaron was one of the few batters to have any success against Koufax. When asked in interviews to name the most dominant pitchers he faced, Aaron would immediately name Bob Gibson and Koufax, followed by Don Drysdale and Tom Seaver. Amusingly, Aaron said, “If you didn’t hit Drsydale, he was going to hit you!” The great home run hitter and baseball ambassador had a great sense of humor as well.

Superior hitters like Mays, Aaron, Rose, Stargell and Berra found Koufax baffling, so just imagine what it must have been like for ordinary hitters to face him.

Paul Reidl confirmed what great hitters have said about Koufax’s curve and its precipitous break: “I watched him pitch several times from behind home plate at old Forbes Field. His curveball, quite literally, fell off a table. Never seen anything like it. Batters would just flail at it.”

Pete Rose said Koufax had a “great fastball” and pointed out that he struck out over 1,000 batters in his (Rose’s) first three seasons in the NL. That’s averaging 333 strikeouts per year, back when it had never been done before. In fact, Koufax had set the NL record with 269 strikeouts in 1961, breaking a 58-year-old record set by the great Christy Mathewson. It’s easy to forget that, before Koufax, no NL pitcher had really challenged 300 strikeouts in a season. But Koufax would go on to destroy his just-set strikeout record with 306 in 1963, when he became the first unanimous winner of the Cy Young Award back when it was for both leagues, then an otherworldly 382 in 1965 when he won his second of three Cy Youngs.

“You pitch outside, you throw inside,” he liked to say" - Jane Leavy, Sandy Koufax biographer

“Show me a guy who can’t pitch inside, and I’ll show you a loser.” - Sandy Koufax

“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.” - Sandy Koufax

Unlike his partner in pitching crimes, Don Drysdale, the great Sandy Koufax didn’t have to go headhunting to instill fear. He did it with a rip-roaring four-seam fastball and a curve that broke down like it had a gravity accelerator. Those were his primary pitches, and Koufax also threw a forkball and change-up to keep batters off balance and confused about what was coming next. As if they weren’t in enough trouble already!

Ironically, Koufax became the strikeout king by abandoning his fastest pitch for a somewhat slower fastball he could control better. Here’s how it happened …

The turning point of Koufax’s career came in 1961 when catcher Norm Sherry told him to slow things down and concentrate on throwing strikes. "Sandy, you could solve your control problem if you'd just try to throw the ball easier," Sherry said. "Just get it over the plate. You've still got enough swift on it to get the hitters out." Koufax took the advice and the rest is baseball history. But the mind boggles at what he might have done with better control of his fastest fast ball.

Rose told the interviewer that he hit .175 against Koufax, and could only hope to hit his weight (202 pounds) but couldn’t even do that. This is the all-time hit king, who hit .307 against Bob Gibson, .340 against Juan Marichal, .531 against Warren Spahn, and “wore out” Don Sutton, Bob Welch and other top pitchers of his era. But the best Rose could hope for was to hit his weight against Koufax, and he couldn’t even manage that.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

#MLB #Baseball

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tag people you want to get to know better

Thanks for the tag, @holdingonforheaven :)

last song:

current watching: scavengers reign - liking it so far. worth a watch!

three ships: rebelcaptain (jyn/cassian), codywan, and honestly right now I'm getting into the high republic books in preparation for the release of "temptation of the force" so shoutout to Avar/Elzar. jury's still out on you two, but so far I'm liking the pairing

favorite colour: green

currently consuming: pistachios

first ship: I'm begging you to let me not share that information. let's move on.

birthplace: United States

current location: bed

relationship status: taken

last movie: rewatched pacific rim for the 20th time

currently working on: I've been splitting my time between Water and Rock and an untitled WIP lately. I'll be giving an update on Water and Rock soon but also I have this one-shot that's been slowly turning into a multi-chap (as we know they tend to do). I actually have 3 untitled WIPs (titles always come last for me) but this new one has been taking a lot of my focus. So many fic ideas, so little time to write 😭

I'll tag @guacam011y @thegreatwicked @sunlessplace @lightwise @palfriendpatine66 @impossibleprincess35 @fangirlforeversthings no pressure, only if you feel like it :)

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5, 24, 28 please!

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

i loveee putting this song on full volume in the car

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

they disbanded this year 😭😭😭 really wish i could’ve seen them live at least once

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

i really love the gentle quality john brings to all of his songs that makes each song feel so intimate and earnest

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Roger Guenveur Smith (July 27, 1955) is an actor, director, and writer known for his collaborations with Spike Lee.

He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles and graduated from Occidental College (American Studies). He studied at Yale University, where he successfully auditioned for the Drama School and switched his pursuit of a graduate degree in History. He studied at the Keskidee Arts Centre in London.

He has appeared in films such as School Daze, Do the Right Thing, King of New York, Panther, Malcolm X, Poetic Justice, Get On The Bus, Eve’s Bayou, He Got Game, and Summer of Sam. He had a recurring role in A Different World.

He starred in the self-written and produced A Huey P. Newton Story in 1991. He received an Obie Award, and his performance was filmed by Spike Lee and released in 2001.

He continues to work in and support independent film projects. He had a starring role in K-Street. He read in Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives. He was the voice of Bao-Dur in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords. He portrayed a corrupt detective in Fist of the Warrior. He starred in Deep Cover. He played a villain in All About the Benjamins. He portrayed Agent Schreck in the first installment of The Final Destination. He played the main villain in Mercenary for Justice. He was in American Gangster, in which he played the role of “Nate”, Frank Lucas’s army connection in Vietnam. Most recently he played the role of “Isaiah” in The Birth of a Nation, a film about the life of Nat Turner.

He had a recurring role in Oz.

Juan and John, written and performed by him, is based on baseball’s most famous fight—San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal clubbing Johnny Roseboro of the Los Angeles Dodgers with his bat during a 1965 battle for the pennant at Candlestick Park—which traumatized the playwright as a child.

He portrayed Booker T. Washington in Self Made, based on the life of Madame C. J. Walker. He married Caroline Smith and they had a daughter. He is married to LeTania Kirkland Smith and they have three children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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@chiomaus (hi!!) tagged me to share 5 songs i have been obsessed with lately,, not really been toooo obsessive with my listening habits lately but here's some songs :3 2 die 4 - addison rae ft. charli xcx ~ ~ heard this for the first time on charli xcx's boiler room set which i have,, actually been pretty obsessed with waters of march - john roseboro and mei semones ~ ~ beautiful duet sounds like a warm hug,, earworm,, a stick a stone it's the end of the road passerine - sylva woolf ft. saoirse dream ~ ~ i rlly like the featured artist and this cropped up on a playlist of hers

five - saoirse dream ~~ i love hyperpop and this album in particular

good luck, babe! - chappell roan ~~ this is v popular rn and i like it

i don't have tooo many mutuals to tag bcuz of losing my old tumblr but inviting @foxacidd and @godblessyoublackemperor and anyone reading if they want to share sawngs..

[dragonheadskilax]

I want to share some bands I like just because ^_^. I listen to a variety of genres so I hope one or two is interesting to look into.

Danny Denial — afropunk, gloom pop

He also directs some films, such as the series BAZZOOKA

Black Ends — gunk pop, grunge, noise

Dua Saleh — electronic, experimental, r&b, rap. Nonbinary Sudanese-American

Oeanator — indie rock

Woolbright — alternative, emo

John Roseboro — bossa nova

Bronze Avery — pop

[twistedsoulmusic]

John Roseboro’s Fools is a groundbreaking foray into post-bossa territory, challenging conventional notions of alternative music. The Haitian-American singer-songwriter and visual artist delivers his most collaborative effort to date, showcasing a remarkable evolution in his artistry.