Matthew

The Connection. Not a fan...

Ramsey Lewis: Dancing In The Street

Johnny Lytle: Essential Masters

Johnny Lytle: Moon Child

Weather Report: Live in Tokyo

Think this might be my favorite Herald Feinstein photo, very playful.

Weather Report: Mysterious Traveler. Love this one

Thanks, I'll have to check it out.

Weather Report: Black Market

Exactly, and it's a mindset that seems to be rewarded with promotions and climbing the ladder. It just seems, in my opinion, that the police are relying too much on military tactics of person and crowd control in situations that don't need that kind of approach. Would it have really made the situation out-of-control if Chauvin would have stood up two minutes into the arrest? Derek Chauvin also has a military background (I'm not surprised)

This leads to something I've been wondering about a lot. Whether the abundance of ex-military on police forces is a major issue. I have a lot of relatives with military training, and the thing about that training is that it is designed to get a person to be able to kill someone -- and that is hard to do. There have been studies to suggest that police officers with this background are more inclined to use force, or shot someone in the course of their duties. ( A article about this ) There's a number of things that can be done to properly train police in deescalating situations, and that definitely is one area that needs improvement.

Camden, NJ police seems to be what's on everyone's mind. They reorganized their police department and things seem to have improved. Here's a link to an article about it.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone.

The Barbara Stanwyck Show. Nice half-hour dramas, nothing earth shaking, but it's always enjoyable to watch Stanwyck in anything.

Joe Jackson: Two Rainy Nights - Live in Seattle & Portland

Just for the heck of it.

Red Dust. Clark Gable & Jean Harlow make a incendiary couple, definitely a Pre-Code movie.

I agree, I find Curtiz's films always fascinating to watch. Think the problem might be that Curtiz's filmography is so vast and varied, it's hard to get a handle on.

It's not just this ridiculous back-and-forth that's killing baseball, it's that its players have become invisible and inconsequential in today's world. Not getting into the politics of it, but it's NFL and NBA players who are out in front, making a positive contributions in the present situation. MLB? No where to be found. Now, there are those who feel that is a plus (James Dolan anyone?), but for this younger generation, I'm afraid MLB is lost to them.

Yeah, this was a depressing story from the start. Police want trust, and I'm a big police supporter, but how in the world can trust be built when officers in this situation do not turn on body cameras? It seems way too often when bad stuff happens, the body camera is off.

Baseball looks like their number one mission is to become completely irrelevant as a sport, and they're doing a great job at it, no wonder the NBA has blown past MLB in popularity.

The Kennel Murder Case. William Powell & Mary Astor, directed by Michael Curtiz -- what's not to like?

Double Indemnity.

Singing In The Rain. I admit that I have been deep diving into pure escapism in my movies the past couple of weeks.