My buddy. My friend. How so soon? Why? I’ll miss you. I will think about seeing you at Gold’s often, talking about what to do next, how to find something together. I always looked up to you — the work was so good, but the man you were always stood out among the rest of them. Yes, I will miss you, pal. Until we meet again, wherever they say that is. ❤️❤️💔 #riprayliotta
This dude knocked on my door the other day. I opened it. He looked like he needed a hug but there was a scent coming off of him that I haven’t smelled since I was touring Europe with a backpack: oil and leather and spit. It was the smell of a drifter. He asked me for a glass of water and I gave him a shot of Jameson. He asked for something to eat. I gave him my dog and told him of the old adage: “…learn to fish, eat for a lifetime.” I asked to take a picture with him because I know that it was possible that I was experiencing what they call a ‘spiritual moment’ and that this man may not actually be of human stock.
I showed the photo to a friend of mine and he told me that the sage that showed up at my door is Aquaman. My friends are so full of shit.
@harleydavidson @on_the_roam @prideofgypsies @choppersmagazine #knuckleheads
Sitting on the deck looking out at the countryside, the pond, and listening to the sounds of the wildlife. Coffee in hand. My daughter having just gotten married and all of us having been inside the greatest, most intimate wedding ceremony I’ve ever seen. Everything was real and as diverse as the personalities involved were, everything was selfless, connected, and directed towards the wedding couple. Turkeys gobbling somewhere off to the south. The sun just hitting me. Frogs braying. My family asleep. Ground squirrels scurrying around. The hidden sounds of a truck sneaking across a dirt road. How strange I feel this morning. Here, this morning, alone on this ranch, among all this wildlife. I feel what a waste of life certain behaviors are, reactions. My daughter last night, my God, and her groom: awe. We will leave here today or tomorrow and keep going, kids still in our bed all night. We will travel, and I will compile there. I know what to put together. A book from ‘87 until now: journals, prose, poems: a gasoline bubble bath.
“Only the weak are cruel”. I read this morning.
When your daughter gets married it all shows up: the memories, a life lived (or not), and how certain relationships resonate. I am so grateful for this time and this place to be able to have this time on. There are the kindest people out there. I have little kids to raise again, entire lives to monitor and be sensitive to. I didn’t grow old and go off to Italy. I stayed and walked my daughter over a grassy countryside to a commitment — a groom with tears falling down his cheeks — and I melted with it, into it. Everything is thriving right now: the plants and these sounds of birds and small animals I’m listening to right now. It’s all blossoming, only to wilt again, then later again open its petals to the sun. We fluctuate in a life. We die and are born again and again and again into a mystery that never gets solved. I am ripped open this morning. My son and my daughters are happy, contented. All the greatest gifts have no form, and sit there waiting to be acknowledged.
@edenbrolin @cameroncrosby9
I choose with my wife to have babies. I am an advocate of birth and of life. I have never been involved in an abortion situation. I believe in the American Dream, but in a progressive American Dream. A dream based on making our country a safe place for our children, and for those children that grow into adults. A diverse country. It makes no sense to me because of the facts presented, the actions displayed, that these decisions to control a woman’s choice to vacate a pregnancy so as not to create a scenario that our government in no way will help support, helps its people as a whole. Like the mafia of old, as long as you paid up and behaved the way they wanted you too, adhered to their rules, you were spared violence. We live in a country where it’s people adhere and yet the violence reigns supreme. Nowhere else in the affluent world is it like that. We have revealed ourselves completely: we are a power hungry, stupid people (with an abhorrent educational system on top of it). We are those people that attacked the Capital. We are those people that have had more school shootings by thousands of percentage points than any other country. We are the Red Coats of Wilmington. We are the Dan Whites who, dumb and frustrated, kill what we don’t understand and represents something smarter than us. We tax and don’t help. Our healthcare is horrendous and having enemies is our energy bar and hurting those ‘enemies’ is our nectar for a life well lived. Some will say: “If you don’t like it, leave!” This is my country, my history and my legacy. You leave. Go to Yamen or Afghanistan (or the Vatican, Sudan, Paraguay for those who are country sensitive) if you want your women treated that way. God doesn’t want your zealot rage here.
Maranda Mathis, 11 (Robb Elementary School — United States of America). 1 of 19 children killed that day. 1 of 119 school shootings since 2018. RIP dear children (and adults involved). 💔✝️
Back in Atlanta and asked for “A haircut that’s going to drive the ladies crazy”.
I mean, what the fuck?!?
Dune 2 time: Morning Warm up —
100’s: 20 squats, 20 dips, 20 Push ups in the sauna — 5 rounds after 225 degrees for 30 mins, followed by a 36 degree cold plunge for 5 mins after 25 circuit training workout for cardio and core without rest. And tons and tons of spice. @dunemovie @legendary @xptlife
My friend and spirit animal, Jimmy Caan. Every conversation I had with you was full of piss and vinegar and guttural laughs. I love what you brought to this world: an old school we are in it together but we must poke each other incessantly to keep the humility and connections taut schooling. Knowing you are an era of man gone whose sensitivities were many saddens. Bon voyage, my friend. ❤️💔☀️🙏 #ripjamescaan
New @variety Actors on Actors out today.
“When his planned conversation partner, Jeremy Renner, is a last-minute no-show, Josh Brolin decides
to flip the Actors on Actors script and plumb his résumé, his love for acting, his insecurities and his ego in a first for this franchise: Actor on Actor. Here, the star of the Amazon Studios-produced sci-fi Western “Outer Range” interrogates his greatest artistic rival: himself.”
Photo by @AlexiLubomirski
What a blast with @daxshepard and @mlpadman on Spotify’s EXPERT ARMCHAIR PODCAST. A conversation that had no boundaries, as most conversations between good people shouldn’t. Love these folks and the good-hearted rollercoaster they’re on. ❤️❤️❤️🤙 @armchairexppod
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This episode is textbook armchair expert: two “tough guys” allowing their vulnerabilities to shine through. We love to see it! @daxshepard found a long lost soulmate in this one. Truly wonderful time with @joshbrolin ❤️❤️❤️ enjoy on @spotifypodcasts now!
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“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
— Wilfred Owen (there and gone)
In memory of all the men and women in the hands of creepy old men in tall buildings. May they, like Abraham Lincoln, one day join them on the fiery lines: in line, in equal citizenry.
#Repost @variety
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When his planned #ActorsOnActors partner was a last-minute no-show, @joshbrolin took matters into his own hands, interviewing himself. 👀
Watch the full “conversation” at the link in bio.
London.
Episode 168 @onelifeonechancepodcast
@tobymorse and I shooting the shit. Met him on the street with his kid years ago. One of the sweetest, most giving, family men I know. Would walk through fire for this dude. Enjoy. 📷 @joelbullphoto
To my wife, my love, the mother of Westlyn & Chapel, step mother to Eden & Trevor: everyday is Halloween, Christmas, and all Birthdays all at once on Mother’s Day and every other day. The calibration of every “‘night ‘night” and “poopie?” into feral poetry always brings a smile and those few moments that we can hear each other through the din of chaos that is their growing vocabularies is what miracles are made of. I love you. I love doing this with you. And I love seeing the you in them through and through.
And of Trevor and Eden, your persistent kindness and appreciation of them wins the love back. Thank you for understanding that.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mama Bear. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ @kathrynbrolin
OUTER RANGE right now. @amazonstudios @primevideo
“I strive to put in as much mindfulness in a day as I can. It’s all in the little things and the accomplishments of curiosity to the big things. Gratitude is a window into ending suffering and each day science keeps proving that when you stand in Gratitude, Kindness, Humility, Forgiveness and a bucketful more of thoughtful practices , you build a body that can withstand and endure so much more.
To grow physically is to audit your personal habits that strengthen your tissue , tendons , muscle and brain. To keep ahead of yourself , movement is essential. We’re by nature , Exuberant Animals, destined to experience joy when we’re fit and In motion.
Don’t harm yourself and others thru angry outbursts that waste your adrenal glands and leave you exhausted when energy is what you need a lot of now~
Cut yourself a break and sleep and eat so that your spirit is equally well fed. Earning your growth is a result of the effort you put in and not in entertaining how to polish and embellish your public self, your personal ambassador, your ego~
Your growth is an active expression of your creativity, energy and momentum. We really don’t have an option…”
Photo: @brianbowensmith
@ozwellness
@sante.dorazio
The hole we weathered through thick and thin and in the hole we floated through din and more din. It was the hole that brought us together from all walks of life and it was the hole that hit the nerve of all that country strife. Now, the days of the hole have just begun, the Abbott’s spiral into existential fun. But the next cluster’s mess in a hole it might be, so watch Season 1 and help pull out Season 2 with me. @amazonstudios @primevideo WATCH OUTER RANGE
I am a descendant of two who signed the Declaration of Independence: George Read and George Ross, and I am always humbled re-reading it. The uncertainty of today rests in our glee in opposing each other: bad guy/good guy. The obsession to bitch instead of embracing the beauty and gifts we are given as citizens to act like we control this whole deal when we are really letting it slip out of our hands because of massive companies, idealists, and really shitty, self-serving politicians. Where I’m from on the Central Coast of California, we lookout for each other no matter the slight differences in beliefs we have. We are a potpourri of good people on our dirt road.
Be good to each other today.
#luckytobealive #happyfouthofjuly🇺🇸
Trevor, my first born. I cannot express the depths of my respect for you. For 34 years now, I’ve experienced most of the highs and the lows of what good parenting and bad parenting is and to navigate through this labyrinth with you is more than a gift I deserve. Your life I can only stand back from most of the time and watch with great pride, and when I’m in there, frolicking with you, two grown men regressed and laughing at the humor we’ve cultivated so between each other, I melt. I don’t know anybody like you and I love it that way. You’ve never seen things in a way that hasn’t moved or awed me, and to be your dad, man, is the greatest lottery I could ever win. I love you so much. Happy Birthday.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉⚡️⚡️
@funtonofun
1937 EL Knucklehead “The Sage” @brianbowensmith @wiscospeedshop @nashmotorcycleco @prideofgypsies
Those mornings were so quiet, like this one is. I was all alone and I didn’t like it much then but now looking back, there was no better time. To be with myself, listening to myself, discovering who I was through the throws of adolescence. I can hear the tires rolling over the dirt road in that old, gasoline scented green Chevy, as if it was just a couple of years ago. The frosts of early morning (usually before the sun came up) in winter is what I remember most: two sweaters and a Levy jacket, collar hiked up around my neck, my chilled country nose red and furrowed child’s brow pushing myself through my chores. I yearn for a time that at once reads like a fiction but lands like a newly won medal being placed around your neck.
You’re halfway through. 5 & 6 are going to fuck you up, but also prep you for 7 & 8, my personal favorites. The show has hit a nerve. Can’t thank everyone enough for taking the time to watch and support a form of storytelling that is rare nowadays: the study of human behavior through avant-guard, performance art lives! @primevideo @amazonstudios
Every piece you paint is raw and thought provoking. I am never left unignited. I am never left without feeling that someone just passed though my life that I wanted but was too afraid to know, because I would lose everything I have, eventually. The reality that I have become too attached to some idea of safety deeply shames me.
@danielle_mckinney_
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Father Time, 2022
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@marianneboeskygallery
Last episodes of OUTER RANGE drop TONIGHT for Friday. What a ride it’s been seeing people react in how they have, it having hit a social nerve like it has. Thank you @amazonstudios for backing up such a big swing, and to the writers and crew and cast for weathering through such a daunting task, as only people who do existential Westerns can understand. New Mexico is our second home and thank you to all the folks there who treated us like your own. Your land is heaven and hopefully we respected it accordingly.
Watch the finale Episodes 7 & 8 starting tonight on @primevideo. They will put you on your ass. “Yee Haw”.
