To be brutalized because somebody says it should be so, as a ‘rule’ that somehow morphs and modifies with each era, renders it hollow and purely created to control, stemming from an abject spiritual and psychic weakness. The brutes are the weak links that all divisiveness exists upon. #mahsaamini — Art by @aiplague
Just one of the most iconic moments in Rock: Shane deep in it. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ @davestruestories
When age lands and California strife wanes: you’ve woken up at five in the morning, made coffee, and headed down to the beach to write before the kids wake up. A soft blue hue caresses and slowly turns into what would be a central coast navel orange mixed with a violent smear of an I-5 roadkill. The sky’s exploding, and a soaring shrapnel of birds silhouette the morning sky’s cotton structure. I am getting older so it’s all the more precious to me: a new swell clawing at the shore, memories of stopping at old gas stations to last minute feed my older kids before school in whatever town we were living in for that moment, my wife’s coy and sleepy smile, and these little ones breathing in my ear, four of us to a bed, as I lay there in a heavenly paralysis saturated with the swaying breeze that is them. I am getting older and all of it sings like tripping upon Pavarotti for the first time in Central Park in ‘91 when my chaotic, heavily dramatic brain levitated. And now, as I swallow the age that is me, I look around and exhale, the shadow of my feet again trying to grab playfully at the sand below me.
Photo by @brianbowensmith
@emg_cigars @thepitmartialarts @choppersmagazine
There’s just something about respect, through-line, some idea of ritual that still feels attractive. The changes she had experienced, the malleability that she had to have incorporated into her character. The losses and the wins in a life.
I’ve realized that living out or in the bubble isn’t the issue, it’s who you surround yourself with, and what you die knowing. As simply human, I hope she had a wonderful 96 year long trip, and that her friends will always hold her in high personal honor. RIP Queen Elizabeth.
We didn’t get paid much but we knew we were doing something personal. A great story. What is more nutritious than a great story? Each of us had our valued place in the telling of that story. Even craft service. Everyone was equal. On set a family starts to form. You learn each other’s peccadilloes and niceties and no longer can you hide in the closet of your formalities: your unconscious, social habits. The platform raises the stakes: what are you made of and are you willing to get past your default tattletales and reveal who might be underneath? You have to open yourself up which is part of the survival of being away from family, from friends, the softness of home, familiarity, the ground of habit,the laughter of your children, the roar of a vintage motorcycle, your wife’s feet touching your leg under the covers at night. It’s a temporary mafia, a potpourri of misfits all playing make believe, each hoping to feel useful, each longing quietly for what might turn out a lesser love. #nocountryforoldmen
Soul Mate. Full Stop.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Happy 6th Anniversary
@kathrynbrolin
Art is everything.
Red Carpet. Brolin style.
Photo by @kathrynbrolin
Make up: @chandlerwest
I walk into a coffee shop and order an espresso. I’ve just gotten money out of the ATM. I take out a new bill and hand it to the cashier. He pulls it up to the light and bends the bill, then he looks at me as if I’ve just gotten out of prison for counterfeiting and once out got right back to the crime at hand. He knows the ink still isn’t dry so he runs it against the counter, then he looks me straight in the eyes again. He’s a small guy and there’s no way he could take me but the shame he’s throwing at me right now is actually making me shrivel. For a second, I navigate through my memories for any wrong doing in the last little while I might have sunk into. He waits patiently for me to cough it up — Fuck, I’m sorry. I know, man. It’s wrong and I had a clean slate. I had my chance and I blew it. Please forgive me. I won’t do it again. Please don’t call the police — but instead he decides to let me off, still never completely shrugging off the glue of guilt he’s thrown my way. He reticently makes the espresso, and puts it in a small black cup, and then gives me straight up, legal change. I walk out the door to an outside table and he stands in the doorway and watches me drink. Acting has done nothing for my social life.
Family is family. A grand @lairdsuperfood package came in the mail today and suddenly I’m underwater either lifting weight and throwing jabs back and forth with the big wave gabber or with the kids getting them ready for their first breath holds — family is family: those who through the throws of a life chaotic, think of each other, remember each other, pine to do it all again.
Mahalo, brother. Always got the greater good. — The Brolin Clan
@lairdsuperfood @lairdhamiltonsurf @gabbyreece 🤙🤙🤙 (protein bars, hydrator, instafuel, creamer, puns and anecdotes).
Family is family. A grand @lairdsuperfood package came in the mail today and suddenly I’m underwater either lifting weight and throwing jabs back and forth with the big wave gabber or with the kids getting them ready for their first breath holds — family is family: those who through the throws of a life chaotic, think of each other, remember each other, pine to do it all again.
Mahalo, brother. Always got the greater good. — The Brolin Clan
@lairdsuperfood @lairdhamiltonsurf @gabbyreece 🤙🤙🤙 (protein bars, hydrator, instafuel, creamer, puns and anecdotes).
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
(Inscribed on the wall of Mother Teresa’s children’s home in Calcutta.)
Here’s the thing about being sober: you can go anywhere you want, inhale the bountiful characters within it, have your kid sleep-slumped over your shoulder and diamonds (and friends) are gained and zero is lost. The Marquis Pub (Est. 1638), frequented by Charles Dickens back in the day, is full of vinyl, good food, and even better patrons — and the best fucking fish and chips I’ve ever had. Thank y’all for treating this yank and his little kiddo with open arms. 🤙🤙🤙 @the_marquis_covent_garden
“W” for @interviewmag
Shot by @mikaeljansson
Interview with Eddie Vedder
Fuck yeah.
#Repost @primevideo
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At least one mystery is revealed. It’s official: #OuterRange is coming back for Season 2.
Werner Herzog // “Always take the initiative. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Learn to live with your mistakes. Expand your knowledge and understanding of music and literature, old and modern. That roll of unexposed celluloid you have in your hand might be the last in existence, so do something impressive with it. There is never an excuse not to finish a film. Carry bolt cutters everywhere. Thwart institutional cowardice. Ask for forgiveness, not permission. Take your fate into your own hands. Learn to read the inner essence of a landscape. Ignite the fire within and explore unknown territory. Walk straight ahead, never detour. Manoeuvre and mislead, but always deliver. Don’t be fearful of rejection. Develop your own voice. Day one is the point of no return. A badge of honor is to fail a film theory class. Chance is the lifeblood of cinema. Guerrilla tactics are best. Take revenge if need be. Get used to the bear behind you.” #paulthomasanderson #inherentvice @__nitch
There is so much beauty to when dreams take over and rested in face, the slight smiles of your eyes reveal the university of that school I want to be a forever student of. #familyforever
I came back that night drunk. We had played pool and once outside to smoke a cigarette, I suddenly started walking towards the gas station. I needed more booze, and the bar was charging four and a half bucks a bottle. Buck came with me, who we had just met inside and who you line-danced with twice. He was a big boy and I wasn’t about to make him mad. But, ultimately, it felt like it was the night that took over: half a moon pulsing up high, the rumble and hiss of 18 wheelers pulling in, and that one lone Mexican waiting outside the double doors of the food mart. It was Buck who was following me, when I thought it’d be you. He was along because he knew something was going down; that, and the free drink, I’m sure.
I looked back at you as we were walking away knowing you were staying, and I couldn’t help but focus on the cigarette’s cherry light reflecting off your pupils when you took a drag.
When you got a good thing going, I know better than to strip you away from it. “Go on” was all you said, and you smiled that smile we’ve gone to jail for more times than I want to remember.
On my way East. Missing family already. ❤️
you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you’re young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever’s living will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
i can entirely her only love
whose any mystery makes every man’s
flesh put space on;and his mind take off time
that you should ever think,may god forbid
and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:
for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave
called progress,and negation’s dead undoom.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
— e.e. cummings
Edward Hopper, USA
(1882-1967)
Soir Bleu (1914)
AVAILABLE NOW in paperback and kindle.
(You can order on Amazon or through Colin’s website his bio)
So proud of my brother @colinfbroderick for writing what I think is going to be the beginning of a HUGE series. Get this book, laugh, and find yourself, like I did, drawn into the innocent ambitions of Woodstock the Bear and all whom he comes into contact with because of them.
I’m so excited about this book. Enjoy it!!!
#Repost @colinfbroderick
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“An innocent country bear called Woodstock boards a bus bound for New York City to chase his dream of being an actor. He might just make it to the big time… if he doesn’t get whacked in the process.”
“It’s Winnie the Pooh for Grownups” Tara Stiles.
Foreword by Josh Brolin.
Illustrated by Chris Coll.
#WoodstockGoesToHollywood
#WoodstockTheBear
#bookstagram #NewNovel
#Bears #Hollywood #Acting
NEW SONG BY @weareattaboy!!!!
Video directed by Eden @edenbrolin
Artwork by Trevor @funtonofun
So proud. Beyond.
Watch on YouTube! Buy on iTunes or Spotify!!!!
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