Diana Ross: “Everything is Everything” (1970) photog. Harry Langdon

Diana Ross wears a Bob Mackie crystal-covered bodysuit on the cover of her album Everything Is Everything, 1970

Today in Hip Hop History:

Brand Nubian released their third Everything Is Everything November 1, 1994

Me rn

like mari once said, there's already something suggestive about the tunnel imagery itself (and the threat of someone breaking through the walls, some men perhaps in the shadows), and that the tunnels follow him home to torment him in what is the familial/domestic sphere/his childhood home completes it, and then the show continues that imagery and transforms, twists and shapes it to the point where there's no clear line between the war trauma and the domestic trauma at all anymore. he's forced back into the tunnels, pointedly after his baby is abducted, as he's losing his mind the tunnel-like corridor labyrinth of the ayslum is installed with mirrors, forcing him to look at himself and it's not quite clear where he's going anymore, we learn that his mother died by drowning herself, the tunnels fill with water, his daughter speaks of a gray man and tommy gets assaulted by the first man he killed, he descends from the january - his father's boat, the family boat, the boat they never got off of - down into the waterfilled tunnels once more.

like all chronic trauma it's unresolved, simultaneous and continuous, not bound by order or a clear delineation of past and present.

the tunnels were claustrophobic, but how's the family, tom?

Fun fact: John Legend played piano on 'Everything is Everything' for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

Under Harvest Moon by Neil Young

Today in Hip Hop History:

Brand Nubian released their third Everything Is Everything November 1, 1994

Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything

there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral