Glen
@bigsigh.bsky.social
Likes to talk about movies, sometimes even sees them. Frequent pusher of road cases, occasional pusher of faders. He, him
Was excited to be on day 6 of this work week until I realised that's only 1/3 of the way through.
Don't much care for the movie as a whole but I've gotta hand it to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night's use of White Lies' Death.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · yesterdayName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
The thing that I really like about NIN is that Reznor isn't trying to shock anyone - he's just an open, raw wound of emotion.
Also playing at Elizabeth Picture theatre from August 6. (There is always a Ghibli retro playing somewhere.)
SBS Recommender@sbsrecommender.bsky.social · 5d agoIndeed - Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is streaming on SBS On Demand for 1️⃣ more week www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
The marketing coup the Ekka is too cowardly to do: renaming the Feline Pavilion the Pussy Palace.
Wrote about the anti-algorithmic appeal of Mallory Hawk's CHINOOK, an album full of great songs in wildly different styles
Album Of The Week: Mallory Hawk 'Chinook'
Who needs a style when you’ve got the songs? We’re living in a musical landscape mediated by algorithmic overlords, in which listeners often seek to be soothed by (possibly evil) ambient tones, burro...
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This is principled and correct, and if they also wanna destroy the Oscar's Best Foreign Film category they have my axe.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.BTS won’t submit ‘Arirang’ for consideration at the Grammys despite a years-long pursuit of an award they’ve described as a career goal. The Korean idol group’s decision comes after the Recording Academy introduced a new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category. stereogum.com/2506646/bts-...
while your job will never love you back sometimes a colleague will talk you down from the ledge and send you a Propagandhi song.
Rachel Perkins' Moving Day (Evelyn Araluen)
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
I don't want to repost That One Prompt Tweet but every album Morphine put out in the 90s is a correct answer.
Glen@bigsigh.bsky.social · last wk.Listening to Morphine's The Way We Met - nothing but a close vocal harmony over trash-room drums - and getting mad all over again about that one guy who said they only had one gear. He was wrong! On the internet!
The daughter of a Liberal senator and former executive assistant to senior Liberals is now on the board of the Qld Museum www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Langbroek under pressure over appointments to Qld Cultural Centre boards
Queensland's Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek is facing questions over a series of political appointments to the state's Cultural Centre boards, as the Crisafulli government comes under pressure over...
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Listening to Morphine's The Way We Met - nothing but a close vocal harmony over trash-room drums - and getting mad all over again about that one guy who said they only had one gear. He was wrong! On the internet!
Protestors in Queensland are challenging the law that bans "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" because at the moment we are not allowed to say "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" and it would be good if we were allowed to say "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA". www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Protesters mount High Court challenge over Queensland hate speech laws
The phrases "from the river to the sea" and "globalise the intifada" were deemed antisemitic by the government and outlawed when used to menace or offend someone.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Queensland’s controversial ban on two pro-Palestine phrases – 'from the river to the sea' and 'globalise the intifada' – will be challenged in the High Court with seven plaintiffs lodging a writ of summons and statement of claim today. www.deepcutnews.com/p/queensland...
Queensland government faces High Court challenge over pro-Palestine speech ban
A constitutional challenge has been filed to strike down bans on ‘from the river to the sea’ and ‘globalise the intifada’
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"Is that..." "The ear from Blue Velvet? In a form that lets you hang it on your own ear? Yes." (I would like to thank a timely tax return for making this possible.)
The crack of the bat. The smell of the grass. The roar of the crowd. You’ve just been viciously attacked by the serial killer they call Baseball Steve
the type that despises typologies with the fire of a thousand suns
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoFour types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?
Jimothy became embroiled in partisan meme discourse and found he was now a political football (in addition to being roughly football-shaped). In 39 days, the night would seethe with treeing dogs once more; perhaps a blissful release from this new torture.
Never thought taglines mattered all that much so congrats to the guy who accidentally made everyone think the new A Christmas Carol adaptation is a prequel. You've proved me wrong. (It is being pitched as "a dark reimagining" which is very bit as eye roll inducing, albeit in a different way.)
this won't happen but I am enjoying the fantasy world in which BIFF 2026 is an expansive festival that grabs a bunch of the Venice line-up. Kthxbai
idk why I have this opinion but I think after we figure out the language of sperm whales we must (very gently) introduce them to drone metal
New ERR is (a) great and (b) introduced me to the Swarmatron, a synth with eight oscillators that drift and and out of unison (!!!) (Wikipedia says it was also used on The Social Network score.) tidal.com/track/533952...
Emma Ruth Rundle - Enough
Listen to Enough on TIDAL
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I do like how nakedly contemptuous this article is of the artist.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoNew York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy