the day my millennial nostalgia died was the day i realised my cherished childhood memory of the period that the disney’s aladdin cartoon played at 6PM so that i could watch it while eating dinner alone was actually very sad
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman
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Josephine Riesman. NYT-bestselling US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. Profile image is Julianne Moore.
Strong agree that this is the best use of licensed music in a tv show
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 5h agoPhil Collins's "Take Me Home" in Brian Stokes Mitchell's big scene from s2 of MR. ROBOT (I have cued it to the beginning of the important part):
FYI, I clipped just the Phil Collins part and lightened the picture Enjoy
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 19m agoHere it is, folks: the greatest needledrop of 2010s television Take, take me home, Stokes
Here it is, folks: the greatest needledrop of 2010s television Take, take me home, Stokes
Phil Collins + Brian Stokes Mitchell = "Mr. Robot"
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Phil Collins's "Take Me Home" in Brian Stokes Mitchell's big scene from s2 of MR. ROBOT (I have cued it to the beginning of the important part):
Wear Mask, Burn The Money, Stop Ransomware | Mr. Robot
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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 15h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
Just approved the final jacket art/copy for @beckbook.com Thank you SOOO much to all the advance readers who were kind enough to blurb!!!!! I will tag you below!!!! In the meantime, everyone go pre-order the book! beckbook.com
![Back cover, with all the many blurbs:
“Riesman gathers an impressive array of interview sources . . . [and] brings a great deal of
empathy to her subject as a longtime fan. . . . Every bit as complex and intriguing as the
pop star himself . . . [A] captivating profile of the Gen X pop sensation.”
—Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“One of the best books I’ve ever read about the forging of an artistic persona—a love story, a
ghost story, a family story spanning three generations of bohemia, and a portrait
of the artist wrestling the forces of evil in a bozo nightmare.”
—Alex Pappademas, senior culture editor at GQ and coauthor of Quantum Criminals
“This biography has everything: sex, secret societies, fashion, betrayal, Hollywood,
rock ’n’ roll—it’s like Pop-Up Video with way more scandal.”
—Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
“This is alt-rock biography as compulsively readable literary thriller. . . .
In this riveting salvo in her American Myth series, Riesman has captured the dream of the
nineties, but also the nightmare we are yet to wake up from.”
—Aidan Levy, author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
“A gripping thrill for longtime fans as well as readers who have never followed the
trippy, lo-fi output of the Gen X icon . . . It lands as a reckoning.”
—Charlie Wells, author of What Happened to Millennials
“An amazing read . . . Riesman’s book manages to reveal all Beck’s carefully hidden truths,
while never fully ruining what pleasure comes of bearing witness to his legendary oeuvre.”
—Niko Stratis, author of The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
“The Last Temptation of Beck is likely the best book I’ll read all year, and despite the
challenging nature of some of the material, it’s one I read straight through in a single sitting.
Josie’s first two books were great, but this is a masterpiece.”
—Andrew Hickey, host of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
“Josephine Riesman’s book is as uncategorizable as Beck’s music. . . . Fas…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreifbugb7x66tuyn5pg4m2ixn7wzfsn7udqnpmkmmgrafaml3xur22e)
ICYMI: The publication date for @beckbook.com has been moved... UP!! In response to popular demand, Simon & Schuster will now be publishing THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECK on... 🇴🇨🇹🇴🇧🇪🇷 🇸🇮🇽🇹 🇭 That's right! We're dropping it five weeks EARLY!!! Preorder now! beckbook.com
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 2w agoJust approved the final jacket art/copy for @beckbook.com Thank you SOOO much to all the advance readers who were kind enough to blurb!!!!! I will tag you below!!!! In the meantime, everyone go pre-order the book! beckbook.com
looks like my poem “The World” just baaarely snuck into the emily wilson/odyssey issue lmao
Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘The World’
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You ever read a Vin Diesel post and go "Damn........ so true"
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” —Tony Soprano, THE GODFATHER
This level of spending actually makes me deeply angry. Let's never do this again in a primary ok
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 8h agoUnfathomable
My maternal grandmother's one redeeming quality was that she absolutely LOVED "Miami Vice" when it was on. Appointment viewing for her. She was a trained chemist who'd been forced into housewifery, so she got REALLY into crime stories about complicated drugs
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
"I was Princess Anne's assistant for a while, but I chucked that in because I realised they were never going to make me Princess Anne, no matter how well I did the job. It was a question of who you were, rather than how well you did, and I hate that."
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d agoMedian UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
learning that the voices saying 'Connected' when I use my bluetooth headset belong to dorky women that love 2 get a lil silly with it has been so good for my mental health
Bluetooth Voice Actors: Our Devices Are In Love
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Phil Collins's "Take Me Home" in Brian Stokes Mitchell's big scene from s2 of MR. ROBOT (I have cued it to the beginning of the important part):
Wear Mask, Burn The Money, Stop Ransomware | Mr. Robot
YouTube video by Mr. Robot
youtu.be
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 15h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
