Watched On Body and Soul (2017) last night, beautiful film, it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival and is one of thr best films I’ve seen in a long time.
Rallen
@rallen78.bsky.social
Dandy, northern, book obsessive, lover of gin, Iris Murdoch, cats & pubs. Pretentious, textbook Scorpio. likes Greggs
Had a really tough and trying week with work. That combined with binge watching the Sweeney last week has resulted in my being 3 vintage suits. Now utterly broke, but a dapper broke.
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Trying to take a selfie has become more of an event than the ‘event’ anyway more Proms. Mahler 1st Symphony.
Weird dream last night, Jimmy Carr lead us on a team building exercise which involved him jumping the queue at karaoke causing everyone to hate us, then trying to coordinate an orgy with colleagues as Stewart Lee decided to heckle his character. Very distracting.
Got my running outfit on but tbh I can’t be arsed. It’s a joy to say no exercise today.
When I was (almost) young I was introduced to Mogwai (1999 - try not to think how long ago that was!) became besotted with them. In the separation with ‘Medusa’ I lost all my music, for the last 2wks I’ve weirdly been craving their music. Arrived to day and I feel (almost) young.
I’m watching the Sweeney and eating cheese. God I wish I lived in the 70’s (living through 78 &79 as a baby doesn’t count)
Saw Beethoven’s Ninth at the Southbank last night. Was actually the first time I’ve seen it performed and it was utterly glorious.
My outfit today is so ridiculously 1930’s that I look like I’m going to a garden party hosted by Jay Gatsby. I’m actually off to Greggs.
In the middle of the night the shelf in my fridge collapsed under the weight of all the wine on it. Either that or my kitchen is haunted. Either way it was somewhat stressful. Especially as you don’t check your fridge when there’s a bump in the night.
When I was at Uni I listened to a lot of Mogwai, subsequently lost all my CD’s many years ago in a house move/end of a relationship. For some reason I’ve been craving their music again all of a sudden so I’ve just bought 9 albums. Funny how cultural needs just randomly ambush you out the blue.
One of my favourite posters on here has replies disabled so I can never respond to the interesting posts he makes. Didn’t do that on Twitter and I imagine Bluesky is less toxic?
Can’t wait for this heatwave to end, I haven’t been able to drink red wine through the duration of it and I think it’s given me PTSD.
This will be my Friday night in. Ordered these when I was drunk and feeling nostalgic (and young!) and have just been delivered.
Because of this is infernal heat I’m wearing white baggy linen and I look like a right frumpy tit. Heat does not respect the boundaries of vanity.
Woke up to these this morning. Thankfully I avoided them until I watched the match on replay
For complicated reasons I’ve spent today sheltering in a dark pub researching Modernist houses and flats.
I occasionally still think of this book shop I visited in Hastings. I didn’t want to leave. 📚 📕
Had a delivery of art house and Japanese films delivered and now trying to work out when I will find the time to watch them.
People in the quotes taking this tiny whimsical thing way too seriously.
Fourfoot@fourfoot.bsky.social · last mo.England is insane.
It’s depressing how people take jovial low key advertising as some form of extreme specifically U.K. based nationalism. Was this always the case or is it a piousness originating from Brexit and identity politics?
Just put on an old Cocteau Twins viny record and spent the last 10 min trying to work out if I’ve got it on the right speed or not. Sounds magnificent either way.
Wonder how much it would cost to be buried next to Kenneth Williams?
Appear to have got drunk and ordered lots of New Order albums last night.
Having a well earned “hydration break” basically I will do anything for retro booze. Seems fitting to have Monster Munch with it and listen to a compilation of summer songs from the heatwave of 1976.
