Stagger Lee
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Just drinking margaritas at the mall
207. The Trial (Studio Canal, 1962 - Orson Welles) Leaning into absurdity as much as anxiety, this is pitched at a kind of teeth-gritting hysteria. Squirrelly Perkins is perfect, Zagreb offers some brilliant locations and the whole thing is so intense you sometimes miss that it's weirdly funny too
It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism
206. Disclosure Day (torrent, 2026 - Steven Spielberg) It is a tale Told by a Spielberg, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (Excellent cast, wilfully overcomplicated plot, terrible script, lack of anything to engage with emotionally at all).
The much missed (semi?)-retired Karen Gwyer has posted a killer roots / dub mix on souncloud, including this absolute tune! soundcloud.com/karengwyer/k... youtu.be/dfTPSNYYxLY?...
Little Jimmy
YouTube video by Alan King Pin - Topic
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24. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1985) My reading mojo appeared to go on holiday for most of July so this fairly brief book took ages: partly anhedonia, I think, and partly because it's not as engaging as I remember it 40 years later. 1/2
205. Lady Snowblood (Criterion, 1973 - Toshiya Fujita) This doesn't get any less stunning, less visually impressive, no matter how often you rewatch it
Catching up on this year's University Challenge (it seems to start earlier every year etc), whoever was in charge of Photoshopping the teams onto the background totally messed up this guy's hair
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
I got to see Dr John a few times, but never in his early seventies pomp (obviously) G'night folks youtu.be/FrYVne4Bdfk?...
Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time ( Original Footage 1973 Stereo Single Version Remastered )
YouTube video by Golden Decades
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204. Are We Good? (Criterion, 2025 - Steven Feinartz) A solid documentary about grouchy, angry, insightful Maron framed against the loss of his partner. Fairly standard doc stuff, although you get a sense Maron regrets getting involved. But he's endlessly watchable whatever he's in really.
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot > Good Morning Spider > It's A Wonderful Life
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
thanks to Jonathan Richards who drew my attention to this album, it's absolutely beautiful youtu.be/WlCgxqazvMs?...
Memphis in June
YouTube video by Jimmy Giuffre - Topic
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Today's post. That's now a copy of every commercially available on vinyl Bobbie Gentry album (but not all the variations because I'm not mad). Some beautiful but austere suomalainen holy music A wonderful package for an excellent album on the magnificent Wrong Speed Records
203. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (torrent, 1969 - Sydney Pollack) 'But somehow they can’t stop, and as the hundreds and thousands of hours of weariness and futility begin to accumulate, the great dance marathon begins to look more and more like life.' - Roger Ebert 1/2
Sat in the hospital being subjected to some dance pop radio station. I've just heard a version of Dancing On My Own that's so anodyne, asinine, utterly free of the heartbreak and the euphoria of the original. Just vapid + joyless + sexless and beige How can someone misunderstand a song so badly?
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Finished the big rewatch of the main Battlestar Galactica (just the prequels to go). The first two seasons and the New Caprica section of season 3 are stunning, full of politics, morality, big ideas and a cracking story. Well acted, shot, it looked great... 1/2
Why does transphobia in particular so often lead to psychological collapse? This makes Morrissey look like a live-and-let-live kind of guy
Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 6d agoRoisin Murphy trawled through Instagram and found one of her old pop songs. When she saw that almost every commentator was critical of her newfound status as a deranged swivel-eyed TERF, she screenshotted their profiles & made a video of them. All completely normal behaviour 😬