The @filmsradiance.bsky.social Transmission release of Highway to Hell is out now. Come for the gorgeous matte-stock slipcase; stay for the booklet essay by me!
I would love to do more essay writing for film releases. In fact, I’m about to file copy for another. Give me more please!
I must confess (to my beleaguered partner if no one else): when I booked tickets to see The Movie Orgy at @princecharlescinema.com tonight, I did *not* know the runtime.
I love watching gross movies in beautiful settings, so it was a perverse pleasure to see Pink Flamingos in NFT1 at the BFI last night. Those iconic curtains parting to reveal dogshit and a gaping arsehole – *chef’s kiss*
Friends and family fear he caught wind of another @indicator.bsky.social sale.
Finished the Human Condition trilogy at the @princecharlescinema.com last night. What does it all mean? Well, I’ve been ruminating over it these past three weeks and I believe the thesis of Masaki Kobayashi’s films can be summed up thus:
Snake, the new WORRIEDABOUTSATAN album directly stimulates the small bones of your ear. No one but you will be able to hear it.
Encounters of the Spooky Kind; Dead Lover; The Valley of Gwangi; The Human Condition Part 1: No Greater Love.
This sounds like an Always Sunny B-plot with Dennis and Dee.
Seriously considering getting a full American traditional-style backpiece based on the Valley of Gwangi poster.
Growing stupidly obsessed with Powerplant’s Bridge of Sacrifice, which twists together black metal and dungeon synth with egg punk, new wave, blues-rock ballads and more. It’s camp. It’s chaotic. It’s innovative in ways so much metal fails to be. And it’s the most fun thing I’ve heard all year.
Good morning to everyone but especially to the aul fella leaving Tesco with two Pot Noodles and a bottle of brown sauce. Guy’s eating good tonight.
The teardowns of Tetsuo are so good you can have some more.
Humbling half-star reviews of my Letterboxd top four.
Pleased to report there are no half-star reviews of Destry Rides Again – but only because no cunt’s seen it.
Also Juliette Lewis rules. And you guys heard about this Gena Rowlands? She’s gonna be huge.
Watched the 2002 HBO film Hysterical Blindness, in which Uma Thurman basically plays Dee from Always Sunny: always in a shitty bar, shitty attitude, Big Bird energy, delusional, skin-crawlingly awkward around men. She does everything but the dry heaves. 10/10.
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A father and son get in a terrible car accident. The father dies. The son is badly hurt and taken to a local hospital. There, the surgeon says, “I cannot operate on this boy – he is my son”. How is this possible?
That’s right, you are watching The Bride! by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
I always thought Outlandos d’Amour was the greatest Police album. But I just discovered Eberhard Schoener’s Flashback, which came out the same year. Sting vocals, Summers riffs and Copeland fills commingling with German experimental electronics? Yes, yes, yes.
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Ah, yes, the influenza’s gambit, the dregs of the cunning cold, when the illness retreats to the safety of the U-bend between the nose and throat, where it knows no amount of coughing or hawking can touch it. I loathe you – but I respect your guile.
Almost cried getting my knee ditch tattooed just now – but only because Black Sabbath’s Solitude came on in the shop.
Nobody’s heard from him in weeks. Friends and family fear he’s playing Slay the Spire.
I recently restarted with a fresh file too. I have logged almost 500 hours and have gold stickers on every joker and it’s still not enough 🙃
Restarted Elden Ring recently. Godrick may be the most fascinating character in the game – and we get so little of him! I’d be happy if Alex Garland’s film focused on grafting and how Godrick became a deluded demigod trash-lord weasel fuckboy hated by everyone from his subjects to his superiors.
A few strong mail days courtesy of Eureka and @filmsradiance.bsky.social recently. (I can stop whenever I want!)
Shoutout to Bad Bunny for, among other things, featuring a double dolly shot in his Super Bowl halftime show… which reminds me, I was high as hell on the Amsterdam Centraal Station ferry recently and, as it was docking, I blurted to my friends, “duhhh, look! it’s like we’re in a Spike Lee joint!”
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
Obsessed with these unhinged box sets I just found at Record Mania in Amsterdam. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence alongside Hulk Hogan dreck and Tommy Cooper’s greatest moments! I love this shit.
Incidentally, Pharmakon is the name of my new tech-punk thrash band à la Voivoid.
Fascinating essay on navigation, the “invisible agent” that is AI and the effects of stripping the online search system down and obfuscating its pathways. Capital! Cognitive decay! Pharmakon!
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There will surely be few more fascinating acts in music this year than Mustaine choosing to close Megadeth’s final, self-titled album – and his 40-year career – with a Metallica cover. Never change, Dave.
Happy 80th birthday, big man. You would’ve loved Laura’s blue velvet suit.