Why do some movie scenes stay with you forever? Simple: The Music. 🎬✨
We’re talking iconic soundtracks, chills-down-your-spine scores, and the "needle drops" that defined a generation. Join Kurt, Orrin, and Juan as they rank their favorite cinematic tracks. #NeedleDrops
A short delay on the next Holding On chapter — it’ll be here tomorrow. For today, I’m sharing a piece from my misspent youth: exuberance, recklessness, and bread rolls in flight.
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What happens when everyone at the party assumes you're someone you're not?
And what happens when… you don’t correct them?
Misrecognition, teal silk, and a sticker that says more than it should.
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Geweldige lijst met Needle Drops in Movies van The Hollywood Reporter. Wat is de eerste popsong waar jij aan denkt?
Ik begin: Sin Ella van Gypsy Kings in Fearless met Jeff Bridges..
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He nodded. I thought he understood.
He didn't.
New Needle Drop just landed—about control, image, and how fast you can lose both to a pair of clippers.
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Softly asking you to read, share, or sub if it lands.
#NeedleDrops #ComingOfAge #HairAsArmor #brittleviews
Part 2 of 3 in the latest Needle Drops.
A date that should have ended quietly. Instead, it asked for patience—and offered something odd and unexpectedly human in return.
Narrated version drops tonight.
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#NeedleDrops #Memoir #ShortEssays
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The year: 2002. Post-divorce.
I tried online dating when it still felt faintly illegal.
My first match? A psychology professor with a vending machine diet and a spreadsheet approach to dating.
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Which of my guests list of their Top 5 Needle Drops do you prefer, A or B? @binouzeusa.bsky.social @mrcraigcohen.bsky.social
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A scheduling slip means this week's Needle Drops story is out early.
It's about the kind of school discipline that didn’t leave marks on the register, only on the kids.
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#NeedleDrops #memoir #BritishSchool #shortstories #trauma #institutionalviolence #brittleviews
New essay: Please, Help Yourself.
A college disco. A biscuit tin. A girl who wouldn’t leave.
About awkward generosity, quiet grief, and the long echo of foil wrappers.
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She stayed for tea. I stayed gone.
New from my Needle Drops series: an essay about care, trespass, and the day I climbed the fence.
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A very real story of friendship, fire, a lighter, a sentence I never got to finish, and why I was kicked out of Woolworths (again).
No synths this time—just mischief and memory.
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#NeedleDrops #Memoir #BritishYouth #Substack #WoolworthsWasALifestyle #BannedIn79
We didn’t know what we were doing.
But we knew how to make it look like we did.
The Spasms World Tour: East Midlands Leg
Now up on Brittle Views.
Come read about how we made the noise matter.
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#punk #teenagemagic #NeedleDrops #memoir
1979. Derbyshire. We weren’t shopping—we were executing coordinated missions under cover of community centre tea urns and the scent of old suede.
Come for the tactical fashion, stay for the biddy brawls.
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#NeedleDrops #JumbleSaleOps #TacticalNostalgia
My latest: a scarlet jumper, a moody beret, DIY jeans, and one very strange girlfriend.
It’s not really about fashion. It’s about the things that shape us, stretch us, and sometimes get reknitted from scratch.
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I didn’t mean to stay.
But the kitchen had gravity. The tea never ran out. And I kept orbiting that table like I belonged there.
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#NeedleDrops #MicroMemoir #BrittleViews #FoundFamily
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Today's listening doubles as a mini English lesson. With Clinic, we get the old-fashioned "thee" for addressing one person, while Van Morrison's first backing band, "them" is a modern third-person plural object pronoun.
#NowPlaying #Clinic #VanMorrison #VinylSky #MusicSky
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"Lucretia My Reflection" throbs like a factory heartbeat.
A nihilistic march where the bass line's God and Andrew Eldritch preaches like a doomsday prophet who just ran out of smokes. 🚬
#NowPlaying #SistersOfMercy #VinylSky #DarkWave #VinylCommunity #NowSpinning #PostPunk #1980s
#needledrops 🎧
With all this taxing talk of tariffs taking effect, let’s keep the melodies flowing freely across borders!
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#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #BrokenSocialScene #IndieRock #AllMusic #VinylSky #MusicSky #ArcadeFire #Alvvays #TheNewPornographers #Metric #Destroyer #WolfParade
#needledrops 🎧
The groove in this song is peak badass. The video's cool as Kim Deal. And the Dandys are the epitome of slacker charm with a hedonistic, psychedelic art-rock aesthetic.
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#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #AllMusic #VinylSky #MusicSky #IndieRock #1990s #Portland
#needledrops 🎧
"Forgive them, even if they are not sorry."
This one's packed with great lines about disillusionment and deeper understanding.
It reflects the layered idea of the 11th dimension in physics—a realm beyond ordinary perception.
#NowPlaying #JulianCasablancas #IndieSleaze #MusicSky
#needledrops 🎧
Retro groove, fuzzy guitar tone, vibraphone flair.
"Now just like in a song from days of yore ~
Here you come a-knocking, knocking on my door ~
And I've never met a girl like you before."
#NowPlaying #IndieRock #90s
#needledrops
🎶 "Walking at a downtown pace; No sense of urgency, but I'm not running late." 🎶
#NowPlaying #MusicSky #IndieRock
#needledrops
Dry Cleaning described this song as "a lament about a pet tortoise, escaped as a result of family chaos."
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#MusicSky #IndieRock
1.Always on my mind (pet shop boys) / all of us strangers 2.THE POWER OF LOVE (FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD) / all of us strangers 3.BETTER BE GOOD TO ME (TINA TURNER) / IF 4.ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR SWIFT) / THE FALL GUY 5.LA NUIT N’EN FINIT PLUS (PETULA CLARK) / LA NUIT SE TRAÎNE 6. AGAINST ALL ODDS (PHIL COLLINS) / THE FALL GUY 7.MAAR DALA (KAVITA KRISHNAMURTHY) / THE POLITE SOCIETY 8.THE AIR THAT I BREATHE (THE HOLLIES) / HERETIC 9.AMERICA (FIRST AID KIT) / WILL & HARPER 10.KISSES SWEATER THAT WINE (jimmy rodgers) / vingt dieux
Les 10 meilleurs #NeedleDrops des films de 2024
