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Brian Darr

@hellonfriscobay.bsky.social

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Cinephile, music lover & library worker originally from San Francisco now living in Maine. These are personal opinions that may not reflect the views of my employer.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 3d

My spouse Kerry Laitala has a low-budget 3D movie called Terra Incognita screening as part of the @exploratorium.bsky.social’s Chromatic Cinema event this Thursday www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calend...

After Dark: CMYK | Exploratorium Museum Event

Strut down a runway in your brightest outfit, learn about the secrets of primary colors, play with optical illusions, plus more surprises await you at After Dark—come show off your true colors!

www.exploratorium.edu

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 3h

Not counting films that popped into my head because they were mentioned in the prompt or the quote-tweet that put it in my feed:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Mummy (1932)
Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Fly (1986)

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 4h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 4h

Surely BAMPFA will show it eventually but…

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 4h

They’d have to come in at the one hour mark in order to match the runtime ratio of Blissfully Yours.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 5h

Weird. It’s scheduled to play fourteen times in a 376-seat museum theatre in Portland, Maine.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 5h

Wasted opportunity not to cast Sir Paul too…

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 6h

Was just on the McGill campus nine days ago! I see how it could stand in for an Ivy…

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve never been able to come up with a precedent and I’ve thought about it a lot since experiencing first hand in April 2003.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 6h

I guess Puffy went to Cal- maybe Bill too? But Roddy was an SFSU Gator and Mike went to Humboldt State. Jim was at Chabot College with Cliff Burton. No idea how many degrees earned in total.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 8h

I had to guess one of them (the “Money” question) but I guessed it right!

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 9h

Fall of Otrar is incredible.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

I believe that’s the cover for the European release. The US Cassette release also includes more of the painting than the US CD. (I owned both at one point.)

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

There are three albums left in the tournament that could conceivably called “metal”. Next week The Cult’s SONIC TEMPLE faces The Cure and Ministry’s MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO TASTE faces the Beastie Boys. Suffice to say THE REAL THING is the genre’s only hope of participating in round 4. Vote FNM!

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

It’s excellent, but “The River” was my bonus because it’s a particular stand-out, especially since it’s her own composition, which seemed important for the first appearance here by a previously unpolled artist perhaps better known for her activism & interpretations of standards than as a songwriter.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

I may have been invited to a 924 Gilman show as early as 1989 (certainly by 1990) but i didn’t feel like I’d have fit in. Took me until 2009 to finally go to see a co-worker’s band.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

(Well, not yesterday but that was still round 2)

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

I’m fervently hoping for at least two and wouldn’t mind a lot. This week I believe I’m voting for the underdog each day.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassed to admit as a Bay Area native that I hadn’t heard most of it until the tournament!

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t vote for it this round but that doesn’t mean I’m not bummed too. Burdened with a terrible seed and some bad luck on top of that.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

Operation Ivy: st
Pop Will Eat Itself: This is the Day, This is the Hour, This is This
Queen Latifah: All Hail the Queen
Indigo Girls: st
Nomeansno: Wrong

The final eighth of this bracket got a lot less interesting to me with these favorites all gone (though there are still albums I like in play.)

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

I spaced on presenting my usual “fallen soldiers” list of first-round favorites I’d most miss in round 2, but let me present my round 2 set of LPs that I most wish could’ve advanced (whether I voted for them or not):

808 State: 90
Soul II Soul: Keep on Movin’
Wire: IBTABA

(Continues in post 2)

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

That film only has one “The” though! Where’s the made-up title?

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

It was a simple Google search “one battle after another” “showtimes” “Portland Maine”.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

Not my favorite of theirs! (Some great tracks of course.)

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, isn’t that where YOU are originally from…

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

1983. More of a thoughtful art film (apropos to the subject, arguably) than Taymor’s striking but more melodramatic approach.