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Joshua Rogers

@jr73.bsky.social

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Chicagoan, drums for Routine Faces, Kerosene Stars, more. Software tester and garden variety nerd.

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · Sep 13

AMA about trying to play synthwave in the Chicago bar scene!
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Can four nerds shoot a music video in 6 hours for $700? Yep.Directed, filmed, and edited by Routine Faces with an iPhone, stock footage, and beer.Special th...

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 16h

Watched REDS again last night, and man, what a film, what a story, what a cast. In its day it was overshadowed by Chariots of Fire and I think other historical epics like Lawrence of Arabia get more attention but REDS is right up there, I tell you what. Fantastic.

Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty in REDS

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 17h

Cool to see this; I also have loved it since seeing it in high school when the fantastic music was much more important to me than the inscrutable narrative. Was hoping I’d see some positive feedback on the new version.

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 3d

Walking the dog earlier this evening in Elmwood Park.

Foreground: bocce ball courts. Middle: a gazebo festooned with multicolored Christmas lights, glowing brightly against the background of a house and trees below a stunning pink and blue sunset reflected on the clouds.

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 6d

Joe & Eileen Bailey?

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 9d

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 12d

River: “I has a leef.”

River, blue tick beagle/coon hound mix, sitting amongst a pile of toys, head tilted, with a ficus leaf hanging precariously from the very tip of her mouth.

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 12d

I kiss in my room to popular tunes.
A real drowner.

MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 12d

Tag yourself.
(I'm 'fifty-two years an imbecile')

Work, Work, Work

On about this date in 1801, Britain's first census was begun. In a subsequent survey conducted in 1881, residents were asked to furnish their "rank, profession, or occupation." Some of the more puzzling responses, as preserved by the London Genealogical Society, included:

Colourist of artificial fish

Knight of the Thimble

Disinfector of railways

Examiner of underclothing

Invisible net maker

Electric bath attendant

Proprietor of midgets

Fifty-two years an imbecile

Knocker-up of workpeople

Maker of sand views

Gymnast to house painter

Turnip shepherd

Emasculator

Sampler of drugs

Fatuous pauper

Drowner

Count as female

Fish-bender

Goldfish-catcher

Cow-banger

Running about

Grape-dryer

Beef twister

Random waller

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 13d

Greatest city on this goddamn planet. ✊

Chicago is officially one of the top 10 happiest cities in the world

The Windy City is all smiles in 2025

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, nice essay here, highlighting the subtle but important way Sam Rockwell’s performance is so different from most other twin/double-roles from Dead Ringers to Sinners.
Jen passed thru the room, noticed clips of Moon and insisted we need to watch it again soon. Don’t need to twist my arm!

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 17d

A kind and thoughtful video essay about MOON from Ken. Sharing it for those who might be interested, and because it occurred to me that more people have watched this wonderful essay than probably got to see the film when it was at the cinema! 😅

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The Role That Should've Broken Sam Rockwell

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 17d

Nice, will absolutely devour any Moon commentary I can find.
Also I distinctly remember seeing both Moon and District 9 in theaters like a month apart and reveling in the feeling of a new golden age of spec-fic.

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 18d

Super excited to see (and hear) this in IMAX; glad you enjoyed it so much (and loved the callback to Roger's stance on the original). As a musician with different names for different expressions of my work, however, will nitpick your credit of the score to Reznor/Ross instead of NIN. Great read tho.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19d

FREDDIE: So Eddie, I’m putting together a playlist for the Audubon event.

EDDIE: Who’s on it?

FREDDIE: I got Geese.

EDDIE: Goose?

FREDDIE: No, Geese.

EDDIE: More than one?

FREDDIE: It’s just the one. Geese.

EDDIE: I’m saying. Geese is more than Goose.

Freddie and Eddie, the Nation’s Leading Temu Abbott and Costello, in “Dat Bird!”

“Goose is a jam band. Geese is indie rock. They both have new albums. They’re also both on tour. Confused? We can help.” — New York Times - - -FRED...

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 21d

XBMC?

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 22d

META JOKE I get it now, good one. 😆

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 22d

Absolutely, every word. @artemiswinter.bsky.social probably remembers the cast party, but didn’t come to the movie, as I recall.

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 22d

Oh man that sounds like a good time… I saw Jacob’s Ladder at a midnight showing after a high school cast party (following our final performance of You Can’t Take It With You) and to call it foundational to my philosophies of both cinema and life would not be overstating it. Still have the poster.

Box office display poster of Jacob’s Ladder, worse for wear but not bad for being 35 years old.

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 22d

#LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday

Last four watched: The Third Man (1949), One Battle After Another (2025), Atomic Blonde (2017), Warfare (2025)

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 23d

Maybe you-know-who’s gamer bro fanboys are revisiting it one more time before dumping Netflix???

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 23d

We were there! I hope I make it on camera... I'm the white guy. 🤞

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 25d

Me: What’cha got there, River?

River: Nothiiiinnggg….

River, beagle mix, sits in a corner with a cottage cheese container in her mouth such that she can barely see around it. We just make out her eyes over the edge of the container and she looks so, SO guilty.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25d

Geese, with their new album "Getting Killed," have achieved something miraculous for 2025: suggesting a future to look forward to, @skornhaber.bsky.social writes.

Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll

The band Geese is pushing the genre in new and electrifying directions.

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Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 26d

Update: still thinking about the cinematography of the last sequence in this film. Haunted, if you will. 🚗🚓🚕

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 28d

One Battle After Another…. Damn, I say DAAAMNN! Really something else. INCREDIBLE that that film is coming out right now.

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 26d

River had her first visit to a dog park and first time in water this weekend! (Portage Park dog-friendly area)

Joshua Rogers @jr73.bsky.social · 27d

Age yourself with a film you saw in cinemas as a kid. (Special Gen X Edition)