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Darren Hughes

@longpauses.bsky.social

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Occasional writer and film programmer with a day job. Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook. Artistic Director, FILM FEST KNOX. www.longpauses.com

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · Jan 21

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 19h

I'm thinking about doing that middle-aged man thing where you get really into WWII or Rome or whatever but instead do the Spanish Civil War and Francoism.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 19h

I read the Philip Roth bio and hoo boy.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 23h

FB informs me it's been nine years since I chatted with and photographed these two dashing young men.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine making direct eye contact with Rhian Teasdale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSH...

Wet Leg - CPR (Live on KEXP)

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 2d

Leni Riefenstahl is extremely useful as an example of how little scrutiny fascist aesthetics can bear. It’s all fundamentally the same lazy dopamine triggers of recognition as any pop culture nostalgia, just showing you conservative-coded shit and saying “only 1890s kids understand”

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 2d

I've taken a new, more aggressive approach to blocking on social media. Health, wellness, finance, self-help influencer? Blocked. Person I would find annoying if they were seated near me at dinner? Blocked. Everyone associated with that Riyadh comedy show? Blocked. Marie Kondo but the internet.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 2d

"Grace Under Pressure is a flawless album"

This is the correct opinion.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 4d

Reposting because even if I'm the only person who thinks so, this is very funny. Imagine trying to make conversation with Bradley Cooper and not staring at his hair.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 4d

Same energy

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, it turns out I don't really care about one group of people duping another group of people with crypto scams 🤷‍♂️

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 4d

Same energy

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 9d

Went for a 5-mile walk on the beach today, and every single dude I passed had the same beard, the same baseball hat, the same sunglasses, and the same bicep tattoo. It's like everyone in South Alabama went to a MAGA store and bought the ICE costume.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 12d

I'm at the beach in Alabama, and if my only source of information were local TV news, I would 100% be a fascist.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 9d

It's fun when people I don't like suffer!

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 12d

I'm at the beach in Alabama, and if my only source of information were local TV news, I would 100% be a fascist.

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 12d

TIL Nick Saban was at Kent State with the guys from Devo.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 13d

Bad energy, both of them. I skipped the former at TIFF and will definitely not under any circumstances ever watch the latter.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 14d

My copy is a DVD-R that I burned after renting it from Greencine twenty years ago. (Great movie.)

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 14d

Find a ticket, Brian.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 15d

Glad to hear you're a fan too! The other Knoxville film, Niches, is also great.

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 15d

My favorite comment on aging: "You're either gonna look old or you're gonna look weird."

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 15d

Post a poster you have hanging on your wall

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 15d

I'm proud to be presenting a rare screening of regional experimental filmmaker Peter Bundy, whose work in the late-'70s and early-'80s somehow reminds me of both Peter Hutton and Ross McElwee. They're now available on 16mm and digital transfer from Walker Art Center. Good stuff!

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 15d

The FILM FEST KNOX program is live. :)
www.filmfestknox.com

Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 15d

The FILM FEST KNOX program is live. :)
www.filmfestknox.com

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Eric Dawson @edawson.bsky.social · 17d

Normally I would never suggest engaging with Klein at all, but what is apparent here is that he is spinning out because his imagined idea of America butts up against Coates' sober and historically grounded view of it. You're watching an avatar of the privileged pundit class fall apart in real time

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18d

it's a great interview, and what's striking is that at the end of the day both klein and coates believe in winning people over. the difference is that coates thinks you do this by telling them the truth, and klein thinks you do it by empathizing with them and recognizing their concerns as Real

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 17d

I'm number 364. My first piece for the Notebook was 17 years ago!

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Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social · 17d

Last night my mother told me that when she was doing her surgical rotation in nursing school, she was slow in responding to a doctor during an amputation, so he threw the patient's leg at her. "I thought I was going to be written up, but the doctor got in trouble." I'm 53 and just heard this story.