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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 5h

Huge bonus points for THE MONKEY not continuing to hit that same worn-out Satanic Panic pressure point as LONGLEGS and BLACKCOAT’S DAUGHTER.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 5h

I was totally blindsided by how much I love that thing, especially after actively dis-enjoying LONGLEGS.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 6h

One time, he got really cross during a podcast interview because the other guy brought up the subject of HPL’s racism. Petersen was quick to deflect by saying most of Lovecraft’s horror comes from the idea of “having sex with someone you’re not supposed to.”

Like…my dude…that sounds pretty racist.

a man in a brown shirt is making a funny face .

Alt: Meme of Captain Mal on FIREFLY being speechless in an exaggerated way.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 8h

FWIW, my “Best Horror Movie of the Year” is THE MONKEY with maybe PRESENCE in second place. Yes, I also enjoyed SINNERS but the vampire-focused bits didn’t feel like anything new.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t agree with “Best Horror Movie of the Year,” but TOGETHER might be the one that actually scared me the most. Really tight script with better dialogue than most in its class.

Film poster for TOGETHER, showing Dave Franco and Alison Brie with their arms fusing together in a body horror way. The blurb at the top says, “The Best Horror Movie of the Year.”

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 8h

21. Favorite AVENGERS Film:

INFINITY WAR. For about ten minutes, I let myself pretend the consequences were gonna stick, and that made these movies feel more substantial than they really are. Also, it’s effectively GUARDIANS, vol. 2.5, which I both love and hate about it.

Film poster for AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, which shows like a bajillion characters from at least 8,000 previous movies.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 8h

20. Favorite Place.

This may be a cheat, but I really like San Francisco, and SHANG-CHI begins and ends there so, bang: it’s my favorite place in the MCU.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 10h

I’m very fond of “Just two adults getting a stew on, man!”

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 11h

My dude was so good in HALLOWEEN ENDS.

a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd

Alt: Tobias Funke meme about there being DOZENS OF US! DOZENS!

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, I get that. I can’t really think of a time when I ever listened to just one ISIS song. You kind of have to just take the whole journey.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 21h

Dude, WAVERING RADIANT is such a personal record for me. I fucking WORE OUT that song “20 Minutes, 40 Years” because my uncle died at age 40 a little while after I got that record. That song is just heavy in every sense of the word, and so cathartic.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 23h

They actually made a THE GUEST 2 soundtrack that was so legit I thought that a sequel actually got made. The album art had Dan Stevens in a cowboy hat. It was so believable! theguest2.bandcamp.com/album/the-gu...

The Guest 2 (Original Soundtrack), by Various Artists

12 track album

theguest2.bandcamp.com

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 23h

And yeah, they were great live. The opening track from OCEANIC was the encore and I lost my miiiiind!

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 23h

Along the same lines, PANOPTICON loses a few percentage points for me because it’s too good at being an instant classic shoegaze record. Even if TRUTH songs like “Holy Tears” and (my favorite) “Dulcinea” aren’t actually heavier than “In Fiction,” they feel heavier (to me) for some reason.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

Most people I know prefer that one, and it’s definitely a showstopper. When I saw them live “In Fiction” was their most-impactful song. All that said, I go *hard* for IN THE ABSENCE OF TRUTH.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha ha

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

I wish. As much as I like Sumac and various other Aaron Turner projects I feel like ISIS gave him more pushback, and his creative ideas manifested in sharper relief.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll bet. I’ve caught them a few times on tour. I should see if any tickets are left for next time…

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since day one, just a stupidly talented person.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I skipped a Friday night daycare function at a park to stay home. This is me winning.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

Define your musical taste with 8 artists:

DJ Shadow (early career)
HEALTH
El-P (not RTJ, he’s better solo)
Chelsea Wolfe
.clipping
Depeche Mode
ISIS (reunion album when?)
My Chemical Romance (same)

𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖆𝖘 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖊 𝖘𝖆𝖜 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖈𝖗𝖊 @shane.is.tired.fyi · 1d

define your music taste with 8 artists 🎧

hante
sidewalks and skeletons
aux animaux
crystal castles
boy harsher
moonvampire
pastel ghost
flesh of morning
she past away
pixel grip
black marble
snow strippers
mareux
twin tribes
the soft moon
deathday

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Lyx Lyon @lyxlyon.bsky.social · 2d

define your music taste with 8 artists 💽

children of bodem
100 gecs
drop kick murphys
destroy boys
mc chris
atari teenage riot
municipal waste
anamanaguchi

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha ha, same. “Woods” may be their best song ever and that’s on the next record.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

As much as this movie makes *ahem* choices for Black Widow, I still like when she says, “That’s not a question I need answered.” You can read it in at least two ways. Whedon is at his best when he gives his speakers a character limit.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

You are too kind, JVF. Hope you have a good weekend.

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Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.social · 1d

Back in like 2007, I watched FACE IN THE CROWD, ACE IN THE HOLE, and I think NETWORK, in like a 2-week period. Pretty incredible sequence of thematically-linked films.

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