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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 17h

New single!

open.spotify.com/track/7lb4OG...

House of Dead Memories

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 2h

Also writer of one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time. (And I have never had a Lush song successfully stick in my head, so this isn't fanboy praise.)

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 3h

About as often as I use D-Box. (Which I only discovered was in the spec this year when a friend told me that his VIGILANTE disc - of all things! - has D-Box.)

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Steve Newall @stevenewall.bsky.social · 4h

🚨Worldwide premiere of the new Soulwax album tonight on 95bFM at 7pm - with a bunch of special surprises🚨

Tune in or stream at 95bfm.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

Nice joke you’ve got there. Be a real shame if I repeated the content of it back to you with aggressively pedantic sincerity.

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 1d

Don't be silly, they have a slider in the back-end UI that says "Create serious mental health issues" that they move in each release, duh

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The Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Would some rich person like to give us a lot of money? That would be neat. Just putting that out into the universe.

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 1d

RSS was one of the truly great inventions of the Internet—entirely decentralized sharing to your own personalized feed of the internet—and every company is working hard to kill it.

jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 1d

Netflix x Spotify licensing deal…

Small experiment w/ mainly The Ringer shows

When does @msnbc.com start simulcasting Pod Save?

Deal blocks Spotify from airing these shows on YouTube

Netflix Jumps Into Podcasts With Spotify Deal

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

If you've been coached by a
Freaky GOAT then you
Better call
GOAT busters!

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 1d

It was all reverse engineered from "I ain't afraid of no GOATs", but that riff hadn't crossed my mind, so well played.

Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 1d

This morning my brain decided to develop a sequel to HIM, where young aspiring football players team up to bring down the sadistic great veterans who run torture-filled training camps and the shadowy cabal behind them.

It is called, naturally, HIM 2: GOAT BUSTERS.

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 1d

If someone told me that they bet the writer of PSYCHO looked like this, I'd say they were perpetuating harmful stereotypes.

But here we are!

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 4d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 1d

Vince Gilligan creating a whole damn show around Rhea Seehorn, the most valuable player in Better Call Saul, has me more excited than any movie* coming out the rest of the year

*not directed by Jim Jarmusch, but still

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Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social · 2d

Finally caved and decided to make my Substack: welcome to Stray Comrades, which will serve as a paid newsletter for those who prefer to receive my reviews (which will remain on Taipei Mansions) by that method. open.substack.com/pub/straycom...

Welcome to Stray Comrades!

In which I decide to branch out once more...

open.substack.com

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 2d

It was a terrible time for representation of anyone other than my demographic but I kinda miss walking into the "literature" section and being greeted by half a dozen new books by hyperliterate neurotic white men, possibly with a science fiction conceit but too self serious to embrace that genre

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 3d

"Every time Ares isn't on screen, the other characters should be asking, 'Where's Ares?'"

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 3d

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 3d

"Every time Ares isn't on screen, the other characters should be asking, 'Where's Ares?'"

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure if the best analogy is the Simpsons episode with Poochie or Homer's dream car

Moxie @ blfc @dracocat.bsky.social · 3d

Its wild too because apparently Tron Ares was a different story/film initially but Leto wanted to explore his character so much he convinced the director to change it to focus on him.

“The first iteration of [Tron: Ares] was a different movie, but it had a character named Ares that [Leto] was cast as while we were in pre-production,” Wigutow says, “He really got his teeth into this character and really wanted to hold onto it, and ultimately came to me and said, ‘Let's just build a movie around this character. I want to understand this character, his origins, and I want to take him to a very different place.’ So that's really the provenance and the origin of this specific film is Jared's dogged persistence on getting it done, but also telling the story of this character specifically.”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

Christ these are beautiful

Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · Oct 30

Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie

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hotelkilo.bsky.social @hotelkilo.bsky.social · 4d

Every week for past two years on xray.fm, DJ Gilliflower has built worlds from scraps—both sonic and visual. Turtles Have Short Legs isn’t background music; it’s architectural. A séance conducted through transistor radio rather than Ouija board. xray.fm/shows/turtle...

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 5d

More specifically, RETURN OF GODZILLA is about international tensions and responses, whereas SHIN (as I recall) is about domestic bureaucracy. Both have heaps of job titles on screen!

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, absolutely, but this reflects it in a different way.

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 5d

Actually, it is turning out to be nonironically a fascinating double feature.

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 5d

Weird watching THE RETURN OF GODZILLA after A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, as there's a brief moment where the former evokes the latter as an unexplained attack threatens mighty retaliation.

Which makes one wonder if the missile in A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE was launched by Godzilla.

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