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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 · 2d

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

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 6h

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 · 7h

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

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 8h

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

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 8h

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

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 9h

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

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

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

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

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

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

Dunno, but @ephender.bsky.social reports something similar when he looked for Minneapolis showtimes…

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

First to come to mind (though I haven’t seen it in a while) is Paul Leduc’s FRIDA STILL LIFE

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

Finally saw the new PTA yesterday, no thanks to Google’s AI mode which hallucinated some hilarious lies beginning with this:

“One Battle After Another" is not a real movie, so there are no showtimes available.

A review of One Battle After Another (2025)

Shame on me for still occasionally trying to use Google to find showtimes, but I had to laugh at this particular “AI mode” upchuck from a large language model seemingly sick from swallowing a directiv...

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 14h

Nope! Pretty sure this is the first time a 1-seed has had to face any seed between 65 and 128.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 14h

DOC or DOOLITTLE?

(The “T” is missing because Rex Harrison drank it up.)

I picked the underdog because it’s my favorite hip hop album still in the tournament.

The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 14h

The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #97
#1 Pixies, DOOLITTLE
vs.
#97 The D.O.C., NO ONE CAN DO IT BETTER

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #97: Pixies vs. The D.O.C.

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Tuesday, October 14th 10am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 4 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly...

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

This indigenous Canadian short film I saw last night as part of @kierlajanisse.bsky.social’s great All the Haunts Be Ours 2 folk horror box set (but apparently also available via YouTube?) would be an excellent thing to watch on Indigenous Peoples Day.

A review of Nalujuk Night (2021)

Interesting that it takes a short film (box set “extra”) to clarify this realization for me, especially considering that the subgenre has its roots in an early nonfiction work (Häxän), but I think a g...

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

I liked the first half!

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

There’s more interesting and better psychedelic space-rock in track 3 of FREEDOM than in the entirety of the boring PLAYING WITH FIRE. Vote for Neil!

The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #96
#22 Neil Young, FREEDOM
vs.
#43 Spacemen 3, PLAYING WITH FIRE

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 2 Match #96: Neil Young vs. Spacemen 3

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Monday, October 13th 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 3 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly s...

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: meat

Film: Meat (Frederick Wiseman) not that it’s a bad film, just one I don’t want to see again.

Song: “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” by Meat Loaf

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: cucumber, however if you pickle it I'll eat em all day

Film: Jacob's Ladder, avoided it for years then was tricked into seeing it

Song: the whole of the fucking moon

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

Courgette - cannot stomach the texture, like eating rotten cucumber

Is Threads a film?

“Clint Eastwood” - to you the flimsy Steve tweet is a funny joke, to me it’s a war crime indictment

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

Made me think of another one: “Pimps (Free Stylin’ at the Fortune 500 Club)” by The Coup

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 2d

Man of a thousand bases

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 2d

Any thoughts on these? (I just remembered another one too: “Pablo Picasso” by the Modern Lovers, arguably a better song than all these put together):

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 2d

You may not think all of these are good, but here’s a few:

Bette Davis Eyes -Kim Carnes
Martin Scorsese -King Missile
Laurel and Hardy -The Equals
Thelma Todd -People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
Song for Tura Satana -the Mountain Goats
Pandora’s Box -OMD
Roman P -Psychic TV
Andy Warhol -David Bowie