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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1h

The embodiment of evil (crazy eyes version)

Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1h

Rock over London, rock on Chicago; Wheaties, breakfast of champions

Young(ish?) man in black, black sunglasses, seriously Heinriching his shirt, throwing a rock hand; older man in beige jacket, beige hat, back to camera, multiple rings, giving him the rock hand in return

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2h

And six minutes in we've got a satanic cult! This movie has it all!

Satanic cult, in robes, with candles, you know the drill

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2h

"Grandpa says it's good for me!"
"Grandpa? When did you see Grandpa? Did he give you this pumpkin? WHAT ELSE DID HE GIVE YOU?"

This movie is already at like an 8 y'all, and we are four minutes in

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2h

Oct 14 is the 1988 film Hack-O-Lantern, directed by Jag Mundhra, whose career, careening between US and Indian B-to-Z movies, includes The Jigsaw Murders, LA Goddess, Tropical Heat, Improper Conduct, Irresistible Impulse, Private Moments, Provoked, Shoot on Sight, and Naughty @ 40

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2h

Ha, yes! He was very much the "oh, that guy! That guy who is absolutely in those things, right?" actor of the movie

(Meanwhile obviously I clocked my boy Leif Garrett from the first frame)

Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2h

"But mom, I like the taste of blood!" Also an actual line of dialog, not five seconds after the last post!

A child with blood flecks around his lips; his mother has just extracted his bleeding finger from his mouth

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2h

"Trick or Treat, give me all your candy or I'll blow your head off" is an actual line of dialog in this movie

Small child holding a toy machine gun and improbably wearing a button-down shirt; in the foreground his sister clutching a doll, as if this is the moment she always suspected and feared

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 2h

Oct 14 is the 1988 film Hack-O-Lantern, directed by Jag Mundhra, whose career, careening between US and Indian B-to-Z movies, includes The Jigsaw Murders, LA Goddess, Tropical Heat, Improper Conduct, Irresistible Impulse, Private Moments, Provoked, Shoot on Sight, and Naughty @ 40

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 3h

Yo @crabmoney.bsky.social, guess what I found at Graveface Records in Chicago?

Cheerleader Camp OST, featuring a cheerleader with a skull for a head leaping and shaking pom poms. Also, she is somehow winking.

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Mr. Friend @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 8h

Been needing some new Tadd Adcox in my life and you should, too.

Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

"She’d had a dream the night before, or perhaps just before awakening, in which she was attempting to extract, without puncturing herself, a long needle from her throat."

"Three Stories about Loss," new in @newworldwriting.bsky.social

James Tadd Adcox ~ Three Stories About Loss - New World Writing Quarterly

Unable to Sleep For several nights now he had believed himself unable to sleep. Each morning he would rise remembering having spent the previous eight hours

newworldwriting.net

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 6h

Aww, thanks, terrifying bird thing!

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

"She’d had a dream the night before, or perhaps just before awakening, in which she was attempting to extract, without puncturing herself, a long needle from her throat."

"Three Stories about Loss," new in @newworldwriting.bsky.social

James Tadd Adcox ~ Three Stories About Loss - New World Writing Quarterly

Unable to Sleep For several nights now he had believed himself unable to sleep. Each morning he would rise remembering having spent the previous eight hours

newworldwriting.net

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 8h

RIP to one of the greatest

tru @thetrudz.photo · 9h

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 12h

Sort of Tithonus crossed with Chuang Tzu, I guess

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you! I think I made that one up(?), but honestly, who knows

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 13h

"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."

>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC

SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing

BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...

www.alwayscrashing.com

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New World Writing Quarterly @newworldwriting.bsky.social · 16h

Excited to share these stories from Tadd Adcox!

Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

"She’d had a dream the night before, or perhaps just before awakening, in which she was attempting to extract, without puncturing herself, a long needle from her throat."

"Three Stories about Loss," new in @newworldwriting.bsky.social

James Tadd Adcox ~ Three Stories About Loss - New World Writing Quarterly

Unable to Sleep For several nights now he had believed himself unable to sleep. Each morning he would rise remembering having spent the previous eight hours

newworldwriting.net

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

List of movies, TV shows, etc, featuring scenes set in the Culvert of the Los Angeles River:

24
All Quiet On The Western Front
Ambulance
Blood In Blood Out
Blue Thunder
Chinatown
Cleopatra Jones
Deadline Auto Theft
Double Nickels
Drive
Earthquake
Fear the Walking Dead
Freaky Friday
Gangster Squad
Girls Town
Gleaming the Cube
Gone in 60 Seconds and its loose remake
Grease
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
I Got The Hook Up
In Time
Into The Wild
It's Alive
L.A. Story
Last Action Hero
Point Blank
Point Break
Repo Man
Roadblock
Starsky & Hutch
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Blue Knight
The Core
The Dark Knight Rises
The Gumball Rally
The Italian Job
The Junkman
The Bad Guys
Them!
This Christmas (2007 film)
To Live and Die in L.A.
Transformers
Volcano

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the imagery here feels like a direct precursor to Alien/Aliens

Team of three in gas masks with flamethrowers come upon a chamber filled with eggs and dead giant ants

Giant ant eggs--huge, alien things, illuminated by the team's flashlights

One of the explorers letting go with a flamethrower across the eggs

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

...There's something pleasurable for the audience, clearly, in seeing the tropes of the mystery followed, even while we know from the beginning the mystery's solution--in the same way, presumably, Greek audiences took pleasure in watching plots performed whose endings they had known since childhood

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting how much of these 50s creature feature movies are taken up with the *mystery* of what's going on, when the audience clearly knows, from the movie posters if nothing else, that it's giant ants or a giant iguana or whatever

Cops coming into a busted-up store, mystified by the scene

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

Nice splash of color for this title screen

Black and white footage of desert landscape, with the title "THEM!" overlaid in bright red capitals

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 13 is the 1954 classic of bug-horror, Them!, directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by David Weisbart

A giant ant hovers threatening over a woman who looks back at it/her, kind of squinting

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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 11 was the @alwayscrashing.bsky.social reading at Comfort Station in Logan Square, which I'm saying counts, because a number of the pieces read were spooky, and there was cool atonal drone-y music; Oct 12 was skipped, unfortunately, due to technical issues (stuck overnight at O'Hare)

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