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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I’ve only rewatched it once, but it’s such a carefully considered movie. Also, under 90 mins - happy days!

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 1d

So good! Lovecraft via Clive Barker but super tense and weird. Think I’ll rewatch it myself soon.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 6d

Yep. ‘Yoghurt’ is a classic of the ‘melt’ variety. ‘Crumpet’ I’ve heard, too, but never ‘lukewarm crumpet’ - in a non-culinary sense, at least. I’ll try to use it today. Although I’m in America right now, so it might not have the intended effect.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 7d

Old English slang term. ‘Melt’. As in, ‘Shut up, you melt.’ Anyone still use this? I’m bringing it back, via Sydney.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 7d

Having a bit of a creative renaissance at the moment. I’ll spam you all about it later.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 9d

It’s okay everyone. Double Jeopardy (Judd not gameshow) is on Showtime.

This world is right again.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 9d

Why did I start watching that Netflix Ed Gein thing? I knew it’d be shit. Now I can’t look away. It’s like slowing down when you drive past a car crash.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

I’m sure there’s still a voice there and I’m sure she’ll love it.

Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

35 years - that’s huge. Sorry it’s so tough right now. Glad you’ve still got a bit of a smile, even if it’s hard.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

Gotta love the music business. You get plied with all manner of free things, and getting wasted is glorified, and then you are expected to have restraint, like you can turn it on or off. Hope you’re doing good now.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

Haha! Good for you. Wonderful. Did it get printed?

My guy came up to me after the show and he was almost crying. He said, ‘You don’t really think that do you?’ And I was like, ‘Well, yeah.’
Silver lining in the cloud of the streaming era is that reliance on assholes like that is far less now.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

Looks like I’m back on social media.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

L'Homme à tête de chou era Gainsbourg but, like, goth and with Neil Young kind of fuzzy guitars and Linn drum machines with a fuck ton of reverb over everything. That’s my genre. Wish me luck.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

Share a terrible movie that is indefensible but you love it and will defend it to the death 🎬

I have seen it more times than any movie apart from the original Candyman. Yet I have never seen it sober.

This is the poster for Ghoulies Go To College. It shows 3 really cheaply made monster things in academic robes, sitting in front of a toilet, looking mischievous. Caption reads: Out of the bowl and totally out of control.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

Just had a mad dream in which I was arguing with some dude about Tindersticks. He thought they were shit and I was like ‘listen to the fucking piano doubling with the bass guitar in Bathtime, you idiot.’

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 12d

This is responsible for my (highly irrational) fear of bees. Well, this and My Girl.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 16d

No. Fake out. He’s alive and eating a carrot. All is well. Carry on as you were.

Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 16d

I’m watching Space Jam 2 (don’t ask). A) Is that Pennywise in the crowd? And B) did they just fucking kill Bugs Bunny????? 25% RT seems generous.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 16d

Okay, so I just watched Cuckoo. Late to the party (and not fashionably so). Movies don’t usually scare me, but this one? Petrifying. Also, Dan Stevens. #HorrorSky

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · 22d

Exciting news! My horror short story collection, Pills, is being re-released next year by the wonderful @veloxbooks.bsky.social #horrorsky

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’m enjoying that new documentary series Alien: Earth.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s been a while, friends. Apologies. Things have been…strange.

Normal service (whatever that is) will resume in due course.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · Aug 21

I couldn’t sleep last night and, as a consequence, I think I’ve completed Tubi.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · Jul 17

It’s embarrassing enough going to see Coldplay.

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Jack Binding @jackbinding.bsky.social · Jul 14

Or a port.

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