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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 14h

Never get tired of watching that

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 14h

AI I assume. Horrible

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 14h

I live in America and I’m not paying that

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 1d

As a friend who was planning to go to the 2026 WC told me, "this settles it". He won't.

Comparison of prices between the prices of tickets at the 2022 and 2026 Fifa World Cup, showing prices increases of up to 1,000%.

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 18h

If you went to Leeds University in 1973 you could've seen Captain Beefheart, Paul McCartney, and David Bowie play the Student Union

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 19h

As it should be

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 19h

One for #PynchonNames

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Russell you mad bastard

This should be released in IMAX

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Was just reading about him. Some wild stuff

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Now watching

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Ending is a bit shaky (too much exposition, some silly plot mechanics) but there's a lot of strong stuff in it

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds like the psychologist in Mad Men telling Don that people buy cigarettes because they have a death wish

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Think it's one of Spielberg's best

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent anecdote from Tim Curry's New Yorker interview.

Full text: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/tim-curry-does-the-time-warp

What was your relationship with Meat Loaf, whom you murder with an axe in the movie?

We were great friends, actually. I remember a moment when he was in New York with his girlfriend, later his wife, Leslie Loaf, which is what we all called her, and he said, “Timmy, I’m more famous than you are”—because he had a huge hit record, his very first album. I don’t remember which hotel we were in, but it was probably on one of the major avenues of Manhattan, and he said, “You and I should just walk down the street and see who recognizes who.” I said all right, and we did it. In fact, nobody recognized either of us. I thought that was funny. And he didn’t. He had an enormous ego.

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

He said unhinged not "perfectly reasonable"

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

I do!

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

"Friendly reminder that I'm about to be smug and patronizing"

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Me too. Song isn't even on streaming either. Poor Julia, record a classic banger and this is the gratitude people show

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Very expensive productions too. Top photographers, real sets

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. No people at all

B&H, Part 2: The surreal years.

I used to walk past this poster every week for about a year. I was fifteen, my Art teacher had got hold of a life size billboard poster, a 48 sheet, or I should say 48 sheets. It was twenty or thir…

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Art director Alan Waldie. Photographer Brian Duffy

LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Art director Alan Waldie. Photographer David Montgomery

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Today I am loving the surreal Benson & Hedges posters from the 70s and 80s. Art director Graham Watson. Photographer Adrian Flowers

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 1d

Great isn't it?

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