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James Callan

James Callan

@scarequotes.com

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Moviegoer, movie lover. PNW denizen. UX content worker. Word nerd. Ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch. Handy on a trivia team. Hard cider, iced tea. he/him, cis Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/xrv

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 3h

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Missing Orlando, Boston, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Houston, Nashville, and Honolulu

Aim to get to 3-4 of those.

JanDen @jand87.bsky.social · 7h

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 15h

It's kind of wild to remember that it was not clear whether or not this or Star Wars would be a bigger hit, or have a bigger impact.

Got to see this in 70mm this summer, and it's just great.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 19h

Good to remember sometimes that the best thing to happen to George Lucas was failing to get the rights to make a Flash Gordon movie.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 19h

105 titles away according to Letterboxd, which is probably not completely accurate but at this point is not far off.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 19h

Sometime next year I should see my 3000th unique movie. (As in, not including rewatches.) That feels like a lot yet also like I'm behind.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 21h

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon

(Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

I saw Heavenly Creatures when it came out and have been a fan of hers ever since. I’m pleased that she’s had such a long and successful career.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

Sexy Pierce Hawthorne death

Oh nooooo no no no thanks

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

sexy radio address to the nation on free and fair trade april 25, 1987

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

Love The Old Dark House

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

Said rainbow

Two rainbows! Taken from the passenger seat of a car on WA state route 14.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

Double rainbow in Camas!

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

That remains my favorite Swift song, though.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 1d

Sometimes being good at trivia means people are going to call you a Swiftie for knowing that "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is (supposedly) about Jake Gyllenhaal.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

Last four watched, as per Friday tradition.

Letterboxd recent activity
Pulse (original Japanese) (4 stars)
The First Omen (3.5 stars)
Roofman (3.5 stars)
True Grit (4 stars)

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 2d

we simply do not talk enough about how much of modern capitalism has pivoted away from providing goods and services in exchange for money and into inconveniencing and harassing people with fees, surcharges, and delayed invoicing for long enough that they give you money just to make it stop

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2d

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 2d

The PDF of my cookbook, which gives ideas on reducing food waste after a Thanksgiving-like feast, is also free. bsky.app/profile/ivac...

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 26d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d

What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?

Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.

Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

People are weird. The Omen caused a spike in popularity for the name "Damien."

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

Richard Strauss's "Im Abendrot" from Four Last Songs in Wild at Heart, particularly over the climactic scene.

If opera counts, any of the songs Mario Lanza sings in Heavenly Creatures would be way up there.

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 3d

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 2d

I know the wrong acronyms because when my 15-year-old said he needed to stay after school to "CNC something" my eyebrows went up.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 3d

LearnedLeague players rejoice:

My quiz on "James" will run on May 5, 2026.

Probably not all about me. Intended to be about other Jameses, unless my ego runs rampant.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 3d

Dithered too long on the Criterion flash sale, so Fast Times went out of stock.

Ended up with an eclectic set:
A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong: Two Films by Edward Yang
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Bringing Up Baby

Green Tea is a blind buy for me.

James Callan @scarequotes.com · 3d

Grew up in Wisconsin. Never heard of Buc-ees until I lived in Washington — where there are also no Buc-ees. I've still never been; closest is Colorado, it seems.