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Adam
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Movies, horror, sports, music, Tolkien, nerdy stuff, games, sarcasm, dad-life & general shenanigans.

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Getting back to my normal all-over-the-placeness, but this week can be summed up by: two great re-watches and a couple good new ones which didn’t completely click for me.

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
#FilmSky 🎥 📽️
Movie posters and ratings for: •The Lego Batman Movie (4.5*) •Dreams (3*) •Rocky II (4*) •The Lodge (2.5*)
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I suppose I could just share this, which pretty much covers my first 11 years of concerts.

Probably time to work on the second one now, to catch up on the last 15 years.
A poster with various clippings from rock magazines, concert maps/wristbands/set lists and over 45 concert ticket stubs from 1999 - 2010.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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39/??? Probably the most diverse 3-album stretch so far (DMX-Dance Party and now):

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

#NowSpinning #vinyl #NowPlaying
The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit… vinyl in a record player with the cover displayed next to it, behind a painted pumpkin with pipe cleaner sunglasses on
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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38/??? a little bit of a changeup here…

Dance Party - various artists, couldn’t find a year on it

#vinyl #nowspinning #nowplaying
A 1950s-looking vinyl cover titled “Dance Party” on front of a record player and speaker with fall decor.
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Weening myself off the annual 3-month horror binge is never easy, but this week’s choices certainly helped.

I definitely know it’s not going to take me 22 years to watch “Lost in Translation” again. New favorites for the season-change snuck in too.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#FilmSky 🎥 📽️
Movie posters and ratings for… Recently watched: King Kong (original- 5*) Rocky (5*) Lost in Translation (4.5*) The Professor and the Madman (3.5*) Movie posters for four (new/rotating) favorites: Braveheart, Seven, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Barry Lyndon.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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What’s a film you illogically associate with Thanksgiving/the post-Halloween autumn season?

For me, it’s a strong “Barry Lyndon.”
#FilmSky 🎥 📽️
An image from Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” featuring an 18th century Englishman facing a group of his drunken, slouched countrymen around a table in hall mostly barren, save for empty bottles and a chair scattered about.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
Wolverine, Cyclops, Beast and Gambit
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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37 of ??? going through our vinyl alphabetical by artist.

#NowSpinning #vinyl #NowPlaying

DMX - The Legacy
The gold shiny cover for DMX’s greatest hits compilation “The Legacy,” with a bright light-reflection-burst centered on it, on top of a record player.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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36/??? Here we go again…

DMX - …and Then There Was X

It mostly took me until post high school to get into rap. I liked Cypress, and Rage if they count, but I liked DMX as soon as I heard him in 8th grade. Top 3 all time for me, east. RIP dog

#NowSpinning #NowPlaying #Vinyl
DMX’s …and Then There Was X on vinyl displayed on top of a record player with some fall decor, including a pink pumpkin with sunglasses clearly painted and crafted by a genius-child.
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I mostly committed to Stranger Things S3 - sidebar: I think its the best season (?) - but I had to give some love to the one, underrated gem of a film, I did get to this week:

boxd.it/bEpIbv

#LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥
The Criterion Collection cover/poster for “A Scanner Darkly,” featuring a sea of green plants a man with a backpack is walking through, below a sky of blue flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A satisfying dusk sky:
A bare tree in front of a brick building with gray-blue clouds with a light-yellow sky peeking through from the top, fading to a gray-purple/pink closer to the horizon.
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#Last4Watched +2 and a lot of splatter this week, as I more or less wrapped up my Halloween-movie-fest goals for the year. A few stragglers will be scattered throughout November for sure though.
#LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters and ratings for: •The Return of the Living Dead (4) •Poltergeist (5) •Hatchet & Hatchet II (both 3.5) •Dawn of the Dead, 1978 (5) •Braindead, aka Dead Alive (4)
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Still coming to terms with spooky season ending…
Molding, decaying pumpkins getting soft and curling-in on themselves, amongst leaves and a skeleton propped on a wooden birdhouse decoration. Pie pumpkins similarly decaying and molding in our post-Halloween 2025 reality.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Snagged this beauty and the Donovan “Greatest Hits” on the cheap at Reckless Records before the David Byrne concert tonight. Great success.
Vinyls of Donovan’s “Greatest Hits” and a blood-splatter clear edition of “The Return of the Living Dead” soundtrack.
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I completed the Nightmare rewatch (skipping the remake, at least this season), Zombie’s Halloweens and a couple Universal masterpieces I haven’t watched in a very long time this week. A little more than a #LastFourWatched, but proper for a #LetterboxdFriday on Halloween; yay! #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters and ratings for Rob Zombie’s Halloween (3.5), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (2), Bride of Frankenstein (4.5), Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (1.5), The Wolf Man (1941, 4.5) and New Nightmare (4).
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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35/??? is one of those classic greatest hits collections everyone seemed to have one way or another growing up.

It’s a damn great one for sure.

#NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle: The Greatest 20 Hits

#vinyl
CCR’s “Chronicle” bifold on top of a record player surrounded by fall and Halloween decorations.
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Making up for last week’s shortage, and then some. I’ll call three Halloweens and three Nightmares,l in a week, plus a couple of classics, a success any time of the year.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, A Nightmare of Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Halloween H2O, ANES 4: The Dream Master, the Invisible Man (‘33), Halloween: Resurrection and ANES 5: The Dream Child.
October 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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My #LastFourWatched is a little shy this week. #LetterboxdFriday
Movie posters for Army of Darkness, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and Halloween 5.
October 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Somehow we’re halfway through October already, so I’m giving some other horror favorites, I’ve never featured as a favorite before, some love. Happy hauntings 🎃
#FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters for The Evil Dead, As Above So Below, The Cabin in the Woods, and Last Night in Soho.
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Some other highlights from my morning stroll.
Sunrise over Lake Michigan and a gazebo in the foreground. Sunrise and beachfront. Three dark rocks in the sand warmed by the sunrise, and Lake Michigan in the background. Sand hills on the beach with shadows created by the sunrise off screen.
October 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Good morning.
Today’s sunrise over Lake Michigan.
October 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Always a good time for some CCR.

On 34 of ??? going through our vinyl by artist.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #vinyl
Credence Clearwater Revival’s album Pendulum displayed until of a records player, with various fall/Halloween decor scattered about, including an octopus skeleton.
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Wrapped up the Friday the 13th rewatch, and got to one of my all-time favorites, this week. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#Filmsky 🎥
Movie posters for Jason X, Freddy vs Jason, Friday the 13th (‘09) and Evil Dead II.
October 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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33/???

#NowSpinning #NowPlaying #vinyl
Chick Corea - The Leprechaun

I enjoy the piano work on this one, but the jazzier segments… not so much.
Album sleeve and liner for Chick Corea’s “The Leprechaun” on top of a record player.
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I doth protest.
The cover of The Beatles’ Let it Be.
October 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM