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David Raposa
@balsafinery.bsky.social
· Jan 11
Spectacle Theater Trailer Archive - 2011
A list of some of the films screened by Spectacle Theater ("a collectively-run screening space in Brooklyn, NY") in 2011, based solely on the trailers uploaded to their Vimeo page, ordered semi-chrono...
letterboxd.com
I'm not a @spectacletheater.com volunteer (unless you count my "work" in their early-Covid chat streams), but I am (slowly) working on LTRBXD lists, by year & what's in their Vimeo trailer archive (w/ links), of what's (kinda) played there
here's (part of) 2011: letterboxd.com/falsebinary/...
here's (part of) 2011: letterboxd.com/falsebinary/...
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i wonder why
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i wonder why
RFK2 / **zz* Quarantine Protocols:
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
RFK2 / **zz* Quarantine Protocols:
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
Phase 1: keyword muting
Phase 2: muting / blocking folks (mostly journos) that are subposting about the drama
Phase 3: logging off / trying the pencil trick (dealer’s choice)
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A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
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There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
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Udo in my living room circa 2001, holding the blow-up doll from Jorg Buttgereit's SCHRAMM (that's Ant Timpson on his right) Thanks to my friend Dave Pikker for unearthing the pic
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Udo in my living room circa 2001, holding the blow-up doll from Jorg Buttgereit's SCHRAMM (that's Ant Timpson on his right) Thanks to my friend Dave Pikker for unearthing the pic
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A while back I was on @severinfilms.bsky.social BluRay of “Viy”, talking about Russian/Soviet horror & scifi. Here’s a @letterboxd.social list of the films I mentioned, plus more. It’s still very incomplete, so I might expand it, but it’s a sort of starter pack to the subject. boxd.it/QjiKI/detail
Russian/Soviet Folk Horror/Sci-Fi
A while back I was an extra to Severin’s Blu-Ray of Viy, talking about Russian and Soviet horror and sci-fi. Some people were nice about it, especially the number of titles I mentioned. So I thought I...
boxd.it
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A while back I was on @severinfilms.bsky.social BluRay of “Viy”, talking about Russian/Soviet horror & scifi. Here’s a @letterboxd.social list of the films I mentioned, plus more. It’s still very incomplete, so I might expand it, but it’s a sort of starter pack to the subject. boxd.it/QjiKI/detail
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When I was in middle school some boys in the locker room said if you laid on one arm until it was numb and then touched yourself with it, it was like being touched by someone else. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
When I was in middle school some boys in the locker room said if you laid on one arm until it was numb and then touched yourself with it, it was like being touched by someone else. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Steam's practices of banning games with little explanation and no course to appeal frankly Fucking Sucks. I'm trying to finish a video on another game that was also banned this year and, like here, unrelated to reasons with the payment processor fiasco. It's an awful trend.
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Steam's practices of banning games with little explanation and no course to appeal frankly Fucking Sucks. I'm trying to finish a video on another game that was also banned this year and, like here, unrelated to reasons with the payment processor fiasco. It's an awful trend.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
E.T. dump truck
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
E.T. dump truck
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This is my absolute favorite photo of Udo Kier. Taken at Smitty's BBQ in Lockhart, TX in (I think) 2002 when he visiting Alamo Drafthouse's original location for screenings of Dracula and Frankenstein.
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is my absolute favorite photo of Udo Kier. Taken at Smitty's BBQ in Lockhart, TX in (I think) 2002 when he visiting Alamo Drafthouse's original location for screenings of Dracula and Frankenstein.
I found this movie more “interesting” than “good,” but it features Udo Kier (RIP king) at possibly his most beguiling and unhinged (& also his most bathed) boxd.it/15U
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery.
boxd.it
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I found this movie more “interesting” than “good,” but it features Udo Kier (RIP king) at possibly his most beguiling and unhinged (& also his most bathed) boxd.it/15U
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Well damn. Udo Kier died.
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Well damn. Udo Kier died.
was about to QT the pictured TMG post with a shout out to Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, but then I saw that The CW himself (no Riverdale) RTed it
so anyway, read The Intuitionist
so anyway, read The Intuitionist
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
was about to QT the pictured TMG post with a shout out to Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, but then I saw that The CW himself (no Riverdale) RTed it
so anyway, read The Intuitionist
so anyway, read The Intuitionist
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Favorite actor Dennehy
Favorite drink O'Doul's
Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls
Favorite drink O'Doul's
Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Favorite actor Dennehy
Favorite drink O'Doul's
Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls
Favorite drink O'Doul's
Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls
props to The Daily Beast taking a break from doing non-stop promo for Newsom’s DOA 2028 POTUS run to remind folks they’re still publishing stuff by Richard Wolff
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
props to The Daily Beast taking a break from doing non-stop promo for Newsom’s DOA 2028 POTUS run to remind folks they’re still publishing stuff by Richard Wolff
“Gandalf The White” my ass
Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“Gandalf The White” my ass
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truly an incredible bit to have this be on the about page of your website that exclusively consists of weekly videos of you talking to steve schmidt and a serialized recounting of the most humiliating things you can remember about your ex
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
truly an incredible bit to have this be on the about page of your website that exclusively consists of weekly videos of you talking to steve schmidt and a serialized recounting of the most humiliating things you can remember about your ex
this could be (the) US, but we’re [points at the oligarchy]
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
this could be (the) US, but we’re [points at the oligarchy]
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Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.
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what’s funny (it’s not funny) is how many indie journalists, who—with next to none of the infrastructure propping up the zz’s of the business—not only report incisively on political power but do so without leaving years of embarrassing receipts about their relationships with subjects and sources
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
what’s funny (it’s not funny) is how many indie journalists, who—with next to none of the infrastructure propping up the zz’s of the business—not only report incisively on political power but do so without leaving years of embarrassing receipts about their relationships with subjects and sources
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"