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Paul
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I used to do things.

• Atlanta, GA
• Marginally Aquarian
• Love movies and records, and especially naps
• He/Him
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Remember the Night (1940) [rw] ★★★★
The Sicilian Clan (1969) ★★★½
Wake Up Dead Man (2025) ★★★½
Phenomena (1985) ★★★★

Lovers and rogues and Catholics and bugs.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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OTD eleven years ago: The communal aspect of everyone listening to that album for the first time at the same time was one of the most fun events that ever happened on old-timey Twitter.
Screenshot of a tweet from rapper Q-Tip announcing the long awaited D'Angelo album 'Black Messiah' would premiere the night of December 14, 2014.
December 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Afraid of the Dark (1991) ★★★½
Ode to Nothing (2018) ★★★½
Under the Skin (2013) ★★★★
The Night Caller (1975) ★★★½
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December 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Forbidden Zone (1980) ★★½
Man Facing Southeast (1986) ★★★½
Train Dreams (2025) ★★★★½
Map of the Human Heart (1992) ★★★★

Accidentally made a heavy double feature watching Train Dreams and Map of the Human Heart on consecutive nights.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Jeez, I listen to a bunch of Gladys Knight & The Pips one year and now I'm the same age as my own father.
Spotify Wrapped: My Listening Age is 76
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I don't make year-end best of lists anymore, mostly because I'm not hunting new shit down all day every day like I once did. I'm old. I'm tired. I'm over it.

But I did like a few 2025 albums enough to buy physical copies. Here they are...
Row 1: Q Lazzarus-Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives Of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture) Maria Usbeck-Naturaleza Miki Berenyi Trio-Tripla Yasmine Hamdan-I Remember I Forget NoSo-When Are You Leaving? Row 2: P.E.-Oh! Lonnie Holley-Tonky Lady Gaga-Mayhem Smut-Tomorrow Comes Crushing Peki Momés-Peki Momés Row 3: Marina-Princess of Power Geese-Getting Killed Le Pain-Dirge Technique Gelli Haha-Switcheroo Leanne Betasamosake Simpson-Live Like the Sky Row 4: Thala-Avalanche Cate Le Bon-Michelangelo Dying Güner Künier-Yaramaz Yves Jarvis-All Cylinders Madeline Kenney-Kiss From the Balcony Row 5: Lady Wray-Cover Girl Hannah Jadagu-Describe
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Dear @tcmtv.bsky.social, are you in need of better social media people? Diane Ladd isn't celebrating birthdays anymore.
"TCM wishes Diane Ladd a happy 90th Birthday!"
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Slightly Scarlet (1956) ★★½
The Lost Weekend (1945) ★★★½
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) [rw] ★★★★
Night of the Comet (1984) [rw] ★★★★

My on-again/off-again tradition of watching Night of the Comet on Thanksgiving was on-again in 2025.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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This is a perfect opportunity to re-share this twitter thread I grabbed screenshots of in 2018.
2018 twitter thread from user @queenozymandias My uncle on my Italian side got one of the DNA tests done and it turns out they're not Italian and everyone in my family is having a mental breakdown. My dad is yelling at his brother, "WHY DID YOU DO THIS" Dad is currently yelling in an excessively Italian accent at his brother and my stepmom that his life has been ruined. Currently looking at a map to try to figure out if we could be from like the Italian part of Switzerland, a thing that my father now is convinced exists. My uncle Andy is now yodeling in the kitchen and my dad is yelling at him to shut up. This all came up bc I had to explain to my step brother what "Joey bag of donuts" meant and it all came up. My nana is mat at my uncle and eventually just stopped talking to him and started talking about her family's history in New Jersey, and this morning told my brother to "shut it" when he brought it up again. I'm getting my dad Swiss chocolate for Christmas, he remains devastated. My stepmom is delighted by all of this bc she is not Italian and now no longer has to endure the ridiculous way my family pronounces food words.
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from
Space Camp (1986), set in Huntsville, Alabama (but also Cape Canaveral, Florida and, um, space).
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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There was a time when I had a similar build to Monkees-era Mike Nesmith and I WASTED IT by not wearing a wool hat 24/7.
Black & white photo of Monkees guitarist Mike Nesmith from the late 1960s, hand on his hip, wearing his signature wool hat with a poof on top.
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Niki (2024) ★★★★
The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010) ★★★½
Almost Famous (2000) [rw] ★★★★
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) ★★★½

After two complete duds (imo), I'm relieved Wes can still make a film I don't hate myself for watching.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Project X (1968) ★★½
Ginger in the Morning (1974) ★★★
Madhouse (1974) ★★★½
Theatre of Blood (1973) ★★★

The dullest time travel sci-fi, a charming Sissy Spacek transcending a bad situation, and Vincent Price doing the most (x2).
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November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) [rw] ★★★★
TURA! (2024) ★★★★
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) [rw] ★★★★
Chain Reactions (2024) ★★½

Shots and chasers week: two bomb ass films and their
pertinent documentaries.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Berberian Sound Studio (2012) ★★★★
Fast Film (2003) ★★★★★
Uncertain Glory (1944) ★★★★
The Shout (1978) ★★★½
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October 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Show us the last four albums you listened to for the first time
Lokassa Ya Mbongo, Adiza LP SYZYGYX, Sinner LP Daisy the Great, The Rubber Teeth Talk LP Les Shleu Shleu, Grille Ta Cigarette LP
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Metal Flake Mother, 'Beyond the Java Sea' (1991/97)

A minor player in the Chapel Hill, NC scene that served as a farm team for bands formed later (including Squirrel Nut Zippers). Jangly, clever power pop.
Metal Flake Mother's Beyond the Java Sea album cover: a midcentury pastiche on salmon pink with turquoise and yellow vertical lines, a sketched coffee cup, and the name of the band and the album.
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) ★★★½
John Candy: I Like Me (2025) ★★★★
Val (2021) ★★★½
We Want the Funk! (2025) ★★★
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October 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Still one of the best Halloween-related tweets to ever exist:
@hodgesboi15 writes: "If I pay $40 for a haunted house i better die" (11 October 2013)
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I was not immune to the hype in a post-Batman "everything old is new again" world, though. See: the worst photo taken of me in high school (and possibly ever)...
Posed photo of teenage boy with bad hair, bad complexion, wearing a Dick Tracey logo t-shirt bought at Spencer Gifts, heavily bleached jeans, woven bracelets, and the most normie Swatch watch in the world (white face with black housing and band).
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Patrick (1978) ★★½
New Jack City (1991) ★★★½
Portishead: Roseland New York (1998) ★★★★
The Seventh Victim (1943) ★★★★

After all these years on god's green internet, I finally have the proper context for that Wesley Snipes GIF.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Show us the last four albums you listened to

Peki Momés - s/t (2025) h/t @viewtoakel.bsky.social
Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (2025)
Newdad - Altar (2025)
Snõõper - Worldwide (2025)
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October 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) [rw] ★★★½
The Mind Reader (1933) ★★★½
Tree of Knowledge (1981) ★★★★
Blindspotting (2018) ★★½
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October 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Superman (2025) ★★★
The Rapture (1991) [rw] ★★★★
Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (2017) ★★★½
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) ★★½

One review of Becoming Led Zeppelin called it "The most authorized documentary I've ever seen." Accurate.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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At Close Range (1986) ★★★
King of New York (1990) ★★★★
Brubaker (1980) ★★★½
The Letter (1940) ★★★

A couple meaty roles from Walken, a fine turn from Redford (R.I.P.), and the weakest of Wyler and Davis's three collaborations.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM