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Coming up this week........

Recommend listening: Season 1 of States of Independence podcast is exploring the history of Beggars Banquet. The interviews have been great thus far and there's more to come. open.spotify.com/episode/2K0T...

🎶 Permanent green light Which could go on and on On and on, on and on 🎶 youtu.be/jkueCN967vA?...

A truism from tonight's podcast prep revisit: Watching commercials will do your head in.

🎶 Putting on a bandolier Hearing through a nudie ear 🎶 youtu.be/eX-ip1hDCZc?...

In honor of Nick Cave's 68th birthday, tonight's days and ways and mortality double feature:

🎶 Grail Overfloweth There is rain And there’s saliva And there’s you 🎶 youtu.be/6NL8gyIqIJk?...

Tonight's cinematic odyssey: Akira Kurosawa's take on my favorite Dostoevsky novel.

🎶 F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O 🎶 youtu.be/p8AzVMCLpRU?...

Midnight came and went. Turning now to Sunday's clown and wondering how far Thursday's child has to go to catch some sleep... youtu.be/Feie4w3N0t4?...

In tonight's rural thrillers double feature, Mimsy Farmer has a hard row to hoe:

🎶 Dreams burnt away By the first cigarette Of the day 🎶 youtu.be/H4h6lXBxv-8?...

First watch movie musings: How'd I miss this back in 2005? I was busy brooding and being artfully messy myself that year.

These boots are made for sleepwalkin'

This evening's corpus delicti double feature is following the hunches of busybody neighbors:

3 min and 56 sec of sonic dessert: 🎶 Unrest - Cherry Cream On 🎶 youtu.be/x3j5VEH3trY?...

It can't rain all the time... But whatever the weather, it feels good to treat yourself and support @vhuspodcast.bsky.social, one of the best independent podcasts around!

🎶 A soul with no footprint A rose with no thorn 🎶 youtu.be/G8SmkwS82u4?...

🎶 If I were the moon, I'd be cool If I were a rule, I would bend 🎶 youtu.be/e7t7aQLcik0?...

Apropos of restlessness, I'm pressing play on this Abel Ferrara film to put an end to tonight's aimless scrolling:

🎶 I've forgotten how to play Then I remember When you make music You play 🎶 youtu.be/GRHRPFQmWFk?...

Resolving to be more diligent about wearing my reading glasses but knowing I'll backslide within a day or two mood music: youtu.be/mGOafentmhw?...

If you, like me, love Fresnel lenses and abhor fascism then I'm pleased to report that these things intersect in tonight's movie:

🎶 There's a room for us In the party of my mind A place to be A place to be found 🎶 youtu.be/7He1soaln-Y?...

Podcast prep brings me back to the quaint little town of Haddonfield for tonight's double feature:

🎶 Take a chance And step outside Lose some sleep And say you tried 🎶 youtu.be/4_B690oDTPw?...

Tonight's exposed double feature: As dirty deeds are uncovered, true natures are laid bare.

Happy Birthday* to Steve Kilbey 🖤 *Already yesterday in Australia, which points to another song by The Church, but I'll stick with this: youtu.be/N4QhfOBCdN4?...

Tonight's cinematic adventure: No heroes, just men (and a woman)

🎶 Now I feel plenty It's only my way of touching What you cannot see 🎶 youtu.be/CUvuuvmQdc0?...

🎶 So this is for when You're feeling happy again And this is for when You're feeling sad And this is for when you feel... Something 🎶 youtu.be/izoST3hMBNA?...

Hit me with those laser beams, but please be careful cutting the cake. Tonight's double is one hell of a party for De Palma's birthday:

🎶 Can't you see her Holzer mane? What's her name? Virginia Plain 🎶 youtu.be/GFWIywNjvHA?...

A splendid way to spend 9 minutes: 🎶🎶 La Düsseldorf - Time 🎶🎶 youtu.be/904JoHPWcek?...

🎶 Dream baby dream Dream baby dream Dream baby, dream baby Dream baby dream 🎶 youtu.be/wUGedo18IQM?...

Tonight's fairytale double feature can't keep the wolves at bay:

🎶 Walked, at shoulder Down the street, ridicule They couldn't tell Lou Reed From Doug Yule 🎶 youtu.be/MObSGNzlB1k?...

Loooong day in the grown up world. Tonight I'm feeding off the dreams of children by revisiting this Jeunet + Caro masterpiece:

🎶 Do just what you will 'Cause you understand What it's like to land On a lonely hill 🎶 youtu.be/6mF1nnryhtc?...

Tonight's double feature follows strangers who find themselves in strange places:

🎶 Babe rainbow Keep your glow on There's a show on, you know 🎶 youtu.be/WCPPRmimp3c?...

🎶 I'm so sleepy, sleepy I'm so sleepy 🎶 ...But I've been lying in bed half awake for an hour mood music: youtu.be/9Mecm9EpF2E?...

Tonight's double feature is making tragic mistakes in the company of made men:

🎶 Smash up the radio That's enough for one day 🎶 youtu.be/lqebt4Bgi8Q?...

Tonight's movie prompts one to ponder the unanswerable question: What would have made Caligula blush?

🎶 'Cause, baby The world ain't round It's square 🎶 youtu.be/rwZnC0a5qo0?...

🎶 Dancing in her sleepy way While all her visions start to play On the icicles of our decay 🎶 youtu.be/qjzRf90dhqI?...

🎶 A poker face His features froze At 12 he looked like William Burroughs 🎶 youtu.be/CYo-GC1NuEs?...

Borrowing a line from Oscar Wilde for the theme of tonight's double feature: "Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future".