My music listening today: Jurassic Park (1000% Slower): soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/j... Every Slayer Song At Once: youtu.be/Uix8JpobQHg?... Two Nickels On The Dime by The Minutemen: youtu.be/ByiEnkXfDUw?...

The future of the male archetype is to constantly be on starvation diets, wearing tons of make-up and & hair product, and in really tight clothes and heels.

Is it so hard, World? To have good things, is it really?

The first step of replacing an unmoving and moribund establishment is to not want what they want. I'm speaking specifically about the TV and film industry in Britain, but feel free to apply this anywhere you like.

I think that the next 'Wolfman' movie should be a wolves that start to express their human side. Because you see, they were wolves. It makes sense.

I watched the first ep. of Emily In Paris and, damn, this girl is straight up villain-coded.

Please don't talk about anything for three hours, please. 1: fastest way to never have anyone to talk to 2: terrible on your throat 3: absolutely burning through material Stop for glass of water, let other people talk about, like, whatever for a bit, then you can talk about your thing ALL DAY.

Well okay, I know i'm not one of the most engaging users on Bluesky, but gee golly I sure am one of the most charming.

The reason the Rapture isn't happening is because it already happened. All the worthy people went to heaven and all that's left is evangelicals and commies.

This is 'I Became A Singer', from the album Bones & Ghosts youtu.be/9UqOOEmjbnE

This is 'I Became A Singer', from the album Bones & Ghosts youtu.be/9UqOOEmjbnE

It's just a really good peak-Elton John song, perhaps even nailing that underlying melancholy better than many of the man's songs themselves. Possibly because these deliberately silly lyrics are less silly than many of Bernie's real ones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWaa...

i've never watched a disney movie, even as a small child i sensed they'd betray kimmel one day

The top 10 best numbers under ten ranked: 1: 7🏆 2: 5 3: 2 4: 6 5: 10 6: 1 7: 9 8: 4 9: 3 10: 8

Words are sarcophagi for our thoughts, and they are all my enemy.

There is a reverse 'Berenstaein Bears' effect, where we all agree that something just never existed if it doesn't fit the overarching narrative. Kubrick was a genius and The Shining is a classic and... hey what the fuck with this stupid little face?

Magic Spot is a super low budget regional film about a small American town and time travel and talent shows. It is great, and it is, more importantly, joyful. It's on youtube, too. letterboxd.com/andrewclarke...

I watched Sneakers again, coz of Bob, but mostly because I am always looking for a reason to watch Sneakers. It's great fun, but it can also still speak to the modern world: letterboxd.com/andrewclarke...

Sneakers is a delight, but Cosmo was right.

Reality has long since surpassed satire, so now I am hoping it will hurry up and get to farce.

I dismissed Lions For Lambs as a celluloid Salon piece at the time, and it kiiiiind of is, but it is far angrier and more realistic about the world than I thought and it surprised me. It also contains Tom Cruise's final acting performance. He's great too. 😀 RIP Robert Redford. God, you were hot.

Nice timeline moment.

The life-cycle of any musical genre is to get more and more complex until it becomes incomprehensible to outsiders. Any metal subgenre with 'core' in its name. Even stoner rock produces too many 30 min epics. This is why I like this so much, which is stooooopid youtu.be/k2fIYn5aKnI?...

So i'm reading this as a terminal nerd finding a partner & having to give up an AWFUL lot of nerd junk before they moved in This is a beauitful story of love being available to all of us Though I like to think the partner was FURIOUS when they found out the Pyramid Head plushy was chucked out too

Today I am reading up on angelic visitations and here's the best bit so far: Angels absolutely ARE here to answer your prayers & make your life better... but only if you don't ask for it: 'Devote your life to god as a matter of principle, not as a contract' - ie. transactionally, expecting reward.

I am of the belief that there is a secret TTRPG that everyone is playing when they play a TTRPG, it is called 'playing a TTRPG', and it has a brutally complex, ever changing and never written down set of rules that no-one knows and everyone fears.

Hey, I really liked WEAPONS! I really hated BARBARIAN. Hard to talk about 'what it all means' without spoilers, so I have trod lightly for now, but I totally lay out how everybody else is wrong and I am right, which is what is important, after all, in the end. letterboxd.com/andrewclarke...

Actual St George nonsense happening near me. Please note the slightly haphazard attempts to erase the red with white spraypaint over the top. Bless. The fight against racism rages ever on.

As is v helpfully said whenever there's a new Conjuring move: The Warrens were bad people. Now: this new Conjuring: Last Rites is supposed to be the last one, with deaths and everything. Yeah right 🙂 Conjuring: A New Terror, in which the Warrens come back as evil ghosts! Then everyone's happy!

So i've been doin' a little readin' on the Aghori, a Hindu sect that eat corpses and live in graveyards - specifically following the 'vile path' towards enlightenment at odds with the purity paths of mainstream Hinduism. Anyway, they made a fukkin' perfume of it. www.houseofem5.com/products/agh...

I wrote something nice about Star Trek: Brave New Worlds and, up til now, it really has been lovely. But this latest ep (S3Ep9) is the worst goddamn thing ever. Not just stupid, but dishonest. Very unpleasant. It will go back to be awesome next week. Please?

What is it about Alien: Earth that brings out the worst takes on this place? This Ep. was a real nice run through the Alien tropes - visually, narratively - all that. But we knew literally everything that was going to happen and learnt nothing new. It was a nostalgia processional.

Real art is smiling widely at an audience of the people who stole your future and singing a song about how they are good people really, all so you can feed yourself tonight. Anything else is just a hobby.

I'm dead excited, and also fully miffed, by this - I was just starting planning on releasing a commentary for my movie... and then just keep on releasing them and seeing how far we could go. A great idea! ...and then these guys just do 50 in one go? Boo! But also Yay! Dammit.

My read on the govt going full looney on the flag stuff is that, if the right is successfully using the flag against you, all you can do is double down on the flag thing yourself SO HARD that the whole thing becomes silly - thus defusing the power of the flag being used against you.

Hilariously my initial reaction was to get offended by the word 'discoverer' as this was Dark Ones erasure of the demons from hell who originally wrote it. Colonialists! Bluesky is truly where I belong.

28 YEARS LATER I really dug it. Review contains spoilers, and my thoughts on the very divisive reactions to the movie (people seem to love it or reaaaaallllyyy hate it. Very few shrugs!). letterboxd.com/andrewclarke...

What's this? What's this feeling? My god, I feel * embarrassed * for my Prime Minister.

If Bluesky had a subscription, even a nominal one, the question is 'who would that cull from our feeds'? The 'here is my cat' people? or The 'screenshotting bad twitter posts is my activism' people?

A good mix? Yeah, a good mix, probably. letterboxd.com/andrewclarke/

Holy crap! Prey (2017) came out in 2017! That's AGES ago! Are games this system driven, at this scale, even released today? I guess, as always, it is right to remember that games this good were rare for ANY given year and enjoy the ones we do get, as I am with this, as we can. It is so good!

Spenser, Parker, Reacher, Puller, Dormer, Swagger, Heller - I made up only one of these Tough American Crime Novel Characters. Sheesh!

4DX represents the final victory of William Castle over cinema.

The biggest problem with Alien: Earth for me so far is that the genius CEO dude is not played with the detached, un-human alienated vibes of many of the real world young people raised to extraordinary wealth/power so quickly, but just as a run-of-the-mill knobber. A touch too cartoonish, for me.

I am, I admit, cofused as to what is achieved by dumping on the huge cultural livewire of... * checks notes * ...Gloria Gaynor? What needle that does move?

The thing about The Turing Test is that the criteria for success is fooling humans, and we are a bunch of fucking idiots.

I was at a pub on Sunday and 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen played, only it turns out it was a remix that, on the line 'I don't wanna stop at all', endlessly stretched and repeated the 'aaaaaalll' until it turned all to echo, and then a banging dance beat kicked in. Jesus Christ it was dark.

If it is happening to them, it is happening to us.

You wake up and stand in front of the bathroom mirror for a long time. "Who am I?" you ask. Something is moving inside of your pajamas. Cautiously you pull them open. You find two children sitting on each other's shoulders pretending to be you. They gasp and run away, and you cease to exist.

OK - how does one get gifs to work on this place?