Don’t forget to submit a paper by Dec 5 for our Music and Media conference at UCD: “Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era” www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

I regret to inform you all that the new TRON movie features Jared Leto -- a living, breathing program in the real world -- not only describing Mozart as the greatest composer "that Western culture has created," but also says that he prefers Depeche Mode because he loves their "synth-pop melodies."

SCMS highlights the achievement of Alex Ludwig for the publication of his new book, "Hearing Death at the Movies: Film Music and the Long History of the Dies Irae," from Palgrave Macmillan.

Not gonna lie: Jigoku (1960) is a tremendously slow burn, but once that candle is lit, it does not hold back.

It's been a good week! Lots of standouts, especially "Good Boy."** "Sleepy Hollow" & "The VVitch" are stone-cold "fall" classics: cold, foggy New England vibes that are perfect for the holidays. Argento films and "The Descent" are always good, bloody fun. (**spoiler alert: the dog lives!!**)

QUANTUS TREMOR EST FUTURUS

Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here listening to the OBAA score by Jonny Greenwood and figuring out when I can see it again.

I'm up to 70 horror(ish) films in 61 days..at least 1 a day since August 1st. The last week has seen some real ups ("Hellraiser," "Rocky Horror,") and downs ("M3GAN 2.0," "Neon Demon"). Looking forward to re-visiting some classics as we round into October proper!

🎵Are you Nostradamus in disguise?!?!🎶

Did I foresee the ending of today’s Arsenal match a month ago? If Mikel needs anymore help on the sideline, he knows where to find me.

Not to say that I’m father of the year, but I put on “Citizen Kane” this afternoon and without any prompting my 13-yr old sat down to watch with me.

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS OUR TIME COME ONNNNNNNNN

Me in August, September, and October

Once a Gunner, always a Gunner!!

60 scary-ish films in 53 days. 34 were first time watches. 101.7 spooky hours spent.

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

Trossard is absolutely the worst starter. Should only be used as a “finisher.”

Reading this on loop today.

34* films in 30 days. 22 were first time watches for me. Letterboxd says it was 56.9 hours. *Candyman (2019) and Knives Out were left off the pictures due the sake of symmetry. Please see my Letterboxd here: boxd.it/NgFXW

Just a reminder that to some of your fellow humans, this picture just shows a bunch of randomly sized and colored dots.* *so I went to the eye doctor today and they made me confirm that I am still color blind.

So many punchable faces in this match, but I think Trippier definitely deserves the top spot.

20 horror(ish) films in 21 days* 14 were first time watches, and only 2 were viewed in a theater (“Together” and “Weapons”) *I skipped a day to celebrate my sons birthday but I will make it up with a double feature soon

You're working on your syllabus, right? Why not assign some of my book on the Dies Irae?? Chapters that might be of interest: *Ch 2 traces the Dies Irae from Berlioz to Wendy Carlos & onward to an episode of Psych * Ch 3 looks at Silent Film, scores by Dimitri Tiomkin, & Hammer's vampire films

Buy Eze, move Odegaard to the 8, and Declan to the 6. This solves all the problems, no?

Terence Stamp appeared in two different films with prominent quotations of the Dies Irae (both of which appear in my book). The first ("The Collector" dir. by William Wyler and scored by Maurice Jarre in 1965) is a proper Type 1 full statement.

This week's review covers THE ASTOR TRAMP (1899), an Edison sing-along comedy based on a real event: A down-on-his-luck Irish immigrant wandered into the Astor mansion on a freezing cold night and slipped into an empty bedroom for shelter. moviessilently.com/2025/08/17/t...

Every game I watch in the PL, I think to myself, “this ref is the worst” and it’s always a different ref!

Liverpool winning 2-1 and leaving 2 defenders behind the ball...curious!

Sometimes you've got to soften the blows of the horror films with some comedies! **by the way, you <have> to see "Weapons" in a theater.

When in Maine…

Baby’s first Bava Box Set.

"Look, I made a hat (fire pit)...where there never was a hat (fire pit)."

Showing my 12-yr old LOST for the first time and he’s immediately invested. During every ad break, he asks, “Is he/she gonna die?” It’s taking every iota of my body not to allude to All The Things.

It’s been a chaotic week, in more ways than one.

Seeing it projected for the first time this weekend!

for the daytime crowd, I found <another> Dies Irae this time in "Raising Arizona" (score by Carter Burwell).

Was forced to eat this chicken piccata all by myself last night because my son's trumpet teacher marked his lesson in central time instead of eastern... c'est la vie.

It's almost syllabus-making time, so I wanted to highlight a way Palgrave makes it easy for your students to get an affordable paperback copy of books your library has in ebook format: our MyCopy program. It's opt-in, so tell your librarian you want X title www.springernature.com/gp/librarian...

Composers should have to pass a test to use the themes of John Williams in their scores.** **this post written immediately after seeing the new Superman film , obviously.

Posting this particularly trenchant quote from my annual viewing of “1776.”

Just re-posting for the evening crowd, and need to talk about this with someone. Been thinking of it all day long!

If you, like me, were disappointed that Danny Boyle didn't really exploit the high concept behind "Yesterday" (2019) for full effect, I encourage you to check out his latest film "28 Years Later." Yes, it's a zombie movie on the surface, but there's so much more here...check it out! boxd.it/a6GsfB

The Overlook Hotel has just announced its endorsement for Andrew Cuomo.

The book is out in the wild…guess I’ll have to add the superlative “cute lil’ death book” to my CV. Thanks @chrysanthetan.bsky.social !!

Happy Father’s Day to all, but especially to my dad who (in 1989) dressed up like one of the Joker’s henchmen and carried a boombox playing Prince’s Batman soundtrack while I trick or treated around the neighborhood with my brother on Halloween.

Happy holidays to all that celebrate!

6 years ago today... #WeWentBlues

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Just re-posting the end of my mega-Dies Irae thread here for the night crowd.