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Keeping with their new occult business model, Debenhams are now selling shirts of the black metal band MAYHEM

Dying at this 1999 photo of David Beckham listening to his CD Walkman whilst his family watch TV What are the CDs? I’d assume Toploader and the Jamie Oliver's Cookin' compilation

Mad Men theme tune 🤝 Sugababes Overload, am I right

Mad Men theme tune 🤝 Sugababes Overload, am I right

Fake films tax scam - as old as time. Love this Adam Curtis piece on them from 2011 (I miss his blog!) #filmsky #adamcurtis

Keeping with their new occult business model, Debenhams are now selling shirts of the black metal band MAYHEM

For the Freddie Francis stans

Today is the 79th anniversary of a perfectly ordinary party at the Officers’ Club of the Army War College in Washington, D.C., to mark the disbanding of the task force that organised atomic bomb tests in the Pacific, at which the attendees enjoyed a perfectly ordinary cake

Dying at this 1999 photo of David Beckham listening to his CD Walkman whilst his family watch TV What are the CDs? I’d assume Toploader and the Jamie Oliver's Cookin' compilation

Fake films tax scam - as old as time. Love this Adam Curtis piece on them from 2011 (I miss his blog!) #filmsky #adamcurtis

Now reading - Smiley’s People (1979), which feels very…autumnal? Secret meetings in the rain etc. Spies just aren’t a summer thing - the war is cold after all, and don’t forget all those Russian fur hats My 9th Le Carre - still a few other big ones to go Will post observations here 🧵 📚💙 #booksky

Never worked this out

Reminiscing about going to see a double bill screening of Witchfinder General and Devil Rides Out at Leeds’s 12th century Kirkstall Abbey, 12 years ago. Exquisite vibe 🤌 #filmsky

In terms of “what did the Victorians ever do for us?”, absolutely banging theatres is a good answer 📸 Harrogate - saw Stewart Lee there last night

In terms of “what did the Victorians ever do for us?”, absolutely banging theatres is a good answer 📸 Harrogate - saw Stewart Lee there last night

i've never actually seen The Passion of the Christ but i cherish my Chinese bootleg dvd

Just ordered a copy 👇 #booksky

Played in a STOOGES cover band for Halloween yes yes

Newcastle skyline from Halloween night

What’s In The Box?

Reminiscing about going to see a double bill screening of Witchfinder General and Devil Rides Out at Leeds’s 12th century Kirkstall Abbey, 12 years ago. Exquisite vibe 🤌 #filmsky

Played in a STOOGES cover band for Halloween yes yes

What’s In The Box?

Now reading - Smiley’s People (1979), which feels very…autumnal? Secret meetings in the rain etc. Spies just aren’t a summer thing - the war is cold after all, and don’t forget all those Russian fur hats My 9th Le Carre - still a few other big ones to go Will post observations here 🧵 📚💙 #booksky

Very into this gates of hell Underground advert

Nipped to get some cat food, came home with this from the charity shop Haven’t read it before but have seen the Alec Guinness TV adaptation Maybe I’ll read it next 🤔 #booksky 📚✨

Never worked this out

Great attention to detail in Living Dead at Manchester Morgue 🤣

What stage of late capitalism is this - RD Laing being sold in TK Maxx (that’s TJ Maxx to non-Brits)

Just finished this Carver and as predicted, I really loved it. The evocative story titles are great in-and-of themselves, but even more so once the stories gradually reveal their (surface) meanings - eg: ‘They're Not Your Husband’ ‘Why, Honey?’ ‘The Ducks’ ‘Are These Actual Miles?’ #booksky

Just finished this Carver and as predicted, I really loved it. The evocative story titles are great in-and-of themselves, but even more so once the stories gradually reveal their (surface) meanings - eg: ‘They're Not Your Husband’ ‘Why, Honey?’ ‘The Ducks’ ‘Are These Actual Miles?’ #booksky

Discovered Husker Du when I was 16, in the wake of Nevermind, and they were my absolute North Star for years, and remain so close to my heart. Thanks so much to @thequietus.com for letting me write this. It’s quite long. thequietus.com/interviews/h...

Great attention to detail in Living Dead at Manchester Morgue 🤣

Been enjoying this playlist - had never heard Heron before but Yellow Roses is a great track

Fenriz from Darkthrone

How much do I love Leeds University’s prog-as-fuck brutalist campus? A lot A few more 📸’s below

You know, when you hit the 5 min mark, songs often go from being too long to not being long enough 🤷‍♂️ Some favourite >8 min bangers that spring to mind Dylan - Hurricane Fairport - Sloth Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello Bert Jansch - Avocet ISB - A Very Cellular Song Hawkwind - Brainstorm

Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems

How much do I love Leeds University’s prog-as-fuck brutalist campus? A lot A few more 📸’s below

Just finished Camelot and the Vision of Albion (1971) by Geoffrey Ashe and you know what, THIS BOOK RULES 🤷‍♂️ It’s a totally freewheeling work in the best way. As one 2⭐️ Goodreads review states, “it definitely wasn't the historical survey of Arthurian Legend that I was anticipating”… 🧵 #booksky

Just finished Camelot and the Vision of Albion (1971) by Geoffrey Ashe and you know what, THIS BOOK RULES 🤷‍♂️ It’s a totally freewheeling work in the best way. As one 2⭐️ Goodreads review states, “it definitely wasn't the historical survey of Arthurian Legend that I was anticipating”… 🧵 #booksky

Playing a Stooges cover set next Friday and we’re doing a bonus Flipper song too 🤷‍♂️

As it’s October, how about a thread of lost German horror / weird films from the 1920s? Films we can only watch in our mind’s eye based on limited available info; an ever-fascinating “what if” alternative cinematic horror canon Synopses and posters (where available) to follow…🧵 #filmsky

Rewatched ALIEN and ALIENS ALIEN holds up better than ever, despite what any Ridley haters think (you know who you are) ALIENS on the other hand is a bit diminished by time, although I think the UHD transfer doesn’t help. It looks worse the better it looks, ya know. Still bangs though #filmsky

Rewatched ALIEN and ALIENS ALIEN holds up better than ever, despite what any Ridley haters think (you know who you are) ALIENS on the other hand is a bit diminished by time, although I think the UHD transfer doesn’t help. It looks worse the better it looks, ya know. Still bangs though #filmsky

As it’s October, how about a thread of lost German horror / weird films from the 1920s? Films we can only watch in our mind’s eye based on limited available info; an ever-fascinating “what if” alternative cinematic horror canon Synopses and posters (where available) to follow…🧵 #filmsky

Who wants to join on a little walk around a couple of North Yorkshire medieval bangers? First up, Middleham Castle, the childhood home of King Richard III and a place he returned to sporadically throughout his short life… #medievalsky 🧵 1/?

"Blacklock hopes to 'illuminate the full range of Ballard’s activities as a reviewer, ... memoirist, provocateur, compiler of lists, and talking head.' He achieves this handsomely." — @thetls.bsky.social "Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007" is now in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204832...