Bear with me, I'm currently binning Spotify and moving my Playlists to Tidal.

Autocorrect = "Segue Eisenstein". Which is actually pretty clever. Well done, you stupid robot.

Tunes! Some amazing suggestions in here.

Doesn't feel great seeing that the Marco Polo/Masta Ace track "Nostalgia" reminiscing about the old days is now 18 years old. (Nice wintry NYC video to fit the thread theme) youtu.be/PPZ2-FVcM3M?...

Lots of work to do today. Luckily I’m doing it on the cross-country Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico ghost train from Los Mochis to Veracruz.

I feel an Autumnal Hip Hop playlist in the works.

John Mills is after revenge in #BritNoir The Long Memory (1953) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 6PM. #FilmNoir

Frequent @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social guest Thomas Jane & critic @richpieces.bsky.social take stock of The Naked Spur in this fun new Cinema Force video essay!! youtu.be/_vW25Mt5Ylc?...

Very much in the same 'sitting around an autumnal fire while someone tells stories' vein to Liquid Swords.

The last piece of toast on the toast rack is experiencing the Rapture

I promise you, I was already sold on It: Welcome To Derry 🎈long before Taylour Paige showed up but her presence is most welcome.

Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too

Autumnal hip hop. More suggestions please. No, I am not requesting puns. How did you guess?

"She preached to 7,000 people a day...She reenacted the scriptures with live camels, lions and lambs. She topped her church with radio towers to reach the sinning masses. In the 1930s she was big enough to be name-dropped in the lyrics of 'Hooray for Hollywood.'" www.latimes.com/california/s...

I cannot believe that an actual sentient human read Frankenstein and thought that this would be an improvement. boxd.it/bDUDY1

All this talk of right-wing New Yorkers Moving To Florida yet no-one has seen fit to post this, so allow me. youtu.be/ShESKjfu8Uo?...

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

If you’re in the market for some vintage vinyl, or for a man in his fifties who likes vintage vinyl, the Groovy Fayre at the Mildmay Club, Newington Green, is currently packed to the rafters with both

Some Anita Brookner from my mother-in-law's shelves. Perhaps not canon, but hopefully something to get me started. Any recommendations among these @jacquiwine.bsky.social? 💙📚

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. I just wanted to post the cover of Pentastar.

A thread on the visual authenticity of Shane (1953) & cowboy/artist Joe De Yong, the film's technical advisor:

Now available from @madebymutant.bsky.social is the beautiful score to @realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN, music by Alexandre Desplat. The deluxe edition includes liner notes from Desplat and myself and is beautifully presented- check it out

Puzzums, 1920s.

Sunset reflected onto Liverpool.

The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.

Me: This has been a really tough day. Going to relax by having a bath with candles and listening to Radio Three. Radio Three: And now, live from Nottingham, the BBC Concert Orchestra with a medley of classic sports themes!

May/November.

The beginning to every Morrissey lyric

YES

#NowPlaying I got this at a knockdown price because somebody had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead but between you and me I bought it because someone had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead.

As soon as the leaves fall to the ground, this one comes on.

If there’s any of you who profess to be into noir and have not yet seen MR INBETWEEN, you need to fix that asap. If you need further convincing, my @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a few years ago #noirvember crimereads.com/mr-inbetween/

It's Daniel. Not Dan, never Danny.

My mum chose my name because it can’t be shortened. She hated everyone shortening her name all the time and yet every one did (except me, because you don’t shorten mum!).

Absolutely. It says ‘I think that you’re being pretentious/effete by not abbreviating your name therefore I’m doing it for you’. Quite unpleasant.

Anyway, here’s Maggot Brain

Andrew is the preference, but among friends I’ve accepted Drew and many variations thereof (Drewski, Drewsef). When I lived in Italy I was sometimes Andrea, and that was ok. But if you persist in calling my Andy after I’ve asked you not to, I’ll assume we’re not friends. Because that’s not my name.

"Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a city where everyday residents have to work three jobs and are under constant threat of eviction. Anything short of an excruciating existence for the working class just doesn’t cut it for me."

Yep. I am Victoria and never Vicky - I hate that people who have never met me before assume that it's OK to shorten my name! Good friends call me Vic, which is fine, but never Vicky.

I flit between Andy and Andrew. Andy is a different person to Andrew. Andy is the person at work, for recent acquaintances and social media. Andrew is for family, old friends and me

I've been called Tim three times this week and it's not even quite the weekend.

If i introduce myself to you as Stu and you call me Stuart, we could end up knowing each other for years but we will never be close friends and secretly i will always want to deck ypu every time you say my name

The only one I get that I cannot bear is Mazza. I do not feel like a Mazza or a Maz.

Dogfull Chap.

"Can I call you Lozza?" "Not if you expect a response"

This. I've been Mags since I was about 6 years old. I'm not going to answer to the name I associate with my mum and nana. That's literally not me. If I do something stupid (like drop my phone in a bowl of raw eggs) I say, "Mags, you fucking eejit!"