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All I can say is that DIGGER might very well be a bad movie but I don’t regret having seen it for a second. If you watch a lot of films, as I do, why not just watch something unique? Script is lousy but filmmaking is distinctive and these days I’ll take that

Finally some good news

I Know Where I’m Going The Servant Don’t Look Now Get Carter All of Us Strangers

Was offered a ticket to see the Stones in 1976 but didn’t accept as they “were an old band”

Surely room for Ian Hendry or George Sewell somewhere? And Joan Sanderson as Kristin Scott-Thomas

First 4 that popped into my head but so many other options to play with

I’d add Payroll to that list www.imdb.com/title/tt0055...

Three episodes into Half Man and hard to understand why anyone thought this was either good - or worth making.

It’s exceptional

Samaritans Report a 40% increase in calls from the Trans Community since April 2025. I telephoned the Samaritans n 1969, in 1971, in 1974, and in 1978 I am still here because of those calls. Call the Samaritans, anytime for free any, from any phone, on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

She never fails. If Lucy Mangan loves it you can guarantee it’s going to be somewhere between poor and awful. (In this case the lamentable Vladimir)

Let’s hope he’s sweating now

We stand the standard distance distant strangers stand apart - David Berman

Given Miss America is one of my favourite albums why have I taken so long to listen to this?

Sunday morning blues

The Bone Temple is definitely better than its abysmal predecessor - but it’s also sillier (and places way more belief in Iron Maiden than can be tolerated)

These videos are a regular January highlight and a reminder of how rich and varied the movies remain. You don’t have to agree with the choices (Naked Gun??) but the skill with which these are put together will give you a blast

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Toyed with Vertigo as first film of the year but settled down with the delights of The Thin Man

This guy escaped from a Coen Bros movie. A+.

Big thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social for his review which ensured I bought the Tone Poet of this - one of the great albums

A #CDFriday mix

Some #CDFriday to kickstart the weekend

Hmmm…

Sunday morning #firstlisten

I’m not sure I could rise to the challenge but given I’ve just bought my fifth copy of Agharta and now looking for an original Japanese pressing of it maybe that’s the answer. There’s a mix of that album which is a holy grail for Miles electric heads if we could ever settle on what it actually is

It’s another #CDFriday

I don’t live in the US but as an outsider it appears the Democratic Party is useless. I do live in the UK and I feel the same way about the Labour Party

Checking in with an old acquaintance

Drifting into #CDFriday

It’s a Mary Halvorson kind of #CDFriday

#CDFriday with a bit of Lynch reading

It’s #CDFriday and this is terrific

#CDFriday and accompanying retirement swag

This could keep me going for a good few #CDFridays

It’s sunny outdoors and #CDFriday indoors

Here we go with #CDFriday

That’s what I call a closing shot

#NowPlaying RIP

Autechre tickets in the bag! #Brighton

Have to confess to being surprisingly moved by this one. Just towards the end some specificity in its storytelling revealed to me it was a true story - very glad to have seen it

Now this is how to write a memoir. Can’t imagine how (or why) it’s been staged but this is the real deal

The original soundtrack was supposed to be provided by Radiohead who in the end couldn’t deliver in time. Some of the loops they created for the film ended up on The King of Limbs

Roberta Flack was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. So much more than the songs that crossed over and became universal, though those songs alone earned her immortality. RIP to a woman who changed the sonic landscape. Here is my long essay on her genius www.npr.org/2020/02/10/8...

Sunday soundtrack

One of the best - RIP Jamie Muir