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don’t think I’ve done this since we used POTATOES in the garden in wales in the 60s

getting up at 7.15am suddenly catching up with me 😴

everyone famous suddenly having nine fingers (lula, rahm emanuel) is reminding me of something sam says in LOTR that never made sense: they were only going to sing of “nine-fingered frodo & the ring of doom" if they were rescued or found & at that time sam had no reason to suppose this was so

COP AU VIN (1985) I’m chabrol-pilled!! this title always makes me chuckle (plus it’s an asterix-level punning translation: original is “poulet au vinaigre”, which more or less means coq ai vin plus poulet is a slang word for policeman lol )

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lol I knew it (idea borrowed from a peter wimsey short story)

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the thicc statues are the giveaway

20h

this cop is like columbo without being likeable

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Hes a maverick he gets results :(

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everyone in this film is completely mental tbh

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here’s what chabrol loves most of all: hideous wallpaper (it illuminates the hideous bourgeois soul)

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welp it’s all the exact same actors as last night’s but 15 years later (playing totally different people, to be clear)

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lol I hope the doctor is the one who gets murdered, he gives me the pip (I assume someone is going to get murdered, this movie is in no hurry)

anyway there’s a whole bunch of chabrols on bfi streaming due to leave this week so I’m busy catching them before they go

23h

time to make old-fashioned lemonade-stand-style lemonade* while listening to CABARET VOLTAIRE LIVE FROM LONDON (1992 rel. 2013) *from lemons!

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my on-the-wing report on this live LP = the collision-merger between their noisy-breathy-punchy 70s electronics & the chicago- and detroit-born dance-glide sound as it pulled up level with them in the mid-late 80s, so a mix maybe of sonic possession (derogatory) & sonic possession (complimentary)

me reading your posts

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers

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What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

1: excellent news, lula just beat failson bolsonaro for a fourth term as president of brazil 2: even better news, he’s here on BSKY & loves my posts

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time watch a 1968 movie by CLAUDE CHABROL (abt bourgeois mores I suspect) (everyone having affairs & such)

I like how they have a huge french breakfast outdoors, I shd start doing that when the sun returns

and a quite strange industrial-strength dolly-zoom to close it was patchy & the start was a bit of a trudge — but actually p good from abt halfway (partly bcz I wasn’t expecting the turn it took, having not researched it at all) I think I am chabrol-pilled 😀

time watch a 1968 movie by CLAUDE CHABROL (abt bourgeois mores I suspect) (everyone having affairs & such)

I think it was someone else’s version tho

very hitchcockish traffic scene (ridiculous & therefore super-tense for just one person)

time watch a 1968 movie by CLAUDE CHABROL (abt bourgeois mores I suspect) (everyone having affairs & such)

lol ok until he doesn’t I guess

oh I see chabrol married this actress (I think this is the only film of his I ever saw, unless I saw his version of MADAME BOVARY, I did watch a bovary a while back)

time watch a 1968 movie by CLAUDE CHABROL (abt bourgeois mores I suspect) (everyone having affairs & such)

lover not liver (I like liver so I will sidestep the obvious gag) the music is oddly like marc wilkinson’s for if…. = modernist & unsettled

the encounter between the two men is kind of terrific — not a confrontation but just wildly awkward, the wronged husband milking the advantage he gets by not acting outraged

time watch a 1968 movie by CLAUDE CHABROL (abt bourgeois mores I suspect) (everyone having affairs & such)

these ppl have p dreary lives (which my family did not), but there’s something intensely & unexpectedly evocative for me all the same, the feel I guess of the late 60s in the drab provinces as things begin to change speed

the liver is as bafflingly unexciting as the husband lol I guess there’s a bit of a thrill to the fact of the fling, but both of them were instead talking abt how much their children love them

time watch a 1968 movie by CLAUDE CHABROL (abt bourgeois mores I suspect) (everyone having affairs & such)

the husband seems nice but sadly very unexciting

he suspects!

time watch a 1968 movie by CLAUDE CHABROL (abt bourgeois mores I suspect) (everyone having affairs & such)

it’s called “the unfaithful wife” & she already had to pretend a phonecall was a wrong number

richard barrett popped up on a youtube yesterday (as composer of some insanely difficult modern piece for solo cello lol) anyway i think he used to review for the wire when i was editor? = time to listen richard barrett's CLOSE-UP (2025) it's pleasant post-boulez scribble i guess you'd call it

me when i return from the big dipper pachinko parlour

Mondo Mascots@mondomascots.bsky.social

BIG-kun and Dipper-chan, a pair of expressionless bears in banana costumes, are mascots for BIG Dipper pachinko parlors.

so anyway there is plenty in the day's discourse to enrage or distress us all, so here -- as a silly & charming distraction -- is the thing that annoys me most (& most irrationally) when shopping at Lidl (or any big store): the phrase "STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING" i hate it! stop saying it!

i: it already belongs in a v bad & detestable category: viz alongside "deliciously lush & naughty chocolate cake" ect ect shut up just say chocolate cake ii: anyway you can happily cut the word sticky! all toffee is sticky! the delightful surprise in this area wd be "non-stick toffee pudding"

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we could go sell "non-stick toffee pudding" as TOFFLON© & make all our fortunes 👍🏽 emphasising: yes this is a daft thing to be mad at! but there we go…

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and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

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if they put back the clocks every week i could *always* have a nice lie-in

i like filling in ALT TEXT, it's a nice wee challenge to be visually informative & dubdobdee-ish at the same time -- except is it behaving a bit weirdly at the moment for anyone else?

time to listen to BRAT

time to listen to BABYMETAL

just noticed my medium-term to-do list is titled “2006 winter projects” 🤦🏽‍♂️

taking 20 minutes carefully to dole out my meds into their weekly little timed compartments & then consuming the wrong one first

sorry this guy is not going to make things better for most of us