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Adam
@astranchida.bsky.social
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Movies, horror, sports, music, Tolkien, nerdy stuff, games, sarcasm, dad-life & general shenanigans.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · May 30
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Keeping my “pin my Nosferatu reviews” streak going (No. 3).
#FilmSky
A ★★★★★ review of Nosferatu (2024)
So my wife, who has grown out of new horror movies and doesn’t always enjoy the weird ones and never loved The VVitch, suddenly had an urge to watch The Northman a month or so ago. That went about as ...
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Weening myself off the annual 3-month horror binge is never easy, but this week’s choices certainly helped.

I definitely know it’s not going to take me 22 years to watch “Lost in Translation” again. New favorites for the season-change snuck in too.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#FilmSky 🎥 📽️
Movie posters and ratings for… Recently watched: King Kong (original- 5*) Rocky (5*) Lost in Translation (4.5*) The Professor and the Madman (3.5*) Movie posters for four (new/rotating) favorites: Braveheart, Seven, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Barry Lyndon.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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What’s a film you illogically associate with Thanksgiving/the post-Halloween autumn season?

For me, it’s a strong “Barry Lyndon.”
#FilmSky 🎥 📽️
An image from Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” featuring an 18th century Englishman facing a group of his drunken, slouched countrymen around a table in hall mostly barren, save for empty bottles and a chair scattered about.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
Wolverine, Cyclops, Beast and Gambit
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I had someone on my team the other day describe my vibe as “grunge hippie,” and I have to admit; I felt pretty, albeit pleasantly, seen.

Upon reflection, I decided I also would’ve been happy to accept:
•Metalhead Librarian
•Thrift Store Horror Poet
•Mosh Philosopher
•Gonzo Wizard
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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What are your top 5 movie genres?

Mine are:

1) Take me to a new world
2) Bah gawd, the writing!
3) Literal spine-tingling creepiness
4) Plot and characters don’t matter if there’s lingering shots of trees/sky/earth tactically scattered throughout
5) Perfectly dumbsmart

#Filmsky 🎥
cinefeast33.bsky.social Cinefeast33 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 4d
What are your too 5 movie genres? Mine are:

1) Someone consumes fish sticks
2) Creatures in the sewer make toilets scary
3) Kathleen Turner in the 80s
4) Ironic slow clap for dubious accomplishment
5) Impossibly hyper-realistic human masks

#filmsky 📽
lessmarberry.bsky.social LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 4d
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:

1) "There's no such thing as witches"..........Boom, Witches!
2) Hats, & Violence
3) Horses, & Violence
4) Gene Hackman
5) With the singing & the dancing
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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What movie do you consider perfect?
#FilmSky 🎥
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Finally finished adding everything I could to this beast. It ended up longer than I expected, especially w/out being able to add all the concerts or sports volumes we have. Pretty cool to have an official record though, especially with all them #Letterboxd stats & filters.
#FilmSky 🎥

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Physical Media We Own
All 4K, Blu Ray and DVD, with a few sentimental straggling VHS holdovers included. Nothing digital. Not all concerts or sports releases were available to add here.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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37 of ??? going through our vinyl alphabetical by artist.

#NowSpinning #vinyl #NowPlaying

DMX - The Legacy
The gold shiny cover for DMX’s greatest hits compilation “The Legacy,” with a bright light-reflection-burst centered on it, on top of a record player.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A first for me and @geologyjohnson.bsky.social to see trilobites in the wild. Look at the beautiful preservation 😍

Rocks likely heterolithic limestone with black shake and chert interbeds from late Devonian-early Carboniferous from southern Belgium.

#FossilFriday
A trilobite fossil with clear view of segments amongst a death assemblage of other marine fossils (like crinoids) preserved in limestone. Size about two human fingernails long. A very small trilobite rear end the size of pinkie finger nail. The segments are very well preserved. There is a bryozoan fossil next to it too. Close up of a trilobite fossil with clear view of segments surrounded by other marine fossils. Size about two human finger nails long.
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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36/??? Here we go again…

DMX - …and Then There Was X

It mostly took me until post high school to get into rap. I liked Cypress, and Rage if they count, but I liked DMX as soon as I heard him in 8th grade. Top 3 all time for me, east. RIP dog

#NowSpinning #NowPlaying #Vinyl
DMX’s …and Then There Was X on vinyl displayed on top of a record player with some fall decor, including a pink pumpkin with sunglasses clearly painted and crafted by a genius-child.
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Don’t enjoy raking leaves? Dont do it! My annual PSA:

www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/...
Leaf it be: Skip the raking this fall. It's better for the environment
Put down the rake. You can feel good about leaving your leaves wherever they fall. Letting them be is actually better for the environment and for your yard.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I mostly committed to Stranger Things S3 - sidebar: I think its the best season (?) - but I had to give some love to the one, underrated gem of a film, I did get to this week:

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#LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥
The Criterion Collection cover/poster for “A Scanner Darkly,” featuring a sea of green plants a man with a backpack is walking through, below a sky of blue flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A satisfying dusk sky:
A bare tree in front of a brick building with gray-blue clouds with a light-yellow sky peeking through from the top, fading to a gray-purple/pink closer to the horizon.
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” Jack Kornfield

You’re allowed to pause.
You’re allowed to choose differently.
You’re allowed to care for yourself, too. 🧡

#kindness #positivity #SelfCare

Picture by @Anxiety.Positive
A bright, uplifting digital illustration on a white background. The heading reads “You are allowed to:” in bold black text beside a yellow smiling face. Beneath it, colourful shapes each hold handwritten phrases: red for “sleep in late,” blue for “change plans,” orange for “make a new decision,” purple for “treat yourself,” yellow for “take breaks,” green for “stop feeling guilty,” turquoise for “say no,” pink for “say yes” and “talk about your struggles,” and lilac for “not have answers.” The style feels warm, friendly, and encouraging, reinforcing permission, care, and self-compassion. Artwork by @Anxiety.Positive, shown in the bottom left corner
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Starting to almost expect 4th quarter comebacks from the #Bears (against bad-to-mediocre teams) is a sad but much-appreciated delicacy.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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#Last4Watched +2 and a lot of splatter this week, as I more or less wrapped up my Halloween-movie-fest goals for the year. A few stragglers will be scattered throughout November for sure though.
#LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters and ratings for: •The Return of the Living Dead (4) •Poltergeist (5) •Hatchet & Hatchet II (both 3.5) •Dawn of the Dead, 1978 (5) •Braindead, aka Dead Alive (4)
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Still coming to terms with spooky season ending…
Molding, decaying pumpkins getting soft and curling-in on themselves, amongst leaves and a skeleton propped on a wooden birdhouse decoration. Pie pumpkins similarly decaying and molding in our post-Halloween 2025 reality.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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My on/off again spirit animal.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Just had a super-creepy experience booking a Dr. appointment with something which was clearly advanced AI, but went the deep-fake route by adding background phone rings, office murmurs etc.

I hate this disingenuousness. We need more human connection these days, not more tech isolating us all.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Colorado voters have approved raising taxes on households earning over $300,000 to fund meals for all public school students, raise salaries for school meal staff, and bolster SNAP at the state level.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Not sure you should have to work so hard to score against the Bengals, but ok. #Bears
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Snagged this beauty and the Donovan “Greatest Hits” on the cheap at Reckless Records before the David Byrne concert tonight. Great success.
Vinyls of Donovan’s “Greatest Hits” and a blood-splatter clear edition of “The Return of the Living Dead” soundtrack.
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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My daughter apparently requested the original Halloween theme during her 2nd grade dance party today 🥹

I’ve never been more proud.
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Happy #Halloween to everyone out there 🎃

May your doors and floors creak, your shadows creep and your spooks today run deep.
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I completed the Nightmare rewatch (skipping the remake, at least this season), Zombie’s Halloweens and a couple Universal masterpieces I haven’t watched in a very long time this week. A little more than a #LastFourWatched, but proper for a #LetterboxdFriday on Halloween; yay! #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters and ratings for Rob Zombie’s Halloween (3.5), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (2), Bride of Frankenstein (4.5), Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (1.5), The Wolf Man (1941, 4.5) and New Nightmare (4).
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM