Critical Nostalgia
@highway62.bsky.social
Feral writer. Intergenre. Opstmodern. Hedorahgroove. Smogwave. The Hazeland books. Horror fantasy crime on the streets of 80s LA.
No rep. Bad reputation.
California · highway62press.com
No rep. Bad reputation.
California · highway62press.com
All the good ideas come from hunger. All the change comes from discomfort. All the cool comes from a place of having been cast out.
Money kills ideas
February 14, 2026 at 3:07 AM
All the good ideas come from hunger. All the change comes from discomfort. All the cool comes from a place of having been cast out.
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I can’t find the extended video so I wanna talk about the kid who got punched.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
February 14, 2026 at 2:43 AM
I can’t find the extended video so I wanna talk about the kid who got punched.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo.
These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.
There can be only one.
Working and taking a second to marvel at this clip from Xanadu www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKSB...
Xanadu | Olivia Newton-John & Gene Kelly's '80s/'40s Hybrid E.L.O. Roller Disco
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:40 AM
There can be only one.
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The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
Happy Mondays - Step On (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by London Records
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:08 AM
"What are you gonna do, punch me?"
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"What are you gonna do, punch me?"
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20 years of John Coulthart's extraordinary blog { feuilleton } — a remarkable feat providing us with a cornucopia of wondrous art, writing, history, and weirdness. Truly, a gift to us all.
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
20 years of John Coulthart's extraordinary blog { feuilleton } — a remarkable feat providing us with a cornucopia of wondrous art, writing, history, and weirdness. Truly, a gift to us all.
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SAY IT AGAIN. If you don’t frame the question correctly how can you talk about solving it???
it's always "this younger generation is killing an industry" instead of "this industry is killing itself by pricing out the younger generation"
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
SAY IT AGAIN. If you don’t frame the question correctly how can you talk about solving it???
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new world's struggling to be born
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
new world's struggling to be born
Looking through LA photo books with images from the mid-late seventies and seeing snow most of the way down the San Gabriels and yeah, that's not happening again, huh? It can't be the same place, not just 'cause of human edifices changing or being torn down. Even the weather's gone.
February 13, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Looking through LA photo books with images from the mid-late seventies and seeing snow most of the way down the San Gabriels and yeah, that's not happening again, huh? It can't be the same place, not just 'cause of human edifices changing or being torn down. Even the weather's gone.
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There will never be a movie as good as a Kate Bush song.
February 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
There will never be a movie as good as a Kate Bush song.
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"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
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"Los Angeles - City Of The Future?” A BBC2 doc filmed just before the LA Riots of 1992. Old-style arguments about post-modernism, the Bonaventure Hotel, urbanism vs exurbanism, the "California Scenario" in OC, Mission Viejo, etc.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
heads up @highway62.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
heads up @highway62.bsky.social
Los Angeles - City of the Future (Full Playlist) - YouTube
An Open University program shown on BBC2 in the early 90s. This was filmed just before the LA Riots of 1992. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYIwlcjC...
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:48 PM
"Los Angeles - City Of The Future?” A BBC2 doc filmed just before the LA Riots of 1992. Old-style arguments about post-modernism, the Bonaventure Hotel, urbanism vs exurbanism, the "California Scenario" in OC, Mission Viejo, etc.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
heads up @highway62.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
heads up @highway62.bsky.social
Oh. A post broke containment.
*nukes*
*nukes*
February 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Oh. A post broke containment.
*nukes*
*nukes*
Today's Elliptical Cinema: The Vault, from 2017. Interesting setup, botched delivery. Both over and underlit, sometimes in the same scene. Woulda been a banger at a Tales From The Crypt episode length, though.
February 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Today's Elliptical Cinema: The Vault, from 2017. Interesting setup, botched delivery. Both over and underlit, sometimes in the same scene. Woulda been a banger at a Tales From The Crypt episode length, though.
Just playing this in a loop, just to feel something.
TO FEEL METL. LONG LIVE THE NEW METL.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eqf...
TO FEEL METL. LONG LIVE THE NEW METL.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eqf...
† CARPENTER BRUT - SPEED OR PERISH † Directed by Seth Ickerman (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Carpenter Brut
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Just playing this in a loop, just to feel something.
TO FEEL METL. LONG LIVE THE NEW METL.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eqf...
TO FEEL METL. LONG LIVE THE NEW METL.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eqf...
Me, to UpScrolled: "I come not in peace but with a sword."
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Me, to UpScrolled: "I come not in peace but with a sword."
As much as this sucks, it's not just videogames for which the audience feels like this. It's literally every single form of art that the public enjoys. They don't care how it was made, if it's sustainable or exploitative. They just want more, preferably cheap.
February 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
As much as this sucks, it's not just videogames for which the audience feels like this. It's literally every single form of art that the public enjoys. They don't care how it was made, if it's sustainable or exploitative. They just want more, preferably cheap.
"meta-slasher movie"
Aaaaaaand I'm out.
Aaaaaaand I'm out.
February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
"meta-slasher movie"
Aaaaaaand I'm out.
Aaaaaaand I'm out.
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Leather Temple // Final gate.
†††Speed or Perish†††
VIDEO /// out now //
Direction_ Seth Ickerman
linktr.ee/carpenterbrut
Mix + Master / Thibault Chaumont / Deviant Lab
†††Speed or Perish†††
VIDEO /// out now //
Direction_ Seth Ickerman
linktr.ee/carpenterbrut
Mix + Master / Thibault Chaumont / Deviant Lab
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Leather Temple // Final gate.
†††Speed or Perish†††
VIDEO /// out now //
Direction_ Seth Ickerman
linktr.ee/carpenterbrut
Mix + Master / Thibault Chaumont / Deviant Lab
†††Speed or Perish†††
VIDEO /// out now //
Direction_ Seth Ickerman
linktr.ee/carpenterbrut
Mix + Master / Thibault Chaumont / Deviant Lab
Holy shit.
Share an actual fight scene with actual humans made by actual humans 🖤
Prodigal Son (Sammo Hung/1981)
Prodigal Son (Sammo Hung/1981)
February 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Holy shit.
Hazeland (2016-, Maxwell)
If you could save time in a bottle, it would make an effective and horrifying Molotov cocktail
February 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Hazeland (2016-, Maxwell)
It me. I am a UFO people.
J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer, professor, and ufologist.
February 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
It me. I am a UFO people.
Not much, just thinking about a bunch of dudes in industries driven by spreadsheets insisting that line go up believing that intelligence resides in the ability to spit language out on a screen with no internal motivation or driving force of its own, always reactive, always awaiting command.
February 13, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Not much, just thinking about a bunch of dudes in industries driven by spreadsheets insisting that line go up believing that intelligence resides in the ability to spit language out on a screen with no internal motivation or driving force of its own, always reactive, always awaiting command.