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Michael Lee Nirenberg
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Cinematic Immunity (Fall 2025 @feralhouse)
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Michael Lee Nirenberg @nirenberg.bsky.social · Apr 22
Official cover. Pub date 2/2/2026. With the legendary @feralhouse.bsky.social Thought it would take 2 years but it took 5.
Book cover reads Cinematic Immunity: An Oral History of New York Filmmaking As Told By The Crews That Got The Shot. Black and white photo of a man doing a film slate over a body on the subway tracks. The text is leaving blue echoes on the side and subtitle is in orange at the top.
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Recorded the 10 year anniversary “Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story” Blu-ray DVD commentary with John Torrani yesterday and I was surprised how good it was! It’ll be out next year with Visual Vengeance/Vinegar Syndrome.
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Fumiko Takano comic about politely masking up on public transit in 1988.

@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social “Miss Ruki”
8 page comic strip of two female friends. One starts sneezing and buys a mask to wear while the other one is being secretly judgey about it.
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Screen Actors Guild should consider organizing crisis actors.
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This is a graduate level dose of acid. Thank you @tarotplane.bsky.social
tarotplane.bsky.social Tarotplane @tarotplane.bsky.social · Oct 5
Just released a new zikzak mix.

4 hours of American Psych from 1966-1969.
Continuous Mix

Free DL

tarotplane.bandcamp.com/album/zikzak...

Its music thats close to my heart and i hope i did justice to it

check out zikzak.substack.com for background and tracklist
zikzak mix 14, by tarotplane
4 track album
tarotplane.bandcamp.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Every now and then you hear one that is so shimmering that time stops and you’re captivated.
Cecile McLorin Salvant- Take this stone (ft June McDoom and Kate Davis)
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Cécile McLorin Salvant - Take this stone (feat. June McDoom & Kate Davis)
Listen to Take this stone (feat. June McDoom & Kate Davis) on your streaming service
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October 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Fascinating story about how this obscure, gorgeous Bulgarian vocal music record was reissued by Nonesuch/4AD in the 80s. It’s better detailed in Joe Boyd’s new book but do read: www.thevinylfactory.com/features/mys...
Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares: How this all-female Bulgarian folk choir became a timeless cult phenomenon — The Vinyl Factory
Released by UK indie institution 4AD, soundtracked by Werner Herzog and playlisted by Gorillaz, this is the perculiar story of how a State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir emerged from Soviet Bul...
www.thevinylfactory.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Microdosing self-actualization
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Archeological digs Sunday morning in Brooklyn.
3 vinyl records on a wood table. Joe Sample-Rainbow Seeker, Tropea-Tropea, Andres Vollenweider-Caverna Magica.
August 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Golden hour upstate Sunday August 3, 2025
House with orange lights on in the middle ground. The sky is pale blue with a hint of purple. Black outline of trees on the landscape.
August 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Found this in my record collection. Admittedly, I don’t think I’ve ever *really* heard it until today. Man, it’s excellent.
Ps. Always loved the Mission UK’s cover of Hurricane.
Vinyl record cover of Neil Young’s American Stars N Bars.
August 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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This is an astounding act of pillage. Imagine this being your legacy: salting the earth that sprouted Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, Car Talk, Sesame Street, This Old House, and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.
August 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This script turned 40 yesterday. I’ve never seen Brighton Beach Memoirs.
July 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Call sheets for Big (1987).
2 call sheets on old xerox paper. The one on the left is blue and the one on the right is yellow.
July 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven and Seasons In The Abyss form a trio of records that revolutionised twentieth-century heavy metal. Dan Franklin makes the case.

Three Album Run: How 20th Century Metal Never Bettered #Slayer’s Unholy Trilogy

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Covers for Slayer's Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven and Seasons In The Abyss, arranged on a bookshelf with books and a turntable
July 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Celebrating the legend.
Small stack of vinyl records. The back cover of Black Sabbath’s Sabotage is at the top. Peeking out below is their record Master of Reality, and below that Ozzy’s Diary of a Madman.
July 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Some $3 heaters from my secret Brooklyn spot.
6 vinyl records top row from left: Smokey Robinson, Archie Bell and the Drells- Dance Your Troubles Away, Jimmy McGriff- The Groover. Bottom Row: Gene Pitney’s Greatest Hits, Martha and the Muffins- Danseparc, The Dells vs the Dramatics.
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Built these barn doors for this octagon window in my dining room. When I come back here I’m gonna paint a landscape of my pond on them.
Open Handmade wooden barn doors on an octagon window. Night view. The insides are lined with trim. Open Handmade wooden barn doors on an octagon window. Left hand side. Night view. The insides are lined with trim. Open Handmade wooden barn doors on an octagon window. Night view right side. The insides are lined with moulding for light leaks. . Closed handmade wooden barn doors on an octagon window. Day view. Hinges need to be painted black. Window moulding needs to be touched up. Has some wood putty in it.
July 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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This is ten pounds of sausage in a five pound bag. There should only be the two supergroups and sabbath. No more.
brianpjcronin.bsky.social Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · Jul 5
Fortunately if there's one thing any of these bands are known for it's their punctuality.
metalshayne.bsky.social Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · Jul 4
This seems like it’s going to be a mess.
July 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Graduation day
1000 day duolingo streak. Orange duo owl is like on fire from enthusiasm I think.
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story (2014) is back on streaming again. Only on @metalabel.bsky.social Pay what you wish.
#stayindie #hustlermagazine #firstamendment #70sporn #porn
Screenshot of Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story release page on Metalabel. Right hand side shows a woman dressed as a construction worker with a wheelbarrow of Hustler Magazines. The right are the ordering instructions. You download a special pdf which has the secret streaming link in it.
June 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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happy Father's Day to all who celebrate
'Saturn Devouring His Son' is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house some time between 1820 and 1823. It was transferred to canvas after Goya's death and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Goya depicts a large figure feasting on a human form. The human head and part of the left arm have already been consumed. The right arm has probably been eaten too, though it could be folded in front of the body and held in place by the larger figure's thumbs. The larger figure is on the point of taking another bite from the left arm; as he looms from the darkness, his mouth gapes and his eyes bulge widely. The only other brightness in the picture comes from the white flesh, the red blood of the corpse, and the white knuckles of the larger figure as he digs his fingers into the back of the body.
June 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Louis Moholo is gone - all the Blue Notes have passed.
June 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The new Little Simz record is so good. Full of surprises.
June 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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In “Nazi Punks Fuck Off,” Jello Biafra has a great line addressing them,“in a real Fourth Reich you’d be the first to go.”
greeneyedlady7.bsky.social Greeny @greeneyedlady7.bsky.social · Jun 10
Uh... boo fucking hoo? Listen, I'm a FAFO Philly girl. It makes me happy when people earn the FO fair and square, and he certainly did!
June 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM