JT Lindroos
@oivas.com
Finnish-American designer / writer. Sleep-walking cheetah. Once a book publisher. Married to kat330. Posts in English ja Suomeksi. Born 326 ppm #musasky #fortean he/him
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Hard agree. Nacho Vigalondo did the terrific Timecrimes and this was part of I think Hulu making kind of offbeat sf/horror flicks early on.
Anne Hathaway recently posted on her insta that more people should see her 2016 movie Colossal (available for free on Netflix in the USA or to rent from streaming platforms here). So I did. And she is right. boxd.it/d967Gv
A ★★★★½ review of Colossal (2016)
What starts as a strange tale of how a woman’s alcoholism in America appears to be connected to a rampaging monster in downtown Seoul becomes something at once darker, more surprising and yet sadly mo...
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February 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Hard agree. Nacho Vigalondo did the terrific Timecrimes and this was part of I think Hulu making kind of offbeat sf/horror flicks early on.
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Finished Willeford’s Pick Up (1955) and it was really excellent. Less quirky than his later work but just as existential. Any noir lit fans would be amiss not to read it, and it’s another good excuse to point to the “Any crime book worth a damn is a variation on Crime and Punishment” sign 🤌 #booksky
February 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Finished Willeford’s Pick Up (1955) and it was really excellent. Less quirky than his later work but just as existential. Any noir lit fans would be amiss not to read it, and it’s another good excuse to point to the “Any crime book worth a damn is a variation on Crime and Punishment” sign 🤌 #booksky
PHOENICIAN SCHEME makes for an oddly delicious double feature with ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS. Great fun, kind of an action film. I can't help thinking Wes Anderson would make a terrific Tintin feature film. Ligne claire. 🔥 #filmsky
February 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
PHOENICIAN SCHEME makes for an oddly delicious double feature with ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS. Great fun, kind of an action film. I can't help thinking Wes Anderson would make a terrific Tintin feature film. Ligne claire. 🔥 #filmsky
Finally saw Howard Hawks' ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS. Terrific screenplay performed with gusto by a great cast, directed with panache. Of special interest to fans of early aviation and, especially, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Classic adventure filmmaking with wit, heart, romance and excitement. #FilmSky
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Finally saw Howard Hawks' ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS. Terrific screenplay performed with gusto by a great cast, directed with panache. Of special interest to fans of early aviation and, especially, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Classic adventure filmmaking with wit, heart, romance and excitement. #FilmSky
Tanith Lee's NIGHT'S MASTER feels like a companion piece to Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES... "The snake had learned the speech of man centuries before, for hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk." #BookSky #TanithLee
February 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Tanith Lee's NIGHT'S MASTER feels like a companion piece to Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES... "The snake had learned the speech of man centuries before, for hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk." #BookSky #TanithLee
Quote this post with a gif of one of your fave movies
February 13, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Quote this post with a gif of one of your fave movies
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Good words to know, @ellen-friedman.bsky.social. "Gloaming" is too seldom used. "Yclept" is good. "Apricity" is just wonderful.
February 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Good words to know, @ellen-friedman.bsky.social. "Gloaming" is too seldom used. "Yclept" is good. "Apricity" is just wonderful.
Exhibit one. How Finnish men converse and eat lunch. 👇
February 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Exhibit one. How Finnish men converse and eat lunch. 👇
Started AND finished Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES today. Curious, engaging, fun, if slight. One of those books that make you want to put it down and write instead of reading. Reminded me of those fortean tales of mirage-like floating cities R.A. Lafferty, Ulrich Magin and others wrote about. #BookSky
February 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Started AND finished Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES today. Curious, engaging, fun, if slight. One of those books that make you want to put it down and write instead of reading. Reminded me of those fortean tales of mirage-like floating cities R.A. Lafferty, Ulrich Magin and others wrote about. #BookSky
"I'm going to have to straighten him out till there's nothing left but kinks."
Kitty Twist
Kitty Twist
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 AM
"I'm going to have to straighten him out till there's nothing left but kinks."
Kitty Twist
Kitty Twist
#Shelfie for the day. Fairly reflective of my current in progress #books, though reading none of these specific titles or authors at the moment. #booksky #kirjataivas
February 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM
#Shelfie for the day. Fairly reflective of my current in progress #books, though reading none of these specific titles or authors at the moment. #booksky #kirjataivas
"There is no language without deceit."
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 AM
"There is no language without deceit."
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Had my first Turkish coffee today. In good company to boot. Nice occasionally talking books, music, movies and other random subjects over lunch, hatching new publishing plans and burying others. 👀
February 11, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Had my first Turkish coffee today. In good company to boot. Nice occasionally talking books, music, movies and other random subjects over lunch, hatching new publishing plans and burying others. 👀
Finished MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION. Terrific and frustrating, haunting and funny, intelligent but in a deeply cranky manner. Saw the form of the ending quite early, but its granular detail was unimaginably jarring perfection. Overall for me, memorably good, not great. #BookSky #OttessaMosfegh
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Finished MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION. Terrific and frustrating, haunting and funny, intelligent but in a deeply cranky manner. Saw the form of the ending quite early, but its granular detail was unimaginably jarring perfection. Overall for me, memorably good, not great. #BookSky #OttessaMosfegh
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Happy Birthday to Jack Lemon who left us with the funniest gravestone ever
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Happy Birthday to Jack Lemon who left us with the funniest gravestone ever
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People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Mountain biking
Jacques Tourneur‘s Night of the Demon
Einojuhani Rautavaara‘s Cantus Arcticus
Brussels sprout
Songs in films
Mountain biking
Jacques Tourneur‘s Night of the Demon
Einojuhani Rautavaara‘s Cantus Arcticus
Brussels sprout
Songs in films
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Love this.
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Bette Davis.
Rebel Without a Cause
Citizen Kane
James Stewart
The late 1950s/early 1960s tv western.
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Bette Davis.
Rebel Without a Cause
Citizen Kane
James Stewart
The late 1950s/early 1960s tv western.
February 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Mountain biking
Jacques Tourneur‘s Night of the Demon
Einojuhani Rautavaara‘s Cantus Arcticus
Brussels sprout
Songs in films
Mountain biking
Jacques Tourneur‘s Night of the Demon
Einojuhani Rautavaara‘s Cantus Arcticus
Brussels sprout
Songs in films
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Jazz
Shaw Brothers Films
Whiskey
Cords (trousers)
ABBA
Shaw Brothers Films
Whiskey
Cords (trousers)
ABBA
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Love this.
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Bette Davis.
Rebel Without a Cause
Citizen Kane
James Stewart
The late 1950s/early 1960s tv western.
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Bette Davis.
Rebel Without a Cause
Citizen Kane
James Stewart
The late 1950s/early 1960s tv western.
February 9, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Jazz
Shaw Brothers Films
Whiskey
Cords (trousers)
ABBA
Shaw Brothers Films
Whiskey
Cords (trousers)
ABBA
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Love this.
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Bette Davis.
Rebel Without a Cause
Citizen Kane
James Stewart
The late 1950s/early 1960s tv western.
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Bette Davis.
Rebel Without a Cause
Citizen Kane
James Stewart
The late 1950s/early 1960s tv western.
OK, now let's play
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
If I may begin:
• Kim Novak
• Natalie Wood
• Moonstruck
• Richard Strauss
• Barbara Stanwyck
OK, you're up.
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
If I may begin:
• Kim Novak
• Natalie Wood
• Moonstruck
• Richard Strauss
• Barbara Stanwyck
OK, you're up.
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 AM
People or things it took you far too long to appreciate.
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Joan Didion
The Fall (band)
Santo Movies
Gin & Tonic
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)
"The Port of Trieste", 1907.
Oil and Pencil on Cardboard, 25 × 18 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"The Port of Trieste", 1907.
Oil and Pencil on Cardboard, 25 × 18 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)
"The Port of Trieste", 1907.
Oil and Pencil on Cardboard, 25 × 18 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"The Port of Trieste", 1907.
Oil and Pencil on Cardboard, 25 × 18 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Don't remember if I shared this before. Made a Yma Sumac music video a while back, after watching Tod Browning's 1935 Mark of the Vampire. 🔥 #YmaSumac #TodBrowning #musicsky #filmsky
Magenta Mountain by Yma Sumac
YouTube video by Attic Waffles
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February 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Don't remember if I shared this before. Made a Yma Sumac music video a while back, after watching Tod Browning's 1935 Mark of the Vampire. 🔥 #YmaSumac #TodBrowning #musicsky #filmsky
Peggy Lou just played this utter wonder on WWOZ. I first heard it via @tavfalco.bsky.social decades ago. Delightful in every iteration. 🔥 #musasky #musicsky
Kiss Of Fire (Single Version)
YouTube video by Louis Armstrong - Topic
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Peggy Lou just played this utter wonder on WWOZ. I first heard it via @tavfalco.bsky.social decades ago. Delightful in every iteration. 🔥 #musasky #musicsky