Sarah
@thebasementtan.bsky.social
Film and fashion nut. Maker of crossword puzzles, lover of tap numbers, picker of weeds.
"You know who else was bad at finishing stuff? Leonardo da Vinci."
-me missing a deadline
-me missing a deadline
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"You know who else was bad at finishing stuff? Leonardo da Vinci."
-me missing a deadline
-me missing a deadline
Feeling totally fine, but my stomach is suddenly making sounds like the hot spring in DANTE'S PEAK and I presume this means my time has come. Please remember me and all the time I wasted on here.
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Feeling totally fine, but my stomach is suddenly making sounds like the hot spring in DANTE'S PEAK and I presume this means my time has come. Please remember me and all the time I wasted on here.
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My father went to a Western just about every night of his life that I remember. He didn't care if it was a good one or a bad one or if he'd seen it before. He said it didn't matter. I have seen just three new Westerns...and I think I understand what my father meant. (1967)
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My father went to a Western just about every night of his life that I remember. He didn't care if it was a good one or a bad one or if he'd seen it before. He said it didn't matter. I have seen just three new Westerns...and I think I understand what my father meant. (1967)
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I had a blast today #nationalportraitgallery enjoying the Cecil Beaton exhibition. It charted his early career from the 1920s and Bright Young Things to his triumphant costumes for My Fair Lady. Included were these forties Vogue shoots. It was a joy #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I had a blast today #nationalportraitgallery enjoying the Cecil Beaton exhibition. It charted his early career from the 1920s and Bright Young Things to his triumphant costumes for My Fair Lady. Included were these forties Vogue shoots. It was a joy #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Help, I am on the "Accordions Canada" website and I own a credit card.
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Help, I am on the "Accordions Canada" website and I own a credit card.
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Cannot count how many mental health spirals this abated. youtu.be/xiChwl_zHiU?...
Aretha Franklin - Mary, Don't You Weep (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Aretha Franklin
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Cannot count how many mental health spirals this abated. youtu.be/xiChwl_zHiU?...
Top five music genres
1. The jazz trumpet section will not be contained
2. We are three women singing folk harmonies and we are so very sad
3. This one goes out to Mother Russia
4. I lost everything, but at least there are trains/ships/the shoes on my feet
5. We're in church and someone is dead
1. The jazz trumpet section will not be contained
2. We are three women singing folk harmonies and we are so very sad
3. This one goes out to Mother Russia
4. I lost everything, but at least there are trains/ships/the shoes on my feet
5. We're in church and someone is dead
Top five music genres
1. Unhappy Scandinavian women with synths
2. Trad folk about how someone died down a well or was shagged/murdered by a servant
3. Minor members of The Byrds on drugs
4. Billie Holiday singing anything
5. Songwriters who are so English that it’s almost performative
1. Unhappy Scandinavian women with synths
2. Trad folk about how someone died down a well or was shagged/murdered by a servant
3. Minor members of The Byrds on drugs
4. Billie Holiday singing anything
5. Songwriters who are so English that it’s almost performative
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Top five music genres
1. The jazz trumpet section will not be contained
2. We are three women singing folk harmonies and we are so very sad
3. This one goes out to Mother Russia
4. I lost everything, but at least there are trains/ships/the shoes on my feet
5. We're in church and someone is dead
1. The jazz trumpet section will not be contained
2. We are three women singing folk harmonies and we are so very sad
3. This one goes out to Mother Russia
4. I lost everything, but at least there are trains/ships/the shoes on my feet
5. We're in church and someone is dead
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slatted sunlight through Venetian blinds illuminates my private detective office in stark contrast as I ram home the aeropress plunger on my third decaf of the day. frisking my jacket pockets, I pull out a plastic packet and shake its contents onto my desk. only four Haribo Goldbears left. no reds
December 30, 2024 at 9:37 PM
slatted sunlight through Venetian blinds illuminates my private detective office in stark contrast as I ram home the aeropress plunger on my third decaf of the day. frisking my jacket pockets, I pull out a plastic packet and shake its contents onto my desk. only four Haribo Goldbears left. no reds
Top 5 post genres:
1. Film screenshot featuring woman with really good eyeliner
2. Fanciful scenario in service of a self-deprecating joke
3. My cat has done something absurd
4. Look at this thing I just made
5. Top 5 lists
1. Film screenshot featuring woman with really good eyeliner
2. Fanciful scenario in service of a self-deprecating joke
3. My cat has done something absurd
4. Look at this thing I just made
5. Top 5 lists
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Top 5 post genres:
1. Film screenshot featuring woman with really good eyeliner
2. Fanciful scenario in service of a self-deprecating joke
3. My cat has done something absurd
4. Look at this thing I just made
5. Top 5 lists
1. Film screenshot featuring woman with really good eyeliner
2. Fanciful scenario in service of a self-deprecating joke
3. My cat has done something absurd
4. Look at this thing I just made
5. Top 5 lists
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I always like it when PBS says that viewers like me.
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I always like it when PBS says that viewers like me.
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Pepper was one of cinema's first feline stars. She appeared in dozens of films between 1913 and 1928
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Pepper was one of cinema's first feline stars. She appeared in dozens of films between 1913 and 1928
Not sure MURDER BY DECREE (1979) worked for me on the whole, but I loved hanging out with the tweedy boys, and it sports an impressive fog-and-carriage budget. And of course it's an essential piece of CanCon.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Not sure MURDER BY DECREE (1979) worked for me on the whole, but I loved hanging out with the tweedy boys, and it sports an impressive fog-and-carriage budget. And of course it's an essential piece of CanCon.
Watching a movie that's negative 480 pixels (it's actually sapping pixels from my body).
November 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Watching a movie that's negative 480 pixels (it's actually sapping pixels from my body).
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Was introduced to this slow burn masterpiece by the incredible use of it in the episode "Gregory." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyg4...
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Was introduced to this slow burn masterpiece by the incredible use of it in the episode "Gregory." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyg4...
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Is that *Paul Giamatti's voice* I hear as John Adams, Ken Burns you sly minx?
Merry Burnsmas to you and yours!
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Is that *Paul Giamatti's voice* I hear as John Adams, Ken Burns you sly minx?
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Empires of the Air manages this in under 2 hours.
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Empires of the Air manages this in under 2 hours.
Happy New Ken Burns Project Narrated by Peter Coyote Day to all who celebrate!
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Happy New Ken Burns Project Narrated by Peter Coyote Day to all who celebrate!
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Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in a publicity pose for Ramrod (de Toth, 1947)
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in a publicity pose for Ramrod (de Toth, 1947)
Aw man, like I needed to be lusting after ANOTHER 16th century jacket.
Alessandro Farnese, later Duke of Parma & governor of The Netherlands, looking very dashing at age 15. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1560.
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Aw man, like I needed to be lusting after ANOTHER 16th century jacket.
My firm belief about people who don't like musical numbers in movies is that they haven't been tied to this chair and forced to watch enough of them yet.
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My firm belief about people who don't like musical numbers in movies is that they haven't been tied to this chair and forced to watch enough of them yet.
-the proscenium may be crumbling, but we're gonna put on this show, dammit
-lonely person keeps doing tragic, uncomfortable things that make them even lonelier
-life-affirming space travel (aka nice aliens)
-Cary Grant doesn't wanna have sex
-principled lawyer/cowboy/politician in a town of sickos
-lonely person keeps doing tragic, uncomfortable things that make them even lonelier
-life-affirming space travel (aka nice aliens)
-Cary Grant doesn't wanna have sex
-principled lawyer/cowboy/politician in a town of sickos
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
-the proscenium may be crumbling, but we're gonna put on this show, dammit
-lonely person keeps doing tragic, uncomfortable things that make them even lonelier
-life-affirming space travel (aka nice aliens)
-Cary Grant doesn't wanna have sex
-principled lawyer/cowboy/politician in a town of sickos
-lonely person keeps doing tragic, uncomfortable things that make them even lonelier
-life-affirming space travel (aka nice aliens)
-Cary Grant doesn't wanna have sex
-principled lawyer/cowboy/politician in a town of sickos
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Richard Widmark and Mike Mazurki in a scene from “Night and the City” (1950). Directed by Jules Dassin.
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Richard Widmark and Mike Mazurki in a scene from “Night and the City” (1950). Directed by Jules Dassin.
Dreamed that Beyoncè was coming to perform for 100 people in my living room and my concerns that our country septic system couldn't handle it went unheard.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Dreamed that Beyoncè was coming to perform for 100 people in my living room and my concerns that our country septic system couldn't handle it went unheard.
Rewatched Douglas McGrath's lovely NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, maybe the film with the weakest central performance that I hold most dear. There are so many great hams and tangible, detail-rich frames propping up Hunnam that his angelic blandness becomes affecting. And Plummer makes a top-tier Dickens baddie.
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Rewatched Douglas McGrath's lovely NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, maybe the film with the weakest central performance that I hold most dear. There are so many great hams and tangible, detail-rich frames propping up Hunnam that his angelic blandness becomes affecting. And Plummer makes a top-tier Dickens baddie.
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Battling with “I certainly hope you die soon.”
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Battling with “I certainly hope you die soon.”