Tim Howard
@tmhwrd.bsky.social
Melbourne, Australia. He/him. The so-called "Miles Davis of jazz".
I blog at https://habitualmood.com
I blog at https://habitualmood.com
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Tim Howard
@tmhwrd.bsky.social
· Sep 30
[90s rapper nobody’s ever heard of making his recording debut] well I’m back y’all
Watching Body Heat and it’s interesting that Christopher Reeve was top choice for the role that eventually went to William Hurt, but he wanted to do all the sex scenes wearing his Clark Kent glasses, and not always on his face.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Watching Body Heat and it’s interesting that Christopher Reeve was top choice for the role that eventually went to William Hurt, but he wanted to do all the sex scenes wearing his Clark Kent glasses, and not always on his face.
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Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.
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I seem to be getting more not less anxious about going to the dentist as I age, but at least this time their x-ray machine kept playing the first three notes in the melody from Goz Quarter off Autechre's Envane. Silver linings.
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I seem to be getting more not less anxious about going to the dentist as I age, but at least this time their x-ray machine kept playing the first three notes in the melody from Goz Quarter off Autechre's Envane. Silver linings.
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Christmas Eve from The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. I’m selling giclee prints & originals (I’ll post the originals & their prices here on Bluesky) of the illustrations I made for this book. Visit nicktankard.co.uk to see more. Giclee prints £75 (free P&P - UK only - I do ship worldwide also). Ta 👍🏻
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Christmas Eve from The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. I’m selling giclee prints & originals (I’ll post the originals & their prices here on Bluesky) of the illustrations I made for this book. Visit nicktankard.co.uk to see more. Giclee prints £75 (free P&P - UK only - I do ship worldwide also). Ta 👍🏻
A Faustian pact is when you sell your soul to David Faustino.
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A Faustian pact is when you sell your soul to David Faustino.
I’m gonna start aging myself down using bluesky prompts. “A perfect album that came out when I was 16? So difficult to choose - 2006 was a hell of a year for music!”
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I’m gonna start aging myself down using bluesky prompts. “A perfect album that came out when I was 16? So difficult to choose - 2006 was a hell of a year for music!”
Almost didn’t recognise Lorcan Cranitch in Blue Lights because for once he wasn’t playing a complete arsehole.
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Almost didn’t recognise Lorcan Cranitch in Blue Lights because for once he wasn’t playing a complete arsehole.
They used to make real soundtracks for a movie
I'm (yahoo) serious about this, it's a banger of a soundtrack.
I'm (yahoo) serious about this, it's a banger of a soundtrack.
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
They used to make real soundtracks for a movie
I'm (yahoo) serious about this, it's a banger of a soundtrack.
I'm (yahoo) serious about this, it's a banger of a soundtrack.
A Discogs user writes on The Vaselines. Music by young people having fun - who needs it?
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
A Discogs user writes on The Vaselines. Music by young people having fun - who needs it?
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Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
I don't remember that part of the song in The Bridge on the River Kwai. It doesn't really scan.
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I don't remember that part of the song in The Bridge on the River Kwai. It doesn't really scan.
Nothing good is ever released by the "tranche".
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Nothing good is ever released by the "tranche".
Starting the new season of Blue Lights tonight. Back in the Crane Zone!
Watching a show set in Belfast.
Me: there are those big cranes again! Did you see?
Partner: no but I saw them the other twenty times
Me: we haven’t seen them from this angle before though
Me: there are those big cranes again! Did you see?
Partner: no but I saw them the other twenty times
Me: we haven’t seen them from this angle before though
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Starting the new season of Blue Lights tonight. Back in the Crane Zone!
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The way in which certain countries have made an enduring annual ritual of remembering two specific wars is also a way for them to ignore all the terrible, dubious wars since and their own disgraceful track record in them.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The way in which certain countries have made an enduring annual ritual of remembering two specific wars is also a way for them to ignore all the terrible, dubious wars since and their own disgraceful track record in them.
Somebody's offloaded a bunch of Floridian comic crime novels (Carl Hiaasen, Laurence Shames, Dave Barry et al) in the local little free library. 20-year-old me would have been in clover.
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Somebody's offloaded a bunch of Floridian comic crime novels (Carl Hiaasen, Laurence Shames, Dave Barry et al) in the local little free library. 20-year-old me would have been in clover.
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I called out another woman’s name while making love to my wife. Neither of us had heard of her.
“Mrs Agnes Bishop!"
We googled her afterwards. Turns out she was the first woman to head the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg.
“Mrs Agnes Bishop!"
We googled her afterwards. Turns out she was the first woman to head the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg.
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I called out another woman’s name while making love to my wife. Neither of us had heard of her.
“Mrs Agnes Bishop!"
We googled her afterwards. Turns out she was the first woman to head the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg.
“Mrs Agnes Bishop!"
We googled her afterwards. Turns out she was the first woman to head the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg.
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
It’s weird to me that there are accounts on here whose entire raison d’être is to rack up likes by posting screenshots of other people’s old tweets.
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It’s weird to me that there are accounts on here whose entire raison d’être is to rack up likes by posting screenshots of other people’s old tweets.
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Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
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a few (rambling) thoughts on Journey to Italy. It's been quite a journey for me, too
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A ★★★★ review of Journey to Italy (1954)
"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" There’s a funny scene in Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy that reminds me of the Noel Coward song, which famously notes how “Englishmen det...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
a few (rambling) thoughts on Journey to Italy. It's been quite a journey for me, too
letterboxd.com/jamesewand/f...
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What a dreary spring it’s been so far. Good for having something to complain about though.
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
What a dreary spring it’s been so far. Good for having something to complain about though.
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Please performatively read my novel.
My latest novel My Life in Orbit is out now. richardblandford.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-l...
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Please performatively read my novel.