Pat Padua
@anamelessyeast.bsky.social
A freelance writer and dog lover with too many records
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Where is the Paul Leder/William Norton Criterion boxed set
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Where is the Paul Leder/William Norton Criterion boxed set
Why couldn’t there have been a character in CATS that sang conversational songs in the manner of Mick Jagger’s addled monologue in “Miss You”
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Why couldn’t there have been a character in CATS that sang conversational songs in the manner of Mick Jagger’s addled monologue in “Miss You”
Tonight in records I forgot I had
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Tonight in records I forgot I had
Country Joe and the Meat
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Country Joe and the Meat
Today’s autumnal religious mail call: a needlepoint Fabiola
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Today’s autumnal religious mail call: a needlepoint Fabiola
The great cast doesn’t consistently get a handle on the acidity here; Michael Apted needed to sharpen the cheese knife. youtu.be/1FYpsyPPz_c?...
The Collection, Harold Pinter, 1976, with Malcolm McDowell-Alan Bates-Helen Mirren-Laurence Olivier
YouTube video by 6MickTravis9
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November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The great cast doesn’t consistently get a handle on the acidity here; Michael Apted needed to sharpen the cheese knife. youtu.be/1FYpsyPPz_c?...
Ben Whishaw should be the first choice for a David Johansen biopic
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ben Whishaw should be the first choice for a David Johansen biopic
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Martin Newell - Late Night (Syd Barrett cover) [UK, Lo-fi] (1985)
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https://youtu.be/5_i16Legx3Y
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Martin Newell - Late Night (Syd Barrett cover) [UK, Lo-fi] (1985)
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November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Martin Newell - Late Night (Syd Barrett cover) [UK, Lo-fi] (1985)
https://redd.it/2tuwpc
https://youtu.be/5_i16Legx3Y
https://redd.it/2tuwpc
https://youtu.be/5_i16Legx3Y
For @spectrumculture.bsky.social I wrote about A BETTER TOMORROW, whose balletic violence Hollywood has long ago absorbed spectrumculture.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revisit: A Better Tomorrow - Spectrum Culture
While Hollywood caught up long ago with Woo’s bloody ballet, American filmmakers never reached his high emotional pitch, his world one of more than just physical violence but an emotional intensity th...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For @spectrumculture.bsky.social I wrote about A BETTER TOMORROW, whose balletic violence Hollywood has long ago absorbed spectrumculture.com/2025/11/10/r...
I’m putting Tilda in the pumpkin, and that’s not a euphemism.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I’m putting Tilda in the pumpkin, and that’s not a euphemism.
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That slaps
Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
That slaps
Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
Highly concerned on multiple levels about the Elf-branded Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Highly concerned on multiple levels about the Elf-branded Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup
I slapped call number labels on every one of these formats in my early yrs at LOC
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I slapped call number labels on every one of these formats in my early yrs at LOC
Sending out a bat signal for The Reynolds Girls
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Sending out a bat signal for The Reynolds Girls
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We recently watched Prunella Scales in this devastating domestic drama . RIP youtu.be/moZiEiSGx7Q?...
Unnatural Causes - Home Cooking (1986)
YouTube video by flashbackcaruso
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October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
We recently watched Prunella Scales in this devastating domestic drama . RIP youtu.be/moZiEiSGx7Q?...
The swooping camerawork is a perfect visual analogue for the music. And is it just me or does Green look a little like Malkmus here? youtu.be/txUNr03aVi0
Scritti Politti - Boom There She Was
YouTube video by Scritti Politti
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October 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The swooping camerawork is a perfect visual analogue for the music. And is it just me or does Green look a little like Malkmus here? youtu.be/txUNr03aVi0
Ironically harder to hear as an album than Made in USA. All I hear are pieces from the perfectly-sequenced Bossa Nova 2001 with singles and bits of Overdose mixed in. I do appreciate the English-language “Happy Sad,” and this music will always remind of the year my mother died.
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Ironically harder to hear as an album than Made in USA. All I hear are pieces from the perfectly-sequenced Bossa Nova 2001 with singles and bits of Overdose mixed in. I do appreciate the English-language “Happy Sad,” and this music will always remind of the year my mother died.
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12 years gone today 🖤
“I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So, what’s wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.” -Lou Reed 1979
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“I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So, what’s wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.” -Lou Reed 1979
youtu.be/gbfB9z4Am-E
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
12 years gone today 🖤
“I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So, what’s wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.” -Lou Reed 1979
youtu.be/gbfB9z4Am-E
“I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So, what’s wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.” -Lou Reed 1979
youtu.be/gbfB9z4Am-E
On the one hand I’m doing ok; on the other hand, I’ve had four chocolate shakes this week
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
On the one hand I’m doing ok; on the other hand, I’ve had four chocolate shakes this week
From TWINS OF EVIL schoolgirls to Roxy Music backup, the Chanter Sisters had a heckuva career. I wrote about their 1976 album FIRST FLIGHT @spectrumculture.bsky.social
Bargain Bin Babylon: The Chanter Sisters: First Flight - Spectrum Culture
Sisters Doreen and Irene Chanter deliver an album loaded with vocal chops, heart and invention, saturated hues and big soulful pipes providing a consistent entertainment, with curious bona fides that ...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
From TWINS OF EVIL schoolgirls to Roxy Music backup, the Chanter Sisters had a heckuva career. I wrote about their 1976 album FIRST FLIGHT @spectrumculture.bsky.social