Andrew Male
@andrewmale.bsky.social
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist. Cultivating the echo chamber since 2011.
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Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
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i am
compelled to keep him
compelled to keep him
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
i am
compelled to keep him
compelled to keep him
"Bold".
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Bold".
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
Unlike Emerald Fennell everyone on this @backlisted.bsky.social podcast read the entire book, not just the first bit.
Give it a listen. It's good.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/251...
"They all agree wives aren't invited."
Deliciously unglamorous portrait of life at a London advertising agency in 1970, centred around the annual Christmas party. Includes some spectacular hairdos and some rather outmoded attitudes to, well, everything.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Deliciously unglamorous portrait of life at a London advertising agency in 1970, centred around the annual Christmas party. Includes some spectacular hairdos and some rather outmoded attitudes to, well, everything.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"They all agree wives aren't invited."
Deliciously unglamorous portrait of life at a London advertising agency in 1970, centred around the annual Christmas party. Includes some spectacular hairdos and some rather outmoded attitudes to, well, everything.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Deliciously unglamorous portrait of life at a London advertising agency in 1970, centred around the annual Christmas party. Includes some spectacular hairdos and some rather outmoded attitudes to, well, everything.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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I think GDT really nailed my favourite scene from the book where the monster is reading Ozymandias out loud
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I think GDT really nailed my favourite scene from the book where the monster is reading Ozymandias out loud
Listening to two podcasters talking about Del Toro’s Frankenstein and while I don’t think you have to have read the book to watch the film I have an issue with people praising GDT’s faithfulness to the novel [side eye] whilst also praising him for “telling it from the monster’s perspective.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Listening to two podcasters talking about Del Toro’s Frankenstein and while I don’t think you have to have read the book to watch the film I have an issue with people praising GDT’s faithfulness to the novel [side eye] whilst also praising him for “telling it from the monster’s perspective.”
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
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#NowPlaying A lovely recommendation from @andrewmale.bsky.social arrived today from @lookingforthemagic.bsky.social via @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social
A 1972 German prog-folk album that just floats along beautifully. Some primitive synth action & a woman with a great voice top things off nicely.
A 1972 German prog-folk album that just floats along beautifully. Some primitive synth action & a woman with a great voice top things off nicely.
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#NowPlaying A lovely recommendation from @andrewmale.bsky.social arrived today from @lookingforthemagic.bsky.social via @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social
A 1972 German prog-folk album that just floats along beautifully. Some primitive synth action & a woman with a great voice top things off nicely.
A 1972 German prog-folk album that just floats along beautifully. Some primitive synth action & a woman with a great voice top things off nicely.
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Post Office
Elbing, KS
Elbing, KS
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Post Office
Elbing, KS
Elbing, KS
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Delightful mid-century modern interiors on matchbox labels
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matchbloc.com/blogs/news/m...
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Delightful mid-century modern interiors on matchbox labels
matchbloc.com/blogs/news/m...
matchbloc.com/blogs/news/m...
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Reasons I keep looking/listening exhibit #5287
Beautiful timeless Breton folk that also manages to include a track that sounds like proto ‘This Heat’. For fans of the recent-ish Kristen Noguès & Dorothy Carter reissues. One of my fave discoveries of the year
Emmanuelle Parrenin- Maison Rose (1977)
Beautiful timeless Breton folk that also manages to include a track that sounds like proto ‘This Heat’. For fans of the recent-ish Kristen Noguès & Dorothy Carter reissues. One of my fave discoveries of the year
Emmanuelle Parrenin- Maison Rose (1977)
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reasons I keep looking/listening exhibit #5287
Beautiful timeless Breton folk that also manages to include a track that sounds like proto ‘This Heat’. For fans of the recent-ish Kristen Noguès & Dorothy Carter reissues. One of my fave discoveries of the year
Emmanuelle Parrenin- Maison Rose (1977)
Beautiful timeless Breton folk that also manages to include a track that sounds like proto ‘This Heat’. For fans of the recent-ish Kristen Noguès & Dorothy Carter reissues. One of my fave discoveries of the year
Emmanuelle Parrenin- Maison Rose (1977)
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Now THAT’S how you paint a flag where everyone can see it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Now THAT’S how you paint a flag where everyone can see it.
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A fun fact about the "sex cult" that Charles Guiteau joined and then got kicked out of is that it eventually became the Oneida silverware company.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A fun fact about the "sex cult" that Charles Guiteau joined and then got kicked out of is that it eventually became the Oneida silverware company.
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Restored and remastered properly for the first time, Sister Irene O'Connor’s prescient 1973 psych-pop milestone is an all timer - tape saturated Christian hymns backed by hypnotic synth vamps and a tinny drum machine
New from Freedom To Spend, who else
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New from Freedom To Spend, who else
boomkat.com/products/fir...
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Restored and remastered properly for the first time, Sister Irene O'Connor’s prescient 1973 psych-pop milestone is an all timer - tape saturated Christian hymns backed by hypnotic synth vamps and a tinny drum machine
New from Freedom To Spend, who else
boomkat.com/products/fir...
New from Freedom To Spend, who else
boomkat.com/products/fir...
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Oh my, reading this review by @andrewmale.bsky.social has done me no favours! :) No, I said a few weeks back. No need. I have a perfectly decent copy. Listening to my crackly copy I'm thinking, I have to buy it. Jeepers though, what a fine album.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Oh my, reading this review by @andrewmale.bsky.social has done me no favours! :) No, I said a few weeks back. No need. I have a perfectly decent copy. Listening to my crackly copy I'm thinking, I have to buy it. Jeepers though, what a fine album.
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I was given it to review, and thought "So it's come to this - reduced to reviewing a chimpanzee's 'autobiography' ffs". Little did I suspect it was a work of genius.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I was given it to review, and thought "So it's come to this - reduced to reviewing a chimpanzee's 'autobiography' ffs". Little did I suspect it was a work of genius.
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I've written a new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles).
This one is called 'Coins'.
bsky.app/profile/adri...
This one is called 'Coins'.
bsky.app/profile/adri...
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I've written a new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles).
This one is called 'Coins'.
bsky.app/profile/adri...
This one is called 'Coins'.
bsky.app/profile/adri...
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Is anything noirer than a blackout? Than not knowing what you’ve done, or what you’re going to get for it? Blackout Noir is a brilliantly conceived programme on Criterion, thanks to @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social & @glennkenny.bsky.social. And Black Angel (1946) is aces, it really sucker punched me
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Is anything noirer than a blackout? Than not knowing what you’ve done, or what you’re going to get for it? Blackout Noir is a brilliantly conceived programme on Criterion, thanks to @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social & @glennkenny.bsky.social. And Black Angel (1946) is aces, it really sucker punched me
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Oh my god IT'S THE MEME!!!
Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner “MOGAMBO” (1953) dir. John Ford
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Oh my god IT'S THE MEME!!!
Using this to say that if you’ve never read The @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social imprint of The Gate you are missing out on a) one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature and b) one of the great acts of literary translation, by William F. Sibley.
Went to the Natsume Sōseki Memorial museum last week where they’ve recreated his writing room.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Using this to say that if you’ve never read The @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social imprint of The Gate you are missing out on a) one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature and b) one of the great acts of literary translation, by William F. Sibley.
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I blubbed on and off nearly all the way through, but especially during the final chapters, when he is reunited with Weissmuller one last time. Don't think I've wept so much while reading a book since Charlotte's Web.
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I blubbed on and off nearly all the way through, but especially during the final chapters, when he is reunited with Weissmuller one last time. Don't think I've wept so much while reading a book since Charlotte's Web.
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Went to the Natsume Sōseki Memorial museum last week where they’ve recreated his writing room.
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Went to the Natsume Sōseki Memorial museum last week where they’ve recreated his writing room.
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The Starmer line on this is so funny.
The very obvious thing about the UK's *last five prime ministers* is the more the public saw of them, the more they despised them.
Young Wes might be OK wisecracking his way through 5 mins on GMB, but once the public realise he's a smug, condescending narcissist that waxy sheen will come off quick
Young Wes might be OK wisecracking his way through 5 mins on GMB, but once the public realise he's a smug, condescending narcissist that waxy sheen will come off quick
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Starmer line on this is so funny.
Marc at @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com is good people.
Delighted to get my copy of the gorgeous Yara Asmar album, and because he's a mensch, @hive_mind_records slipped in the new Wolfgang Pérez too 🙂
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Marc at @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com is good people.
Me Cheeta is so good that it genuinely has you, a clever person, pondering whether an ape wrote it.
Was very pleased to find these autobiographies of two less talkative stars of the golden age of Hollywood in charity shops recently. Just finished "Me Cheeta", and it's great 😀
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Me Cheeta is so good that it genuinely has you, a clever person, pondering whether an ape wrote it.