Darren Jones
@darrenmjones.bsky.social
Music, films, books, tea.
On my third listen to Micrographia by Bug Teeth today. It's a lovely thing #NowPlaying open.spotify.com/album/4bmmNR...
Micrographia
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November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On my third listen to Micrographia by Bug Teeth today. It's a lovely thing #NowPlaying open.spotify.com/album/4bmmNR...
My song of the week is Low Hill by Monde UFO #sotw open.spotify.com/track/3PCfVT...
Low Hill
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November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
My song of the week is Low Hill by Monde UFO #sotw open.spotify.com/track/3PCfVT...
My #LastFourWatched on #LetterboxdFriday have an Eastern European feel mostly, with Chantal Akerman's post-1992 travelogue after two 70s Soviet war films. Plus a French brass band film for my film club...
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My #LastFourWatched on #LetterboxdFriday have an Eastern European feel mostly, with Chantal Akerman's post-1992 travelogue after two 70s Soviet war films. Plus a French brass band film for my film club...
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Now reading - HHhH (2010) by Laurent Binet
This is already great. Literary non-fiction as much about undercutting genre as it is the subject at hand. Similarities with Order of The Day by Vuillard or The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Guez (both 2017) but more playful than both…
🧵 #booksky
This is already great. Literary non-fiction as much about undercutting genre as it is the subject at hand. Similarities with Order of The Day by Vuillard or The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Guez (both 2017) but more playful than both…
🧵 #booksky
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Now reading - HHhH (2010) by Laurent Binet
This is already great. Literary non-fiction as much about undercutting genre as it is the subject at hand. Similarities with Order of The Day by Vuillard or The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Guez (both 2017) but more playful than both…
🧵 #booksky
This is already great. Literary non-fiction as much about undercutting genre as it is the subject at hand. Similarities with Order of The Day by Vuillard or The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Guez (both 2017) but more playful than both…
🧵 #booksky
That Via record is something else. You had me at Thalia Zedek (pre Live Skull and Come). They played two gigs and recorded six tracks in 1987. The end.
New blog post! Wrote about new records from Dogwood Gap, Via @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social, and Blue Zero, plus a compilation of Australian shoegaze from 4000 Records @4000.bsky.social:
Pressing Concerns: Dogwood Gap, Via, Gazed and Bemused, Blue Zero
We roll into mid-November with a steady supply of new music; this Monday Pressing Concerns features a new album from Dogwood Gap, a new EP from Blue Zero, an archival EP from Via, and a compilation…
rosyoverdrive.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
That Via record is something else. You had me at Thalia Zedek (pre Live Skull and Come). They played two gigs and recorded six tracks in 1987. The end.
This was a very nice surprise! Sounds as good as ever.
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This was a very nice surprise! Sounds as good as ever.
My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday covered the 50s, 60s and 70s, and took me to Yugoslavia, Transylvania, Libya and the Netherlands.
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday covered the 50s, 60s and 70s, and took me to Yugoslavia, Transylvania, Libya and the Netherlands.
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Ohio Vision, by Spencer Radcliffe
10 track album
spencerradcliffe.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My song of the week is Milquetoast by Hélène Barbier #sotw open.spotify.com/track/7IHmiN...
Milquetoast
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November 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My song of the week is Milquetoast by Hélène Barbier #sotw open.spotify.com/track/7IHmiN...
The first AA film I saw at the cinema. Underage. A friend's dad took us and I was mortified that he asked for one and two halves... a dead giveaway! They still let us in...
Readers in the UK hoping to catch The Wild Geese 4K restoration in cinemas from today can check out the link below which lists every picturehouse screening the film, uncut, restored, and better than you've ever seen it before.
www.munrofilmservices.co.uk/movie/the-wi...
youtu.be/G6lHbzcvPDU?...
www.munrofilmservices.co.uk/movie/the-wi...
youtu.be/G6lHbzcvPDU?...
THE WILD GEESE (2025) UK THEATRICAL RE-RELEASE TRAILER
YouTube video by Severin Films / Intervision Picture Corp.
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The first AA film I saw at the cinema. Underage. A friend's dad took us and I was mortified that he asked for one and two halves... a dead giveaway! They still let us in...
An absolute favourite, and probably one of the first Chinese films I ever saw. Need to see it again.
Zhang Yimou’s début “Red Sorghum” kicked off a legendary partnership with actress Gong Li, and signaled the beginning of a new era of Chinese cinema.
crookedmarquee.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
An absolute favourite, and probably one of the first Chinese films I ever saw. Need to see it again.
My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday all had female leads and covered returning from alien abduction, mother/daughter relationships, outlaws in a French-speaking West and choosing sides in 30s Germany.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday all had female leads and covered returning from alien abduction, mother/daughter relationships, outlaws in a French-speaking West and choosing sides in 30s Germany.
My song of the week is The Feeling's Mutual by Michael Leviton ft Okay Kaya #sotw open.spotify.com/track/3sn5du...
The Feeling's Mutual
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November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My song of the week is The Feeling's Mutual by Michael Leviton ft Okay Kaya #sotw open.spotify.com/track/3sn5du...
Every time I think I might be done with janglepop, something drags me back in... I like The Science of Words album. open.spotify.com/album/27yAzk...
The Science Of Words
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November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every time I think I might be done with janglepop, something drags me back in... I like The Science of Words album. open.spotify.com/album/27yAzk...
I have Pro and the search/filtering options are great. I filter by subscription service all the time. Best £9 I spend every year. Also, that I could fix my subscription so the price never goes up. Awesome.
What is your favorite Letterboxd pro/patron feature? 👀
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have Pro and the search/filtering options are great. I filter by subscription service all the time. Best £9 I spend every year. Also, that I could fix my subscription so the price never goes up. Awesome.
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It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
#NowListening Living with Ants by Mechanical Bride. I loved Part II EPs, but didn't get this till years later. It's a beauty. #5DebutAlbums0014
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#NowListening Living with Ants by Mechanical Bride. I loved Part II EPs, but didn't get this till years later. It's a beauty. #5DebutAlbums0014
#NowListening Without Why by Rose Elinor Dougall. Such a great album. I still don't understand why it took 7 years for the follow up. #5DebutAlbums0014
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#NowListening Without Why by Rose Elinor Dougall. Such a great album. I still don't understand why it took 7 years for the follow up. #5DebutAlbums0014
Some favourite first watches from October
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Some favourite first watches from October
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View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.
Is it a trick or a treat to use last year's Halloween sweets?
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Is it a trick or a treat to use last year's Halloween sweets?
My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday featured three very different films from the 80s and a classic from the 50s.
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday featured three very different films from the 80s and a classic from the 50s.
My song of the week is Hypnosis Tapes by Mute Swan #sotw open.spotify.com/track/1Bc4yO...
Hypnosis Tapes
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October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My song of the week is Hypnosis Tapes by Mute Swan #sotw open.spotify.com/track/1Bc4yO...
My wife and eldest daughter are going out for the evening. I have the TV to myself. What am I going to watch?! Don't overthink it, Daz....
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My wife and eldest daughter are going out for the evening. I have the TV to myself. What am I going to watch?! Don't overthink it, Daz....
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