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Adam Cecil
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currently: publishing audio fiction @localfiles.club || find me at adamcecil.com
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A screenshot of an Instagram reel from Letterboxd and ATP. Jannik Sinner has listed his four favorite films: Top Gun, Gladiator, F1, and Fast and Furious. With his head in his hand, he says “People are not going to agree on that.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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#lastfour #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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That’s awesome. I was concerned this streaming series completely threw out a millennia of dramatic theory. But now my concerns are assuaged.
A Google overview of a TV show that reads “A show that is dramatical in nature.”
October 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Jannik Sinner got an extra hour in the ball pit at DashCon
The tennis player Jannik Sinner relaxing in a small inflatable pool full of tennis balls in a photo posted to Instagram
September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Must’ve been wild to be one of those folks at the Spider-Man cage match. A month later you start seeing him in the papers beating up petty criminals. “Spider-Man?” you’d think. “The amateur wrestler?”
screenshot of Jim Downey from the Conan O’Brien podcast where he does that extended bit about Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier
August 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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four great kids movies
#letterboxdfriday #lastfour
Spy Kids Shrek The Sixth Sense Kung Fu Panda 2
August 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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putting this on a mood board btw

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Advertisers want to know how big an audience is, where they’re located, who they are and how they listen. They want to know this before they commit to expensive advertising. The limited series format has struggled to provide these assurances ahead of time, and so the “always on” podcast (a type of show that can offer reliable data) has predominated. Obviously, speculative media is nothing new (Disney cannot be sure how many people will go see the new Marvel movie before it commits to make it; the gamble is factored into the commissioning decision) but has always focused on direct sales. Make a movie, publish a book, record an album: then sell those to consumers. Ultimately, the number of sales will reflect a coalition of the campaign’s marketing prowess and the quality of the product. But with podcasts it’s different. Firstly, people are used to them being free and have always been far more reluctant to pay for them than other media forms. Secondly, limited series have consistently proved less good at direct revenue extraction than always-on shows, because they have to convince listeners to make a down payment against an unknown, whereas always-on listeners tend to reward familiar content with an upgrade. So both major revenue sources have shown a clear industrial preference for celebrity-led, always-on talk shows.
August 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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snoozin
close up of a cute grey and white cat with a little button nose snoozing on a soft blanket
July 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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extremely funny way to describe a nepo baby household
screenshot from Wikipedia: "Charlotte Sarah Lawrence (born June 8, 2000) is an American singer-songwriter and model. Raised in Los Angeles in a [and these next three words are highlighted by the skeet author] creatively rich household, she began singing and playing piano in early childhood, drawing inspiration from her father's work as a television writer and her mother's background in music supervision."
July 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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and of course

“I can have AC — but you can’t!”
Screenshot from the article: “And this is where I have to fess up. I actually have AC - a little freestanding unit we use only in the evenings, maybe 10 times a year. We also have solar panels and a battery, which helps me sleep at night, but the cool helps more.”
July 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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submitted my ballot
New York Times — "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century" Reader's Choice: My Ballot Uncut Gems - 2019 Punch-Drunk Love - 2002 Click - 2006 Spanglish - 2004 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry - 2007 You Don't Mess with the Zohan - 2008 That's My Boy - 2012 Grown Ups 2 - 2013 Pixels - 2015 Jack and Jill - 2011 The joke is that is starts with two legitimately great films starring Adam Sandler (and that made it onto the New York Times' main list) and then devolves into a list of Adam Sandler slop. Though I do really like Spanglish.
June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"she might've obliquely referenced Lolita in a photoshoot, let's cancel her"

meanwhile:
Headline reading: "Lana Del Rey's Lolita Obsession: Another Reason to Love her Music"
June 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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RETVRN
A promotional image of the first Splatoon game running on the Wii U GamePad, showing the minimap in a multiplayer battle.
June 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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this would fix me
screenshot of the text "a one-time tax-free gift of $100,000"
June 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The playlist
California - Phantom Planet Dice - Finley Quaye "Do not insult Death Cab." - The O.C. A Lack of Color - Death Cab for Cutie Worn Me Down - Rachael Yamagata If You Leave (Clip: S01E21) - Nada Surf Paint the Silence - South Caught by the River (Clip: S01E02) - Doves You're So Damn Hot - OK Go Fix You (Clip: S02E23) - Coldplay Everything Will Be Alright - The Killers A Bad Dream - Keane Rock & Roll Queen - The Subways Hide & Seek (Clip: S02E24) - Imogen Heap Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley Scarecrow - Beck E-Pro (Clip: S02E15) - Beck Honey and the Moon - Joseph Arthur Wonderwall (Clip: S01E19) - Ryan Adams Into Dust - Mazzy Star Forever Young (Clip: S03E04) - Youth Group Maybe This Christmas - Ron Sexsmith "I'm still Seth Cohen." - The O.C. Maybe I'm Amazed - Jem Fortress - Pinback I'm Shakin' - Rooney California 2005 - Phantom Planet
May 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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live on Barts Radio today from 12 - 2 BST
it's 7+ minutes in heaven vol. 2 on iPod Classics
tracks must be 7 minutes or longer to ride this ride
listen live: bartsradio.london
iPod Classics logo - a sad broken iPod icon
May 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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when the moon hits your eye like a big Pizzaballa, that's a Pope
screenshot of Google image search results for Pierbattista Pizzaballa, an Italian archbishop who is a potential candidate for the next pope
April 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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We're taking a time machine back to 2007 today on iPod Classics — 2 hours of tunes selected from legendary record store Other Music's 2007 year-in-review: www.mixcloud.com/fakeadamceci...
April 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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existential crisis
a beautiful grey and white cat staring out of a floor to ceiling window, lit by the rising morning sun. she is standing next to a Lego tuxedo cat, facing the camera
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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This week on iPod Classics: COVERS of popular 2000s hits. Nickelback covered by MacDemarco, Jessica Simpson by Waxahatchee, Lana Del Rey by Glass Animals. And that's just scratching the surface. www.mixcloud.com/fakeadamceci...
April 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Bring me back to those halcyon days
Wikipedia: “A further inquiry during 1966–1967 led the government of Harold Wilson to introduce the British Standard Time experiment, with Britain remaining on GMT+1 throughout the year. This took place between 27 October 1968 and 31 October 1971, when there was a reversion to the previous arrangement.”
March 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I'm live on @bartsradio.bsky.social at 12 pm with two hours of STOMP, CLAP, HEY music — think Mumford & Sons, the Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, etc. Listen live: bartsradio.london

Follow me on Mixcloud for the full iPod Classics archive: www.mixcloud.com/fakeadamceci...
the iPod Classics logo — a sad broken iPod icon from the old iPod operating system
March 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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absolute fire on the Instagram explore page as always
A post from @shrek.storybook, suggested for me. A screenshot showing a before and after of the art direction for the 3D animated Sonic film, which was changed after fan uproar. Above the screenshot is the following in quotes: "We should bully them to change the animation." This is referencing recent fan unrest over the new Shrek 5 trailer. Below the screenshot, @shrek.storybook has written: "Genocides are happening as we speak. I think we can use our anger on something else than bully a company that has been suffering from countless layoffs."
March 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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live on @bartsradio.bsky.social in ten minutes with a big ol’ playlist of iPod Classics bartsradio.london/online/
iPod Classics logo - an icon of a broken iPod with a warning symbol
March 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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MISTER POLICE
YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HER
I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES
an edited photo of Jd Vance to give him a big shiny egg head and a baby face
March 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM