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This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.
What next? Concentration camps for trans women?
April 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What next? Concentration camps for trans women?
Ame Caline/Soul Coaxing just came on the radio. Reminds me of a time when all I cared about was watching Batman and reading Beano. The world is such a different place now.
March 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ame Caline/Soul Coaxing just came on the radio. Reminds me of a time when all I cared about was watching Batman and reading Beano. The world is such a different place now.
48 years ago today, I bought Anarchy In The UK by the Sex Pistols. It changed my life forever.
December 30, 2024 at 9:58 AM
48 years ago today, I bought Anarchy In The UK by the Sex Pistols. It changed my life forever.
youtu.be/pScdRKsGFr0?... a timely reminder that we must oppose the rise of the far right
The Cigarettes - They're Back Again, Here They Come
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November 28, 2024 at 2:06 PM
youtu.be/pScdRKsGFr0?... a timely reminder that we must oppose the rise of the far right
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Absolutely brilliant news
November 24, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Absolutely brilliant news
The Mail not giving its (admittedly stupid) readers the full picture? Goodness me!
Wow. Imagine the shock for the Daily Mail when it finds out Tory plans were for fines of £5k - later reduced to £3k - for each missed heat pump sale. What Ed Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. As @torstenbell.bsky.social says today Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”
November 22, 2024 at 9:21 PM
The Mail not giving its (admittedly stupid) readers the full picture? Goodness me!
Day eight - The Lives of Others (2006) early 80s pre collapse of wall, Berlin. A playwright is under surveillance from the Stasi for reasons which are not immediately obvious. After an article puts him in danger an unlikely source saves the day. The last four words of script are so beautifully apt.
November 22, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Day eight - The Lives of Others (2006) early 80s pre collapse of wall, Berlin. A playwright is under surveillance from the Stasi for reasons which are not immediately obvious. After an article puts him in danger an unlikely source saves the day. The last four words of script are so beautifully apt.
Day seven - American Graffiti 1973- it’s 1962 and the last night before a bunch of young friends head off to college and adulthood. The whole drama unfolds to the backdrop of perhaps the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. Look out for a young Harrison Ford in a supporting role
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Day seven - American Graffiti 1973- it’s 1962 and the last night before a bunch of young friends head off to college and adulthood. The whole drama unfolds to the backdrop of perhaps the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. Look out for a young Harrison Ford in a supporting role
Day six - Life is Beautiful (1997) - Italy, 1944. Italian Jews are sent to a concentration camp, including Guido, his wife Dora and four year old son, Giosue. So as not to scare his son with the horrors they now face, Guido tells him it’s a game and they can win a tank,which they do but at what cost
November 20, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Day six - Life is Beautiful (1997) - Italy, 1944. Italian Jews are sent to a concentration camp, including Guido, his wife Dora and four year old son, Giosue. So as not to scare his son with the horrors they now face, Guido tells him it’s a game and they can win a tank,which they do but at what cost
Linda McMahon - education secretary. What next? Undertaker minister for the undead? Haku replacing the US armed forces?
November 20, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Linda McMahon - education secretary. What next? Undertaker minister for the undead? Haku replacing the US armed forces?
Day Five - Persian Lessons (2020) - Gilles, a young Jewish man agrees to teach the deputy commandant of a concentration camp to speak Persian so he can open a restaurant in Tehran after the war. The only problem is Gilles does not speak Persian. Another film with a breathtakingly poignant ending.
November 19, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Day Five - Persian Lessons (2020) - Gilles, a young Jewish man agrees to teach the deputy commandant of a concentration camp to speak Persian so he can open a restaurant in Tehran after the war. The only problem is Gilles does not speak Persian. Another film with a breathtakingly poignant ending.
Day Four - Duck Soup (1933) - the politically unstable country of Freedonia is made even more chaotic by the installation of Rufus T Firefly as leader. Neighbouring Sylvania sends two spies to infiltrate the government, resulting in war! ‘All God’s chillun’ got guns, indeed!
November 18, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Day Four - Duck Soup (1933) - the politically unstable country of Freedonia is made even more chaotic by the installation of Rufus T Firefly as leader. Neighbouring Sylvania sends two spies to infiltrate the government, resulting in war! ‘All God’s chillun’ got guns, indeed!
You don’t see arch-Brexiteer Clarkson thumping this particular tub do you?
As much of the media accuse Labour of destroying British farming, it’s always good to pull back and look at the bigger picture 👀
Brexit is imposed, costing UK farmers £850m a year.
UK Farmers: Silence.
A trade deal with Australia gives their farmers near tariff-free access to UK markets.
UK Farmers: Tumbleweeds.
Just 1.6% of farmers will pay half the rate of IHT on any land over £3m to fund the NHS.
UK Farmers ...
UK Farmers: Silence.
A trade deal with Australia gives their farmers near tariff-free access to UK markets.
UK Farmers: Tumbleweeds.
Just 1.6% of farmers will pay half the rate of IHT on any land over £3m to fund the NHS.
UK Farmers ...
November 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM
You don’t see arch-Brexiteer Clarkson thumping this particular tub do you?
Day three - Green For Danger - 1946. A murderer is at large in a wartime hospital but can Inspector Cockrill catch the culprit before they kill again?
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Day three - Green For Danger - 1946. A murderer is at large in a wartime hospital but can Inspector Cockrill catch the culprit before they kill again?
Day Two - Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) - superior gangster movie with outstanding performances from all the leading actors, as career criminal Rocky Sullivan becomes an unlikely mentor for a bunch of juvenile delinquents. Another tearjerker ending as we are left wondering- was he really a coward?
November 16, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Day Two - Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) - superior gangster movie with outstanding performances from all the leading actors, as career criminal Rocky Sullivan becomes an unlikely mentor for a bunch of juvenile delinquents. Another tearjerker ending as we are left wondering- was he really a coward?
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Welcome to Slicing Through The Static's Bluesky! Lots of free music writing to look at here staticmemories.wordpress.com
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Received wisdom, pah! Music, culture, television, in the blender you go
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November 14, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Welcome to Slicing Through The Static's Bluesky! Lots of free music writing to look at here staticmemories.wordpress.com
Day One - Cinema Paradiso (1988). Glorious homage to the golden era of film, as seen through a child’s journey into adulthood in Sicily. The closing montage, scored beautifully, as is the whole soundtrack, by Ennio Morricone, would bring a tear to the coldest heart.
November 15, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Day One - Cinema Paradiso (1988). Glorious homage to the golden era of film, as seen through a child’s journey into adulthood in Sicily. The closing montage, scored beautifully, as is the whole soundtrack, by Ennio Morricone, would bring a tear to the coldest heart.
As this platform is inherently nicer than the rat-infested hell-hole that is X, I thought I would share something ‘nice’. For the next ten days I will list my ten favourite films and brief reasons why I like them. If anybody else fancies doing the same, go for it
November 15, 2024 at 8:22 AM
As this platform is inherently nicer than the rat-infested hell-hole that is X, I thought I would share something ‘nice’. For the next ten days I will list my ten favourite films and brief reasons why I like them. If anybody else fancies doing the same, go for it
At the risk of leaving myself open to accusations of hyperbole, I’ve only been on here an hour or so and already it’s at least a trillion times better than X.
November 12, 2024 at 8:43 PM
At the risk of leaving myself open to accusations of hyperbole, I’ve only been on here an hour or so and already it’s at least a trillion times better than X.
Right then, it can’t be any worse than Twitter.
November 12, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Right then, it can’t be any worse than Twitter.