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Charlotte Allen
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pudim-flan fan, renewed gig-goer, slow runner, would-be gardener.
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This is tough - but comparing the relative wear and tear I have subjected both albums to, Doolittle gets my vote.
A Doolittle by Pixies cassette - half the label has been worn and torn off.
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Happy that my local café's card machine is not, in fact, a p*ssy palace. (Impossible not to get earwormed by this every morning.)
A card payment machine that is branded with the word 'dojo'.
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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A bit like the protagonist in The Bothersome Man, everything has been a little meh lately, with little thrill.

(Maybe unfair to The Asphalt Jungle - although, as charming as Marilyn is, her actual time in the film does not warrant her prominence on the poster.)

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
Recent activity on Letterboxd: The Bothersome Man - 2.5 stars The Asphalt Jungle - 3 stars Mahjong - 2.5 stars Kicking & Screaming - 3 stars
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Pops in Berlin (Goo, Shaky, Dave & Bruce)
The picture and text from Sonic Youth's Goo on a sign outside a yellow house Some records via porcupine records inside Oslo Kaffe Bar, including Shakin' Stevens A grey shades poster for Dave's The Boy Who Played The Harp (Kano, Jim Legxacy, Dave, Tems, James Blake) next to some very bright graffiti. A representation of Bruce Springsteen playing East Berlin - Bruce and the crowd are plastic figures.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Garden mushrooms are back (no fairy ring)
A group, and a couple of lone, brown mushrooms in some quite long grass.
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I enjoyed One Battle (really good, not seminal), may revisit Red Lantern as I think I put unfair expectations on Songlian, Tenet was so much men saying nonsensical stuff to each other in very important tones.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Recent activity (films watched): One Battle After Another - 4 stars Raise The Red Lantern - 3.5 stars Tenet - 2 stars Starship Troopers - 3 stars
October 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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#ClassicAlbumThursday

Can you believe I've never listened to Daft Punk's Discovery?? I've never listened to Daft Punk's Discovery. I'm going to listen to Daft Punk's Discovery.
an album cover. a black background with daft punk written in silver liquid metal, with a slight rainbow colour shadow
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Show us the last four albums you listened to (Also #Twen2ie5 edition)
Kendrick Lamar - GNX Wolf Alice - The Clearing Blood Orange - Essex Honey Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS
September 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I went to the cinema an unprecedented three times in two weeks. Good times were had at all the movies.

Fitzcarraldo was 'fine' - but expected more.

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
Recent activity on Letterboxd: Fitzcarraldo - 3.5 stars Weapons - 4 stars Materialists - 3.5 stars In The Mood For Love - 4.5 stars
August 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Spent the eve of my (big) birthday with Evan! and The Lemonheads!! The Outdoor Type was played.

(photo is appropriately woozy)
Two guys with guitars and a drummer on stage.
August 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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When the local cinema is also a football stadium (this is a couple of hours before kick-off). Saw Weapons, which was exactly the right level of scary for me.
Football fans in green and white outside a football stadium.
August 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Their logo is following me around today :)
A poster for the Happy Mondays tour, coming to Lisbon on 28 September.
August 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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All of these were a blast. Every choice made by everyone in Deep Red was ridiculous (complimentary).

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched
Recent activity on Letterboxd: Deep Red - Four stars Black Bag - Three and a half stars Diabolique - Four and a half stars The Naked Kiss - Three and a half stars
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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On Yorkshire day ...

... (not my Sheffield team, but) surprising to see Wednesday's official beer on sale at my SE London supermarket.
A close up of a shelf of beer, focusing on two cans of beer called The Wednesday. They are each decorated with a gold and blue owl.
August 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Further tonal leaps. My eldest really enjoyed Brewsters Millions (not as 😬 80's as I initially feared). The Handmaiden suffers because it can't compete with Fingersmith (I may be being unfair).
My Letterboxd recently watched: The Handmaiden - 4 stars Brewster's Millions - 3 stars Anyone But You - 2.5 stars Touch Of Evil - 3.5 stars
July 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Pavement tomato plant somehow growing on our street
A messy tomato plant growing on a pavement. There is one very small tomato.
July 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Some wild tonal swings from my last four watched. Really liked Love Me Tonight, but Maurice Chevalier less so. True Lies was not as fun as I remembered (it's been 30 years 🙃)

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
A screenshot of my Letterboxd recent activity: Love Me Tonight - 4 stars Drive My Car - 4 stars Nowhere - 3 and a half stars True Lies - 2 and a half stars
July 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Love coming into London via a YouTube video.
Some glass skyscrapers, one has a triangular roof that looks like the play sign on a YouTube video.
June 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Getting ready for an evening of dad-rock (complimentary) at the Royal Albert Hall. It's taken me 26 years to get round to seeing Wilco.
A big, impressive, music hall, with a stage to the left (no-one is on it). The stage is in blue light and the seats are red with purple lights up high
June 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Pulp gig #7 (ish)

Did they play my #ALL50RTS contender?

Y.E.S.T.H.E.Y.D.I.D.
A pink and blue lit stage, quite a way away. Jarvis Cocker, with guitar and star lights, on a big screen to the right. Lots of orange confetti in the air in front of a stage as people put their hands in the air.
June 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Only had time to see half the Burra exhibition. I will be back.
Some very dapper people hanging out round a 1930s Parisian record shop A bronze sculpture of two slightly abstract people sat on a bench A woman, with ethereal glow, in profile, crying Two Tudorish (Stuartish?) women sat in a bed with their two babies
June 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I have logged some films.

(One of these may influence an #ALL50RTS choice.)

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
The French Connection La Chimera Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Red Rooms
June 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Despite having the tallest fans known to mankind, and a slight bit of prog, I did enjoy MJ Lenderman & The Wind last night.
A row of men, some very hairy, with guitars, and maybe a keyboard, under red and white blue lights.
June 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Shopping my (at my parents' house) closet; and thinking of bringing back these "b sides are #ALL50RTS potentials" records.
Four singles - Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana, a Suede single (the title isn't on the front, but it's The Drowners), Chemical World by Blur, and Everybody Loves Me But You by Juliana Hatfield.
May 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Bee party in our poppies today. (My excitement about pollination has overtaken my fear of bee stings.)
A bee in the middle of a big pink poppy.
May 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM