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Alan
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Former reader. Attempted gamer. Currently blogging about old movie musicals. He/Him
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Gonna tell my kids this was Eiffel 65

(from Jam Session, 1944)
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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That's it, I'm done with Hollow Knight. (No, don't look at the completion %.)
At least 10 hours of this was Radiance.
Hollow Knight save file. 58H 21M. 98% complete.
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Steam achievement, Today: "Dream No More: Defeat the Radiance and consume the light"
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Okay what the fuck
October 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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The most 1980s sequence I've seen in a film from the 1940s.
Shot from the finale of All The Gang's Here (1943). Women in blue bodysuits waving pink neon hoops on a blue and purple set.
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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going through books I got as xmas gifts years ago but never read and what the fuck is this nonsense
Page of a book by Andrew Blencowe. Text is a bunch of nonsense about the decline of Western civilization because of multiculturalism and loss of family values, and how Japan will become the only superpower because of "The Power of Harmony".
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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It's the picture with a happy toot!
Poster for the 1943 film "Is Everybody Happy?" starring Ted Lewis. Tagline in the middle of the poster reads "It's the picture with a happy toot!"
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Packing things away ahead of some work and decorating around the house, and I got so very close to fitting all my blu rays in one box
A large cardboard box filled to the top with blu ray cases. There's a pile of 10 on top that didn't fit.
September 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This makes me feel old.
Wikipedia excerpt: "From the 1960s through the mid-2000s, albums collecting songs were the dominant form for recording and consuming English-language popular music, in a period known as the album era."
August 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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"Many historians" have a strange definition of "trio".
Wikipedia exerpt. Text reads: "Sung in Spanish by an unidentified trio in a nightclub. Many historians agree that this trio consisted of Lamberto Leyva, Francisco Mayorga, Luis Santos, and Joseph Garcia. (The Guadalajara Trio.)"
July 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Fellas, is it gay to kiss a woman?

(From the wikipedia for Melody Ranch, 1940)
Melody Ranch marks the first romantic leading lady role for dancer Ann Miller. In one love scene Miller and Autry kiss. Negative advance publicity, however, led Republic Pictures to cut the kiss from the final print. Autry later recalled, Actually we kissed there at the telephone. There was a lot of (advance) publicity over that. The public relations department at republic put out a story I was going to be kissing Ann Miller in a picture. So they were flooded with a lot of letters from the kids saying 'Don't let Gene Autry kiss Ann Miller in the picture—that's sissy!' So finally at the last minute (Republic) said, 'You're taking a chance on it—why raise a controversy with the kids?' so they cut it all out.
June 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Very taken by these reviews on wikipedia of Strike Up the Band (1940).

1. Describing Judy Garland as "in the full bloom and charm which is beyond childhood" and "oomphy" (yikes)

2. Coining a word then painstakingly explaining how you arrived at that coinage

3. "smacko entertainment"
Daily Variety: "While all the young principals do themselves proud, Garland particularly achieves rank as one of the screen's great personalities. Here she is for the first time in the full bloom and charm which is beyond childhood, as versatile in acting as she is excellent in song - a striking figure and a most oomphy one in the wild abandon of the La Conga." Movie and Radio Guide, 1940: "The La Conga danced by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Strike Up the Band is nothing less than sensational. For that reason, Movie and Radio Guide hereby christens the number 'The Roogaronga.' This title is a combination of the first three letters of Mickey's and Judy's last names, to which has been added the identifying dance classification." Variety, September 18, 1940: "Strike Up the Band is Metro's successor to Babes in Arms with Mickey Rooney, assisted by major trouping on the part of Judy Garland ... Picture is overall smacko entertainment ... and Mickey Rooney teamed with Judy Garland is a wealth of effective entertainment."
June 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I figured it out. (This was the hardest boss in the game, I just couldn't do it any other way.)
Screenshot of the post battle summary from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Highest Damage: 65,990,640
June 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Okay, now we're getting somewhere.
Snippet of Clair Obscur victory screen, showing text "Highest Damage: 11,371,344"
June 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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What the hell is going on with my phone today
Battery usage chart from my phone showing last 14 days usage. Today's bar is at almost 300%, all other bars are tiny dots.
May 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Update: Lune has joined the party
Clair Obscur screenshot. The party are now in a red field. They are covered in blood, but Lune is now wearing a matching outfit with red beret and stylish red sunglasses.
May 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Someone didn't get the memo.
Screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 showing three characters on a rocky cliff. Maelle is wearing a black-and-white striped shirt, suspenders, and a red neckerchief. Gustave is wearing a black-and-white striped shirt, suspenders, and a red beret. Lune is wearing her normal black-and-gold expedition outfit.
May 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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People in the 1930s definitely knew what kissing looks like.
Snippet from a 1939 movie poster. A woman has her eyes closed and lips slightly parted; a man holds his face against her cheek, his lips just barely touching the corner of her mouth. It looks very awkward.
April 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I've got a good feeling about this one.
Screenshot of the beginning of a day in Blue Prince. Text on screen reads "Day 69". Nice.
April 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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My new sleeping arrangements, thanks to (I believe) a leaking washing machine in the flat above mine.
A mattress on the living room floor, squeezed between the couch and TV
March 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Weirdly, this is the second game I've played in the last year where one of these shows up. (The other was The Talos Principle 2)
screenshot from Another Crab's Treasure, a soulslike game where you play as a hermit crab. In a pile of trash in front of the crab, there is a magic wand vibrator.
February 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Wikipedia at its finest

(The page for The Singing Marine (1937))
Small section of a wikipedia page, subheading "Plot". The first line of the plot summary reads "I missed most of the first hour..."
February 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Watching a movie and out of nowhere getting completely thrown by one of the weirdest laughs I've ever heard. (Clip from With Love and Kisses, 1936)
January 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Watching Endgame and spotted what looks to me like a perfectly motionless CG double of Benedict Cumberbatch in the Tony Stark funeral scene.
December 27, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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in just a couple years this musical project will become the majority of everything I've published since starting this blog, lol
Screenshot of part of wordpress dashboard showing post counts. Published: 399, Drafts: 64, Scheduled: 42
October 27, 2024 at 8:37 PM