internet access should be like driving you should have to pass a test when you hit a certain age and if you fail they take your phone away

Lyrically she is way better than almost any pop star working today. She’s fucking honed that craft.

Echoing a lot of my own thoughts. Folklore is absolutely my favourite though every era has something that blows me away. I’ve really been loving Midnights lately and the more I listen to TTPD, the better it gets. And I was just thinking about how sophisticated her lyrics are.

I’m very similar. The whole mood is more subdued than I expected but the sound is so warm and cosy. I’ve listened to it through like 3 times? There are highlights but it never really dips for me. A solid listen that I’m going to have to go through many more times.

Hard agree

Thank you.

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The experience was one of the most rewarding of my research career, and I’m so fortunate to be able to continue working with these wonderful people.

My dear friend and colleague, Daniel Sheppard and l were fortunate enough to be asked to help edit and write a foreword to this monumental and expanded publication.

…that at least someone was (insightfully and brilliantly) paying attention to these movies in their structural and formal minutiae.

It seems fitting that now, 17 years later (and on a Friday the 13th no less), I receive my contributor’s copy of the book’s much-needed and long-overdue 2nd Edition.

…the whole time I photocopied the entire book at 7p a page. I snatched a £40 used copy off eBay a couple of years later. Vera Dika’s ‘Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the Films of the Stalker Cycle’ absolutely filled in huge gaps in my research, and comforted me a little…