Andrew Male

Tschau Udo Kier, the ultimate cult movie star.

So many great, unique performances, but his prissy, petty, whiny Dracula may be my absolute favourite rendition of the character ever.

It's certainly the most fun.

And what a beauty he was, truly.

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An upside-down calculator spells BOOBIES

It is the billionaire equivalent of this.

An upside-down calculator spells BOOBIES

It is the billionaire equivalent of this.

The loneliest man in the world.

The actor Udo Kier in a black shirt and grey jacket rests his hands on a younger man's shoulder, palm trees in the background

2013 seems like another world now, that's when I met Udo Kier at some fancy Hollywood thing in Palm Springs, we chatted about Fassbinder & he said he was making a movie in Ireland & would look me up. It didn't happen but it was a privilege to meet him. Rest in peace, Udo, you maniac, you sweet man.

Just more cat to love.

Imagine getting into a fight with the fucker.

Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) typing in the bath in Laura (1944)

Feel free to use this sentence as a euphemism for something; just don’t tell me what it is.

Also, I like that they shot all the Choctaw flashbacks in TerenceMalickCam.

Paul Newman with Louis XIV, photographer Sanford H. Roth’s cat, 1956.

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Finally watching Echo on Disney+ and I would have watched it sooner if one of the reviews had straight out said "Alaqua Cox is magnificent and this is one Marvel series that is not bogged down in tedious po-faced lore."

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

YouTube video by Kino Lorber Bacurau – Official U.S. Trailer

If you're looking for an Udo Kier film to watch, may I recommend BACURAU (2019), starts off like a worthy slice of sociopolitical realism and ends up as demented Brazilian neo-western exploitation. Don't read anything else, just see it. Contains one of my favourite film moments of the 21st century.

Articulated lorry idling at the traffic lights.

This is magnificent!!!

Apologies if you don’t have Instagram for moral or political reasons. No need to tell me.

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God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee

Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors George Eliot and Pascal

Now in my early 60s I have only just started reading Middlemarch (blame the education system…), so I am immensely grateful to @adamroberts.bsky.social for this wonderfully perceptive exploration of the epigrams at the head of each chapter. open.substack.com/pub/profadam...

what resembles the grave but isn't Always falling into a hole, then saying "ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying "ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying "this is not your grave, get out of the hole"; sometimes being pushed, saying "you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave," and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying "this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole," all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there's just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying "look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from…

Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer

Young Udo Kier

Udo Kier in 2025.

#RIP Udo Kier. One of those utterly unique actors who turned the act of ageing itself into a work of art.

To return the thanks, may I say that watching that copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne fucked me up utterly. Thank you Michael and thank you, Udo. The transformation in the bath, so simple, so brilliant, is one of the most nightmarish things I've ever seen.

Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"

I've watched this twice now and it's amazing. TBH when the film came out I wasn't myself and lots of good things around then left me cold and even angry. But this is so full of feral energy and beauty and so totally compulsive. Plus you know Mani's Toby Jugs

“Narbonne Camembert Man!
Craved Euro drama
Dispensed with bread
His South Of France espadrilles
Smelt of cabbage in isolation!”

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.