Michael Zeigermann

Alien

The Fog Of War

It was topical in 2003, and unfortunately it’s topical again. I think it’s of the most important films ever made and I wish more people would see it.

The Next Life by Suede (from their excellent eponymous debut album). Been over thirty years since I first heard it and it still rips my heart out.

Twin Peaks! My favourite TV show of all time. I was 12 or 13 when it first aired and it definitely warped my mind in a good way.

Unfortunately I ruined it for my wife by spoiling it for her. "But it doesn’t matter who killed Laura Palmer! What matters is… hey, where are you going?! Come back!"

YouTube video by Frost025 Tindersticks - No More Affairs

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Day 6: A song about second chances

Tindersticks - No More Affairs

Or third, fourth, ninth chances...

Oh, you're definitely in for a ride. 😁 I loved the original but the remake is just amazing. Went into it thinking I knew it all, which was a BIG mistake because it has a few surprises I genuinely didn't see coming.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

YouTube video by The Smiths The Smiths - This Charming Man (Official Music Video)

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Day 6: A song you recognise after two bars

The Smiths - This Charming Man

Don‘t we all?

Tbh, the pictures on the wall made me well up a tiny bit. Just the contrast between what looks like a remaining fragment of peaceful domesticity and, well, everything else.

One of the sad things about AI is that badly drawn photoshop was so much funnier

Check out this 3 bedroom terraced house for sale on Rightmove 3 bedroom terraced house for sale in Montague Road, Birmingham, B24 for £70,000. Marketed by Auction House Birmingham and Black Country, Aldridge., Aldridge

I do not think I have ever seen this in a property description before lmao

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Let‘s face it, @harrysword.bsky.social, this really is about as Verhoeven as it gets.

Can we stop comparing *any* UK leaders with Churchill please? Thatcher wasn’t Churchill, Boris bloody Johnson wasn’t Churchill, and Keir Starmer wasn’t Churchill.

Even Churchill wasn’t the Churchill everyone imagines.

Just shut up about Churchill.

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YouTube video by Tori Chitic Dave Brubeck - Take Five

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Day 4: A song in 5/4 time signature

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

The ultimate 5/4 song! Basically a touchstone.

YouTube video by naujallidap Can - Halleluwah

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Day 3: A song by a band/artist whose name starts with C

Can - Halleluwah

Didn’t think I‘d miss this opportunity to spread more Can among the masses, did you? ☺️

You can't analyse this stuff. It's the foreign policy equivalent of free jazz.

Masterpiece.

YouTube video by Newfound Recordings Radiohead - Let Down

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Day 3: A song using polyrhythm

Radiohead - Let Down

Of course! Absolutely masterful, because it manages to still sound beautiful and not like a physics diagram. It just floats.

Shame, I was happily picturing a moody Reznor putting the mop to one side before yelling "Terrible lie!" into the mic. 😉 Thanks for the info.

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Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Apparently Reznor was working as a janitor and recorded this in a basement. I don't know if that's true or not and I don't want to look it up, because actually I really like the mythology of it.

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Nirvana - Bleach
I think it's really beautiful that they were the biggest band on the planet just 3-4 years after this was released.

Oh, I didn’t know that!

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Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Mandinka on the radio, I inform my wife it‘s Sinéad O'Connor. "Is it? It‘s really good!" I agree.

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N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
At school, we listened to this in awe, like NO WAY did they just say that. The album has lost its shock value since, not because it or I aged but because everything addressed here is still true and exists today.

La Haine

La Grande Illusion