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Melvin Peña

@melvinpena.bsky.social

making art, hiking, kayaking, gardening, watching films and tv, listening to music, reading comics, and singing karaoke about.me/melvinpena

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we love a man-thing sighting

02.03.2026 01:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Podcasters in a backup corridor

Podcasters in a backup corridor

Meeting Tara actual Wood!

Meeting Tara actual Wood!

Silurian lovers

Silurian lovers

Davo on the big screen

Davo on the big screen

Make a Myrka Great Again? - The Trap One crew convene for reactions to the BFI #DrWho #WarriorsOfTheDeep screening so fresh that their paint hasn't dried yet!
Podbean: tinyurl.com/uh6a62hr
Spotify: tinyurl.com/2xdc7r8z
Apple: tinyurl.com/mr2ku24a

28.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 49    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 7

get this book! i cannot recommend this novel more highly or more enthusiastically

01.03.2026 13:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

28.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 7195    🔁 1345    💬 70    📌 26
whatsapp video chat - i think - windows. clockwise from top left: me with a baby yoda squish-pillow in the background, simon and nathan with brightly colored microphones, and david wearing big headphones

whatsapp video chat - i think - windows. clockwise from top left: me with a baby yoda squish-pillow in the background, simon and nathan with brightly colored microphones, and david wearing big headphones

i had the loveliest time talking about "torchwood: children of earth" with the @flightthroughentirety.com crew for "500-year diary" this evening. it's a brutal, but timely, watch in 2026. thanks to @nathanbottomley.com, @simonmoore.bsky.social, and @johnnyspandrell.bsky.social for having me!

01.03.2026 04:03 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

it was such an astonishing performance. that video has always presumed the existence of all the rest of that performance. hope it sees the light of day in some way, some day

01.03.2026 03:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hahahahahaha that is a fun fact!

01.03.2026 03:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

that's fabulous news! one of the great things about this festival is out of 120 things i watched, i get to see something like this. it's a delight

01.03.2026 03:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the only song i don't like on that record - don't tell jenn - is "ida glow." something about it just feels off. but yeah, "the joke" 100% rules, and so does "birthplace." and "minor justice." and "you, the vatican" hahahahaha

01.03.2026 03:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"paranormal" was also made in the outer banks, which is just kind of cool.

01.03.2026 03:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yes! dude just kept sending her on weird quests! and nothing really bad happened to her; she was just allowed to explore and push the boundaries of experience. i could do that as a tv show. i really loved it. i wanted them to follow up with that weird witch who was doing blood magic

01.03.2026 03:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Wye Oak - Fortune (Live from JOIN)
YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube Wye Oak - Fortune (Live from JOIN)

and it was 6 years ago tonight - the last show i saw before pandemic hit - that i saw wye oak at duke. this show was phenomenal, and this song in particular. jenn hits that last note with the force of a meteor www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qb...

01.03.2026 03:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Flock of Dimes - Everything Is Happening Today
YouTube video by FlockofDimesVEVO Flock of Dimes - Everything Is Happening Today

happy 9th anniversary to flock of dimes' "everything is happening today." i love all of jenn's records, but "if you see me, say yes" is really special to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOdg...

01.03.2026 03:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

the awards committee really liked "lesions," but "driver" and "red mask" were my personal faves, among the features, at least

01.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

omg i'm so glad you liked them! i thought "the mid-night driver" was weird and hypnotic and inventive. i love that it took the girl's interest and fascination in exploring the occult seriously. more films should delve into a youth's burgeoning interest in eerie magics

01.03.2026 03:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

i loved both of these! let me know how they turn out for you!

28.02.2026 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

yes! super jealous! i know @dhollingsworth.bsky.social and a bunch of @trapone.bsky.social folks are there! you should look out and say hello!

28.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
three people pulling faces on internet chat windows

three people pulling faces on internet chat windows

happy hatching day 🐣 to noted and self-professed "doctor who" podcast slag, @dhollingsworth.bsky.social. he often jokes that we talk to each other on podcasts more than we talk to our own families, and that's probably true. here we are pulling faces with ross on @gallifreysmwpod.bsky.social

28.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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The first episode of Too Hot For TV is out today. Me and @michaelmills.bsky.social discuss the audio adaptation of William Gibson's unmade alien 3 script and the comic crossover Aliens / Vampirella by Corinna Bechko.

linktr.ee/Dylan_Rees

#alien #vampirella #avp #aliens #alien3

28.02.2026 09:54 — 👍 29    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 10
a man in a pink shirt and pink pants and a blue coat plays a guitar on a stage with a kind of starfield background

a man in a pink shirt and pink pants and a blue coat plays a guitar on a stage with a kind of starfield background

awesome! i admit i haven't seen the most recent band configuration without peter hughes, but i did just see john play solo at the pinhook in november

28.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Tour — the Mountain Goats

also, i did only just notice that the mountain goats are touring in october, though the london dates are already both sold out, there are waitlists, and it looks like there are still tix for bristol and manchester! www.mountain-goats.com/tour

28.02.2026 05:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Resurrection Of The Daleks Commentary parts 3 & 4 with Dylan Rees

Helllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club Mr @toohot4tv.bsky.social & myself conclude our commentary on Resurrection Of The Daleks!

#DoctorWho

27.02.2026 22:46 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

omg i read that article; it's 100% bananas! i was just telling my pal zoe (different zoe) about it a few days ago. it starts on p12 of dwm 620

27.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

get your flock of dimes tickets while you can! i am so excited about tour!

27.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy release day to Shane Parish's Autechre Guitar!

shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

27.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 67    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 3

i feel like i mention this all the time now, but "nancy" is such a fun daily escape

27.02.2026 20:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I do not have a taco, but what if I did.

27.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 856    🔁 67    💬 133    📌 15
baby eggy sits next to the lake shore on a very grey day

baby eggy sits next to the lake shore on a very grey day

i cannot imagine being an empty nester; i can only just barely take care of baby eggigail

27.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we can call it the reverse omnibus

27.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Experimenting with contact speakers and the Cantareel. This is a guitar sample run through granular synth and out of a contact speaker attached to my guitar.

27.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 33    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0