Dan Pop-o-matic

And the 2006 Ant & Dec film ALIEN AUTOPSY.

The guy who directed COLD STORAGE (Jonny Campbell) also directed a series of PHOENIX NIGHTS! Wild.

Cheers!

Ok,
My gym is taking the piss now

Finally getting round to I VAMPIRI, which I picked up in the @filmsradiance.bsky.social sale a while back. Maybe the first Italian horror film with sound! Definitely shot by Mario Bava and directed by Riccardo Freda!

Fuck the BBC pt. 481052

The progress pride flag flapping in the breeze near a conifer and a grassy roundabout.

And opposite, for contrast

A red brick building with a clock tower, a grey sky behind it. There's a bit of light peeking out from behind the building.

Never been to the old part of the Northern General before. Here it is earlier, looking goth as fuck.

patrick star from spongebob squarepants is pointing at someone with a long nose . ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is pointing at someone with a long nose .

"No. The radiation will be emitted from your body without you being aware of it"

If I don't turn into an unstoppable atomic monster then what are we even doing here?

Reading the FAQs for my appointment today (being injected with a radioactive isotope so they can find my sentinel lymph node tomorrow) and one of them is "Will I glow in the dark?" 😂

Also getting a pair of starlings, which I haven't had before. The great spotted woodpecker is a bit more exotic though.

A medium sized black, white and red bird (a great spotted woodpecker) balancing on a bird feeder eating some fat balls)

A medium sized black, white and red bird (a great spotted woodpecker) balancing on a bird feeder eating some fat balls)

The woodpecker is back! Apologies for the poor quality photos.

Britpopple - Heardle for Britpop fans Guess the Britpop song from the intro in as few tries as possible.

Britpopple #1329

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#Britpopple #Heardle @Britpopple

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Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

There's a debate to be had about whether AUDITION is J-horror, or just a Japanese horror film, of course.

Watching this so soon after watching KAIRO was probably a mistake.

OMC has its moments, but feels like Miike wanted some of that sweet J-horror money, despite already having made AUDITION by this point.

Maybe he just fancied doing a ghost story? It's no RING or JU-ON though, sadly.

Just looking at Takashi Miike's filmography, and his output in the late 90s/early 00s is wild. At least 30 films in that era, including AUDITION, VISITOR Q, THE HAPPINESS OF KATAKURIS, ICHI THE KILLER, the SHINJUKU TRIAD SOCIETY trilogy, GRAVEYARD OF HONOR and ONE MISSED CALL. When did he sleep?

Not an original observation, but it does seem that oblivious self-centredness has massively increased since the pandemic.

J-horror films always make Tokyo look like an absolute shithole, don't they? I'm sure it's great really.

You're the real monster, gatekeeping.

I haven't seen K-POP DEMON HUNTERS, but it almost certainly "deserves" to be in the Criterion Collection more than GDT's FRANKENSTEIN.

(Yes I'm aware this is yesterday Discourse but I didn't see the whining until today).

It's a really small, non-chain gym as well, with only one of most of the equipment. There used to be staff that you could complain to, but not any more. Budget cuts I guess.

Someone did. He just said he was still using it in a faintly aggressive tone while not looking up from his phone.

Uggggh. The Arrow Player website is borked, so I have to watch ONE MISSED CALL (for EoH homework) on their terrible, terrible Xbox app.

"Superman" by REM on the latest episode of the Simpsons! Yay!

Yeah, I'm not sure the guy today was doing that. He went on the treadmill for a bit (in his coat initially) then sat on the chest press looking at his phone for about 15 minutes.

(Not that it's going to be my problem for a few weeks, but still).

The people who go to the gym just to sit on the machines and stare at their phones are back! Yay! Love that for us.