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Diane Keaton and Al Pacino in a scene from "The Godfather"

Goodbye to Diane Keaton. You were great in the first two Godfather films; two landmark films in a long and storied career. RIP.

I ended up having to get a bigger external drive, as my digital pile of shame keeps growing. 😅

If you liked that one, check out their 2012 album Wreck, released on Alternative Tentacles. I'd say it's probably my favorite album of theirs.

YouTube video by John Cooper Clarke - Topic Evidently Chickentown

Finally got around to watching The Sopranos after all this time.

On a completely different note entirely, just going to leave this here:

So this is what Niles (and presumably Daphne) from "Frasier" got up to after the show ended. No wonder he didn't want to appear in the revival, bit of a comedown compared to being a psychiatrist.

"The (Bodily) Waste Land"

YouTube video by Classic Film & TV Cafe The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) - Clip with Robert Mitchum and Steven Keats

@artofcoop.bsky.social posted about turning a friend on to 70's movies, so here's a clip from 1973's "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", starring Robert Mitchum as a low-level Boston crook. A wonderful slow burn of a movie. It's free on YouTube as well, so no excuse not to watch it.

Not Matthau, but make sure "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" is next on the list (if it isn't already). I recently discovered this and it's a very underrated film. One of Robert Mitchum's best performances with a great supporting cast.

Hopefully "Charley Varrick" was a key part of this.

YouTube video by Unsane - Topic Ha Ha Ha

Just going to leave this here today, for no reason in particular

I mean, "Venezuelan beaver cheese" was RIGHT THERE. *shakes head*

For me the most meditative part is assembly; I dunno why but I find it oddly relaxing.

I should add that's mostly with stuff I glue with plastic cement. 3D printed stuff usually gets assembled digitally before printing, so I can avoid gluing my fingers together with super glue.

Polly Holliday, Who Played Flo on ‘Alice,’ Dies at 88 Polly Holliday, a stage and screen actress who played the sassy waitress Flo on 'Alice' and featured in 'Gremlins,' has died. She was 88.

Alhough it was overshadowed by, well, *gestures at the world in general*, we lost Polly Holliday this week. She had a varied career, but to a lot of us, she'll always be Flo from the sitcom "Alice". That show was perpetually in syndication and was a big part of the background of my youth. RIP.

YouTube video by Fox Lewis Sings Dylan (HQ) [1984 SCTV Skit]

I think everyone can use a palate cleanser today, so here's Martin Short as Jerry Lewis singing Bob Dylan on SCTV.

#SCTV

YouTube video by jpatche Coach McGuirk on Losing

"If we'd played the full game, we probably woulda lost by 100 goals. I dunno why I'm saying 'we', I wasn't out there runnin' around like it was the first time I ever used my legs."

People say Archer or Bob Belcher, but IMHO Coach McGuirk from "Home Movies" is H. Jon Benjamin's best character ever.

Already on the second song, and yeah, this would definitely have been my cup of tea back in the day. I mean, it still is to be sure, but now I don't have to fiddle around with changing the tape or CD out while driving, like I would have back then.

I started getting into noise rock back in the early-mid 1990s, and I know I saw copies of this record kicking around various record stores, but for some reason never got around to listening to it or buying it. Correcting that now.

"And later on, we'll be talking to a man who does gardening."

YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic I'll Never Forget You

For no particular reason, posting a song that was the first Hüsker Dü song I ever heard (and first anything by @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social I'd ever heard, as well). A friend included it on a mix tape of punk rock songs he gave me back in the early 1990s. Haven't been the same ever since.

#huskerdu

Cover to 2000AD prog 447, featuring the character Sláine in the story "The Tomb of Terror"

I think one of the first ones I remember reading was the Sláine story "The Tomb of Terror". My local comics shop here in the US got a bunch of 2000AD progs somehow during the 80s, and I bought every one of them. That Sláine story was one of the first 2000AD stories that really stuck with me.

Like when someone is drunk, and then something happens, and they're instantly and amazingly sober? It was that kinda thing.

A *lot* sweeter than I'd been expecting, to put it mildly. Thankfully I didn't just ralph it all back up right then and there. But I stored that info away for future knowledge, to be sure.

Amazingly no, but I do remember going "oh my god that is *sweet*!" 😬 And my British friend was like "yeah you're supposed to dilute it with water, like less than a third of that in the glass." I made sure to remember that going forward.

Yank here: years ago in the UK, I was at a friend's house after some drunken revelry. I asked for a drink; all they had was some blackcurrant Ribena. Before they could say anything, I'd poured a glassful and swigged it *without* diluting it first. I still remember the horrified look they gave me.

YouTube video by W.Z.K.- Doom-Grinding, Hate Worship and Opium Rituals (Cody C. Young) Fudge Tunnel - Gut Rot

In the 90s, my musical horizons got expanded by a lot of different bands, including the UK's Fudge Tunnel. My friends couldn't stand them; neither could the UK music press (Melody Maker likened their sound to "a toolbox falling down a flight of stairs"). But I liked 'em. Here's one of their tunes.

This was my gateway into horror.

Same, I remember trying to donate during a blood drive back around 2008 or so; when the guy asked if I'd visited the UK any time within the last 5-10 years or so, I said "yeah I went there on vacation back in 2003" and he basically said "okay, thanks but no thanks".

If you see this, quote with a (tiny) tank.

Having painted WW2 German infantry, I definitely agree that Space Marines are an absolute doddle to paint in comparison.

Far be it from me to gatekeep, but I feel like someone should tell George that poetry is a bit more than "make sure every two sentences end in words that (sometimes) rhyme".