John Frightenby 🎃

Amen 🙏

Listened to the news a bit

What I apprehended was:

Mentally ill people should work. Physically ill people should work. It’s good for them, I imagine. Can’t prove it, but it suits one’s privileged world view

And then we grind their bones to make our bread. It’s what Thatcher would have wanted

I have acorn aspects. Any of the thousands of professionals who have catheterised me over the last year would vouchsafe this were they not bound by a code of ethics and simple human decency.

YouTube video by Beat-Club The Alan Price Set - Simon Smith & The Amazing Dancing Bear (1967)

The last 2 days have not been top drawer, but the kindness of other people has got me through.

I haven’t done anything to deserve this astonishing largesse.

My gratitude is sky high. As Randy Newman & Alan Price once put it, “It’s just amazing how fair people can be.”

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Trying to do that anyway.

Jings, Simon. Sometimes it’s all I can do to stand still uneventfully.

Fucking hell.

Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.

*fail

Very many oops.

Armageddon is a great film. I bet I can squeeze another watch in.

“It’s Harry Stamper. He doesn’t know how to film!”

I’m crying just remembering it.

One year on and I’ve hit the twenty percent survival window.

I’m sorry for those four out of five fuckers.

Perhaps I didn’t spend your hours as you’d have wanted, I mean I listened to a lot of prog rock and watched Armageddon at least three times. But I tried hard to do neither hurt nor harm.

Today has gone off the rails slightly.

Back on #Frightenby25 tomorrow.

Dame Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of raunchy romance dies aged 88 Her agent says her

Ah bollocks.

That’s the world a less jolly place then.

Booksellers of the world salute you, Madame.

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I stan Krypton81

Day six if you’ve surrendered to the tyrannical system of big numbers.

I have numbers. Big, beautiful numbers. The best numbers. Great American Numbers.

You’re all under arrest.

Well ah well ah, fair enough, Kirsty.

Love those hits though.

Oh yeah.

Succession
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul

So many sitcoms: Peep Show, Derry Girls, Mrs. Brown’s Boys. Had a look. Not for me. My loss, I accept.

Still knee deep in other folks’ entrails I feel that #Frightenby25 day five may be a bit frivolous.

This is secret code for “I want to give Young Frankenstein a spin”

16) Young Frankenstein
17) Ghostbusters
18) Ghostbusters II

WE GOT ONE!

Another week. OK, then.

Waris, Verity, Sydney: I will do my best not to let you down.

❤️❤️

Grease
Friends
Buffy (TV series)
The Office (US version)
Gavin & Stacey

Nothing personal. It just never happened and god’s green earth on my time is dwindling here.

Two years. Three films.

It takes Marvel that long to get the tops off their biros

The 4K transfer of Zombie Flesh Eaters is sublime.

I’ve had to grade Murder Rock harshly because the “dance” “instructors” can’t count to eight on the eight beat. Seven, eight, nine out of ten.

The Gates Of Hell will never not be brilliant. An unsurpassable two years work.

#Frightenby25

And now I’m gone.

Cheating fucking owl prick.

Les chouettes ne sont pas vertes.

You’re not my real owl.

The artwork for the otherwise exemplary 4K release of Fulci’s barely coherent Murder Rock. It’s mostly the left boob of a murdered young woman. OK then.

Fulci’s Gates Of Hell trilogy. It’s not a real trilogy. Arrow’s Blu-ray releases of City Of The Living Dead, The Beyond, and The House By The Cemetery.

Mary Whitehouse, a controlling, interfering busybody in front of a sign saying “CHILDREN AT RISK FROM VIOLENT AND OBSCENE VIDEOS” as though parental responsibility was down to artists rather than parents. She’s dead now. I hope she’s happy finally. Honestly a lot of her stuff about the normalisation of porn was right. It’s only fair to acknowledge this.

Found it!

I am now on Do Not Disturb.

I’ll be over there being deplorable.

See you all on Monday.

Fuck, yeah.

Fight while you have it. Once it’s gone you’ve lost it forever.

I cannot stress this enough, and I am tired of saying it: British white people, everything you are seeing in the US is coming here and you cannot watch Eurovision or Great British Bakeoff or sign petitions and think you can stiff-upper-lip or ignore your way out of this.

Learn to be UNCOMFORTABLE.

Highly recommended to all my Who friends.

@melvinpena.bsky.social is an articulate, enthusiastic soul who always brings a perspective I would not otherwise have had. I love that.

@sihart.bsky.social remains the Whoniverse’s gentlest, but most effective interlocutor.

Thanks, chaps.

These are entirely “to taste”.

I accept that.

The Zombie versus Shark thing was a fight that needed settling in a playground “Who would win out of…?” situation.

In a career based on eye trauma this is Fulci’s masterpiece. It’s very horrible indeed.

Tomorrow will be cheerier, I’m sure.

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This is such a helpful podcast as I try to weld together my empirical science upbringing with my developing interest in consciousness. Every episode reminds me how ignorant I still am.

I adore that.

New project: Sufism

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Day five of #Frightenby25. Only Fulci can help me now

In their various states of glorious restoration:

11) Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)

Gates Of Hell -
12) City Of The Living Dead (1980)
13) The Beyond (1981)
14) The House By The Cemetery (1981)

And

15) Murder Rock (1994)

if I can find my copy

Well now.

Got my @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K Zombie Flesh Eaters today. I’m down the fathomless Fulci hole now. Maybe Murder Rock later.

Definitely the Gates Of Hell tomorrow though.

#Frightenby25