Bryan Alistair Charles

So beautiful! .. Back when one would sit & just read record sleeves endlessly I remember seeing "A song by Pylon" in DLO notes & the song was so haunting and I thought: I must seek out this band... of course it was harder then.
But I found Pylon. Which opened up whole new avenues & worlds.

all the tech and "advances" in the intervening
decades I swear nothing looks better--COOLER!--than the practical effects and action of The Terminator and Aliens.
Terminator in particular is one of the great moviegoing experiences of my life, seared into my mind, and forever a top-five film.
Cheers!

the franchise. (Odd side note: we were watching The Terminator when my wife was in labor April 2015. Had to turn the movie off finally and go to the hospital and we had our daughter.)
I can't believe it's been 42 years! (Maybe sometimes you have the same thought?)
But even with

in the theater (now 12 or almost) and remember very well the feeling of not being able to catch my breath it was so relentless. And Paxton my god (RIP), right away we all were saying his lines. And I taped Aliens and watched it endlessly too. have seen it many more times than any other film
in

& taped it to my wall.
Begged my parents to take me. Which they did. Eastowne 5 Kalamazoo MI. I sat several rows ahead.
Movie mesmerized & overwhelmed me. Blew my young mind away.
When we got a VCR later it was the first movie I taped and I watched it endlessly..
And of course I saw Aliens

Terminator was an absolute life changer.
I was 10. Don't know why it was on my radar, maybe just trailer or Leonard Maltin rave on Entertainment Tonight.
Anyway even before I saw it was semi obsessed.
Clipped the ad from the paper with Arnold with beams behind him & CSM 101 in sunglasses

A dog named Sir Anthony licking his chops after inhaling a pup cup.

Sir Anthony after inhaling a pup cup.
#tongueouttuesday

âme soeur 😍 🐾

I am certainly used to poky :) But to drop out entirely after an enthusiastic reception of the piece and a fruitful exchange seemed so bizarre that I eventually wondered if the editor had been in an accident.

I am a fan of your work btw. Loved ACITSC.
So psyched you blurbed Grace K's new novel!

Last year the now-departed managing editor accepted a piece I wrote for print/web. We had an email exchange and a phone call. The managing editor then ghosted me. Further emails and finally even a follow up voicemail went unanswered. after that I wondered what the hell was going on there...

Ahhh! Like this? Thank you for the info!

Yes! And I did not include László K's The Melancholy of Resistance, which Brad led me to...

I don't have letterboxd but #lastfourwatched are:
Train Dreams (2025)
Hard to Handle (1933)
Withering Heights (2026)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

A Hermes 3000 typewriter.

Hermes 3000 keys with various accent marks such as a tilde, cedilla, and umlaut.

A short typewritten sentence by Proust.

A typed mark whose meaning is unknown to the author of this post.

I picked up (yet another) Hermes 3000.
This one had keys like I had never seen before, QWERTY but with various other diacritical marks--does anyone know what the mark that's like an o with a line under (last photo) is meant to indicate?

Three books: Monsieur Teste, the third volume of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, and Proust and the Sense of Time.

Picked these up at the great @ebbooksellers.bsky.social last night. A must-visit if you are anywhere in the Bay really.
Monsieur Teste translated by @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social une traductrice formidable !
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

The Family Ties board game atop an issue of the New York Review of Books.

Hours of fun

I agree with you... But the surprising thing to me was how little chemistry Robbie/Elordi had.

ACID GREEN VELVET
will rock you
out in September I believe

Not quite too far, I don't think... Amanda Seyfried elevates the material, stealing every scene from her seemingly narcotized costars. I thought it was fun!

Je suis d'accord !

FLETCHER - Fletcher Format: 7"    Year: 1995    Genre: Indie / 90s Emo Dig Up The Music HERE Check Out A Song!

An astonishing bolt from the past.
My old band Fletcher (1994-96) turned up on a website devoted to obscure MI punk rock.
That's me on vocal/guitar.
This was in the dead heart of my Jawbreaker fixation.
As will be quite clear to certain listeners.
michigangraveyard.blogspot.com/2026/02/flet...

Not a reality show, in fact far from it, but my new one is Rob on Industry. Last ep. of season 3 💙

If I knew you were on here I would have followed long ago.
A strange moment to find out . . . but I know we will hear from you again soon!
The Second Pass Redux....?

An Enduring Source of Inspiration: In Search of Proust’s Legacy in Ireland Ireland remained neutral during the Second World War and drew up plans to resist possible attack by Nazi Germany or Britain. The authorities were also preoccupied by a different kind of foreign inv…

@maxmcguinness.bsky.social writes in search of Proust’s legacy in Ireland: “If it makes sense to speak of an Irish Proust, it is as one strand within the wider continental perspective that frames his Search.”

Forthcoming from New Directions in October: my translation of LONDON by Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Probably the most difficult book of all the 50+ books I've translated, for many reasons...

New Directions has the knack. The War cover was great as well!

Recently I picked up London Bridge, which I had not heard of. Strangely, inside was a card advertising something called The Success Principles, which will help me meet my life goals!

I have read this one! And the cover absolutely nails it. very excited about this long-awaited follow-up by one of my favorite writers.

This is a must-buy!

Some great performances in genre movies recently.
Amanda Seyfried in The Housemaid
Ralph Fiennes in The 28 Years later films
Bill Skarsgård in the overlooked Dead Man's Wire
...and now a fantastic fully-committed-to-the-madness Rachel McAdams in Send Help

I got tired of lugging that single-volume brick around. So look what I got! So handy, only 7 x 4.25". And such pretty covers too. (The brick, shown for reference, measures 8.125 x 5.5".) Direct from #Gallimard. #Proust #Proustsky