nervechannel sound system

nowtv.com “box set” page for the Ring movies, with the tagline: it all began with the forging of the great rings

uh… you sure about that tagline, nowtv?

Rainbow over some houses and trees. Inside the rainbow, the whole sky is orange-pink, outside it’s mostly just evening sky coloured. Everything on the ground has a pink tint

that moment when you realise the boundary of the shimmer is encroaching on your backyard #nofilter #southernreach #areax

metal provider? I remember when they were just called ironmongers, can’t say that any more because of woke

A black and white illustration showing two sentient skeletons, gazing at each other while holding a winding sheet filled with decomposing corpses

A strong start to your 1600s surgical textbook when you begin with allegorical winged and cloaked death images like these – a stark reminder to all medical students

Inside you are two wolves, five sled dogs, eight Norwegian research scientists, Bennings, Norris, Palmer, Windows, Fuchs, Nauls, Blair, Garry, and Doc Copper.

it would be a fitting end to humanity’s spiral into mediocrity, if the apocalypse was brought about by someone called “mike johnson”

I almost wish we’d seen it in a fuller house, but only because I think it was much funnier than you’d know from that audience’s reaction

“You can trust me” says the teacher <reverse shot of her squatting next to graffiti’d car door> is one of the best sight gags in ages

MACHINES 24 • Prometheus (2012) + Alien: Covenant (2017) Podcast Episode · The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast · 15/08/2025 · 1h 37m

Shout out to this fun discussion of Prometheus and Covenant as an intergenerational retelling of the Frankenstein myth, which was how this absurd but ambitious thing ended up back on my screen in the first place podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

… and I guess Covenant’s the only one I can think of that *does* feature bros prominently, and look how that turned out for them

a close up of a man 's face in a dark room with smoke coming out of his mouth . Alt: Michael Fassbender making a ssshhhh motion

Rewatched Alien Covenant. I think it’s much better on a second watch.

Side thought: so much of Ridley Scott’s work is about mother and father, and so much of Tony’s was about bros. Kinda tells you something sad and poignant about their childhood

the bread giant rises - slowly - strides out across the fields to find the wicker man, kick his arse and turn him into a breadbasket

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

h/t to the You Are Good podcast ep on ROBOCOP where @bjcolangelo.bsky.social mentioned this, I think

One of those Guys You Love To See who we lost too early. And proof that not all nepo babies are bad I guess

Clip from Wikipedia listing all of Miguel Ferrer’s famous showbiz relatives - both parents, aunt, uncle, and cousin George Clooney on his mum’s side

Huh! Today I learned… Miguel Ferrer - Albert from TWIN PEAKS / Bob Morton from ROBOCOP - was George Clooney’s cousin

Tech industry: we’re like THIS far 👉 👈 from superhuman AGI

Also tech industry: there’s literally nothing we can do about the 1,000 texts a day from “indeed recruiting” and “tik tok hr”, it’s an ontological inevitability

just while I’m getting things off my chest

Does she have a thousand young?

See also: robots were supposed to be for doing the dishes and laundry so you had more time for the fun stuff like art and music and coding

Now they’re for doing the art and music and coding so you have more time for the dishes and laundry

MONSTERS (2010) dir. Gareth Edwards

I see what you did there

epic fail, obviously “hey whatever you do don’t think about” would work way better

It’s not even an accent thing, it’s doing it the same for both @alicefraser.bsky.social and her guest

An auto transcript from the latest episode of Realms Unknown where ChatGPT has been transcribed as Chad GPT every time

Listening to the new @realmsunknown.bsky.social and spotting that Apple Podcasts’ transcription model thinks it’s called “Chad GPT” has made my morning

Twenty-two Centimetre Nails

The thing I like the most about this Max Ernst painting, is that all the paintings on their walls look like Max Ernst paintings

Check the caption below the logo itself. Great point well made 👏

I guess you’ve already got Us as well then! Such a great pair, the race divide film and the class divide film

There’s a bit much earlier where you’re looking at a shot of the lobby and you’re like, is that Chekhov’s Dirt Bike or Chekhov’s Samurai Sword?

Then you find out it’s both

I heard he spent most of the time writing an indulgent existential novel about self-actualisation

Jonathan Livingston Sméagol