The Arctophile

'In the old solitary frozen park
Two forms just passed & vanished in the dark
Their lips were soft & slack, their eyes were dead
One could scarcely hear a word they said
In the lonely old park, nipped by the frost
Two specters have called back the past they lost'. (Paul Verlaine)

Ok, giving Orphan Black another go.

Great shot, hope they make it to the U.K.

Rat Heart lands on Modern Love with a new double album, a knotty Northern masterpiece connecting dots between Movietone, Prince, The Durutti Column, Dean Blunt, Time is Away…

2LP, out now ✨

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Album of the year contender.

YouTube video by Sparklehorse - Topic Wish You Were Here

#NowPlaying Sparklehorse - Wish You Were Here (from the Come Again EMI compilation, 1997)
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#BOTD 1909
Helen Kirkpatrick: American war correspondent during WWII. Worked for the Chicago Daily News throughout the war. Wrote about the London Blitz and after D-Day, she became the first correspondent assigned to the Free French headquarters in Europe.
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Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1276 Enjoy your Saturday footpaths.

So good, and The Make-Up and The Scene Creamers/Weird War and Chain and The Gang....

CINELOGUE dedicated to cinema beyond the Western canon

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#NowWatching The Man Who Knew Too Much (D:Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)
"Peter Lorre's performance as a sort of undercover Napoleon working blandly to stand Europe on its head, is one of the most brilliant screen achievements of the year." Lorre's lines were all learned phonetically.

Rat Heart - NOT 2NITE (feat Cansu Kandemir) Taken from the new Rat Heart album 'Dancin' In The Streets', released via Modern Love on October 17th, 2025.

#NowPlaying Rat Heart - Dancin' In The Streets (LP on Modern Love) Album of the year?
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Rosemary Tonks, the lost poet Rosemary Tonks was a feted poet, trenchant reviewer and literary socialite. And then she 'disappeared'. Following her death last month, Neil Astley traces her extraordinary story

#BOTD 1928
Rosemary Tonks: English poet and author. After publishing two poetry collections, six novels, and pieces in numerous media outlets, she disappeared from the public eye following her conversion to fundamentalist Christianity in the 1970s.
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Yes, peak Autumn. The ferns are dying back and the trees are starting to reveal themselves. Have a great weekend Catherine 😀

Morning Danny, coffee done.

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1275

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue review – nothing has given me greater joy this year Packed with Agatha Christie-meets-Lost shenanigans, this ludicrous crime drama from Anthony Horowitz is a most perfect piece of televisual trash. Treasure it!

#NowWatching Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue (created and written by Anthony Horowitz,2025)
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Last Book Read.

Beautiful shot!

Caught her supporting Siouxsie and The Banshees, i think at one point she said " if I had a machine gun i'd kill all of you". Tough crowd.

#BOTD 1890
Paul Strand: American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.
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Morning Catherine 🌞 Oaks aplenty here, the footpaths are deep in acorns and sweet chestnuts.

Good morning everyone #TreeOfTheDay no.1274

I think got this along with Thomas Leer and Robert Rental singles.

#NowWatching Sinners (D:W/P/D:Ryan Coogler, 2025)
"Coogler doesn't put much force into this supernatural horror tale about Southern vampires, and despite its aesthetic pretensions, it remains on fairly standard and predictable ground." Please no more vampires.

#BOTD 1903
Helen Goss: British stage, television and film actress. She was also a drama teacher and for a period was responsible for admissions to the Rank Charm School. Known for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959),The Wicked Lady (1945) Jane Eyre (1970) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950).

#31DaysofGraves The angels in the abandoned cemetery near to where I live have been beheaded by vandals. Despite the damage however, they still stand as sentinels for the forgotten. Having purchased the site in the 1950's, the council mysteriously gave up on it. Of course it is said to be haunted.

#BOTD 1872
Hannah Jones in Shoreditch, London. Actress, known for Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929), Downhill (1927) Murder! (1930) and Elstree Calling (1930).

Why Isabella Bird, the Victorian explorer forgotten by history, became my heroine | Ruby Wax Cutting open bears, wrangling cows: retracing her voyage across the Rocky Mountains made me realise how extraordinary this woman was, says the comedian and writer Ruby Wax

#BOTD 1831
Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS (née Bird): English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir.
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There some amazing Autumn colours this year. And i love the mix of shades on the one tree!