paledave.bsky.social
Forklift Driver, Movie Reviewer, Boomer
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I try not to take Ellroy on anything other than the most basic (superficial?? primeval??) level. Digging into it would aggravate me. That's the rule I apply to most pulp and noir. Thinking about Dashiell Hammett and Lilian Hellman makes me want to scream blue murder.
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all of those and The Ruling Class
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MAD magazine presents
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"Put it on a plate dear, it'll taste better"
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i've not heard any Cheap Trick since they went indie decades ago. i wouldn't know where to begin
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that's rotten for you
when I was 10 the horse I was on reared back (like you see in the movies) and I went flying, ass over teakettle. the horse then came over and kicked at me (missed), my career aspirations to be a movie extra died that day
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Phil Lynott, as narrator
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strong Elton John/Rock Of The Westies vibes
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i think it's a great album, from start to finish
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all bound for muu muu land, as they say
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youtu.be/Y86eJ1SVYMc?...
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A long, long way from Shanghai Triad
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It’s heartening that Nancy and Sluggo have been given a second chance by the internet hipsters
I hope that Marmaduke and The Lockhorns get their days in the sun as well
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I don't have your patience, but I would do these:
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or The Cars
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for me it's Insanely Jealous, pretty creepy song
I've always thought Queen Of Eyes as fine jangle-pop
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Es un hombre que vive peligroso
Todo lo que hace es sabroso
? (Cada viejo que lo ve, le escude* no por bien/ el nombre bien) ?
Quizás no verás en la mañana
Hombre secreto, hombre secreto
Le han dado un número y quitado el nombre no
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youtu.be/EFfPUVXOpLw?...
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In my case:
☑️ Marry my wife
☑️ Retire to a life of reading
☑️ Jim Morrison is still dead
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The week that Tom Courtenay was knighted, he was playing Andy Capp on the London stage
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David Warner! yay
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He certainly doesn’t look like Ed Murrow
Mebbe a glengarry glen ross loser salesman
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George Clooney as Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest
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John Connally on the debate stage in 1980 with Ted Kennedy:
"I just want to say that Chappaquiddick is not an issue in this election"
Re RFKJR: there's a Night Gallery with Laurence Harvey about things crawling around one's cranium that ought not to be there. Highly recommended and scary
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they couldn't have done that on the Ed Sullivan Show
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Buster Poindexter singing "N*zi Girlfriend"
Alternate universe: Klaus Nomi lives and becomes Buster Poindexter, with Thunders, Sylvain, et al as his backing band
Also: Iggy Pop joins the B-52s after the hit single with Kate Pierson, who joins R. E. M. as their drummer