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Kent M. Beeson

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Creator of AGAINST THE '70S (https://againstthe70s.blot.im/), a blog about mashing together '70s cinema & today's TTRPGs, and manager of The Best Album Brackets (@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social).

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hey folks! A new AGAINST THE ‘70S already! Film #2 in my Animal Apocalypses series is PROPHECY! I think I go longer on this than anyone ever has before. That doesn’t necessarily reflect well on me. Another new post next week, then back to the every-two-weeks schedule.

Prophecy (1979, John Frankenheimer) - Against the ‘70s

Hey folks, and welcome to the second film in this new six-film series, Animal Apocalypses. I’ll be looking at a bunch of “nature run amok” movies

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 3h

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 3h

No idea what this is but I’m *very* intrigued

Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 3h

I know Mara Corday when I see her! That’s THE BLACK SCORPION.

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Today's spooky $2.99 Kindle deal is Michael Talbot's THE BOG (1988), a classic from the Paperbacks from Hell era about strange happenings after ancient bodies are unearthed from a bog: www.amazon.com/dp/B00U8SU0Q...

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Max Deering @odstspartan.bsky.social · 5h

Upon reccomenadation from @danielgorman20.bsky.social, I checked out IN THE DARK (2000) a skeevy, nigh proto-SAW SOV adaptation of the Richard Laymon book. Staccatto cuts and repittions of lead, Kim Garrett (in an at times genuinely uncomfortable lead performance) playing Silent Hill...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h

I shouldn’t have to have someone interpret tattoos on a half naked white man sitting for an interview before we all agree this is absolutely absurd and we all need to just move on from this guy.

You cannot expect Black or Jewish people to put with this fucking ridiculous nonsense. Come on now

'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 6h

1. Celtic knot and ancient wolf don't make it any better.

2. Now everyone has seen the 1919 on his right arm.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 6h

Okey dokey

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 10h

The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #103
#5 Nine Inch Nails, PRETTY HATE MACHINE
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#28 Yo La Tengo, PRESIDENT YO LA TENGO

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #103: Nine Inch Nails vs. Yo La Tengo

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, October 22nd 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 4 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highl...

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 10h

JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814 defeats FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT, 100-72.

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 20h

something i’ve been thinking about today but can’t quite get the words for is seeing the fastest and hardest “no, get out” response to the nazi tattoo from the metalhead/adjacent crew on here

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Up next on TCM @tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 11h

THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966) — 9:00 am ET — 1h 32m
(TCM Daytime: Monster Mania)

Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Russ Tamblyn; directed by Ishirō Honda

Two gigantic humanoid beasts—one gentle, one savage—battle each other and the military as their rampage devastates Japan.

#TCM #TCMParty

The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 12h

If you’d told me this was from a 1971 horror movie I’d never seen, I would’ve believed you.

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 16h

doorway to hell actor haunted house, casino pier, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 12h

The wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage, wearing a pink t shirt with his name on it, his trademark aviator-esque sunglasses and bandanna over his head. He’s pointing one finger upwards.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13h

I really liked what he was saying. But if there's any way to recover from "hey man you have a fucking SS Nazi tattoo on your tiddy and thought it was OK to have one," he did not find that path, and it's not puritanical or exclusionary to say so, and its ridiculous to even have to explain this.

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #102
#13 Janet Jackson, JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814
vs.
#20 Julee Cruise, FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 3 Match #102: Janet Jackson vs. Julee Cruise

This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Tuesday, October 21st 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 4 of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either album, I highly ...

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 1d

David Leopard Gourdbase

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 1d

Been mourning Twitterrific for 3 years, so was happy to belatedly discover that its creator now offers a reader, Tapestry, that makes this joint considerably less bland, with color-coded list integration and customizable font / text size and such. Can’t post/reply yet, but they’re working on it.

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Travels With Brindle Takes Manhattan 11/9 @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 1d

Caroline Munro as a Leader Lady

Caroline Munro making a stankface as a Cinecitta Leader Lady

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 1d

That’s filthy.

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Ned Flanders in the driver’s seat of a RV, looking back through the window and smiling. He says, “Yes, bang all of our gongs!"

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

This is great both in its specific arena but also in thinking about work -- longtime readers know I proselytize about "notebook time", which is not only time for just thinking, but I specifically do it in a way that creates a little friction, forces concentration.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 1d

I lived through the era and never heard any of those until I constructed my Journey Hot 100 singles Apple playlist.

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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 1d

DISINTEGRATION defeats SONIC TEMPLE, 168-26-1.

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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 1d

New playlist JAZZ BEATLES 1965-1971, jazz renditions of Fab Four classics recorded by the band's contemporaries

🎺Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/4bd...

🎸Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

🎷YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

Official Sticking Place Books publisher page for HEADHUNTER is up! This is my baby being birthed. Well, Larry Cohen's baby, but I adopted it and have gotten it out into the world!

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit, thank you!!

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