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Pat Padua
@anamelessyeast.bsky.social
A freelance writer and dog lover with too many records

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H/t @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social realized that the antidote to OBAA disappointment is WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM, which handles sex and revolution in hilarious ways that aren’t totally idiotic
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Marshall Crenshaw does a great coer
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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ham shank and glenn branca
YouTube video by ppad
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November 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Same, kid. Same.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I will never forget the way he said “Titicaca”
RIP to gravitas incarnate. 😢🫡
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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RIP to gravitas incarnate. 😢🫡
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Jar Jar Andronicus
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
gave away my Myron Cohen albums with no regrets
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Country Joe Arby’s
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ah, the 80s! With General Strike (a Steve Beresford/David Toop project), Eithne Ni Bhraonain (aka Enya), Jah Wobble, and field recordings from around the world.

Various Artists, Touch Travel (Touch cassette 1984)
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Weeding records, and the two crying babies lps are definite keepers but the duck calling records can maybe go
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Letterboxd is back up, which means I can now better strategize which Paul Leder-William Norton joint to watch next
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Where is the Paul Leder/William Norton Criterion boxed set
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why couldn’t there have been a character in CATS that sang conversational songs in the manner of Mick Jagger’s addled monologue in “Miss You”
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Tonight in records I forgot I had
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Country Joe and the Meat
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Today’s autumnal religious mail call: a needlepoint Fabiola
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The great cast doesn’t consistently get a handle on the acidity here; Michael Apted needed to sharpen the cheese knife. youtu.be/1FYpsyPPz_c?...
The Collection, Harold Pinter, 1976, with Malcolm McDowell-Alan Bates-Helen Mirren-Laurence Olivier
YouTube video by 6MickTravis9
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November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ben Whishaw should be the first choice for a David Johansen biopic
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Martin Newell - Late Night (Syd Barrett cover) [UK, Lo-fi] (1985)
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Martin Newell - Late Night (Syd Barrett cover) [UK, Lo-fi] (1985)
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November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For @spectrumculture.bsky.social I wrote about A BETTER TOMORROW, whose balletic violence Hollywood has long ago absorbed spectrumculture.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revisit: A Better Tomorrow - Spectrum Culture
While Hollywood caught up long ago with Woo’s bloody ballet, American filmmakers never reached his high emotional pitch, his world one of more than just physical violence but an emotional intensity th...
spectrumculture.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I’m putting Tilda in the pumpkin, and that’s not a euphemism.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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That slaps
Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM