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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Batt's Wombles theme is a clarinet isn't it? For me it's between that and Mozart's clarinet concerto

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The Wombles - Season 1 Opening credits - 1973/1975 - BBC1

YouTube video by Classic TV Zone

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 16h

Smokey IS The Bandit

Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 16h

Future me, stepping out of time machine in 1996: "...in 2005, and it will surprisingly good. OK, it's going to get weird from 2016. Then in 2026 there's going to be this celebrity fall-out, and you won't believe which side you're on..."

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 17h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 18h

There would be some poetry in the giant Aryan golden robot boy eliminating the USA with Sibelius ringing in his ears

Roughly the inverse of Jesse Owens in 1936 Berlin

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 19h

Just look at it. The Cygnus invented Belle-Epoque-punk and no-one was brave or mad enough to follow

The Cygnus spaceship from Disney's The Black Hole. A sprawling Art Nouveau palace that is inexplicably flying through space

The Grand Palais in Paris lit up at night

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 19h

The Black Hole is three or four films mashed together. There's a Doug McClure adventure in there, for example.

But the sheer bleakness of the existentialist sci-fi one that's running underneath... it's like Disney Does Solaris

Plus, best spaceship design ever

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Oh was The Pillow Book afterwards? I must have forgiven him

The meta makes it more upsetting, which is interesting I agree. Having a "more real" layer of the fiction really makes the unpleasantness hit. Once was enough though

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

I was a Greenaway freak until I saw this film. I did get through it but was pleased to get back out into fresh air afterwards

JLRoberson @jlroberson.bsky.social · 1d

Greenaway's most divisive and wrenching film--FREE ON TUBI? That's...interesting. I myself am very fond of the film but I'm a Greenaway freak.
You don't wanna know what those big wooden things represent

The Baby of Mâcon (1993)

Set in 17th century France, a “miracle baby” born to an alleged virgin gets exploited by competing societal institutions to unspeakably tragic ends.

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

I may be alone in that I used to regret an impulse purchase of an I, Ludicrous LP

But on reflection - while it's still not exactly listenable - I'm glad to have once been so light of heart that I went out and bought an LP by I, Ludicrous

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

...and now we are, in the Irish parlance, giving out

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Give Out But Don't Give Up by Primal Scream

Yeah, turns out Screamadelica was an Andy Weatherall album

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

I think she really suits the PSB deadpan

The album also has Claudia's covers of Julee Cruise (not as good, IMO - it needs to be ethereal) and Stina Nordenstam (really good: unlike Stina, I can believe she has a human boyfriend)

Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Claudia Brücken sings PSB
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I was not aware

Kings Cross

YouTube video by Claudia Brucken - Topic

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Jeff is a regular at Davos and Bohemian Grove where he obtains IR funding for the year

The rescues are a demonstration of his power and reach, should that ever dry up

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Men, what's stopping you from dressing like this

Ad for French aperitif Byrrh showing a family at the beach. The father is wearing a singlet bathing suit and smoking a pipe

Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 4d

Craven's boss in Edge of Darkness? Among a craggy cast he stood out as the craggiest

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 4d

Parc du quoi?

A flyer for a French tourist attraction called Parc du Thot

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 4d

Harpo Speaks!

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 5d

Oct 5th 1975 - A malfunction with James Hunt's Hesketh forced him to retire mid-race, handing the 1975 U.S. Grand Prix title to Niki Lauda.

📽️📅 Depicted in Rush (2013)