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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 3d

Podcast ahoy! This week, musician, milkman, and evil mastermind Terry Molloy chats instruments, Household Furnishings and much more!

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 12h

Although there is certainly something very PKD about noir's tendency to have a central protagnoist who is the only clear-eyed man in a world of charlatans amd crooks

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah but surely "bounty hunter goes to kill a gang" is more a Western plot than a noir

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, he can afford socks. Pays better than Amazon.

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 14h

Huh! Interesting backstory to Colin Wilson's Return of the Lloigor

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 14h

Does that depend on whether you get the version with the voiceover?

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, quite a lot of prejudice is rooted in people being fundamentally shit at life. Look at the incel movement.

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 17h

The problem with Lovecraft is that all his best ideas are because of the racism.

Like, Shadow Over Innsmouth is probably his strongest story, but the basic plot is "wouldn't it be grim if people of different races could fuck?"

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 18h

"Opinionated weather forecasters telling me it's going to be a miserable day. Miserable to who? I quite like a bit of drizzle, so STICK TO THE FACTS" - A Country Practice, Half Man Half Biscuit

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 18h

I think the mistake is made of thinking you have to understsnd every word before you see the play, when in fact a good actor will MAKE you understand - like Michael Keaton as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. Didn't know the play when I watched the film, but Keaton gave me everything I needed

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh, I like that

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 20h

One of my old professors would concur: "Blade Runner is a western with a scifi jacket on"

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 20h

TBF Michael Palin pronounces it "'yperbowl" in the Piranha Bros sketch, might have been an influence too

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah but I once read an article by a woman who said she tears books in half so she can lend the first half to a friend before finishing the book, and she was clearly a sociopath

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 23h

Neither breaking the spine of a book you are reading, nor trying to ensure the spine does not break while you read it, nor using an e-reader, indicates a more 'authentic' approach to reading or signals the correct attitude to the object. 'Fetishise' or 'vandalise', two sides of a pointless debate.

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 22h

Happy birthday, Katy! Xx

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 22h

*IF Jack's sacrifice, obviously

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 23h

Who was it who said that where people go wrong is they confuse "serious" with "sombre"?

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 23h

When I was a student there was a postcard in the campus shop which read "Just because Kant's Categorical Imperative states that i should undertake no action which cannot be implemented as a universal rule doesn't mean I can't give you a slap"

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 23h

I saw someone say that the two best Muppet films are Christmas Carol, because Cain acts like he's not surrounded by muppets, and Treasure Island, because Curry acts like he's one of them

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 23h

I mean...no

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

Surely it's the fact that Jack is evil at the end. In the book Jack's been sacked for beating shit out of a schoolkid before the action even starts, he's not a good guy. But of Jack's sacrifice proves that he can be redeemed, then King - writing in his severe addict phase - can be redeemed.

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

Exhinit 4: Jurassic Park, though admittedly YMMV based on whether you prefer your dino yarns to a) be extremely entertaining (film) or b) occasionally make a lick of sense (book).

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

The Shining is a great *film* but not a great *adaptation*. In retrospect, as you say, it's pretty obvious King overidentified with Torrance and was upset his (his) redemption was denied

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 1d

This is both why the LotR films are better than the books (stripped out reams of pointless wank) and the Hobbit films are much worse (added reams of pointless wank).

And the films have Bernard Hill (yaay) whereas the books have Tom Bombadil (puke)

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to everyone who had supported the music and poetry album Rachel and I have made

Kate Du-Rose @rosegirlkate.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing the Oct #musicchallenge for #DavidsMonthOfMusic

12. Song from the last album you bought.

One was an album of poetry and music by the brilliant Robin Ince (@robinince.bsky.social) and Rachel Taylor-Beales, entitled Weirdly Normal.

normallyweirdassociates.bandcamp.com/album/weirdl...

Weirdly Normal, by Robin Ince and Rachel Taylor-Beales

13 track album

normallyweirdassociates.bandcamp.com

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Michael Legge @michaellegge.bsky.social · 4d

All my BRILLIANT Bandcamp stuff is “pay what you want” until midnight on Sunday. Audiobook (recommended), EPs and live shows! You can even have them all for free, if you want. Get them while you can. Normal price returns on Monday. THANK YOU! SPREAD THE WORD!! michaellegge.bandcamp.com/music

Michael Legge

Bandcamp page for comedian Michael Legge. Follow him on Twitter: @michaellegge.

michaellegge.bandcamp.com

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