Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

@robmesure.bsky.social

1.1K followers 930 following 1.1K posts

Assessment type. Films, records, books, that Sort Of Thing. Will write for Scampi Fries, or cash with which to buy them. I’m not like this because I’m in Van Halen, I’m in Van Halen because I’m like this. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/jKip

boxd.it

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · Aug 7

*presses the self-promotion button*

Delighted to be in this Record Collector special, going on about The Mighty Crim, alongside some excellent people.

*ends*

4 4 27

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 3h

Farewell to John Lodge, bassist and vocalist for the Moody Blues. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82

Musician died peacefully surrounded by sounds of Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly, family say

www.theguardian.com

1 5 24

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 3h

You have my attention.

The Nerve @thenerve.news · 3h

For our first Weekend Dish, Syrian chef Imad Alarnab adds aubergines to shakshuka, the classic recipe ‘that represents the whole Middle East’

Interview by Claire Armitstead

🔗 www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...

Imad Alarnab in the kitchen. Text: The Nerve Weekend Dish: Imad Alarnab's Syrian aubergine shakshuka

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 5h

“I Can’t Believe It’s Just Hütter”

Steve Coogan Fan @stevecooganfan.bsky.social · 8h

And it's not even Kraftwerk – it's just Ralf and three random blokes

3 12

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9h

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

44 120 410

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11h

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

4 78 220

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 9h

“By pressing down a special key/it overcharges you and me”

2 30

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 9h

Sent me straight to #1/RC (because I’m not listening to *that* on the way into the office at 07.00)

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, hats off NYT Connections person.

Create four groups of four!
THIRD
SISTER
LOVERS
MAGIC
BIG
STAR
SERIOUS
WONDER
NAKED
DEVIL
EVIL
MAJOR
MAGICIAN
CONTINENT
IMPORTANT
DEADLY SIN

Vinyl reissue of Big Star’s Third album aka Sister Lovers.

5 17 130

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 9h

Just going to assume the next Kraftwerk album is called Dynamische Preisgestaltung, or something.

A screenshot, pinched from @stevejvickers.bsky.social, showing ludicrously high ticket prices for a Kraftwerk gig.

15 21 87

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 11h

Van Morrison’s entire oeuvre, right there.

Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking about this today, have always been obsessed with it.

A black and white picture of a picturesque isolated home. Hiraeth n. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It’s in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere.

10 49

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

6 120 420

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 1d

Lowdown by Wire for Daydreamer, wasn’t it? [Full disclosure: I had the singles, the album, an I’ll Manage Somehow ringer T-shirt, and I saw them live.)

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d

I am thinking of you because I am sad.

11 42 290

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

34 860 4.9K

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 2d

“It involves Russia.”

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2d

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

15 33 110

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

40 130 600

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 3d

Still takes some beating.

Where Is My Mind? Quiz at EOTR @whereismyquiz.bsky.social · 3d

14 years ago this was the funniest thing on the entire internet

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 5d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

17 140 320

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 6d

😍

Billy Reeves @billyreevesok.bsky.social · 6d

'Elizabeth Taylor (the author, not the actor)'
2023

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 6d

Same, and no.

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 6d

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

15 120 580

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 6d

Aftersun; All Of Us Strangers; Perfect Days; The Zone of Interest. Also, and this is probably just me: Spencer.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7d

One Battle After Another has been getting a lot of “best movie of the decade” talk, and I’m inclined to agree but I’m curious — what’s the competition?

Reposted by 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔

Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 6d

Sorry, it's gone on long enough and I have to say something: it is highly unlikely that a professional media distributor like Criterion only has one closet.

6 20 110

🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 6d

This Justin Hayward/Shoe People revelation has blown my tired mind

2 2