Matthew Sullivan
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I’ll protect you from the hooded claw.
Not the 1st evidence I can’t count.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen;
Bruce Springsteen (most)
Camera Obscura
Paul Weller
Belle & Sebastian
Billy Bragg
Something Happens
Sooty
Bruce Springsteen (most)
Camera Obscura
Paul Weller
Belle & Sebastian
Billy Bragg
Something Happens
Sooty
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen;
Captain Beefheart
Roxy Music
Miles Davis
The Clash
Suicide
Captain Beefheart
Roxy Music
Miles Davis
The Clash
Suicide
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Not the 1st evidence I can’t count.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen;
Bruce Springsteen (most)
Camera Obscura
Paul Weller
Belle & Sebastian
Billy Bragg
Something Happens
Sooty
Bruce Springsteen (most)
Camera Obscura
Paul Weller
Belle & Sebastian
Billy Bragg
Something Happens
Sooty
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen;
Captain Beefheart
Roxy Music
Miles Davis
The Clash
Suicide
Captain Beefheart
Roxy Music
Miles Davis
The Clash
Suicide
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Prince
Lady Gaga
David Byrne
Destiny’s Child
Kate Bush
Prince
Lady Gaga
David Byrne
Destiny’s Child
Kate Bush
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen;
Bruce Springsteen (most)
Camera Obscura
Paul Weller
Belle & Sebastian
Billy Bragg
Something Happens
Sooty
Bruce Springsteen (most)
Camera Obscura
Paul Weller
Belle & Sebastian
Billy Bragg
Something Happens
Sooty
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Noirvember closes with James B. Harris’s Cop (1988)—the first time James Ellroy’s feverish fiction hit the big screen. Mike teams with Andrew Nette and Rod Lott for a deep read of Harris’s adaptation, where James Woods’s unhinged Detective Lloyd Hopkins hunts a killer across eighteen years of...
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Noirvember closes with James B. Harris’s Cop (1988)—the first time James Ellroy’s feverish fiction hit the big screen. Mike teams with Andrew Nette and Rod Lott for a deep read of Harris’s adaptation, where James Woods’s unhinged Detective Lloyd Hopkins hunts a killer across eighteen years of...
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I'm wild about it too, and only recently read Hughes's book. So profoundly dark, it stunned me.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I'm wild about it too, and only recently read Hughes's book. So profoundly dark, it stunned me.
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Happy birthday Gloria! In A Lonely Place is one of my all time favourite films, starts off as a standard noir but moves into something far more truthful and disturbing. Celebrate her birthday by watching it today!
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Happy birthday Gloria! In A Lonely Place is one of my all time favourite films, starts off as a standard noir but moves into something far more truthful and disturbing. Celebrate her birthday by watching it today!
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I can't believe how commercialised Black Friday got.
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I can't believe how commercialised Black Friday got.
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James Baldwin: "We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be, and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are so empty, so tame and so ugly."
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
James Baldwin: "We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be, and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are so empty, so tame and so ugly."
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Dave Wallis (1917-1990) was born on this day. He wrote one SF novel: Only Lovers Left Alive (1964).
My review of his underrated post-apocalyptic novel: sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/10/14/b...
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
My review of his underrated post-apocalyptic novel: sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/10/14/b...
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Book Review: Only Lovers Left Alive, Dave Wallis (1964)
Uncredited cover for the 1965 edition 4/5 (Good) The scene: Early 60s London. Conjure displays of cool style at local discothèques. Youthful insolence and wit. Frivolous consumerism. Into this swir…
sciencefictionruminations.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dave Wallis (1917-1990) was born on this day. He wrote one SF novel: Only Lovers Left Alive (1964).
My review of his underrated post-apocalyptic novel: sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/10/14/b...
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
My review of his underrated post-apocalyptic novel: sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/10/14/b...
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
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L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Frank Frazetta, 1969; R, Stephen Hickman, 1979
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books
L, Frank Frazetta, 1969; R, Stephen Hickman, 1979
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
L. Sprague de Camp (1907-2000) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Frank Frazetta, 1969; R, Stephen Hickman, 1979
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books
L, Frank Frazetta, 1969; R, Stephen Hickman, 1979
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books
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~ Thirty More Novels for #Noirvember ~
Day 27: KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (1940)
Gerald Butler was ahead of his time. Though published in WWII-era Britain, this corker involving a violent drifter and his beloved reads like the greatest Fawcett Gold Medal paperback that never was.
Day 27: KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (1940)
Gerald Butler was ahead of his time. Though published in WWII-era Britain, this corker involving a violent drifter and his beloved reads like the greatest Fawcett Gold Medal paperback that never was.
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
~ Thirty More Novels for #Noirvember ~
Day 27: KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (1940)
Gerald Butler was ahead of his time. Though published in WWII-era Britain, this corker involving a violent drifter and his beloved reads like the greatest Fawcett Gold Medal paperback that never was.
Day 27: KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (1940)
Gerald Butler was ahead of his time. Though published in WWII-era Britain, this corker involving a violent drifter and his beloved reads like the greatest Fawcett Gold Medal paperback that never was.
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It's not officially Thanksgiving in Detroit until we get a Tom Selleck & Bob Seger Big Head sighting. Happy Thanksgiving to all our American fans and Happy Thursday to our international fans!
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It's not officially Thanksgiving in Detroit until we get a Tom Selleck & Bob Seger Big Head sighting. Happy Thanksgiving to all our American fans and Happy Thursday to our international fans!
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I have been told it's "very you" by a friend which may or may not be a good thing. But I'm very proud of it. It's an ensemble cast and it has loads of voices. The title comes from this excellent Beth's song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3C...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I have been told it's "very you" by a friend which may or may not be a good thing. But I'm very proud of it. It's an ensemble cast and it has loads of voices. The title comes from this excellent Beth's song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3C...
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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
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UDO!! They should let them just hang out and talk about the movies for a couple hours, I love it 📽
Udo Kier’s Closet Picks
The prolific German actor recalls the time he met Paul Morrissey on a plane, the festival encounter that led to his first film shot in the United States, and...
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October 13, 2023 at 8:53 PM
UDO!! They should let them just hang out and talk about the movies for a couple hours, I love it 📽
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In the new Slow Horses after Lamb makes that long speech about torture & [spoilers], Standish asks if he was the man in question - he says he made it up but he does something still & silent that's like watching Bob Beamon in the long jump
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
In the new Slow Horses after Lamb makes that long speech about torture & [spoilers], Standish asks if he was the man in question - he says he made it up but he does something still & silent that's like watching Bob Beamon in the long jump
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Posters on a recently uncovered disused freight elevator at NYU, now behind plexiglass. Testors is 1976-7, George Gerdes mid-late 1979 or so.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Posters on a recently uncovered disused freight elevator at NYU, now behind plexiglass. Testors is 1976-7, George Gerdes mid-late 1979 or so.
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Guilt was likely a big reason he went to the Lincoln Memorial on May 9.
A clear example of how Nixon always evades you, he's always just beyond your grasp.
A clear example of how Nixon always evades you, he's always just beyond your grasp.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Guilt was likely a big reason he went to the Lincoln Memorial on May 9.
A clear example of how Nixon always evades you, he's always just beyond your grasp.
A clear example of how Nixon always evades you, he's always just beyond your grasp.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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I made an intervention in the culture.
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I made an intervention in the culture.
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Yeah, he's good. PaperbackPapa over on Twitter recommended him. Love the covers, too, but the insides are smart and fun.
olmansfifty.blogspot.com/2025/01/4-bo...
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4. Boomerang by Andrew Garve
I discovered Andrew Garve due to this post on Twitter* from April 2024, put his name on my list and have been keeping any eye out for him s...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yeah, he's good. PaperbackPapa over on Twitter recommended him. Love the covers, too, but the insides are smart and fun.
olmansfifty.blogspot.com/2025/01/4-bo...
olmansfifty.blogspot.com/2025/01/4-bo...
Anybody know this guy? Absolute cover based impulse purchase, I will admit 👇
Andrew Garve is a UK crime writer I have never read. Former Moscow correspondent etc. look at those covers. Nice representations of different era of Pan paperbacks. ‘The Long Short Cut’ & ‘The Ashes of Loda’
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Anybody know this guy? Absolute cover based impulse purchase, I will admit 👇
Dublin book scores in the wild today, part 1 of 3. 60s secret agent craze novel ‘Shamelady’ by James Mayo & late Cold War novel ‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie’ by Brian Fremantle.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dublin book scores in the wild today, part 1 of 3. 60s secret agent craze novel ‘Shamelady’ by James Mayo & late Cold War novel ‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie’ by Brian Fremantle.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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This was the cover of my mom’s copy, which she gave to me when I was 6. Loved this novel.
Omg just saw this cover in something and don’t wanna say what bc spoilers but coooool, i didn’t know this cover existed! I loved this book as a kid.
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This was the cover of my mom’s copy, which she gave to me when I was 6. Loved this novel.