Alan Maxwell
@anthemsprinter.bsky.social
I'm a Fifer. I love the following:
FILMS! (Scottish, Irish, documentary, short films, horror, cult movies)
MUSIC! (Everything from traditional folk to electronic weirdness)
THEATRE! (Especially Scottish and Irish)
BOOKS!
HAGGIS!
Letterboxd: GhostOfTheRegal
FILMS! (Scottish, Irish, documentary, short films, horror, cult movies)
MUSIC! (Everything from traditional folk to electronic weirdness)
THEATRE! (Especially Scottish and Irish)
BOOKS!
HAGGIS!
Letterboxd: GhostOfTheRegal
26 years today since the monster hangover that made me quit booze forever. Happy soberversary to me.
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
26 years today since the monster hangover that made me quit booze forever. Happy soberversary to me.
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this zatoichi is something else. guy can't see shit and he's still the best swordman in town. gives an incredible massage too. anyway me and a few local dipshits are gonna go take him out, pretty easily i figure
January 13, 2024 at 1:07 AM
this zatoichi is something else. guy can't see shit and he's still the best swordman in town. gives an incredible massage too. anyway me and a few local dipshits are gonna go take him out, pretty easily i figure
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Just heard that Farage plans to visit Falkirk and all I can think of is William Shatner in The Intruder.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just heard that Farage plans to visit Falkirk and all I can think of is William Shatner in The Intruder.
How am I only just now discovering that Christopher Walken's maw was from Greenock
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
How am I only just now discovering that Christopher Walken's maw was from Greenock
I've long said that I'd put Many Rivers to Cross in my top five songs of all time. RIP Jimmy Cliff.
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I've long said that I'd put Many Rivers to Cross in my top five songs of all time. RIP Jimmy Cliff.
"In order to understand life..."
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"In order to understand life..."
Ooh, nice. I quite liked the short film which I'm guessing this is an expansion of. Decent looking season at Dundee Rep next year.
🎸 KT Tunstall reveals songwriting plans for “powerful” new Scottish gig-theatre show which will launch at Dundee Rep and be performed at the Traverse throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 🎸
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563635... @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563635... @heraldscotland.bsky.social
KT Tunstall reveals plans for 'powerful' stage show focusing on deaf character
The Singer will run throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ooh, nice. I quite liked the short film which I'm guessing this is an expansion of. Decent looking season at Dundee Rep next year.
I'm not even a fan (my big brother is a massive fan so of course as a kid it was my sibling duty to dislike them) but I'd be tempted to follow this if only to see how many people share the love for the sublime E55.
#SimpleMindsTop30 Starts 1st December.
Ten days left to sort your thirty favourite Simple Minds songs. Post one per day (at any time) throughout December (apart from Christmas Day which is a rest day).
Ten days left to sort your thirty favourite Simple Minds songs. Post one per day (at any time) throughout December (apart from Christmas Day which is a rest day).
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm not even a fan (my big brother is a massive fan so of course as a kid it was my sibling duty to dislike them) but I'd be tempted to follow this if only to see how many people share the love for the sublime E55.
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Me, leaving a gig and wandering past the Barras with my chicken shawarma... oh yeah, there was a footy match on in Glasgow tonight, wasn't there?
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Me, leaving a gig and wandering past the Barras with my chicken shawarma... oh yeah, there was a footy match on in Glasgow tonight, wasn't there?
That bit in The Thing where they interupt it before it's finished replicating the dog.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
That bit in The Thing where they interupt it before it's finished replicating the dog.
Only just discovered this book the other day entirely by accident in a bookshop and after skimming through it, I have to say that in a book covering over 400 films I am exceptionally proud of just how many of them I've seen.
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Only just discovered this book the other day entirely by accident in a bookshop and after skimming through it, I have to say that in a book covering over 400 films I am exceptionally proud of just how many of them I've seen.
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We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
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Important facts:
1. Mel Brooks was born on June 28, 1926. He is currently 99.
2. Mel Brooks does not look like a gormless wax AI muppet with crab claws.
1. Mel Brooks was born on June 28, 1926. He is currently 99.
2. Mel Brooks does not look like a gormless wax AI muppet with crab claws.
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Important facts:
1. Mel Brooks was born on June 28, 1926. He is currently 99.
2. Mel Brooks does not look like a gormless wax AI muppet with crab claws.
1. Mel Brooks was born on June 28, 1926. He is currently 99.
2. Mel Brooks does not look like a gormless wax AI muppet with crab claws.
Now entering day 2 of "has Victoria Easton-Riley been sacked yet"
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Now entering day 2 of "has Victoria Easton-Riley been sacked yet"
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Shabana Mahmood: immigration is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Shabana Mahmood: immigration is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
Me: the constant politicisation of immigration to appeal to base racist instincts to cover up the constant failures and weakness of central government is tearing Britain apart.
Hot on the heels of The Ban, there's another new Irish short dropped on the New Yorker's Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mqa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mqa...
The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List | “Retirement Plan” | The New Yorker
YouTube video by The New Yorker
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Hot on the heels of The Ban, there's another new Irish short dropped on the New Yorker's Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mqa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mqa...
No idea who this Victoria Easton-Riley is that's taken over the running of Radio Scotland but I hope she fucks off again really soon.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562189...
www.thenational.scot/news/2562189...
BBC Radio Scotland to axe four long-standing presenters in massive shake-up
BBC Radio Scotland is set to axe four long-standing presenters in a huge shake-up ...
www.thenational.scot
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
No idea who this Victoria Easton-Riley is that's taken over the running of Radio Scotland but I hope she fucks off again really soon.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562189...
www.thenational.scot/news/2562189...
Three new Irish shorts coming to iPlayer.
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Three new Irish shorts coming to iPlayer.
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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excellent analogy there.
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
excellent analogy there.
Just getting in a bit of pre-gig Performative Reading (tm). I don't use Instagram so please let me know if I happen to pop up on the Hot Dudes Reading account, cheers.
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just getting in a bit of pre-gig Performative Reading (tm). I don't use Instagram so please let me know if I happen to pop up on the Hot Dudes Reading account, cheers.
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Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
I swear this is the cover art to at least five different ambient albums in my collection.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I swear this is the cover art to at least five different ambient albums in my collection.
Struggling to see how Bond being apparently dead is an issue for any new film but him being in action for about 60 years and in several different bodies was just normal stuff.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Struggling to see how Bond being apparently dead is an issue for any new film but him being in action for about 60 years and in several different bodies was just normal stuff.