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Adam
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Movies, horror, sports, music, Tolkien, nerdy stuff, games, sarcasm, dad-life & general shenanigans.

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36/??? Here we go again…

DMX - …and Then There Was X

It mostly took me until post high school to get into rap. I liked Cypress, and Rage if they count, but I liked DMX as soon as I heard him in 8th grade. Top 3 all time for me, east. RIP dog

#NowSpinning #NowPlaying #Vinyl
DMX’s …and Then There Was X on vinyl displayed on top of a record player with some fall decor, including a pink pumpkin with sunglasses clearly painted and crafted by a genius-child.
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I mostly committed to Stranger Things S3 - sidebar: I think its the best season (?) - but I had to give some love to the one, underrated gem of a film, I did get to this week:

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#LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥
The Criterion Collection cover/poster for “A Scanner Darkly,” featuring a sea of green plants a man with a backpack is walking through, below a sky of blue flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A satisfying dusk sky:
A bare tree in front of a brick building with gray-blue clouds with a light-yellow sky peeking through from the top, fading to a gray-purple/pink closer to the horizon.
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#Last4Watched +2 and a lot of splatter this week, as I more or less wrapped up my Halloween-movie-fest goals for the year. A few stragglers will be scattered throughout November for sure though.
#LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters and ratings for: •The Return of the Living Dead (4) •Poltergeist (5) •Hatchet & Hatchet II (both 3.5) •Dawn of the Dead, 1978 (5) •Braindead, aka Dead Alive (4)
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Still coming to terms with spooky season ending…
Molding, decaying pumpkins getting soft and curling-in on themselves, amongst leaves and a skeleton propped on a wooden birdhouse decoration. Pie pumpkins similarly decaying and molding in our post-Halloween 2025 reality.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Snagged this beauty and the Donovan “Greatest Hits” on the cheap at Reckless Records before the David Byrne concert tonight. Great success.
Vinyls of Donovan’s “Greatest Hits” and a blood-splatter clear edition of “The Return of the Living Dead” soundtrack.
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I completed the Nightmare rewatch (skipping the remake, at least this season), Zombie’s Halloweens and a couple Universal masterpieces I haven’t watched in a very long time this week. A little more than a #LastFourWatched, but proper for a #LetterboxdFriday on Halloween; yay! #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters and ratings for Rob Zombie’s Halloween (3.5), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (2), Bride of Frankenstein (4.5), Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (1.5), The Wolf Man (1941, 4.5) and New Nightmare (4).
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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35/??? is one of those classic greatest hits collections everyone seemed to have one way or another growing up.

It’s a damn great one for sure.

#NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle: The Greatest 20 Hits

#vinyl
CCR’s “Chronicle” bifold on top of a record player surrounded by fall and Halloween decorations.
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Making up for last week’s shortage, and then some. I’ll call three Halloweens and three Nightmares,l in a week, plus a couple of classics, a success any time of the year.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, A Nightmare of Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Halloween H2O, ANES 4: The Dream Master, the Invisible Man (‘33), Halloween: Resurrection and ANES 5: The Dream Child.
October 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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My #LastFourWatched is a little shy this week. #LetterboxdFriday
Movie posters for Army of Darkness, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and Halloween 5.
October 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Somehow we’re halfway through October already, so I’m giving some other horror favorites, I’ve never featured as a favorite before, some love. Happy hauntings 🎃
#FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters for The Evil Dead, As Above So Below, The Cabin in the Woods, and Last Night in Soho.
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Some other highlights from my morning stroll.
Sunrise over Lake Michigan and a gazebo in the foreground. Sunrise and beachfront. Three dark rocks in the sand warmed by the sunrise, and Lake Michigan in the background. Sand hills on the beach with shadows created by the sunrise off screen.
October 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Good morning.
Today’s sunrise over Lake Michigan.
October 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Always a good time for some CCR.

On 34 of ??? going through our vinyl by artist.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #vinyl
Credence Clearwater Revival’s album Pendulum displayed until of a records player, with various fall/Halloween decor scattered about, including an octopus skeleton.
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Wrapped up the Friday the 13th rewatch, and got to one of my all-time favorites, this week. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#Filmsky 🎥
Movie posters for Jason X, Freddy vs Jason, Friday the 13th (‘09) and Evil Dead II.
October 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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33/???

#NowSpinning #NowPlaying #vinyl
Chick Corea - The Leprechaun

I enjoy the piano work on this one, but the jazzier segments… not so much.
Album sleeve and liner for Chick Corea’s “The Leprechaun” on top of a record player.
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I doth protest.
The cover of The Beatles’ Let it Be.
October 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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One excellent bad movie and a couple good new anthology installments (but damn I wanted to love Superman like so many did) wrapped up with an actual bad movie somewhat salvaged by a badass ending (that could apply to both F13s- Hell is my bad bad one)
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥
Movie posters for Jason Goes to Hell, 28 Years Later, Superman (2025) and Friday the 13th VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
October 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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32/??? Kurt Cobain And I Love Her / Sappy single #vinyl #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
Album sleeve for Kurt’s and I love her/sappy single taken from the montage of heck in front of a record player.
September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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31/??? going through all our vinyl alphabetically by artist. This one never gets old; great covers and jams in general.

#NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Sets 1 & 2 Live at the Great American Music Hall, October 8 & 9, 2000
#vinyl
The trifold album for Claypool’s Frog Brigade and the green and green splatter vinyls displayed on and around a record player with fall decor.
September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Updated my favorites to include some horror gems (a couple classic OGs from different eras, and arguably the two best remakes ever) which hadn’t ever yet been featured there. ‘Tis the season 🎃
#FilmSky 🎥
Letterboxd profile page featuring posters for the four favorites of: Nosferatu (2024), Hellraiser (1987), Evil Dead (2013) and Dracula (1931).
September 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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#NowWatching #FilmSky 🎥
DVD title screen for Ernest Scared Stupid on a tv between bookshelves.
September 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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30/???

My favorite installment from the Claypool Lennon Delirium: South of Reality.

#NowSpinning #NowPlaying #vinyl
Purple and light pink vinyls with blue splatter in and next to a record player with the cover for Claypool Lennon Delirium’s album South of Reality.
September 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I’ve been on my Stranger Things rewatch binge (completed S1) and snuck in some Alien Earth this week as well, so my #LetterboxdFriday is only a #LastWatched this week.

I did not remember liking Part VII much, and it may be my second-favorite in the franchise. A very nice surprise. #FilmSky 🎥
Movie poster for Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, featuring Jason up close ready to drop the axe he’s wielding over his head onto some ignorant victim.
September 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Good morning!
A mountainous-looking sheet of clouds shining golden-orange and blue-purple in the morning sunrise, over a dark field with a line of trees in the background and a silhouetted building and tree in the midground.
September 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM