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Look, I love Die Hard, but there’s only one movie that ever blew me through the back of the theatre:
A poster for Miracle Mile showing Anthony Edwards standing on a car on a street packed with them, with at least one on fire. At the top in red letters is a quote from a critic showing four stars and the text, “BE PREPARED TO BE BLOWN THROUGH THE BACK OF THE THEATRE!”
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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My top ten albums of the year!
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December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Jakub Knera rounds off the year in Central and Eastern European music with a reflection on how the region's complex ecosystem is reflected in its cultural output, and a selection of 2025's key albums and reissues

Inner Ear: The Best Central and Eastern European Music of 2025

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Quietus Inner Ear, the best Central and Eastern European Music of 2025 graphic, featuring a goat.
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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chasemit.bsky.social
*eagerly standing outside a quest diagnostics at 11:59 PM Thanksgiving night holding a cup of piss*
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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hannahstrong.co.uk
I have realised what Lily Rose Depp reminds me of
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks By Kaleb Horton Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark. So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere. You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County. The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight. Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming. So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually. You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years. If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive. Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here. But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination. Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been. There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one. I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
and now it is Martin Scorsese's birthday, so here's my essay on The Age of Innocence, a contender for my favorite Scorsese movie www.patreon.com/posts/age-of...
Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis sitting next to each other on a deep red/burgundy velvet sofa, facing each other and smiling, dressed in period (1870s) attire
November 18, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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and finally, here's my short essay on the insanely underrated Bringing Out the Dead www.patreon.com/posts/bringi...
screenshot from Bringing Out the Dead of Nicolas Cage - his face takes up the right half of the frame, the left side is rain and blue and yellow lights seen through glass - the rain casts interesting textured shadows on his face
November 18, 2024 at 4:17 AM
cooljma.bsky.social
Okay, but I just listened to Dave Matthews' 2003 solo album Some Devil for the first time last night and it’s really good so can I maybe a little?
chillwig.bsky.social chillwig @chillwig.bsky.social · Nov 14
don’t base your whole identity on a jamband that peaked in the 90s.
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
Klute is leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of the month, and you should watch it, and then maybe read this. if you feel like it, no pressure.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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nikostratis.com
Congratulations to Kim Thayil, the first person featured on the debut album by the Presidents of the United States of America to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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tombreihan.bsky.social
Number Ones on Travis Scott, Young Thug, and M.I.A.'s "Franchise," which is definitely a real song that everyone remembers.
The Number Ones: Travis Scott’s “Franchise” (Feat. Young Thug & M.I.A.)
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat:...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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puntrash.bsky.social
Returning to this after the news about Sam Rivers (RIP), and the answer was clear, whether or not you hated Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit had a fuckin rhythm section that couldn't be denied. Listening to "Re-Arranged" again and that bass line kills.
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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cheercaptain.wang
I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard
Pin from today’s No Kings protest showing Barney and Friends and the phrase “Join Antifa”
October 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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jmritchey.bsky.social
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Oct 16
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
cooljma.bsky.social
Just watch Pet Sematary 2 (the one with Clancy Brown) instead. It’s not particularly good but it’s also the best one
zhandlen.bsky.social The Zack of Handlen Present @zhandlen.bsky.social · Oct 13
hm? sorry, i was just thinking about how the latest adaptation of PET SEMATARY managed to fuck up one of King's best, most straightforward stories in the stupidest way possible, and how i wish the first PET SEMATARY movie was better, and also, this can't be an Arby's because that place burned down
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
spending the day digging up old essays of mine about horror movies, I guess
Suspiria (2018) | Priscilla Page
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October 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Nuke Watch have a spacey weirdness that reminds me of some of the quieter moments from Black Dice, though this is a bit more organic. This is the kind of psychedelic music where, if people hear you listen to this, they'll think you know about drugs. Good thing it sounds great on headphones!
Grave New World, by Nuke Watch
9 track album
beat-detectives.bandcamp.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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benschwartz.bsky.social
Iger did the right thing with Kimmel and MAGA, because when Disney caves to autocrats, we have to live with it for a long time. My new piece for @thenation.com on Disney, Scorsese, "Kundun," Eisner, and the pop culture erasure of Tibet.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How the Kimmel Controversy Echoes Disney’s Dirty China Deal
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner berated the company’s capitulation before authoritarian MAGA threats, but in many ways, he set the example.
www.thenation.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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robertham.bsky.social Bah! Hambug! @robertham.bsky.social · Aug 19
Question for the class: what are your favorite multi-artist compilation albums?
August 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
cooljma.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tagC... if you only watch this one scene from The Wrestler, then this tweet is the plot of The Wrestler.
August 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Throwback (pun?)
First pitch: a journey through ceremony and baseball - Chicago Reader
A summer project for a Reader writer reveals how minor league baseball—and the people who see themselves in it—measure success.
chicagoreader.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
cooljma.bsky.social
@shadowtodd.bsky.social I couldn't find a complete list of what you have in your Songs That Stop on the Word "STOP" collection, but I just wanted to check if the Dave Matthews Band's The Last Stop is in there. It does it twice!
June 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM