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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 6h

I'm going to see Robert Forster tonight in Brighton. It's my first gig since 2018, which I went to with the same people I'm going with tonight, and which was probably the last time I saw them.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 22h

Ah, thanks!! I always forget about that site. That's made my day.

Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 1d

I love westerns. This has been on my watchlist for years, but I haven't managed to track it down yet!

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 1d

Think I have some catching up to do!

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 1d

With you on both of those.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 1d

Still, I did get to watch Lonesome (1928), a fascinating early talkie.

Film poster for Lonesome (1928). It features a Ferris wheel in the background with a man and woman in swimming costumes at the front.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 1d

I have been up for three hours. The irony is, my youngest daughter has an inset day today, so I could have had a lie in.

Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 1d

Might as well watch a film.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 1d

Shit, I've got up an hour early by mistake.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 2d

That's probably when I got into them, too. Although a friend had The Clock Comes Down the Stairs, so I had heard them before.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 2d

Great to hear the enthusiasm of someone who recently discovered Microdisney. The new Alexei Shishkin album is great, too. Also, a useful prompt/reminder for #5debutalbums8084

swampbug @swampbug.bsky.social · 4d

Shout out to cathal coughlan and sean o'hagan, two of the most brilliant folks to ever do it

I got the chance to talk about Microdisney's debut album on That Record Got Me High www.thatrecordgotmehigh.com/s8e428-micro...

S8E428 - Microdisney 'Everybody Is Fantastic' with Alexei Shishkin

Hailing from Cork, Ireland, songwriters Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan formed the band Microdisney in 1980. After relocating to London in 1983, the band recorded …

www.thatrecordgotmehigh.com

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 3d

My top 5 albums from September were:

God Made the Highway by Lawn
Is it Now? by Automatic
Bleeds by Wednesday
Pomes Penyeach by Adrian Crowley and Matthew Nolan
Gag Reflection Record by The Goin' Nowheres

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 3d

Week 5: 70s disaster movie: The Cassandra Crossing (1976). A good premise and selection of stars, but didn't do much with either. That said, the ending was quite something!

Ava Gardner and Martin Sheen in The Cassandra Crossing (1976). They are walking through a doorway into the railway station. Sheen has a briefcase in one hand and has a basset hound on a lead in the other. Gardner is wearing a beige outfit with a fur coat and hat

Sophia Loren, Richard Harris and Lionel Stander in The Cassandra Crossing (1976). Loren is reaching out from the moving train and trying to grab a net. Harris is holding on to her. Stander is holding the basset hound.

Burt Lancaster, Ingrid Thulin and John Phillip Law in The Cassandra Crossing (1976). Lancaster and Law are in military uniform and are talking to each other in the command centre. Thulin is seated in the background. There is a screen on the wall with an image of a basset hound.

A scene from The Cassandra Crossing (1976). It is nighttime. The train has stopped. There are lots of people in white hazmat suits lined up next to it. There is a VW Beetle in the foreground and lots of spotlights on the train.

Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my, that's a good one!

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 5d

Although I can't bring myself to hang everything in size order, like she did. That would be a step too far.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 5d

Funny how I've chosen to remember my mum by hanging socks on the washing line in pairs, rather than randomly. I used to laugh when she did it. I'm not laughing now...

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 5d

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday include 70s disaster movie, 70s spaghetti western, 50s crime and 50s western. The last two were made by the same director in the same year. He made three films that year.

My last four films watched were The Cassandra Crossing (1976), Duck, You Sucker or A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), Crime of Passion (1956) and The Brass Legend (1956)

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 6d

My song of the week is Mejor al revés by Pálida Tez #sotw open.spotify.com/track/4pClTr...

Mejor al revés

open.spotify.com

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 7d

The Maggie is another Ealing comedy set in Scotland from Alexander Mackendrick. Feels a bit forgotten, but I really liked it. Hope you feel better soon.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 7d

I was sure I had seen A Fistful of Dynamite (or Duck, You Sucker) before, but if I had I remembered nothing about it.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 7d

Favourite first-watches of September.

Film poster for A Fistful of Dynamite (1971). There's too much going on to drsi, but there are lots of explosions, Rod Steiger firing a gatling gun and James Coburn on a motorbike opening his coat to reveal many sticks of dynamite.

Film poster for A Kiss Before Dying (1956). Robert Wagner is pushing Virginia Leith, who is leaning right back with her head facing upwards. There is a red background.

Film poster for We Still Kill the Old Way (1967). There is a blue background with various silhouetted drawings. In the centre is a man with dark glasses, but his hair becomes a group of other men. There is a lighter drawing of a woman in the suit of one of the men. It's hard to describe...

Film poster for Jallikattu (2019). There is a large water buffalo at the front and you can make out some men in the background. One of them is holding a long pole or stick. There is a yellow, first glow all over.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 9d

Jesus, so sorry to hear this. Thanks for sharing, Peter.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 9d

You've just reminded me of when a friend of mine went to Boston in the summer of 1986 and came back with the first Lemonheads single. Seem to remember they sounded like early Replacements then.

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 10d

If you are going to do it, do it, I guess. A lot of his stuff seems to be buried on the surface, so it's hard to disentangle. Always fun to watch, though!

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Darren Jones @darrenmjones.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, that probably got me through it. Not really my bag, otherwise!

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