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David JeremysIron
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UK FE library worker, neurodivergent, he/him. Also a (very) amateur cryptic crossword setter at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/ as JeremysIron.
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Here's my #LastFourWatched on this spooky #LetterboxdFriday! Highly recommend Eyes Without a Face for some classic scares - it really holds up.
My "last four watched": Les Yeux Sans Visage, aka Eyes Without a Face (4.5 stars), Tokyo Story (5 stars), Corpse Bride (3.5 stars), Heavenly Creatures (4 stars)
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Here's my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday, featuring two long-overdue viewings of Rob Reiner classics!
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: The Princess Bride (4.5 stars), Putney Swope (4 stars), Misery (4 stars), Black Narcissus (4.5 stars)
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday!
Screenshot of my "last four watched" on Letterboxd: Shock Corridor (4 1/2 stars), Sorry, Baby (4 stars), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (4 stars), Menace II Society (4 stars)
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Here's my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday! I'll be surprised if I see another film as powerful as The Battle of Algiers this year.
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: The Battle of Algiers (5 stars), My Night With Maude (4 1/2 stars), Friendship (4 stars), Melancholia (4 stars)
August 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Post someone who looks good in a hat
Screenshot from The Simpsons of a smiling Malibu Stacy doll, still in its box, wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a pink hatband, as well as a pink frilled dress. Text on the box reads "Malibu Stacy - with NEW hat!"
August 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Here's my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. Go see The Ballad of Wallis Island if it's showing near you!
Screenshot of my "last four watched" on Letterboxd, featuring In the Heat of the Night (4.5 stars), The Awful Truth (4.5 stars), The Ballad of Wallis Island (4 stars), and The Look of Silence (4.5 stars)
July 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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If you see this, quote with a time travel movie that's not #BACKTOTHEFUTURE.
Poster for the film Primer, with tangled wires that spell out the title connected to a mysterious machine. The tagline is "What happens if it actually works?"
July 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Posting my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday once again. Beyond the Hills probably the pick of the bunch, a devastating film
My last four watched on Letterboxd: Beyond the Hills (4.5 stars), Collateral (4 stars), Top Hat (4 stars), Wings (4.5 stars)
June 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Posting my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. Between For All Mankind and The Harder They Come, I've definitely experienced some amazing soundtracks recently! #Filmsky
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: The Harder They Come (three and a half stars), Where Dragons Live (three and a half stars), For All Mankind (four and a half stars), Final Destination (two and a half stars)
May 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Filmsky
My Last Four Watched: Kramer vs Kramer (4 stars), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (5 stars), A Real Pain (4 stars), Ran (5 stars)
May 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Quote post this with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe
Scene from Pixar's Up showing Carl, a bespectacled, grey-haired old man, raising his fists triumphantly while leaning out of a window in his house, which is floating in the air, attached to thousands of multicoloured balloons
May 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Drop a reptile 🦎🐍🐢🦖🦕🐊
Screenshot from The Simpsons showing Selma Bouvier's pet iguana, Jub-Jub, being startled by Selma, whose facial features are distorted from wearing a glass jar on her head
April 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Here's my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday! #FilmSky
Recent activity on Letterboxd, featuring, from left to right: The War of the Worlds (1953), 3 1/2 stars One Hour Photo, 3 1/2 stars BlacKkKlansman, 4 stars Jean de Florette, 4 1/2 stars
April 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#NowReading The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Really enjoying it so far - communities uniting against racists/racism usually makes a good read!
#reading #BookSky
Hand holding a copy of "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride. The covers features a dark-skinned person wearing a flat blue cap, with a large red ball under their right arm
March 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

20/20 - A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead
Album cover for A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead: black-and-white photograph of an abstract painting, with swirls of light and dark paint at the edges, and a roughly circular white void in the middle. In small, white, uppercase lettering in the bottom right corner of the image, the word "RADIOHEAD" can be seen, with the phrase "A MOON SHAPED POOL" beneath it.
March 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

19/20 - Time 'n' Place by Kero Kero Bonito
Album cover for Time 'n' Place by Kero Kero Bonito: a printed-out photograph of a silver-haired woman's face (singer Sarah Bonito) placed centrally on a pile of colourful craft materials and other assorted objects.
March 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

18/20 - Plastic Beach by Gorillaz
Album cover for Plastic Beach by Gorillaz: image of an artificial island resting on the ocean in the sunset, mushroom-shaped but with a broad base at the bottom. It features palm trees, small buildings, and a lighthouse, as well as a large white building with many windows which sits at the top of the island. There is a ship to the left of the island. Near the bottom left corner of the image are the words "GORILLAZ PLASTIC BEACH" in white, wavy, uppercase lettering.
March 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

17/20 - Quebec by Ween
Album cover for Quebec by Ween: garishly-coloured illustration of two men seated at chairs around a small circular table. One man looks thoughtful as he holds a pen in his right hand and looks at a piece of paper in his left hands; the other man also looks at the piece of paper and smiles. There is a glass on the table in front of the first man, and three potted plants behind the second man's chair. At the top of the picture, superimposed on a purple and orange striped awning, the lowercase word "quebec" appears in white, with the words "by Ween" in smaller yellow text beneath it and justified to the right.
March 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

16/20 - Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
Album cover for "Automatic for the People" by R.E.M.: sepia-toned close-up photograph of star-shaped ornament attached to an unseen building. In white uppercase text are the words "AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE" along the top, and the letters "R.E.M." in the dead centre.
March 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

15/20 - Aja by Steely Dan
Album cover for Aja by Steely Dan: photograph of a woman in shadow wearing a black cloak with red and white lining, on a black background. In the top right, red text reads "aja" in lowercase with an elongated "j"; "STEELY DAN" in white uppercase appears below it.
March 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

14/20 - The Man-Machine by Kraftwerk
Album cover for The Man-Machine by Kraftwerk: the four members of Kraftwerk stand in a row on a staircase in matching red shirts and black ties, looking off to the right, on a red background. In the top-left corner is written "Kraftwerk" in white on a black background, with "The Man-Machine" below it in black on a red background, both slanted upwards. Translations of the album's title in Russian, German and French appear in the bottom-left corner, slanted downwards
March 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
davidjsiron.bsky.social
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

13/20 - When the Pawn... by Fiona Apple
Album cover for "When the Pawn..." by Fiona Apple: red-tinted close-up photograph of Fiona Apple smiling and looking to the right, with the album's full title overlaid: "When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring There's no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo, you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right." Above and below photograph is a thick red border, with "Fiona Apple" written within the border at the top, to the right.
February 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
davidjsiron.bsky.social
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

12/20 - ★ (Blackstar) by David Bowie
Album cover for Blackstar by David Bowie: a black five-pointed star on a white background. Below the star is the word "Bowie" spelled out using fragments of smaller black five-pointed stars.
February 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
davidjsiron.bsky.social
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

11/20 - The Queen is Dead by The Smiths
Album cover for "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths: close-up black-and-white photograph of man lying on his back. Pink text at the top centre of the cover reads "THE SMITHS" in large all-caps, with "The Queen Is Dead" in smaller italics just below.
February 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#musicsky #musicchallenge #20albums20days

10/20 - Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Album cover for Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. Photograph of the members of The Beach Boys feeding goats at a petting zoo. Text on a green background above the photo reads: as follows: On the left in larger font: "The Beach Boys" in yellow and "Pet Sounds" in white. In the middle in smaller font: "Sloop John B./Caroline No" in white; "Wouldn't It Be Nice/You Still Believe In Me/That's Not Me/Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)/I'm Waiting For The Day/Let's Go Away For Awhile/God Only Knows/I Know There's An Answer/Here Today/I Just Wasn't Made For These Times/Pet Sounds" in yellow On the right: the logo of Capitol Records (featuring illustration of the dome of the United States Capitol and the words "Capitol Records") in yellow
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM