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Matt Melia
@docmelia.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer in English Literature, Film and Media Lover of Archives Beckett, Burgess, Ballard, Ken Russell, Kubrick, Beatles, Bowie, Mogwai The Fall, Guided By Voices. Hip Priest, Evertonian, Jaws nut, 007 fan, Charlton Athletic.
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 3d
...by having no Impact at all
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 3d
Funsponges
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 4d
Actually romantic (I think is the title from my brief excursion with the album - my daughter is a fan)
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 4d
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 4d
In all the fuss about a new #TaylorSwift album id just like to point out that @gbvlyrics.bsky.social #gbv #GuidedByVoices have a new single our. Just saying like...

open.spotify.com/album/6xR0mZ...
Phantasmagoric Upstarts
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 4d
One of the tracks also sounds like Where is My Mind? By #Pixies
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 4d
Current reading..been on a real #Dylan kick at the moment and just finished Vol.1 of Chronicles. Richard Thomas' Why Dylan Matters follows it up nicely..often one book leads to another and I'm more and more fascinated by Dylan's appropriation of Greek myth so I'm cracking on with The Odyssey
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Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social · 14d
RIP Claudia Cardinale
Werner Herzog, Claudia Cardinale and Klaus Kinski on location for Fitzcarraldo.
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 15d
@theguardian.com

What? Why is The Prisoner omitted from this list?

#iamnotanumber

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Hard to believe it happened! 70 unforgettable (and unforgivable) shows from 70 years of ITV
From TV so controversial the Foreign Office tried to ban it … to Emmerdale Farm. As the broadcaster hits 70, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 17d
Giving The Blue Hour another play. I think it's by far my favourite of the #Suede mark 2 albums. Wastelands is a great track (the best one that never went on ANM).
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 21d
Heyyy just checking back to see, now the dust has settled, if opinions have shifted. Sorry to say that I think it's fine but it hasn't really drawn me back in the way id hoped it would
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 29d
Oh no! That's a shame
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 29d
No. I don't think it will..
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 29d
#guidedbyvoices #thickrichanddelicious #newalbum are we going to get any uk @gbvlyrics.bsky.social gigs this time? Come on Uncle Bob!
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 6
Sounds like early REM
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
God it's really really poor!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 5
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping review – it’s comfortingly surreal to see them doing sketch comedy again
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping review – it’s comfortingly surreal to see them doing sketch comedy again
There’s a real 00s feel to the double act’s hit-and-miss return. But the highs it hits are proof that this neglected form of comedy has plenty of life left in it
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
New #GBV #GuidedByVoices and it's a fucking banger @gbvlyrics.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/track/5dApaQ...
(You Can't Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
On the back of our chat earlier I registered to ANM. I still don't think it's awful but it's incredibly slight isn't?
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
Sounds good!! Let's do it!
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
Yeah I mean it's not bad but again that talk sing thing the wire does on the opening track and the fact that decline and fall sounds like the theme tune to this morning took me out of it a bit. I loved the previous album though
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
Oh you mean between an atom is bottom half? Fair enough
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
Yeah that talky singy thing grates
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
Yee, to be fair I'm enjoying it as a whole more on the second listen
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
I mean I never thought it was half as bad as the band made out, but it's far from the best
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · Sep 5
Haha contrarians
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