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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 8h

Prehistoric Man?

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 9h

I’m prepping to teach MGM musicals tomorrow, so I present to you the greatest/most ridiculous edit on the internet.

Gene Kelly dancing in The Pirate: Pony

YouTube video by Andi LB

m.youtube.com

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 1d

My list: 10 horror movies to get to know me! (Subject to change)
1. Rosemary’s Baby
2. The Innocents
3. Crimson Peak
4. The Bride of Frankenstein
5. Candyman (1992)
6. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
7. Night of the Hunter
8. The Changeling (1980)
9. Daughters of Darkness
10. Don’t Look Now

Matthew Vest @noiselibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by @katiereedwrites.bsky.social, here are 10 horror movies to get to know me:
1. Nope
2. Children of Men
3. The Shining
4. Don't Look Now
5. The Ascent (1977)
6. The Thing (1982)
7. The Descent
8. Alien
9. Suspiria (1977)
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 12d

Pulp at the Bowl. What a show!

The Hollywood Bowl stage, lit in red with the word LOVE projected in capital letters

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 14d

Cannot wait to see style icon/supreme dance inspiration Jarvis Cocker at the Bowl this weekend.

Pulp - Mis-Shapes

YouTube video by PulpVEVO

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 26d

It’s official: my Velvet Goldmine book is available for preorder! (Book cover still a mystery, get excited)

Velvet Goldmine

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

Reading @silviamg.bsky.social’s The Bewitching and loving it! What academic hasn’t had nightmares of getting crushed in the stacks?! By the time I got to the Bowie “Strangers When We Meet” mention, I was convinced this book was written for me. ❤️ I haven’t finished yet, but already highly recommend!

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Aug 4

To stave off the fall semester stress dreams, I’ve started organizing my home office. Today was sewing patterns! This project was both satisfying and hilarious. (Love these weird smiles)

Shelves with IKEA magazine files. The files have smiley faces.

Closeup of magazine files smiley face: perfect white patterns show through like teeth

Closeup of magazine files smiley face: yellowed patterns show through like teeth

Closeup of magazine files smiley face: a single pattern pokes out, like a hockey player’s teeth after a fight.

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Jul 28

Dario Argento’s Tenebrae has one! (And a class listening scene featuring some Nabucco)
Also, Liam Neeson might be a musicologist in Chloe (he gives a lecture about Don Giovanni, I think? Could be misremembering that one)

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s paperback publication day! 🎉🎉

If you thought to yourself, “DB and the Moving Image sounds great, but a hardcover is too unwieldy,” today is your lucky day. Available widely, and directly from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburymus.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/us/david-bow...

David Bowie and the Moving Image

The central image of David Bowie's “Life on Mars?” could have been ripped from his own experience: a child sits “hooked to the silver screen,” reliving fantasti…

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Jul 23

Rewatching LAST NIGHT IN SOHO and man, I still love this weirdo movie. I get why some people don’t, but it all works for me.

A blonde woman in a pink chiffon tent dress looks offscreen and is reflected as a different brunette woman in the mirror behind her. A still from LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

I have a lot of love for Into the Night

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Jul 11

After 12ish cross country drives, I’m prepared to released my definitive* ranking of regional gas stations:
1. Stewart’s
2. Sheetz
3. Casey’s
4. Maverik
That is the entirety of my ranked list, no criteria provided for this very scientific ranking.
*our route does not go through WaWa territory