Nicolas Leblanc
@ngrl.bsky.social
"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."
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"One climbs all stairs—even clandestine ones—faster than the snail staircase of merit." My translation of The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix by Jean Paul is available now through Empyrean Editions: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"One climbs all stairs—even clandestine ones—faster than the snail staircase of merit." My translation of The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix by Jean Paul is available now through Empyrean Editions: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Anyone: Did you see the list from—
Me:
Me:
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Anyone: Did you see the list from—
Me:
Me:
"Wonderboy of Hollywood cinema, S.S. also shows, at the same time, superb symptoms of Freudian regression, with dollars, caca, the whole shebang."
[E.T.] Spielberg has earned the tears that some people in the audience — and not just children — shed. The tears are tokens of gratitude for the spell the picture has put on the audience. Genuinely entrancing movies are almost as rare as extraterrestrial visitors. (1982)
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Wonderboy of Hollywood cinema, S.S. also shows, at the same time, superb symptoms of Freudian regression, with dollars, caca, the whole shebang."
Great, poetry is dangerous again.
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great, poetry is dangerous again.
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bastille musique presents its thirty-seventh release »Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir« featuring world premiere recordings by #AnssiKarttunen (violoncello) and @nicolashodges.bsky.social (piano). Get it from @bandcamp.com or your local record store: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com/album/betsy-...
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
bastille musique presents its thirty-seventh release »Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir« featuring world premiere recordings by #AnssiKarttunen (violoncello) and @nicolashodges.bsky.social (piano). Get it from @bandcamp.com or your local record store: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com/album/betsy-...
Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, New York Philharmonic — A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, New York Philharmonic — A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
Anthony Braxton — Composition 23 B
ENO — Needles in the Camel's Eye
David Bowie — Station to Station
George Crumb, Aeolian Chamber Players — Voice of the Whale
Sometimes, a filmmaker finds the tides shifting in critical reputation and it makes me wonder what people were watching in the first place.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Sometimes, a filmmaker finds the tides shifting in critical reputation and it makes me wonder what people were watching in the first place.
Whenever I see Farage, I remember that episode of Time Trumpet: youtu.be/L3CFe3PGZV8
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Whenever I see Farage, I remember that episode of Time Trumpet: youtu.be/L3CFe3PGZV8
Brett Ratner IS Yuli Raizman.
Say what you will about the state controlled film industries of the Soviet Union, but at least they made *good* movies.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Brett Ratner IS Yuli Raizman.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Hey there! People, I'm Bobby Brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Hey there! People, I'm Bobby Brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Non seulement t'es vulgaire, mais en plus t'es ordinaire, Charlie Brown
She would have been a good woman, Charlie Brown, if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life
When three o'clock comes, he will gut her like a pig and try not to get any on his shoes, and there is nothing I can do, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Non seulement t'es vulgaire, mais en plus t'es ordinaire, Charlie Brown
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In case any of you missed it on the other platforms, here's what's what www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/shop
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In case any of you missed it on the other platforms, here's what's what www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/shop
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Treat the NYT as Don Rickles would George Bush Sr.: "I gave him a cookie and then he went away."
July 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Treat the NYT as Don Rickles would George Bush Sr.: "I gave him a cookie and then he went away."
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The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week!
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week!
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
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Enterré à Venise, à deux pas de Brodsky.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Enterré à Venise, à deux pas de Brodsky.
HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS or HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN. Either way, it's directed with actual style. Only the witless would sandwich this baby with THE PUMAMAN and THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE.
Which MST3K movie was actually the best *movie*? Which one has the most non-ironic fans and defenders.
Danger: Diabolique comes to mind (though certainly not the best of the Diabolique films). This Island Earth as well, since they had to pick something a bit more palatable for the theatrical film.
Danger: Diabolique comes to mind (though certainly not the best of the Diabolique films). This Island Earth as well, since they had to pick something a bit more palatable for the theatrical film.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS or HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN. Either way, it's directed with actual style. Only the witless would sandwich this baby with THE PUMAMAN and THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE.
New acquisitions of November, in three double bills.
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
New acquisitions of November, in three double bills.
"Goats are stupid, mean and hard-headed animals. That's why they're called Nature's President," is but one of many Mr. Show quotes that arrive unbidden in my stream of consciousness.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Goats are stupid, mean and hard-headed animals. That's why they're called Nature's President," is but one of many Mr. Show quotes that arrive unbidden in my stream of consciousness.
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Posting some of my writings here:
I travelled into the depths of Southwestern Ontario to watch Nadav Lapid's latest film, wrote about my conflicted feelings regarding Israeli dissidents and snorting coke off rich dude's assholes.
www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
I travelled into the depths of Southwestern Ontario to watch Nadav Lapid's latest film, wrote about my conflicted feelings regarding Israeli dissidents and snorting coke off rich dude's assholes.
www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
Lapid's Endurance
Yes! brazenly uses Israel’s own resources to critique itself (with qualifications). || Andres Herrera
www.splicetoday.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Posting some of my writings here:
I travelled into the depths of Southwestern Ontario to watch Nadav Lapid's latest film, wrote about my conflicted feelings regarding Israeli dissidents and snorting coke off rich dude's assholes.
www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
I travelled into the depths of Southwestern Ontario to watch Nadav Lapid's latest film, wrote about my conflicted feelings regarding Israeli dissidents and snorting coke off rich dude's assholes.
www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
Permanent rotation
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This Is Hell
YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic
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November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Permanent rotation
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It has come to my attention that I never shared my red-hot, searing, coruscating hatred for the TIFF Cinematheque ad they run before every screenings at the Lightbox. Vivaldi shits in your ear, while they do all that cutting lazily on beats. Cinema: match cuts and close-ups. youtu.be/ksBX19uttcQ
This is TIFF Cinematheque | TIFF 2022
YouTube video by TIFF
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November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
It has come to my attention that I never shared my red-hot, searing, coruscating hatred for the TIFF Cinematheque ad they run before every screenings at the Lightbox. Vivaldi shits in your ear, while they do all that cutting lazily on beats. Cinema: match cuts and close-ups. youtu.be/ksBX19uttcQ
Noone will follow me on this: William Eastlake.
What writer would you like to see get a volume (or more) in the Library of America?
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Noone will follow me on this: William Eastlake.
John Gielgud, drunkenly ranting in PROVIDENCE: "What an owlish sod you were, a prig from the word go. 'Why don't you have the Nobel prize, Daddy? Our English Master says you're not nearly as good as Graham Greene!' Oh yes? Well, sod the bugger say I."
what’s your favorite line delivery
November 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
John Gielgud, drunkenly ranting in PROVIDENCE: "What an owlish sod you were, a prig from the word go. 'Why don't you have the Nobel prize, Daddy? Our English Master says you're not nearly as good as Graham Greene!' Oh yes? Well, sod the bugger say I."
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since the British 19C poet Amy Levy is in the news (a trove of letters was recently discovered & made available for research), I will share a link to the volume of her collected poems that we pub’d in the Empyrean Series (no. 30) a couple years ago asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
since the British 19C poet Amy Levy is in the news (a trove of letters was recently discovered & made available for research), I will share a link to the volume of her collected poems that we pub’d in the Empyrean Series (no. 30) a couple years ago asterismbooks.com/product/the-...