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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 13h

#NowPlaying Warm and melancholy as a favourite jumper that belonged to someone who’s now gone. #NinaSimone

Nina Simone, Jazz As Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 13h

Histoire de Melody Nelson, by Serge Gainsbourg

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know if any song has a more direct connection to my air guitar-playing arm. youtu.be/BtYuDcf5R4w?...

Do Anything You Wanna Do

YouTube video by Eddie and the Hot Rods - Topic

youtu.be

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

And this (mid- Panther’s Rage):

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

It was a hazard of the erratic supply of American Marvel comics to the UK. I had a similar experience with this (smack-dab in the middle of the Kree-Skrull War):

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

The furthest from Poe is The Haunted Palace, which is actually a Lovecraft adaptation!

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

My least-loved is The Raven. Mirthless comedy.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 4d

For the first #Baturday of #BatAppreciationMonth 🦇:
Cameo Glass #Bat Vase by Daum Frères, France, c.1910
H 9¾ in. (24.8 cm)
www.christies.com/lot/a-daum-f...
#ArtNouveau

official auction photo, front view on white background
Vase, cameo glass translucent browns and yellows, with a trio of flying bats in dark brown silhouette

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Me at a recent Suede show.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Finest ever adaptation of Dracula, and I know @adriandoran.bsky.social will second me. I was delighted to meet Judi Bowker recently.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Even if exhorted, I sit on my hands.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

“I’m having a goddamn spoon of sugar, god damn you.”

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Live performances are beset with clods who take the opportunity of any mid-song pause or quiet section to whoop. Portishead’s Roseland live album has a couple of appalling instances. Warning: also features clapping-along.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

The Christmas album is also fantastic.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Rick. For Only the Lonely usually gets the nod, and has One for My Baby on it, but Jenkins’ keening high strings make him my pick for Sinatra’s barroom albums. They’re so pure and glacial they’re almost gothic.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn demands Frank Sinatra + Gordon Jenkins.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Recently endured a Herbie Hancock show in which he rambled at length (via Vocoder) on this theme. He also exhorted the audience to thank Siri or Alexa every time they carried out a function.

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 4d

The “LLM AIs are actually people and you mustn’t bully them” thing is like instituting a full murder investigation into that train that got walled up in Thomas the Tank Engine because it had a face on it.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 5d

#NowPlaying Best neo-disco record since What’s Your Pleasure.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 5d

Good evening

Mr. Jinx, a 14-year-old chimpanzee actor, visits the Monkees' suite at the Warwick Hotel in NYC during their 1967 summer tour. Shortly after Micky shot these pics, Mr. Jinx would retire to the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, MO.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 6d

Guardian Pitchbot: We hate Taylor Swift now. Here’s half a dozen pieces on why.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 6d

What’s beautiful about this is not just that she’s made an arse of herself, but that she did it in such a condescending way.

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit

In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the

www.bbc.co.uk

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 6d

Time to open that Teepublic account. I’ll have a medium Diana Dors, ta.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 7d

September 30th / October 1st

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 7d

Appearing on red carpets and chat shows would also seem to be problematic for Tilly.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 8d

Polish poster for BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)

Written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Starring Deborah Kerr

Powell and Kerr were both BOTD

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