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Tombo

@tomboh.bsky.social

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Churn technician, horn collector. Only dances for gold.

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Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 15h

I assume there’s a solid reason why they’re not at least treated like flu jabs - advertised widely in pharmacies for about £20 a pop.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 1d

Ok

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 1d

Bernard Herrmann writing the scores for both Citizen Kane and Taxi Driver always felt like two different worlds colliding to me.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 1d

Screw it, just loads of custard pudding. A minute on the lips a (very limited remaining) lifetime on the hips.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to the incredible email scenes in You’ve Got Mail and Mission Impossible

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 3d

What an amazing face

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 4d

Need to start scoring goals

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, there are so many things that I can do to get frazzled (quite often the thing I get paid to do!), a movie really has to earn the right to add to that. On the plus side, my local cinema is doing a Hitchcock season - the 39 Steps did not leave me feeling stressed.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 5d

Hmm, there’s a question. Probably whatever was free on Windows at the time! I remember it slightly feeling like it wasn’t set up for people outside your fine country. I’ll have a play and see if I can do better this time!

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 5d

And shared DNA with Uncut Gems is a problem for me. I really really did not enjoy that experience.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 5d

It was actually very timely! I’ve been pondering resubbing for a while (I only unsubscribed a while ago because the app was glitchy, time to give it another go) so a nudge was appreciated.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 5d

Ok! Slate subscription renewed, review read, Rewind pod back catalogue cued up.

Please take this as a huge compliment - you have fully convinced me that I don’t want to see that movie.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 5d

Very well said! I shall get right on it!

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 5d

Does he, in any sense, substitute a good make up job for an actual performance?

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 6d

A great episode! Before listening, I was pretty much entirely ignorant about Jessica. The whole family seems like a Petri dish for reactions to privilege.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 7d

Hmm, it’s on down the road from me this week and I slightly feel like I should give it a chance? I do feel like Peter’s criticisms are very valid though.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 8d

I only saw The Red Shoes a couple of years ago. An audience response I don’t think I’d experienced at the cinema before- stunned silence then applause.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 11d

And to lust after the male contestants in a slightly creepy manner?

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 11d

Does that mean there is no head judge, or it’s now just an honorary title?

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 11d

My French teacher would be livid, no marks in a French spelling test if the accents were wrong.

I think of her every time someone claims Ekitiké is a palindrome.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 11d

Almost as if ‘clear’ and ‘obvious’ are not the objective terms we’ve been sold them as.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 12d

They used you by not using you

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 17d

Eli Roberts!!

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve also seen a lot (including, touchingly, from @christinalefou.bsky.social - apologies if that @ing isn’t appropriate) about how great of a human being he was. However successful (and/or ludicrously handsome you are), if that’s what comes to people’s minds on your passing I think you did ok.

Tombo @tomboh.bsky.social · 22d

The thought did occur that neither Three Days of the Condor nor All The President’s Men were presumably intended to be memories of more innocent times. Yet here we be.