Stephen Woolston
@woollers.bsky.social
“Steve, what were your three most played CDs in 2025?”
I’m so glad you asked. These three. They have been favourites since I first caught the soundtrack bug some 45 years ago and in their new state, back at the top of the most played list. Moonraker still getd spun 3/4 times per week one year on.
I’m so glad you asked. These three. They have been favourites since I first caught the soundtrack bug some 45 years ago and in their new state, back at the top of the most played list. Moonraker still getd spun 3/4 times per week one year on.
December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Steve, what were your three most played CDs in 2025?”
I’m so glad you asked. These three. They have been favourites since I first caught the soundtrack bug some 45 years ago and in their new state, back at the top of the most played list. Moonraker still getd spun 3/4 times per week one year on.
I’m so glad you asked. These three. They have been favourites since I first caught the soundtrack bug some 45 years ago and in their new state, back at the top of the most played list. Moonraker still getd spun 3/4 times per week one year on.
We’re about to settle down for a Christmas Day 007 film. Can you guess which one from the image?
December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We’re about to settle down for a Christmas Day 007 film. Can you guess which one from the image?
Memories of Christmas past. In 2023 and 2024 we spent Christmas at Mallory Court. Ghost stories by the open fire, fine food, cosiness, and friends we met there. This year we opted to Christmas at home, lest the go away experience get too familiar, but we remember it warmly.
December 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Memories of Christmas past. In 2023 and 2024 we spent Christmas at Mallory Court. Ghost stories by the open fire, fine food, cosiness, and friends we met there. This year we opted to Christmas at home, lest the go away experience get too familiar, but we remember it warmly.
A Christmas morning playlist must be led by Vince Guaraldi. It is the law! Seriously, though,his take on familiar Christmas carols in jazz is a truly wonderful room warmer for the festive lounge.
December 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A Christmas morning playlist must be led by Vince Guaraldi. It is the law! Seriously, though,his take on familiar Christmas carols in jazz is a truly wonderful room warmer for the festive lounge.
With my seasonal reading of Dracula done, my new early read shall be this, that fascinating tale of men who would be gods, monsters who would be men, and men who are monsters. In fantasy, let us confront our fears and beliefs about good, evil, who creates what, love, need, acceptance, and rejection.
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
With my seasonal reading of Dracula done, my new early read shall be this, that fascinating tale of men who would be gods, monsters who would be men, and men who are monsters. In fantasy, let us confront our fears and beliefs about good, evil, who creates what, love, need, acceptance, and rejection.
Well, it’s Chistmas Eve. My seasonal re-read of Dracula is done. Part two of Count Dracula was watched, as was The Signalman. Mulled wine was had with a mince pie and we played cards. I may listen to a late night reading of Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad, with a whisky, once Mrs W goes to bed.
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Well, it’s Chistmas Eve. My seasonal re-read of Dracula is done. Part two of Count Dracula was watched, as was The Signalman. Mulled wine was had with a mince pie and we played cards. I may listen to a late night reading of Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad, with a whisky, once Mrs W goes to bed.
BERNARD HERRMANN, my favourite American composer of motion picture music and one of only two composers I’m an unquestioning completist for, died 50 years ago today. 50 years, but his music haunts me forever.
#bernardherrmann
#bernardherrmann
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
BERNARD HERRMANN, my favourite American composer of motion picture music and one of only two composers I’m an unquestioning completist for, died 50 years ago today. 50 years, but his music haunts me forever.
#bernardherrmann
#bernardherrmann
Merry Christmas, folks. I’m listening to my DVD rip of this intimate score which balances the joy of Christmas with the personal melancholy of facing one’s mortality.
32 cues. 36 minutes. I hope we can get this out clean one day, or rerecorded as it’s for a small ensemble.
Enjoy your festivities.
32 cues. 36 minutes. I hope we can get this out clean one day, or rerecorded as it’s for a small ensemble.
Enjoy your festivities.
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Merry Christmas, folks. I’m listening to my DVD rip of this intimate score which balances the joy of Christmas with the personal melancholy of facing one’s mortality.
32 cues. 36 minutes. I hope we can get this out clean one day, or rerecorded as it’s for a small ensemble.
Enjoy your festivities.
32 cues. 36 minutes. I hope we can get this out clean one day, or rerecorded as it’s for a small ensemble.
Enjoy your festivities.
A slight change of pace for my early shorter length movie. The brilliant Richard Matheson does Kolchak. Much superior to the sequel TV movie and short-lived series it spawned, it illustrates what could have been. I remember how thrilled I was the first time I saw it.
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A slight change of pace for my early shorter length movie. The brilliant Richard Matheson does Kolchak. Much superior to the sequel TV movie and short-lived series it spawned, it illustrates what could have been. I remember how thrilled I was the first time I saw it.
Now it’s getting dark, as it was foretold, it is time for this. In the coldness of its atmosphere and the classical styling, it is my favourite version. Watching it just before Christmas is one of my favourite traditions. Oh, if only it could be restored on BluRay like Doctor Who has been.
December 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Now it’s getting dark, as it was foretold, it is time for this. In the coldness of its atmosphere and the classical styling, it is my favourite version. Watching it just before Christmas is one of my favourite traditions. Oh, if only it could be restored on BluRay like Doctor Who has been.
And, of course, I had to add this to my Audible library!
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
And, of course, I had to add this to my Audible library!
As I prepare to watch this again, once it’s dark this afternoon, I’m reminded that before it was available commercially in stores, this title could be acquired as an educational product from BBC Learning. Now, both discs occupy a single two-disc case, one backing up the other.
December 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
As I prepare to watch this again, once it’s dark this afternoon, I’m reminded that before it was available commercially in stores, this title could be acquired as an educational product from BBC Learning. Now, both discs occupy a single two-disc case, one backing up the other.
This morning’s early movie of well under 90 minutes before the sun and others arise.
My seasonal re-read of the novel finishes tomorrow; and once it is dark again this afternoon and tomorrow, I intend to watch my much-loved BBC version in two sittings.
#Dracula
My seasonal re-read of the novel finishes tomorrow; and once it is dark again this afternoon and tomorrow, I intend to watch my much-loved BBC version in two sittings.
#Dracula
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This morning’s early movie of well under 90 minutes before the sun and others arise.
My seasonal re-read of the novel finishes tomorrow; and once it is dark again this afternoon and tomorrow, I intend to watch my much-loved BBC version in two sittings.
#Dracula
My seasonal re-read of the novel finishes tomorrow; and once it is dark again this afternoon and tomorrow, I intend to watch my much-loved BBC version in two sittings.
#Dracula
I just watched A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James.
This was Anglia TV's 1995 documentary on the writer, first broadcast 30 years ago this very date. My watching it today was unintentionally coincidental.
I must say, I enjoyed it.
This was Anglia TV's 1995 documentary on the writer, first broadcast 30 years ago this very date. My watching it today was unintentionally coincidental.
I must say, I enjoyed it.
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I just watched A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James.
This was Anglia TV's 1995 documentary on the writer, first broadcast 30 years ago this very date. My watching it today was unintentionally coincidental.
I must say, I enjoyed it.
This was Anglia TV's 1995 documentary on the writer, first broadcast 30 years ago this very date. My watching it today was unintentionally coincidental.
I must say, I enjoyed it.
This morning’s early short movie. A chapter of my book followed by a short movie before sunrise is fast becoming one of my favourite ceremonies.
Yesterday evening, Mrs W and I watched Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I ’m Going” on Criterion 4K UHD.
Yesterday evening, Mrs W and I watched Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I ’m Going” on Criterion 4K UHD.
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
This morning’s early short movie. A chapter of my book followed by a short movie before sunrise is fast becoming one of my favourite ceremonies.
Yesterday evening, Mrs W and I watched Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I ’m Going” on Criterion 4K UHD.
Yesterday evening, Mrs W and I watched Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I ’m Going” on Criterion 4K UHD.
This afternoon’s classic telly: Robert Muller’s 1968 television adaptation of Frankenstein for the ABC television series Mystery and Imagination. Ian Holm plays the monster and, well, the monster (the Baron).
December 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This afternoon’s classic telly: Robert Muller’s 1968 television adaptation of Frankenstein for the ABC television series Mystery and Imagination. Ian Holm plays the monster and, well, the monster (the Baron).
This morning's early classic short movie.
The title has always suggested something cheesier to me than this deceptively simple, eerie, visually stunning, thematically dense movie, which is surprisingly steeped in human love and loss, is.
This evening’s film will be I Know Where I’m Going.
The title has always suggested something cheesier to me than this deceptively simple, eerie, visually stunning, thematically dense movie, which is surprisingly steeped in human love and loss, is.
This evening’s film will be I Know Where I’m Going.
December 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This morning's early classic short movie.
The title has always suggested something cheesier to me than this deceptively simple, eerie, visually stunning, thematically dense movie, which is surprisingly steeped in human love and loss, is.
This evening’s film will be I Know Where I’m Going.
The title has always suggested something cheesier to me than this deceptively simple, eerie, visually stunning, thematically dense movie, which is surprisingly steeped in human love and loss, is.
This evening’s film will be I Know Where I’m Going.
This morning's “while the rest of the world was sleeping” early bird short film was...
December 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This morning's “while the rest of the world was sleeping” early bird short film was...
Here we go, it’s time for Poe.
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Here we go, it’s time for Poe.
As it’s the season for short ghost stories by candlelight, I couldn't resist adding this to my modest library.
OK, it’s glue bound, not preferred stitched sections, but as it’s slim, I forgive it.
(Stitched sections fall open and lay flat. Lovely. Glued only lay flat by breaking the spine.)
OK, it’s glue bound, not preferred stitched sections, but as it’s slim, I forgive it.
(Stitched sections fall open and lay flat. Lovely. Glued only lay flat by breaking the spine.)
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
As it’s the season for short ghost stories by candlelight, I couldn't resist adding this to my modest library.
OK, it’s glue bound, not preferred stitched sections, but as it’s slim, I forgive it.
(Stitched sections fall open and lay flat. Lovely. Glued only lay flat by breaking the spine.)
OK, it’s glue bound, not preferred stitched sections, but as it’s slim, I forgive it.
(Stitched sections fall open and lay flat. Lovely. Glued only lay flat by breaking the spine.)
Now I am on my Christmas holiday, it’s my first day of enjoying an early morning classic movie, while it’s still dark outside. Today’s choice complemented my seasonal re-read of the novel quite nicely.
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Now I am on my Christmas holiday, it’s my first day of enjoying an early morning classic movie, while it’s still dark outside. Today’s choice complemented my seasonal re-read of the novel quite nicely.
A bit of Edgar Allan Poe goodness from The Folio Society to add pleasure to my Christmas holiday reading. I must praise their customer service. I paid the premium for next day delivery but DPD failed to deliver yesterday as scheduled, so the Folio Society refunded the next day premium to me.
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A bit of Edgar Allan Poe goodness from The Folio Society to add pleasure to my Christmas holiday reading. I must praise their customer service. I paid the premium for next day delivery but DPD failed to deliver yesterday as scheduled, so the Folio Society refunded the next day premium to me.
worth house is always worth a visit at Christmas. Lovely grounds, great café that has recently stepped up what it offers, fabulous second-hand book shop, and the grand house itself, which puts on a grand Christmas display each year.
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
worth house is always worth a visit at Christmas. Lovely grounds, great café that has recently stepped up what it offers, fabulous second-hand book shop, and the grand house itself, which puts on a grand Christmas display each year.
Some spinny disc soundtracks heaven courtesy of Quartet records. Do you love these ones as much as I do?
@quartetrecords.bsky.social
@quartetrecords.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some spinny disc soundtracks heaven courtesy of Quartet records. Do you love these ones as much as I do?
@quartetrecords.bsky.social
@quartetrecords.bsky.social