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105 of ??? brings us a nice contrast to our previous installment (maybe one of my favorite back-to-backs yet on this little journey). Letting that freak flag fly on a rainy Thursday night. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Man Man - Life Fantastic

The cover for the aforementioned album, featuring some sort of rodent creature created out of felt and other craft material, standing on top of a turntable, with the insert sleeve for the album (abstract amps an owl, blues/tans/greys and shapes) lying in front of it. A skull is on top of the far speaker and a Thing grasping a pumpkin is visible in the bottom left corner.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 22h

Ooops I stayed up too late confirming. Thanks for the historic season, Pete. Damn, I hope there’s on time baseball next season. Time to watch Eephus again…

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welp, that feels like that. Would love to wake up and be proven wrong tomorrow though Cubs!

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All Halloween decorations up ✔️ 🎃

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gourdammit. My daughter grew a lot of these! (got a couple big pumpkins cooking still too) 🎃

20+ small pale-cream/white & green-striped, and dark geeen with pale white/cream striped gourds. A particularly cute white with no-stripes one and a very kind stem stands in the back left, all on top of a black towel on a dark countertop.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Onto 104/??? going through our #vinyl by artist… Probably my favorite from them, but it’s also really hard not to go with The Blackening... can’t go wrong either way 🤘🏻 and I once again love the design of this record #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #metal Machine Head - Bloodstone and Diamonds

The aforementioned albums, one standing up in the turntable, featuring red/black splatter on clear vinyl. A skull sits atop the speaker to the right.

The cover sleeve - black with a Red Cross going through a cream-tan Machine Head crest of swords, points and lions - for the album along standing above the scroll-colored and styled insert book - featuring lyrics to the first three and last two songs (front and back covers of the “book”) - laying on top of the turntable.

The inside of the cover/sleeves - scroll-colored with the band lineup and info on the album, and portrait photo of the band on the right - and the inside of the “book” insert with the lyrics for the remaining songs. A bloody seagull peeks in from the left.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cut short due to the storms - which never came (booo)- but still got one helluva set from Tool (2 days past the 30th Anniversary of Ænema, and 6th time overall for me), and Social Distortion (for the first time ✅) at Riot Fest tonight, and wifey joined me 🤘🏻 Good times.

Social Distortion’s cover for “Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell” projected above a stage from a distance above a bunch of wonderful people.

Weird Tool faces on stage and a screen to the right, playing in front of a gray-blue sky l.

A stage with backlit red, and golden yellow streams and lights atop blaring off it.

Lasers! Green, white purple, and amazing Tool tunes vibing in your face are implied.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Followed by a dude with an “Emotional Support Riot Fest Hugger” sign.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just saw a “Taco Bell Slut” shirt at Riot Fest.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No. 103 of ??? The beginning of the prime, or prime-b, MH era, this one perfectly sets the stage for the (mostly*) even better next 3 albums to come. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl #metal Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires Love this blue! *I put this above Unto the Locust overall.

The aforementioned clear neon blue double-vinyl album, one record loaded into the turntable atop black furniture housing records underneath it. A bloody, decrepit seagull sits atop a speaker on the left, with the same sort of turtle peaking out from the right, with a skull and various fall decorations also around.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fun, gooey bookends and a great end of the week this #LetterboxdFriday. We watched Malcom months ago, but I didn’t think to check for it in-app. Stumbled across it this week and had to log it (so, not pictured = Deathtrap, 1982 - 1st watch, 3.5*). #LastFourWatched #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity for the following films (or miniseries), all reviewed in-app:
•The Blob (1988, 4*, 1st-watch)
•Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (4*)
•Malcom in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair (3.5*, 1st-watch)
•The Blob (1958, 3*)

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And I coincidentally picked it up from the library earlier this week. Fancy that perfect timing! #NowWatching #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Title screen for the Criterion DVD of The Blob (1958), featuring the title in red, liquidy letters, red and white wavy lines, and the DVD screen selection options in white, with blue circles to the right (and a red one for the selected “play the movie.”

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Picked up some of my old hats from the folks’ house today. The Ghostbusters II one hits just hard as ever.

The same hat pictured from the left-back side, where most of “Ghostbusters.” outlined in blue, is visible, with Slimer and his green streak lines blurrily-visibly to the top-left of them. A black circle above the “ERS” reads “KICK SOME SLIME.”

Various other hats, 2 of the same floppy 90s style (an Aladdin one - featuring multiple images of the Genie, along with many poofs of smoke and Aladdin, Abu and Jasmine on the brim - and a Batman one, with many little bat signal logos in the middle yellow top/front-back portion. The other two hats are a 90s Bulls snap back and Wolf Cub Scout hat. All sit atop a dark-brown wooden table.

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Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Isaak Brodsky - Fallen Leaves 1929 (Tretyakov Gallery)

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

102/??? Fuck yeah Friday, time for a little MfnH. Definitely not their best, but there’s a lot of us who discovered them at this time. I love the whole album, & there’s a few standouts that go up w/ almost anything else they’ve done 🤘🏻 #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #vinyl Machine Head - The Burning Red

The cover sleeve (red tinted flower/ Rorschach test-style image, with band and album title at the top) and insert (featuring the band looking very late-90s metalcore) for the aforementioned album on top of a turntable.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Capitalism intensified, unfettered.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When you can’t top the talking-sheep murder mystery. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity, all reviewed in-app, for the following films:

•Dracula A.D. 1972 (3.5*, 1st-watch)
•Disclosure Day (3*, 1st-watch)
•Hiruko the Goblin (3.5*, 1st-watch)
•The Sheep Detectives (4*, 1st-watch)

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Big Papa Nito @bigpapanito.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What in the motivational blair witch is this ....

A board with feathers attached. It says never give up. It feels like a threat.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Onto the second half: 101/??? going through our #vinyl by artist. Only have 1 of 2 records for this, but it only cost $1 AND it’s when they did that thing where the 1st album has the 1st & last sides, so it works like a mini concert #NowPlaying #NowSpinning Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road

The second half of our record stand packed with records by artists from the end of “L” through “Z,” with an additional stack of more-newly-acquired and yet-to-be listened-to/alphabetized records on top.

The aforementioned album propped on top of our turntable, with the receiver, glowing, underneath playing it.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Been looking forward to this one (a 1st watch) for a while and finally snagged the blu ray. #NowWatching #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Title screen for Hiruko the Goblin, with the text at the top in red and white, showing a persons face admits what appear to be spider or crustacean legs, largely tinted in blue, with some red/pink around the eyes, lips and underparts of the legs.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A lot of fun mid this week, and a certain 70mm experience. Switched up the favorites for a fresh look too. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings (for the recent activity only) from my Letterboxd account:

•Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (3*, 1st watch)
•The Odyssey (4.5*)
•The Company of Wolves (3*, 1st watch)
•The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III: Leatherface (3*, 1st watch)

Favorites:
A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shawshank Redemption, Arrival, The Circus

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Family outing to see a living legend tonight. I didn’t have him shredding multiple times on my “Fogerty-at-81” bingo card. Simply fantastic. You could feel the decades of weight and joy in everything; so glad we got to finally see him, and the kiddo got to hear 2/3 of her favorites! ✅

A marquee with four red stars (ala the Chicago flag) at the top reading “John Fogerty and Steve Winwood September 3”

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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong and Alex Bregman are the first MLB teammate duo to combine for 25+ home runs, 25+ walks, 50+ RBIs and 50+ runs scored in a calendar month since the Yankees' Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in July 1961, per OptaSTATS.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

100 of ??? (Minus skipping around with a few new additions here & there along the way, this wraps the 1st half too) I didn’t like it as much as her 1st album for awhile, but it’s grown on me quite a bit since, and I could never get into the 3rd. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Lorde - Melodrama

The aforementioned album cover on top of a turntable, with an insert laying on top of it and the slip sleeve standing in front. The cover is a painted style photo of her in bed lying in a pillow under white sheets with sunlight illuminating portions. The insert is a red tinted closeup of half her face, and the slip sleeve has a dim picture of her floating in a pool. A glass rooster stands next to it to the left, and a metal tree on top of the right hand speaker.

Roughly 100 album spines of immaculate taste and vibrant colors, packed tightly into their cubes in the record player furniture.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

99/??? Making our way through L… this one comes with a nice booklet, with each song getting a page dedicated for lyrics and a handful of photos. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Lorde - Pure Heroine

The aforementioned album propped upon front of a record player setup with the vinyl - a circular white label with an “L” on it, loaded into the turntable.

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Carl 🎃 @brainofblood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy Birthday Mary Shelley! Also, Happy Frankenstein Day for those that celebrate.

Karloff Frankenstein movie on my tv with lots of decor mostly Frankenstein Monster and bride themed

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice: Atmosphere Black Sabbath Gogol Bordello Nine Inch Nails Slipknot

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Time to start painting pumpkins.

A gnarly tree with wiry branches, full moon above it. Pumpkins abound. Payne’s grey watercolor and white gouache on toned paper.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Plan a horrorfest using only your first name. Alien Dracula (1931) As Above, So Below Murder Party

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A little light on a #LastFourWatched, but it was a fun grouping of completely different weird adventures to share this #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and reviews from my Letterboxd recent activity, all reviewed in-app:
•Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (5*)
•Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (4*, 1st-watch)
•Shutter Island (3.5*)

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: •Primeveryone

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

98/??? From Zeppelin to… Limp Bizkit - Significant Other 🤣 Whether ironically or not, I’ve mostly enjoyed the 1st 3 albums throughout the years. That free tour they did with Cypress Hill in 2000 was a thing. Crazy that they came back the way they have recently. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl

The aforementioned album on top of a record player with an insert showing an alien wearing heapdohines and sneakers in a red circle.

The back of the cover sleeve with the track listing and the black record with gray label in the foreground.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Someone brought up Val Venis today and it kind of made my day.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Continuing to do damage to that (now, technically shrinking, ever so slightly!) watchlist. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and reviews from my Letterboxd recent activity, all 1st-watches and reviewed in-app:
•8 1/2 (3.5*)
•Taste the Blood of Dracula (3*)
•Hokum (4*)
•The Assessment (2*)

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

97 of ??? A pretty decent (wink) concert. 🤘🏻Bonham 4 Life Zeppelin rules! (Top 5 for me for sure). #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same

The two records, featuring the classic Swan Song label with a red sunset atop water in the background.

Two of the pages inside, the left featuring a picture close to the cover image, and the right the track listing and production notes for the concert.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My new dental hygienist (a year younger than me) today, after she mentioned 2006 and I made a - rather generic/amenable - comment about the years going quickly: “I hope the next 20 go fast.” 😳🤣 I’m a little concerned for her, but she was cool & I was out in record time. Hang in there champ!

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

96/??? Going through our #vinyl by artist… Just walked into this at a local shop Sunday and had to snag it to fill the gap between I & III on our shelf— clearly fate (it was a whole $5 more the last time I ran into it). #NowSpinning #NowPlaying Led Zeppelin II

The aforementioned album on top of a record player, with the vinyl visible through the opaque black top. A glass rooster stands next to the record player, perhaps peering directly into your soul.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Knocking-out that watchlist while keeping my genre-hopping tendencies strong. A pretty great week, aside from a forgettable but admittedly goofy-fun MKII. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity for the following films, all reviewed in-app and all first-watches for me:
•Cool Hand Luke (4.5*)
•Godzilla: Final Wars (3.5*)
•Mean Streets (3.5*)
•Mortal Kombat II (2.5*)

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

95 of ??? brings us to what is (usually) my favorite Zeppelin album, and the only one I didn’t buy used aside from I. I love all the extra artwork on this anniversary edition, and it has a second album of studio outtakes too. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

Houses of the Holy bifold cover; the left half a blue tinted replica of the famous standard cover. An insert sheet with Side A’s lyrics is on top of the same record player, and a paper band reading “Houses of the Holy” sits in front of it.

The inside of the album cover portraying a green-laden rock formation and a a pale white human figure holding another above its head, in front of a vibrant blue-fading-to-yellow sky. Everything is bring and fantastically-accented. The opposite side of the insert sheet shows the lyrics for Side B.

Additional inside covers, these featuring a picture of the band in front of their plane, and another performing. The record with the studio outtakes sits atop the record player underneath the cover.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So close to actual progress! I feel like I perpetually add movies to my list, only knocking any off sporadically, so I’ve been trying to prioritize the films I know I want to see this year. I’m excited to get net-positive soon, and that’ll put me about 33% complete overall. Hard work 😅

From my Letterboxd stats: a green eye icon next to a big “72,” with “Added 73” under it, indicating I’ve watched 72 films from, and added 73 to, my watchlist.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One of my favorite seasons of the year: Oktoberfest in the lake/pool/[choose your water source]. Prost!

Revolution’s glorious Oktoberfest in the foreground, a beach and lake with green trees behind it in the background.

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Just follow the voices in your head and you’ll be fine.” The voices in my head:

Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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Adam @astranchida.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

94/??? Weekend engaged ✔️ #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Led Zeppelin IV / ZOSO

The aforementioned album with the classic Atlanta geeen/orange-red record label loaded into a record player with the bifold cover sleeve opened up in front, featuring a picture, of an old, bent man carrying a bundle of sticke on his back, hanging on a word white wall.

The album sleeve with the track listing and ZOSO symbols on it, standing on top of a record player, with my old corresponding incense burner with the ZOSO mage/wanderer guy(?) carrying the lateen and staff atop a rock formation.

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