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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Jack Johnson by Miles Davis is really incredible. How did this get by me for so long? It informs so much of the thinky guitar stuff I liked in the 1990s. It feels like a master text that everyone else drew from.

Album cover to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis. Five people sitting in a yellow c. 1920s automobile

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Easy to be grateful when you can see a little blue sky behind those big clouds.

November afternoon in southern Ontario. White clouds cover a bright blue sky.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My 9yo made the mistake of sharing his grade 4 writing journal with me. Now, I won't stop talking about his April Fool's entry from earlier this year. Shared here with his permission.

April 1st 2025
April fool's day NEWS

Reporting on April 1st 2025 where a record breaking snail started going 29 miles per hour. These snails can only be found in the Nord Du Québec region of Québec, Canada. People were terrified of these snails because they were 3 FEET TALL! I think that these snails are too large to be real.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's your last four watched? Good Boy gets four on the back of "they totally pulled it off." Vampires is bad but has some Carpenter magic. Dirty Harry is cool but it's the kind of film your racist uncle thinks is real. Full star for Lalo Schffrin score on that flick.

Good Boy (25)
12 Monkeys (95)
Vampires (98)
Dirty Harry (71)

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Feels great to listen to some Compact Discs.

Stack of CDs:

Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
The National - Alligator
tuneyards - whokill
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
Fred Eaglesmith - Tinderbox
The Chills - Soft Bomb
Eric B & Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit Em
Echobelly - On
13th Floor Elevators

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

@datesinmovies.bsky.social Does this qualify for your list? Or maybe it's too metatextual. Love this feed, thanks for your hard work!

Interpol Warning from VHS. Anti-pirating message

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Went to the second-hand store for pants and returned with a very nice copy of Ray's 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music' which might be the best record ever pressed in London, Ontario. Complete with original inner liner, which bragged about how it was made here. Catnip for a nerd like me.

Cover of Ray Charles Modern Sounds In Country Music. Young black man in a tux and shades.

Sparton

Look for Sparton name and emblem for the highest quality in records, record playing equipment, television and radios.

Sparton of Canada Limited - London Ontario
Famous For Sound Since 1926

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

What is going on at Canada Post? Thanks to the folks at Kingston local for this infographic. TL:DR Canada Post management has spent a lot on infrastructure over the past five years and invested deeply in Purolator. CUPW members wages have not kept up with inflation over the last 5 years.

Too many characters for alt-text, when I find a link for this I'll repost these sheets.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I read this last year and was describing it to my wife. Graham Greene is amazing. They're both married and fall in love. She dies of guilt. I fuckin loved it.

Cover of Graham Greene's End Of The Affair.

Silhouetted man sits next to a rose.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

In large part because of its fantastic score, I keep thinking about Night On The Galactic Railroad, made in Japan in 1985. It's weird. A children's movie about friendship and death. It is almost glacially slow. Beautiful and a little difficult.

One blue cat and one pink cat stare at each other on a train. There is a glowing prism outside the window.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Hell yeah, the library rules. I bet your library has a bunch of Criterions too.

Library receipt for four DVDs:
400 Blows (François Truffaut)
3 Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
Coming Home (Hal Ashby)

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Since we're all going ape for film references on Mets TV, I wanted to make sure this image was available on here. Incredible shot through the glasses. Mets are the nerdiest team going (complimentary)

Mets/Cubs game on SNY. Incredible shot by cameraman Pete Stendel. Sourced from r/baseball.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This weekends 12 inch spins: This Jay Dee release is fantastic. Listen to the instros first, then hear the rhymes they write for em, then listen to the instros again. Clang Clang Ho is Guided By Voices letting it all hang out. My Mike Nesmith LP still has the Zellers price tag.

Frank N Dank and Jay Dee
Clang Clang Ho by Cub Scout Bowling Pins
Go 2 by XTC
Magnetic South by Michael Nesmith and the First National Band

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This weekends listens on Compact disc. Pere Ubu is amazing, this album feels like they were shot from a cannon. I found the Club Ska CD at the Friends of the Library sale. Felt like stealing.

Prince - Purple Rain
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Paul McCartney - Red Rose Speedway
Madlib - Beat Konducta 1&2
Club Ska '67 compilation
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

My afternoon walk to the bookstore yielded this. The whole first side is a party. Can't believe there's an album funky enough to put "Jungle Boogie" halfway through the program.

Album cover of Kool & The Gang's 1973 release "Wild and Peaceful." This copy is well-loved as you can see ringwear from the record sliding in and out.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Tonight's first listen is RAM, which I love. Ram On was our wedding song almost 19 years ago. Always bewildered when I read the critical reaction in 1973 was that it's terrible. It's cheeky, fun and plainly beautiful to my ears.

Cover to Paul and Linda McCartney's 1973 album RAM. Paul is wearing a white shirt and bothering a ram. There is an orange red and yellow zigzag border on the right and left sides.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

My copy has a gatefold sleeve, and inside it has what may be the best band photo I've ever seen. They're all smiling like the cat who ate the bird.

Two young men wearing 70s clothes and Indigenous jewelry. Big smiles.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We just spun this one and it's so, so joyful. Came out in 1971, so it may be too old to be Disco, but you can definitely dance to it. Big guitars. "When You Got Trouble" is a huge tune for me.

Cover to Redbone's 1971 album, Message From A Drum

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

In a terrible mood, so taking in a comfort watch of one of my favourite movies. Robert Shaw vs Walter Matthau.

Poster for 1974 film Taking of Pelham 123. We see through a subway carriage window, a car full of passengers being held up by a man out of view who is wielding a machine gun

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I love looking at FB marketplace, etc. I was so disappointed when I found out this was for a doll. There is no occasion for me to dress up as Bert. Why on earth did I want this so badly

1970s Sesame Street Bert costume for a doll

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've been spending more time in online communities having to do with film, which encouraged me to settle up with the local library so I can use their online programs and physical collections. My reward has been seeing this fantastic John Carpenter film for the first time.

Sam Neill has a black crayon cross on his forehead. To his left a Lovecraftian monsters teeth can be seen.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Was watching a movie and the pre-roll credits showed these two pumpkins. "Oh shit, this movie was made in Toronto?"

Kristian Bruun aka Constable Jonstable flashing his great smile

John Ralston (aka Derek) looking a little mean as he does in so many great Canadian productions

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Just watched Frank Darabont's The Mist. Big fun! 2000s era CGI, lots of spooky stuff and all of the "Hey! It's That Guys" you could ever ask for.

Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn and Frances Sternhagen are in awe of some spooky thing above them off camera. It's super misty.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

What I'd give to see Lancashire and Martindale play embittered rivals. I don't care what they're fighting about, so long as they're scheming, hate each other and mean mug often.

Sarah Lancashire looking devious wearing a sky blue blouse with white hair holding a champagne flute

Margo Martindale wearing a red blouse with a brown scarf. She has a kind expression, but it's probably a trick

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Oh I really liked Brother From Another Planet, among dozens already listed.

Joe Morton is in a blue suit on the left, he's an alien who looks like a black man. He's pointing while sitting with a small child.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thankful tonight for my French education. It held on just enough to watch a moody noir picture with very little dialogue. Le Samouraï is a thrilling time capsule. I hope I never lose my curiosity.

Alain Delon in the 1960s French film "Le Samouraï"

He's wearing a black suit and a grey snap-brim fedora. The background is blue and grey.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

When the going gets tough, I listen to the saddest songs, and it... helps? I love this album. It's one of Willie Nelson's best, and I don't think we'd have ever heard it if the IRS hadn't shaken him down in 1991. Title track stops me every time. Both discs are just gorgeous.

Album cover to Willie Nelson's 1992 double album "Who'll Buy My Memories?"

Willie is wearing a black cowboy hat, a black mock turtleneck, and a black denim jacket with red lining. He does not appear to be posed, styled or lit, not a flashy cover photo by any stretch.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Waldo and I say hello. (I just followed everyone on this app who expressed solidarity with CUPW. Thank you!)

Black dog with gray face. Waldo is a Mastiff/Retriever mix. He is 9 years old.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Outstanding. From a Canadian Simpsons meme group. Nailed it, bud. #cupw #canlab

In the first frame of this meme, Mr Burns is representing Canada Post, and says, "Ah, yes. Naturally, we can't pay you a livable wage because we're strapped for cash."

In the second frame, Mr Burns turns around in his chair revealing the chair is made of gold, coins and stacks of dollar bills. The chair is labeled "new mega plant" "new fleet of vehicles" and "management bonuses" as Homer and Smithers look on in dismay.

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Brendan W @backwardsghost.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

one book, one movie, one album, one tv show.

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