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James Grady

@jdgrady.bsky.social

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I like films, the odder the better. Interesting music and literature. I occasionally take pinhole photographs.

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 6h

I have a few of B.S.Johnson’s books, but not that one!

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

Louis and Bebe Barron ‘Forbidden Planet’ original soundtrack CD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@gasmantell.bsky.social @skot.bsky.social The post has been

Alien Roundup II Science Holiday

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And here’s 30 Clarendon Square, Leamington Spa, birthplace of one Aleister Crowley, picture taken last year.

30 Clarendon Square, Leamington Spa, birth place of Aleister Crowley

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kraftwerk for 75p in 1975?!

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Out seeing Cabaret Voltaire

Birmingham Town Hall

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This evening’s entertainment

‘The Screaming Skull’ blu-ray cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today’s WFH CD, some Xenakis

Xenakis: ‘Electronic Music’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@daveclarkson.bsky.social I have a new cassette!

‘A Pocket Guide to…Abandoned Locations of the British Isles’ cassette cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Next October rewatch is Bava’s ‘Blood and Black Lace’

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

Stockhausen: ‘Mixtur’ CD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A very tall sunflower

A 3 metre tall sunflower

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This afternoon’s film

‘The Reckoning’ blu-ray cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

King Penda’s crown from the Joyce Hawkins exhibition at Birmingham City University

King Penda’s crown from the BBC Play for Today ‘Penda’s Fen’

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This afternoon’s CD, a bit of Janáček

Janáček ‘Glagolitic Mass’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tonight’s viewing, well, part 1 at least!

‘The Saragossa Manuscript’ UHD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

Robert Ashley, ‘String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies’/ ‘How Can I Tell the Difference?’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have acquired a large format art book #mapplethorpe

Mapplethorpe

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@jonnelledge.bsky.social Finally picked up your latest book!

Jonn Elledge ‘31 Inventions that Built our World’ book cover. My thumb is visible on the right hand side

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have new spectacles

A glasses case with ‘my glasses’ written in Russian

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

György Ligeti’s ‘Le Grand Macabre’ CD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social I have acquired a new book!

The cover of ‘The Great Dictator a Life of Barbara Cartland’ by Matthew Sweet

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Xmas cards, in September…

Xmas card display in a shop

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bye bye Glasgow

The river Clyde from the train exiting Glasgow Central station

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Having a wander round my old university

Glasgow university, cloisters

Glasgow university, West Quadrangle

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Am in Glasgow

Gaelic writing on a sign in Glasgow

Glaschu - Gaelic for ‘Glasgow’ on a building

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve arrived!

Glasgow Central station

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The post has been!

Polka-dot wrapping

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD, more Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman ‘Piano and String Quartet’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

У меня есть немецкое пиво!

A glass of Ayinger German/Bavarian beer on a table in a bar

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD, Morton Feldman’s ‘For Bunita Marcus’

Morton Feldman, ‘For Bunita Marcus’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a picture that should be on an album cover (I’m think something dark and electronic) One of my pinhole photos

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This afternoon’s viewing, the rather fabulous ‘Nuts in May’

‘Nuts in May’ blu-ray cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have a few Bibliotapes myself!

A selection of Bibliotapes

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD, some Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman, ‘Durations I - V’/ ‘Coptic Light’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This afternoon’s film, Béla Tarr’s ‘Damnation’

‘Damnation’ UHD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

Phill Niblock ‘Four Full Flutes’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This afternoon’s film, some odd Polish cinema

‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’ UHD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tonight’s viewing

‘Two Boxes: Televised Terror in Franco’s Spain’ Blu-ray cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As they don’t allow editing on this app (probably quite rightly), I’ve been given a copy of the rather lengthy ‘A Glastonbury Romance’

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tonight’s film

‘In the Mouth of Madness’ UHD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And here’s an old advert for the Czechoslovakian radio company Tesla, in Prague

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

Add N to X ‘On the Wires of Our Nerves’ CD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Currently rewatching the rather racist, ‘Terror of the Tongs’ starring a shamefully ‘yellowed up’ Roger Delgdo and Christopher Lee

Roger Delgdo and Christopher Lee shamefully ‘yellowed up’ in the film ‘Terror of the Tongs’

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

‘Sounds of North American Frogs’ CD cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This afternoon’s viewing, John Waters’ ‘Desperate Living’ finally released uncut

‘Desperate Living’ UHD/blu-ray cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Tonight’s viewing will be a film from this set

‘Into the Forest - Folktales at DEFA’ blu-ray box set cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This afternoon’s WFH Cd

Bernard Parmegiani ‘La mémoire des sons’ CD cover

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James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Tonight’s rewatch - ‘Possession’

‘Possession’ blu-ray cover

James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This afternoon’s WFH CD

John Cage ‘Music for Merce Cunningham’ CD cover