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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 12h

MoMA finally announced their Spielberg series for November/December, pairing five of his movies with fiilms that inspired them plus a JAWS (35 mm)/Duel 4K doubleheader. Alas, no E.T. in the mix — I'm two years since my last watch — and mostly DCPs across the board

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Sundays with Steven | MoMA

Film series. Nov 1–Dec 6, 2026. In celebration of the work of Steven Spielberg, honoree of the 2026 MoMA Film Benefit, we have partnered with the legendary filmmaker on a program of six Sunday double ...

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 19h

my wife left me because every time she said something while music was playing, I told her what she was saying had no meaning

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

me in 1895: i’ll have a cocaine cola waiter: is brad’s drink ok?

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I bet it would be very gratifying to blow one (1) Stew Leonard’s animatronic away with a sawed-off

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last repost: I was gonna say the Marjoe Gortner doc should be on Criterion, but Tubi is good too (this will almost certainly get me to check out Tubi). His most memorable role to me was as a disturbed grocery bagger/National Guardsman in Universal’s EARTHQUAKE

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Earthquake (1974) - Psycho Soldier Scene (6/10) | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Trey Lawson @tlawson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Marjoe Gortner was a truly fascinating person. Raised in the world of evangelical grift, in his 20s he fully and publicly rejected his past and became an actor. MARJOE (1972) is a must-see documentary - and it's currently on Tubi. tubitv.com/movies/31254...

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Marjoe (1972)

This Oscar-winning documentary chronicles the story of a firebrand evangelical preacher who wholeheartedly and humorously exposes himself as a fraud.

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I didn’t see enough of it to log a review, but my kids and some cousins watched Minions and my takeaways are a) I would push the Minions into traffic and b) the music budget on this thing was like $200 million? At least two original Beatles recordings, Donovan, The Kinks, a cover of “Eruption”?

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 03/10/2026

This guy's definitely going to hell

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@mintcaketime.bsky.social did one of those “pursed lips sounding like a fart” laughs seeing your display name

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is funny to see handwringing over “Eminem to guest on forthcoming Kid Rock song, but the current alleged leak is AI” as if everything before the comma in those quotes didn’t already make me wrinkle my nose and turn the page

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Alicia Stella @alicia.social · 02/10/2026

The best Easter egg on the MiB ride is the Steven Spielberg head on a stick. He rarely lowers his newspaper, so it’s really hard to spot. I always knew Spielberg was three aliens in a trench coat.

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the tweet screenshot about deaths in the new Avengers is ragebait (here is a screenshot of the account in question)—but this is also an excellent point. I was tired of the series already but Jackman's Epic Sendoff for Wolverine follwed by a Deadpool co-lead years later was my nadir

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

almost misspelled an actor's name and invented a brilliant but troubled pasta man named Sean Penne

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the presence of an anniversary merch drop for The Police's Ghost in the Machine (one of my favorite albums) but not a deluxe box set to go with it is proof that my haters in power and they want to see me fail

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

why did I just see a video from Isaac Hayes' Instagram of an AI reconstruction of his voice talking as Chef from South Park (who was animated but obscured as if he was sitting with his back to the viewer)

stock image of bald man holding his nose and grimacing

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stoner clerk in small-town gun shop clerk whose head gets exploded by an errant Predator plasma caster shot when the town is stalked by xenomorphs

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also the title to his post-Police solo documentary—Michael Apted capturing Stingo cutting his daughter’s umbilical cord and wiping one tear to the strains of his Prokofiev-quoting nuclear reflection “Russians” makes me yearn for more Documentary Now/Walk Hard hybrids

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

all that truth said (and I don't have Netflix), this is some formidable fare. Dracula has a dark horse great John Williams score and Psycho II may be the first tolerable legacyquel of a generation??

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seeing a guy named…I didn’t hear him correctly…Ringle?

Just kidding mfs it’s Ringo Starr and the All-Starr Band

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is funnier and funnier the more I read this. The Irish stolen valor guy hoping the band that practically invented principled if safe stand-taking in mainstream rock would maybe keep the politics to a minimum in their post-millennium output. Holy shit dude

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven’t seen much commemoration today on here, but happy 25th anniversary to Achewood, one of the most influential works of art on the Internet and how we communicate on it. Please take advantage of the replies and quotes to share favorite strips or panels. Here’s one

Achewood panel of Ray Smuckles (right) looking at Teodor (left). Ray looks somewhat bemused, with raised eyebrows and an open mouth. Teodor looks critical.

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you are a certain kind of music nerd still on Facebook, one of the craziest things you can see are the typically 400-word screeds by this wildly contrarian account. Today’s was an argument that Mike Love could have been a worthy frontman for the Traveling Wilburys

The Beach Boys And Beatles 101: The Bands The Music The History

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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026

It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN

It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sherry if you're not afraid to eat the Hal laboratory Inc dog eggs

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

also the voice of one of the wildest unreleased albums of the '80s: 'I Love My Lady,' where CHIC intended to do with Mathis what they did with Diana Ross

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I Love My Lady by Johnny Mathis on Apple Music

Album · 1981 · 8 Songs

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The announce-to-release pipeline for deluxe catalog titles is wild right now; 10 years ago, this would've gotten announced already, not in almost October

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Thierry @tcote.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Claude also has a Stevehoffman Mode where it just tells you you’re a goddamn idiot for not getting the 1989 German gold cd pressing of any album

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Scariest thing? Dealing with insurance! @robbykarol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Man Who Shot Liberty Bibberty

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

unfortunately, if you put "Reacher and Arnold/Santa go on an adventure" on a streaming app I have access to, I am probably going to watch it

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The Man with the Bag - Official Teaser | Prime Video

YouTube video by Prime Video

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think a lot about how if there were half as many stupid, easily impressed people with money, we might not have to loudly dunk on these tech morons as often and let them marinate in the bargain bin of life

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do you think people who think like this feel the same way about RC Cola vis a vis Coke and Pepsi’s market share

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that there are more than Three Stooges? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of Larry, Moe and Curly? [SMITH]: That is Curly Joe DeRita, not Curly Howard

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

weirdo art-punks who treated live shows like underground theatre, but their two most commercially successful albums are produced by David Foster and/or boast most of the Toto/Thriller players, and the lead singer is best friends with Richard Marx. A band of great contrasts!

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Conner O’Malley crying in those Howard Schultz videos voice) BEATOOOO

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It would be grimly funny if he spent this term sneaking off to Walter Reed to get procedures that made him look like current Barry Manilow instead of presiding over these hellions

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Close the books, Andrew has the last word: great explainer, great temperature-lower-er. he rules and you should read, reallly

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I got some mutuals at Stereogum, and even though I worked on this, I have literally no idea (nor does any writer in this space I know). So: Has a press release gone out on this? It's been announced, but I know folks trying to review this, and no one knows who to ask for a copy

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Re: @hunterfelt.bsky.social’s astute post I just shared about Stevie: it’s wild how in 2022 they did a deluxe for Thriller’s 40th anniversary that was full of almost entirely half-formed nonsense that would’ve never made it to the LP in any form (and, almost, a remade cover that looked like shit)

Hauntingly bad originally announced cover for Thriller 40: same cover image but a weird redesigned artist/title name that replaced custom cursive-type lettering for a font from Adobe

Redesigned cover: a silver slipcover with a die-cut “0” hole next to the “4” that exposes the original MJ portrait. Under that hole is the original LP artist/title lettering

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fact that they are great songs but also that one would be hard pressed to suggest he was wrong to leave them off the album at the expense of what made the cut speaks to how rare an album Songs In The Key Of Life is.

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I at one point owned—I may, still—a disc of Disney bluegrass covers called, I kid you not, ‘O Mickey, Where Art Thou?’ A crazier A&R team would’ve put Pooh Bear on there and called it ‘O Bother, Where Art Thou?’

O MICKEY, WHERE ART THOU? THE VOICES OF BLUEGRASS SING THE BEST
OF DISNEY

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

wow wow WOW here's the second-to-last project for the year I got to chip in on: edited the liner notes for a bonkers 50th anniversary edition of Billy Joel's Turnstiles, packed with rare and unreleased material that I never thought I'd get to hear

shop.billyjoel.com

Turnstiles – 50th Anniversary Edition 4CD + Blu-ray Box Set

PRE-ORDER NOTICE - Orders will ship on or around the date listed below. Orders with pre-order items will not ship until all items are in stock. If you wish to receive in stock items sooner, please pla...

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was really odd that this didn’t generate a lot of traction yesterday in my circles so what the heck, here it is again

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tech guys proudly showing off their brand new pressings of Thriller, Rumours, Back in Black, The Dark Side of the Moon, Metallica and Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 29/09/2026

sorry but these guys are so much more annoying than any of the overzealous leftist youths permanently squatted in the punditocracy's brainspace

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are now phasing way too into “people who don’t know ball about music business weighing in on That Thing” so here is a band I enjoyed writing about today that has nothing to do with any of that. For fans of disco/new wave/afrobeat, I’d say

pigeon-uk.bandcamp.com

OUTTANATIONAL, by Pigeon

10 track album

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today in “Facebook shit I’m seeing for reasons unclear.” I somehow don’t think you’re sincerely asking, page named “Skyfall is Rubbish”!

Facebook post by a page named “Skyfall is Rubbish” in a group called “For Bond Fans Only”:

Here's a question I can't get a straight answer to: How is Skyfall considered a masterpiece when its plot falls apart under any scrutiny? Silva's plan hinges on Q plugging in a laptop. The third act is a Home Alone siege at a childhood estate that never existed in Fleming's books. Therr is much more I can point to and reference. It's contrived, clunky, and nonsensical. If it's so great, someone please defend the plot point by point. I'm sincerely asking.

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