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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yesterday I finished Silo season 3 with an old, grizzled Tim Robbins. Today, watching Hill Street Blues S05 E03, who do I see? Why, a fresh faced, bushy tailed Tim Robbins (and Michael Biehn playing an absolute POS).

Tim Robbins playing a rookie cop in Hill Street Blues

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Very good book haul, 5 stars. (yes I'm giving 5 stars to myself)

Namwali Serpell – On Morrison
Susana M. Morros – Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, Carol J. Adams, 1990

Three stills from The Sheep Detectives where the butcher character says:

He was a vegetarian. I can forgive that in a woman, but in a man? Disgusting.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Dog. Doggo. Best girl. Wee pal.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Book postie arrived today. I will finally read a Stephen King – I hear he's pretty good.

Misery by Stephen King sitting atop Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite, next to my current read of Despair by Vladimir Nabokov.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Seeing Angel's Egg in the cinema tonight was a profound experience; now one of my favourite scores of all time. I cannot believe Yoshihiro Kanno composed very little else and has no dedicated Wikipedia page. I will definitely be transcribing some of it.

The cover of the soundtrack to the film Angel's Egg by Mamoru Oshii & Yoshitaka Amano, composed by Yoshihiro Kanno.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Revisiting an old friend...

The title screen for Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for Xbox.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@markfrost.bsky.social This was a nice surprise. Apparently you're quite good at writing the 8th episode of a 3rd season.

A still from Hill Street Blues episode 8, season 3 "Requiem for a Hairbag" written by Mark Frost

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I picked up 100kg for the first time today, then put it back down. I surprised myself by doing it a few more times. As a long time sufferer of Shitty Lower Back Disease this was a big moment. The technique needs some work, but it's something.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You've created a beautiful thing.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I often think of this passage in Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima, but I especially think of it when I'm at the gym and bros are slamming down weights loudly with no awareness of those around them. It's also a very ironic passage considering Mishima's later views, also that I'm at the gym lol

"When a boy of fourteen or fifteen discovers that he is more given to introspection and consciousness of self than other boys his age, he easily falls into the error of believing it is because he is more mature than they.

This was certainly a mistake in my case. Rather it was because the other boys had no such need of understand-ing themselves as I had: they could be their natural selves, whereas I was to play a part, a fact that would require considerable understanding and study. So it was not my maturity but my sense of uneasiness, my un-certainty, that was forcing me to gain control over my consciousness."

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

My reading drought broke last night and so this is my spring/summer TBR that I will get through even if it KILLS me

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Violent Faculties by Charlene Elsby
Ripcord by Nate Lippens
What am I, a Deer? By Polly Barton
Penance by Eliza Clark
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Ava by Carole Maso
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
Persona by Aoife Josie Clements

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

My reading may have fallen off a cliff this year, but has it stopped me finding any excuse to buy an old book? No.

Wikipedia page for the artwork 'Isle of the Dead' by Arnold Böcklin. In it it references the book 'Despair' by Vladimir Nabokov, which you seen an old edition of on the right.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A Shinya Tsukamoto film being a Shinya Tsukamoto film.

A scene from 'Gemini' (1999) directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. A character's doppelganger says to him 'maybe I'll give your patients injections of my piss' while looking down on him from the top of a well.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I peaked at taking photo with this one. I'm done.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Highlander: The Series taking swipes at Warhammer fans as early as 1992.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Here's a transcription I did a few years ago of 'Close Your Eyes', the Buffy/Angel love theme because I'm a big fuckin' nerd.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I just read that, I can see where they're coming from. I just looked at the prices of the first and second editions and it's wild. I definitely didn't pay triple figures for my 2nd edition 5 years ago.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

About 4 years ago I was asked to look at a Yebba song and was unprepared for the amount of borrowed chords in under a minute.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The more I stroke my dog the more vacuuming I have to do. It's the law of furmodynamics.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is how you open a god damn BOOK.

Opening page of the book 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' by Zora Neale Hurston:

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment."

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s (any century). #booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenges #readingcommunity #books Not all of these books came out in the 90s, but these particular covers did and I chose them for their gorgeous covers as much as for their quality as books.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My year started slow and ended a bit odd.

Nosferatu the Vampyre by Werner Herzog

Et Cetera, short film by Jan Svankmajer

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Every year my goal is to watch more films, but I never quite achieve it, especially new films. These are my favourite watches from this year though (in no particular order).

Stand By Me, Rob Reiner

Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman

Jaws, Steven Spielberg

Red Rooms, Pascal Plante

One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson

Crash, David Cronenberg

Shin Godzilla, Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno

Godzilla (1954), Ishiro Honda

Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Steven Soderbergh

Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman

Tokyo Fist, Shinya Tsukamoto

John Candy: I like me, Colin Hanks

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2025 was a good year for reading. Here are some of my favourites. #booksky 📚🖊️

Boy Parts, Eliza Clark, ★★★★★

The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker, ★★★★★

Defiance, Carole Maso, ★★★★★

Model Home, Rivers Solomon, ★★★★★

Ghost Dance, Carole Maso, ★★★★★

Tar Baby, Toni Morrison, ★★★★★

American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, ★★★★

The Colour Purple, Alice Walker, ★★★★

Rejection, Tony Tulathimutte, ★★★★

Fragile Animals, Genevieve Jagger, ★★★★

I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman, ★★★★

Fleischerei, Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin, ★★★★

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison, ★★★★

Wax & Wane, Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin, ★★★★

Stag Do/Fantasy Horn, Anna Walsh, ★★★★

Kink, Kathe Koja, ★★★★

Beloved, Toni Morrison, ★★★★

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath, ★★★★

1982 Janine, Alisdair Gray, ★★★★

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Nice find today of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Earthsea Quartet from 1993 (with a little review copy note) and Kafka's The Trial from 1966. Earthsea artwork by David Bergen. The Trial artwork by Lotte B. Prechner.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Some Tanaka Suguru and some of Beksiński's 90s digital art, which has a certain charm.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

@kimjustice.bsky.social Kim! It was such a lovely surprise to be watching The Rubber-Keyed Wonder on Prime and see you make an appearance!

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The desktop background on my Mac put through the 4:3 resolution on my CRT TV looks like an establishing shot in an episode of Babylon 5.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

@straczynski.bsky.social I've been slowly working my way through the series, waiting for your first appearance. Finally, it is here.

The credit "Written By J. Michael Straczynski" on screen for episode two of season two of The New Twilight Zone from the 1980s.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Then if you treat them as root position F chords things get even worse. It makes me think of Johnny Depp and nobody wants that. This is what a lot of covers do, I've noticed.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

This is what bars 7 and 15 sound like if we do treat them as F/C chords, things start to sound too Pirates of the Caribbeansy.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

If you have a bunch of moving parts and what the chord is becomes unclear, play a powerchord of what you think the chord is, and if it fits it sits. In bar 7 and 15 I'd argue the C powerchords fit under what are harmonised non-chord notes that resolve to chord notes.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Terminator 2 adds a countermelody. In bar 7 now the melody note A is harmonised with an F. Bar 15 has the F melody note harmonised with an A. It's easy to see this and think the chord in both cases is an F/C. But it is not because of what we know of the original and because of the 'powerchord test'

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The first film is just bass note and melody. If you listen to bar 7 it is clearly a C chord that has a non-chord note A (the 6th) resolving to a chord note G (the 5th) in the next bar. Bar 15 is a Csus4 with the F (4th) resolving to E (3rd) in the next bar. This is crucial for what's to come.

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

You can never have too many versions of one of the greatest albums of all time. I love the 2015 remaster but the original master isn't on streaming, so I got the CD a few years ago to have and compare. Recently I bought a cassette player and so I HAD to get it on tape too.

Little Earthquakes album by Tori Amos in three formats:

2015 Remaster
Original CD
Cassette version

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Matt @silver-ghosts.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Can't wait to get stuck into...*squints*... The Sylvia Bell Plath Jar #booksky

An edition of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath where the cover text is arranged in such a way that it can be read as "The Sylvia Bell Plath Jar"

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