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Backrooms. This movie reminds me of the Shining crossed with a video game. I’ve played games where rooms autogenerate and felt the existential dread evoked by feeling lost in an endless interior; the game Doom felt like this often. I’ve also visited furniture stores that can have vast showrooms with a similar effect. The choice of business is an inspired one. The film also reminds me of the Shining, because it’s about being trapped in a liminal, uncanny space. The liminal space sets between the public and the private, like at a Hotel, where you have a rented room, that promises privacy, but less ownership than a leased place. The public encroaches on the private creating an uneasy sense of being between and betwixt, a liminal space that the Shining captures so well. Backrooms also has this quality. The uncanniness of the space come from Freud’s take of the incongruence of the familiar and unfamiliar simultaneously, just like how furniture stores want you to imagine home setups, but the repetition of types of rooms and furnishings in a large showroom creates a bizarre effect, the juxtaposition of the homey against an industrial retail warehouse space. The dread this evokes Backrooms makes the most of in its MC Etcher Minotaur’s labyrinth. 2. The Masque of the Red Death. From a baby ballerina getting slapped, to a party of novels being forced to act like animals—this quirky Roger Corman period piece loosely adapted from Poe is among horror icon Vincent Price’s Shakespearean performance best. 3. Sinister II. Unfairly maligned, the story made sense and has well defined characterization, a good horror movie of its type that went down easy. 4. Obsession. A fairly unique horror movie that’s probably the best of the year besides my favorite, the Bone Temple. Obsession examines the nature of desire instead of just trauma. The monkey’s paw style wish that seemed to me to deliver something other than what was asked for.
October 3, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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Is it just me, or does Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen looks like Buster Bluth wandered into the background of an album cover shoot wielding a chainsaw?
The cheap trick album cover for Dream Police.
September 19, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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My last 4 watched with 30 minutes left in the Devil’s Mouth.

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The Odyssey, Nolan again beings verisimilitude to timeless fantasy, and retreads The Dark Knight Rises with the classical sword and sandal OG inspiration. Bruce Wayne has much in common with the tales of brave Ulysses. Bonnie and Clyde—an American Odyssey that pushed cinema violence forward in a way Pauline Kael could approve. City Lights. This movie has a lot of clever sequences, and uses sound for humor despite being arguably a silent film otherwise. The Charlie Brown adult voice makes fun of the mere idea of speaking. Chaplin masterminded it all; he even sang the score and had a composer notate his singing. The film provides the blueprint for even today’s comedies. Masters of the Universe. The Male Barbie movie, it should have timed its release better with the Odyssey and made a go of another Barbenheimed— the Masterssey. Mattel studios formula seems to be taking the piss out of their properties while also celebrating and touching upon what people like; this take on the character while less deep than the Barbie movie in its exploration of gender, does have a theme about the main character using a non-toxic HR professional’s approach to masculinity to a world of barbaric fighting and high fantasy adventure.
August 8, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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!!!!Happy Juneteenth!!!!

…our newest federal holiday, but the celebration originated in Texas on this date in 1866. When the right acts like it’s a new, made-up thing, I ask, “is that so, Fatso?” Then play this:

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"Juneteenth Jamboree" - Fatso Bentley
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June 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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I needed to cleanse the palate after I ate something rancid on the night of the full worm 🪱 moon. 🌕

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Big Trouble in Little China. John Carpenter’s Action-Comedy-Horror hybrid that combines low fantasy, tales of Taoist Magic immortals, and Kurt Russel’s John Wayne impression (as Jack Burton) to create a singular masterpiece that maybe shouldn’t work, but entertains front to back. The Rock. Perhaps Michael Bay’s best work, I revisited this along with Face/Off and Con Air recently. This held up for me due to its stellar cast and sound story. It’s 90s action at its best that puts Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris to excellent use. The bio-weapon scene at the top is an especially savvy and effective character introduction for Cage that helps raise the stakes for the entire movie. Sonny & Jed. Sunny! ☀️ Sunny! Sergio Corbucci ended his Spaghetti western career with one of his best, a two hander between my favorite actor, Tomas Milian, and the great Susan George, who’s also remembered as the young wife in Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. There’s a really great meta-scene of Milian digging in to a plate of spaghetti for Corbucci to make a meta statement about the spaghetti westerns he helped define, second only to Leone (albeit many prefer Corbucci). Telly Savalas plays an antagonist whom nonetheless rides the western hero horse (being lawful evil if not lawful good) and pursues our outlaw couple as a blind bounty hunter; their showdown scene in a corn silo is one of the best in all of Westerns. Sonny and Jed’s relationship exemplifies the Hegelian master-slave dialectic, if that’s not too obtuse—point being it’s a satisfying arc that could inspire many a term paper or critical essay. But more than that, it’s fun. Blood of the Werewolf’s Claw. One of the worst movies I’ve seen. I watched three werewolf movies on full moon night (March 3rd). This was the worst of the three. And the lunar eclipse hid behind rain clouds so I didn’t even seen the worm moon turn red. Doggie dung.
March 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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During one of these movies, I treated myself to a Martin & Lewis shake (which likely cost more than $5 even without labor).

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1. The Northman. One of the most cinematic movies ever made, which plays like a compressed GOT season. Nicole Kidman plays a 10th C 20. 2. Pulp Fiction. Check out the big brain on Brett, but it’s Phil LaMarr best known for his voice work, who really loses his head. It’s so weird in the credits Kathy Griffin plays herself. 3. Boogie Nights. I remember the change over to the 80s being a bigger tonal shift, the movie going from fun to sad. The effect remains but it’s less pronounced somehow now that I’m middle aged and have seen more of the world. 4. Grimsby. Donald Trump getting AIDS raised the star rating a 1/2 star right at the end. Some jokes I noticed Cohen had recycled from SNL “Celebrity Jeopardy” misreading “therapist as “the rapist” or the Ace Ventura Rhino scene that gets one-upped by a line-up of ejaculating elephants. SBC still takes comedy further in the shock factor than anyone besides maybe Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
February 27, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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Happy Ki-Ki-Ki…Ma-Ma-Ma… Day.

Now watching: Heart ❤️ 👀 Eyes

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1. Caught Stealing. Raised by Baseball obsessive, I developed an allergy to the game; yet it plays such a minor role in this excellent thriller that balances Aronofsky’s humor, style, and love of the disgusting to make one of his most popcorn friendly, crowd pleasing movies. It’s somewhere between his style and Paul Thomas Anderson’s aesthetic. 2. I love Sorcerer. This under-appreciated Friedkin thriller has a more taut plot, but plenty of great Friedkin shots; it’s short, fast, never bores, and plays out as the best cat and mouse story (often a drag) I’ve seen. Benicio Del Toro may win an Oscar this year, but performances like this show how under-appreciated he is. Tommy Lee Jones has played this kind of character before, which may hurt the film, but never as convincingly. The Hunted has outstanding verisimilitude. 3. My Bloody Valentine. A classic 1981 slasher from their heyday made in Canada that manages an intriguing mystery and plenty of slasher kills. The police work and town’s need to put on a Valentine’s Day dance (not a thing) after years of not being a thing due to a tragedy, strain credulity; yet it’s an entertaining movie of its kind with plenty of fun for those with an antenna tuned to this fuzz-prone frequency. 4. Friday the 13: Part II. A quirky 81 slasher watched on a Friday the 13th in February which would freeze over crystal lake; this film takes place in 1984, set 5 years after the first, as that’s another Friday the 13th with a July. From Alice to Ginny, it’s got a quirky charm and 2 of the best kills—wheelchair and window—that makes it my favorite of the series, especially with Jason’s “the Town that Feared Sundown” Bag-head design. I watched the Fear Fest Joe Bob presentation.
February 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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4 Werner Herzog Produktions with his best Fiend (who’s thankfully now the evil dead).

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1. Klaus Kinski portrays a Brazilian gangster turned Cracker Cobra Verde who ruins the life of his plantation owner employer who didn’t know he’d invited an outlaw home; dispatched on a suicide mission to restart the slave trade the British ended (and enforced the prohibition of), Cobra succeeds in enslavement, and sets himself up as a bush king; it’s a complicated critique of colonial ills. 2. Fitzcarraldo. While I prefer Aguirre that has a shorter runtime without a wasted frame, only a filmmaker of Herzog’s ingenuity would match the determination of his character and actually move a massive boat over an Amazonian mountain to jump rivers. The real tribes people make the film too. I find the Opera stuff a little hard to take as it’s hard to believe headhunters would be slotted by the sound of a victrola record over the loud river. Still, it’s another masterpiece with a fraught shoot due to intense naturalism; yet I believe Herzog could have even moved the mountains. 3. Kinski as a soldier driven mad by the establishment; it’s Herzog and Kinski’s shortest collaboration, yet also a long time for what’s a cinematic murder ballad. I found the dialogue confusing but it ends strong. 4. Nosferatu the Vampire. Herzog pays homage and improves upon FW to make the best vampire movie ever made. The timing of Kinski’s movements and exhausted anger driven madness make the most believably sociopathic Count Dracula rendition of them all. The man was a monster, but a genius at capturing a captivatingly evil presence. I admire Herzog but find Kinski talented albeit loathsome. Luckily, he’s dead so I watch these in good conscience knowing Klaus reaps no reward.
February 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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My last 4 watched, with a middle 2 from Mr BIG.

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My last 4 watched on Letterboxd. 1. Johnny Mnemonic. Set 3 years ago, in a cyberpunk future steeped in Orientalism, Keanu first honed his Clint Eastwood impression. It’s an interesting mix of floppy discs and prescient futurism concerning the “data wars” and other good guesses. Henry Rollins plays the other Spider not in Avatars and Ice T, the Ice killa as heavenly resistance. 2. the Magic Sword. A lose retelling of St George and the Dragon by Mr Big. Basil Rathbone as the evil sorcerer opposition, and Dr Frank from 2001: a Space Odyssey (Gary Lockwood) as Sir George; he’s playing 20, was 23 and looks like he’s going on 47. Estelle Winwood as George’s witchy adopted mom steals the show; it has a low budget charm for 1962 albeit it was behind the times even then, low-budget. 3. The Last Drive In edition of The Spider also directed by the Magic Sword’s Mr Big. It’s an entertaining Tarantula/Them rip off, a nature strikes back eco horror pic that even has a Rocksploitation reanimation, a sub-genre by the 80s, or more recently “Dead Ant.” 4. Train Dreams. See Letterboxd for my thoughts. It’s a great neo-western steeped in naturalism that takes full advantage of the dreamlike nature of cinema. I now how 2 best picture nominees to see, Hamnet and Sentimental Value.
January 30, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Catherine O’Hara was the funniest comedian alive, a genius. I loved her WTF interview. Her “uh-oh” when being asked about college made me laugh so hard, as did Beetlejuice I&II, the Guest movies, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone, After Hours, Wild Robot, Wyatt Earp…
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January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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My last 4 watched—best picture nominee bun, zombie meat filling; it’s a newish movie sandwich. 🥪

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My last 4 watched on Letterboxd: 1. One Battle After Another. Thomas Pynchon inspired hippie conspiracy theory satire that offers action, suspense, and a lot of laughs. Both sides get shown in all their goofy glory, but only one side has something worth fighting for. 2. 28 Years Later. I may bump this one up to 5 stars as everything that I still had questions about gets resolved by… 3. 28YL: the Bone Temple. I’m a big fan of Nia DaCosta’s and Jordan Peele’s collaboration on rebooting Candyman. She makes another horror masterpiece in this follow up to Danny Boyle’s film. Both share a screenplay by the best screenwriter working today, Alex Garland. Garland delivers and while it’s easy to pit which movie ranks above the other, this seems akin to the original Star Wars trilogy, that without New Hope, you couldn’t have an Empire Strikes Back. In a way, the original trilogy is like 3 acts in one long film, and this film reminds me a lot of Empire in how it’s a brilliant continuation that raises the artistic stakes while leaving us wanting more. 4. The Secret Agent. It’s an interesting story which all made sense by the end, but while it adds up, the sum isn’t much; the deliberate pacing takes 4-5 more minutes for each scene to play out than it needs. This could easily be compressed and improved into a 2 hour movie. The ending seemed to optimize anti-climax. For a best picture nominee, I expected more, yet at its best, there’s some memorable scenes, story ideas. A lot of parallelism gets drawn which makes it feel like a rhyming poem that seems to hold a cryptic mystery but one could also summarize it and fairly hear in reply, “that’s it?” The performances sold a lot of the movie, but there’s a lot of fat. The Brutalist compares except that film thematically matched the subject matter of building a grand structure that seems overwrought but has meaning, whereas this had less claim to the length.
January 23, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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My last 4 watched on Letterbox, awards bait might be the theme 🎣 🎞️

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My last 4 watched on Letterbox 1. Bugonia. I’ve seen a lot of this Director’s work, Yorgos Lanthimos, and I often find it uncomfortable albeit unique. I found this movie more rewarding albeit I’m not sure about the reversal-on-a-reversal end, that implies conspiracism belongs in the marketplace of ideas and isn’t a rotten fruit. 2. Lucky. His secret will stay with me, but I hope the body of 90 year old HDS will not; the cameo by David Lynch setting up his will to leave to his tortoise hits harder now. 3. The Bad Guys 2. I love the voice cast, and while I’m older than the main intended audience, this has plenty of heist and spy movie references to make it fun for adults. I especially enjoy Marc Maron as Mr Snake—Marc’s a good guy but he plays a great bad guy. He always makes me laugh and never phones it in by just sounding like Marc. I also needed something lighter after… 4. Marty Supreme. Maron first introduced me to the Safdie bros, this being Josh’s solo effort; like a lot of their work, there’s great character and dialogue moments, but they always give way to unrelenting action that’s thrilling yet bleak and pretty hardcore. Marty and those he encounters aren’t always “likeable” but they’re always “compelling.” I’d take a million Martys over boring, likeable but forgettable protagonists. Also, Timothee has a surprisingly poor complexion when shot in extreme closeups, yet it’s a pretty brave and real performance not to hide imperfections under that Dune CG or makeup miracle working. That’s a little bit unkind to comment on, nor would I have noticed if not for the Sergio-Leone-if-he-could-shoot-pores cinematography, but it’s pretty cool for a leading man to allow a less than photogenic approach. We had a bacterial POV of the cast. Also, fun to see a cameo from the golden voiced Ted the once homeless man. Get that SAG insurance, Ted!
January 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Bob Weir.

The other lead singer of the Grateful Dead, the Dead, the Dead and Company, WolfBros, and Ratdog.

Fuck Cancer. And like Alice Cooper, forever love the Dead. ☠️ 🌹 🥀 🐻

He takes Cassidy’s driving method to the grave.

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January 11, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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My last 4 watched.

Shock and Awe I missed when released due to War on Terror fatigue, but it’s a great Rob Reiner movie about the Knight Ridder reporters who did right, as fake reporters like Judy Miller had their evil way with the world.

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My last 4 watched posters for Shock and Awe, The Ballad of Wallis Island, New Year’s Evil, and Jonah Hex.
January 2, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Happy New Year, kiddies.
Crypt Keeper in tux and happy new year hat with confetti falling.
January 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Merry Christmas!
🎁 Enjoy the mini-game!

Xmas Bonus, dedicated to the late-great Rob Reiner.

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Final Mini Quiz! First to answer wins! It’s text on a music store background. Fill in the blank style; a famous cowboy gives a hint and a clue to the inspiration if you know what I mean... I spotted two letters on week 4 as it’s the hardest. I hope you enjoyed this; thanks to those who engaged! Love to y’all and your families; I’m about to get downstairs to my people.
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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My last 4 watched, Christmas horror is my reason for the season.

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1. Don’t Open Till Christmas. This UK Christmas horror film inverts the serial killer Santa, trope with a Giallo style killer who hunts Santas. A fraught production with a lead quitting makes the movie feel listless in that it’s lead-less. The first guy on the call sheet tried to direct then quit; the screenwriter took over then drank on the set until they fired him. Other storylines then take precedence, after the lead cop leaves, and while we do get a complete story, the highlights are the seedy juxtapositions against Christmas of sex and violence. Investigations sometimes turn over so it weirdly helps the verisimilitude having a third person universal pov, rare in film. There’s an especially great London torture museum sequence. 2. Martin Starr as a dad who inherits a farm in Norway, uprooting his kids and their stepmom. The young boy adjusts when he meets the nissen who lives in their barn. Christmas gnomes that eat porridge and represent Scandinavian ancestors, we often see in the US too. This horror comedy that’s a lesser Gremlins won me over more on a second viewing, but also has some pretty obnoxious jokes targeting reasonable European criticisms of American cultural violence. I also find that the ending, the elf’s change in heart after calling in reinforcements, wasn’t really earned. The elves forgive their slaughter a little too easily after such a bloody battle, and sometimes main character armor keeps the logical thing from happening. 3. Elf in the Hood. This came across like a student film that needed another re-write, most scenes playing like a first table read by apathetic participants in a class. There’s some okay SFX for a indie. 4. Better Watch Out. This movie has an amazing turn and while it cheats a little for its reveal, and has moments I can pick apart, overall it’s so fun and so much works I don’t really care. The pacing really makes it fun too, fast paced and action packed. Darkly funny too. It’s a top 5 Xmas horror for me.
December 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I had a smudge on my phone that looked like a human skull. I wanted to take a picture of it using my camera phone, but obviously can’t. So then I almost took a screenshot until I realized the smudge wasn’t part of the displayed image. So instead a wet wipe has robbed prosperity of great art.
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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In memory of a truly great . . .

... Rest in Peace Rob Reiner

💔 🙏 💔
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Thanks to everyone who has engaged so far! Were a little pass the halfway mark to 🎄! (My shopping is not done 😬), 💵 boycotts & blackouts…
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🤮 the baby talk of Scary Merry Carey? Simply 🤢 of Wonderful Xmastime?

Fear not!

While annoying, notorious standards persist, torturing tasteful retailers, good Christmas music exists!

For 24 days in December, I will post an under-played Xmas song as a digital advent 📆.
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The Underplayed Christmas Carol Advent Calendar 2025, a naughty list you wanna make. For the next 24 days and maybe Xmas time permitting, I commit to introducing or reminding you of a lesser known Christmas banger of the song variety. If you’re sick of overplayed standards, freshen up your holiday playlist with some Christmas music you should anticipate hearing. At the end, I will provide a score sheet and answer key where you can tabulate your (self-reported albeit Krampus is watching) score of “knew-it-already” picks. A high music knowledge score will be the consolation prize 🏆 for not learning a new great tune. 🎶
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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I try to be a charitable audience, but I had to watch 3 great movies rid the taste of Killer Christmas Elves, an all-time irredeemable. Claudia Jennings motorboating on the Bayou, me-o-my-o, Howie’s best work, and traumatic tales of Lincoln’s birthday.

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The posters for the worst Christmas horror movie since Silent Night Blood Night, the redneck masterpiece from husband and wife proto-Coen brothers team Ferb and Bev Sebastian, Gator Bait, staring playboy playmate serial Rolling Stone dater and Bowie roommate, Claudia Jennings and The Gremlins duology—two classic Christmas movies from Joe Dante that fill up the frames with more fun ideas in a single frame than some films have during their entire runtime, with classic performances by Dick Miller, the other Thomas C Howell aka Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates Kline, and Howie Mandel as Gizmo.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Day 6. The last Day of Theme #1 with the classy “1st Lady [back when that was a compliment] of American Song”—
#EllaFitzgerald

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Bonus: Hotta Chocolatta

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Day 6 of the Underplayed Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2025: Ella Fitzgerald’s Good Morning Blues. Ella rides a horse drawn Santa slay loaded with wrapped presents and Santa stands of the horse’s back clutching Ned Flander’s expert-level hot cocoa from the Simpsons. Ella Fitzgerald bonus track: Hotta Chocolatta. I included a link to the live Ed Sullivan performance. It’s Christmas adjacent but a great way to add variety to a playlist that offers a break from the word “Christmas” while evoking a great drink of the season. Good Morning Blues doesn’t get played much as an Ella Christmas deep cut, but there’s few misses when it comes to Fitzgerald. Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas cover with Ella in a green dress, leaning in, chin in hand; a deep red vinyl pulls out from the cover.
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A Rock Legend’s latest concert film shot in the Circus Maximus.
The Cold Full moon 🌕 inspired — this week has gone to the dogs. 🐕 Last Drive-In presentation of Bad Moon on my friend’s b-day.

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My letterbox last 4 watched. Werewolf Santa eeked out a 3/5 “I like it” due to the Joe Bob animated opening; it’s highly flawed. I’m glad to finally see Good Boy after being too busy to catch it in theaters. Joe Bob Briggs animated in Werewolf Santa.
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM