Dan Berlinka
@danberlinka
Writer / director / coverer of waterfronts
Do I know anyone who wants a box of Sight and Sound Magazines from the 80s and 90s? Free to anyone who can collect them from East London in the next week or so. (Please message me if interested.)
And that same Italian edition is available to buy on Abe Books. (I won't, but still it was fun chasing it down.) I Classici Della Magia Nera by Peter Haining: Buono (Good) rilegato (1971) | MULTI BOOK share.google/uAR1l2rn6u0O...
I was intrigued and it was easy enough to discover that it's the Italian edition of this anthology, "The Satanists":
During Don't Torture A Duckling there's a portentous close up of this book:
I liked this message so much that I took a picture with my smartphone so I could share it to social media.
Bogart's super stardom happening in real time. The Petrified Forest was released in 1936. Night and the City was published in 1938, three years before High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. Bogart is still a supporting actor (apart from in B movies.) But he's making enough impact to sell a shirt.
Me at the Hayward Gallery Chiharu Shiota exhibition, looking like a spy meeting a contact in an arty cold war thriller from the 60s.
I don't know if they put it up specially, but this was a fitting poem to find here on International Women's Day.
Read a classic work of English literature without finding any antisemitism challenge: failed again.
I just finished Rusty Lake Paradise (on mobile) I think this is the 12th of these that I've played. Imagine a puzzle game written by David Lynch and designed by Edward Gorey. I absolutely love them.
Hear me out... not White Lotus or Death of Stalin Jason Isaacs, but Cure for Wellness, The OA, and Look Away Jason Isaacs.
If you're in London between now and November 9th, there is a gorgeous *free* (and under advertised) Frankenstein exhibition at Selfridges. Costumes, designs, models, and first editions of the novel. (Thanks to mirror-lurking @johnnymains.co.uk for taking me there!) www.selfridges.com/GB/en/stores...
Fridge magnet / matchbox combo. A timely Halloween gift. Thank you @johnnymains.co.uk
Last night at the Proms I heard the Vienna Philharmonic play Bruckner 9. (Hearing the scherzo on Radio 3 first got me into him.) It was the 20th anniversary of my father's death. He tended to view Bruckner as a second best to Mahler, but I think he'd have enjoyed this performance as much as I did.
I'm reading Bleak House and I just got to this line, said by one of the most sympathetic characters in the novel. It doesn't change how I feel about the book, but I suppose what I found remarkable (compared to say the depiction of Fagin) is how casual and *un*remarkable a line like this is.
Delighted to finally meet @annebillson.bsky.social in person (after many little film chats on here and the previous place.) And I was so glad to be able to tell her how much her horror film reviews in Time Out meant to me at the time!
As it happens a friend's French punk band is touring the UK shortly...
The reasons for the train delays have achieved a sort of nihilistic poetry.