Angel Mirou

@angelmirou

Writer, graphic artist, EN ES translator, lover of films. Peaceful resister against global Fascism. Bilbao located. Escritor, dibujante, traductor EN ES. Cine, teatro, libros, no necesariamente en ese orden. Antifascista. Bilbao vía Leioa.

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Angel Mirou@angelmirou· 12d

I bought it in Amsterdam two years before I even had a CD player.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· 20d

I started playing DISCO ELYSIUM in january 2020. Stopped playing (might have been something going on then, dunno) when I was 2/3rds through. I feared I'd never resume the game, but last week I finally put on the superdetective green shoes again... What a joy.

A publicity image of hit videogame Disco Elysium, showing the protagonist walking across one of the main locations, a rundown cafeteria with an iconic mosaic floor.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jul 22

¿Esto tampoco? Sólo por la versión de Neko Case ya me lo compraría...

Cover image of the 2000 album of Tom Waits covers by different alternative artists titled NEW COAT OF PAINT. SONGS OF TOM WAITS. The images shows in black and white (or rather shades of blue gray) a rundown wooden door and on the floor in front of it a paintbrush on top of a tin of paint. On the right side of the image there's someone (female perhaps) standing almost out of frame dressed in blue jeans, dark shirt and black shoes, a cigarette stub in their hand, in a relaxed pose, as though taking a break from painting the bloody door.
The image is incredibly cool, but I'd like to remind everyone that smoking causes cancer, so careful with the coolness factor.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jun 30

Seen today in a toilet at the long distance bus station in Madrid. The conspiracy lives on... #w.a.s.t.e

A toilet cubicle with a waste paper basket and a toilet seat. On the wall, a sticker with the symbol of secret society Tristero as depicted in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· May 23

So is it just me or Look Back in Anger has aged terribly?

A copy of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger on top of a very dirty and untidy desk, which kinda fits because the play is a classic of the kitchen sink era of British drama, only this particular reader found it boring and incredibly misogynistic, but hey it may be just me being oversensitive... Not!

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Mar 27

"Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon" David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas

A fragment of David Mitchell 's novel Cloud Atlas. Text says: "W
ars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched."

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Feb 17

Viendo esto me acuerdo de A Civil Action, cuando que mandan a un becario a dar malas noticias al jefe del bufete en su rato libre porque los demás no se atreven. Duvall transmite carisma y terror en una escena de un par de minutos. He olvidado el resto de la peli, pero me acuerdo de esa escena.

Robert Duvall interpreta al jefe de un bufete de abogados poderoso en A Civil Action. En la imagen está atrincherado en lo que parece un despacho en un sótano en penumbra, con un escritorio desordenado donde se ve una bolsa de papel con lo que probablemente es su almuerzo, una radio a pilas conectada a su emisora favorita, cajas de bolígrafos y lápices, un sandwich a medio comer, unas galletas y carpetas de documentos legales.
El personaje mira hacia alguien que parece haberle interrumpido en su refugio, en lo que podría ser su hora libre para almorzar. No parece contento por la interrupción.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Feb 16

He had a long life and an amazing career, but it still feels like Robert Duvall left us too soon. Way too soon.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Feb 11

El típico meme de Spiderman y Sauron discutiendo si curar el cáncer o convertir a personas en dinosaurios, pero con Spiderman proponiendo que la izquierda deje sus peleas de mierda y se una en una coalición y así quedar por encima de Vox, y Sauron/partidos de izquierdas contesta que prefiere seguir con sus peleas de mierda antes que quedar por encima de Vox.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jan 17

I had never realized until now that when Galactus first arrived The Beatles' Revolver was playing on the radio. In my mind they still seem like cultural products from different timelines...

A panel of the Fantastic Four comics series in which Reed Richards shaves while Ben Grimm aka the Thing takes a bath and Johnny Storm all covered in dirt stands in the bathroom doorway scolding their teammates for their apparent inaction in the face of Galactus' cosmic threat.

The panel is part of the three issue-run that told the first arrival of Galactus on Earth and how the Fantastic Four with the help of The Watcher and Galactus' servant Silver Surfer managed to save our planet from Annihilation. It was drawn by Jack Kirby and inked by Joe Sinnott. The story was allegedly written by Stan Lee, though more likely conceived entirely by Kirby himself and afterwards added some dialogue by Lee.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jan 17

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

A sketchy digital drawing of Bowie from one of the photos of the session from which the cover of his album Heroes was taken.

It shows the artist grimacing as if in pain or emotional stress while he runs his fingers through his hair with his right hand and holds the back of his head with his left hand.

I'm so there.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jan 7

Memory is tricky, huh? I was thinking of the ending of City Lights, how a good part of its power is that we see the Little Tramp cry for the first time in his career. But does he really cry? I looked up a gif, and his eyes shine, but I'm not sure he sheds tears. Maybe it's just Kuleshov again.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Nov 22

Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date you.

A frame of the Swedish movie Let the Right In, showing a shy preteen blond boy befriending at night a young girl with black hair, apparently his own age, but actually a much older vampire creature. The boy holds a rubik cube in his hand, clueing us about the period the story is set in, that is, the 80s probably.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Nov 10

Someone got rid of their SF collection, which means that lots of classics of the genre and back issues of the F&SF magazine washed up at the second hand bookstores here in Bilbao... This was a particularly strong issue. Highlights were a take on animals evolved into anthropomorphic beasts à la 1/-

The cover of the October/November 2008 issue of the Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, showing a futuristic wizard pointing forward while three rocket ships rise above a domed city scape

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Sep 28

If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Sep 28

Currently reading Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon. Even 11 years after it was published it is so refreshing to find aliens arriving in Nigeria instead of central Kansas....

Cover of Nnedi Okorafor's novel Lagoon, depicting an image of an ocean flooding a city. Underneath the waves there are silhouettes of all kinds of sea creatures huge and small, and an eerie female silhouette floating among them.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Sep 24

Winona shows off her table manners...

Cute cat sits at table, hoping to grab some chow.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Sep 24

Autocorrector en WhatsApp cambia Mikel Laboa por Mikel Labial, y ahora tengo metido en la cabeza a Mikel Laboa poniendo morritos...

El gran cantautor euskaldun Mikel Laboa posa elegante con una boina negra. Sus labios son finos.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Sep 22

2/ Every time I get home, feeling slightly crestfallen:

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Sep 22

Anybody says out loud film/song quotes for recurring everyday situations even when there's no one around, or is it just freak me? 1/ Whenever I'm doing something tiresome but absolutely necessary: "This is the JOB, deTECtive!"

Publicity phot of actor Clarke Peters in his breakthrough role of Detective Lester Freamon in the tv show The Wire. Picture shows a seasoned African American police detective judgementally gazing over his glasses at some fool.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Aug 24

Leo a Lucius Shepard explicar en el número de diciembre de 2008 de Fantasy&Science Fiction cómo Let The Right One In se fue de vacío del Festival de Cine Fantástico de Neuchâtel, en competición con títulos que ya nadie recuerda. Me lo apunto para cuando hablemos de injusticias en festivales...

Portada del número de diciembre de 2008 de la revista estadounidense Fantasy & Science Fiction, que muestra cohete espacial de aire retro posado sobre una llanura desértica a la luz del atardecer, en algún planeta remoto.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Aug 11

¿Todo el mundo menos yo sabía que INVASION en Apple TV+ es una pasada de serie? Me he tragado tres capítulos y estoy alucinando con lo guay que está...

Still image from the Apple TV+ show invasion, showing engineer Mitsuki Yamato staring intently at something in JASA's space control room.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Aug 4

Watching Masters of the Air. Imagining Elvis just made a show with Hanks and Spielberg...

Austin Butler and another actor I don't know as bomber pilots in the miniseries Masters of the Air

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jul 24

FOR ALL MANKIND 's Leningrad episode broke my heart with the much awaited encounter between my two favourite characters of the show... 😥 Only five more episodes to go! It's such a relief to know there's another season on the way... #forallmankindtvshow

Publicity image for the episode LENINGRAD of the Apple TV+ Series For All Mankind, showing the steely female boss of Soviet space agency at an international conference in an alternative 2003.

I chose this image because I didn't want to spoil the show for those who haven't reached this episode yet.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jul 21

I've been meaning to introduce you to this guy for some time now.

A snapshot of Vigo the dog staring at the camera while at his most manipulative... Aah, who am I fooling? He's such a good boy.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jun 30

This was a great read. Lewis makes believable the quick collapse of American democracy under the attack of populism allied with big capital, using the Presidency as the Trojan Horse that allows them to destroy civil liberties from within the system. Only missed the prediction by less than 100 years.

A copy of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here on top of my messy desk. The novel tells the election in the 1930s of a populist demagogue as President of the United States and how he proceeds to install a fascist regime very much like those in Europe at the time.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jun 27

Listening to Springsteen's Nebraska for the zillionth time. I'll watch the movie, but it bugs me the grandiloquence of the narrator claiming "he was about to repair... THE WORLD". With Born in the USA? During Reagan's? "We're gonna need a bigger wrench..."

The cover of Bruce Springsteen's album Nebraska, which shows a black and white photograph of a glum. midwest landscape.

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jun 25

Shiiit, these two are Charlie Hunnam and John Carradine, time travellers.

Two members of the crew of an American Civil War Era gunboat who suspiciously resemble actors Charlie Hunnam of Sons of Anarchy and John Carradine circa Stagecoach...

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jun 16

Happy Bloomsday, everybody! Any day is a good day to read Ulysses, but if you start today you'll earn a special achievement badge, courtesy of good ol' Buck Mulligan...

An Image of the top of a Martello tower somewhere in Ireland that I found on the internet and use every year to celebrate the arrival of Bloomsday, the day we celebrate we read Ulysses and survived to tell the tale...

Angel Mirou@angelmirou· Jun 13

The trouble with reading books as you come across them in second-hand bookshops is that sometimes you screw up the gateway to an author... Case in point: Brian Aldiss' The Eighty-Minute Hour. Which title of his do you think I should have tried first?