Adam

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Adam@astranchida· 23d

Ahem… left out the OG.

Alternate movie poster for Kevin Smith’s Dogma - tagline reading “It can be hell getting into heaven.”

Adam@astranchida· 24d

Going for the “O” double-feature, after “The Odyssey” earlier today. #NowWatching #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Alternate movie poster for Obsession, featuring the title in bold red letters, a woman blocking her face with a vase of flowers, a couple on a bed and a “one wish willow,” all red-tinted.

Adam@astranchida· 25d

Quality space sandwich, with incongruent bread. Happy #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and reviews from my Letterboxd recent activity, all reviewed in-app:
•Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2*, 1st-watch)
•Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (4*)
•Project Hail Mary (4.5*, 1st-watch)
•The Circus (5*)

Adam@astranchida· 28d

The shadows on the standard Letterboxd backdrop image for Wrath of Khan make it look like Kirk has a mullet… which then makes him look like Danny McBride if you squint… which is weird. #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

As described above, with various characters around Kirk in front of a blue-purple star-filled litter space

Adam@astranchida· 28d

No. 87 of ??? Picked this up at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently. Couldn’t find anything I wanted and stumbled upon this beauty just before we left: The Godmother of Rock & Roll! Sister Rosetta Thorpe - Shout Sister Shout: The Rock’n’Roll originator 1938-56 #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #Vinyl

The aforementioned album being played in a record player, with the cover sleeve displayed in front of it, featuring Sister singing near a microphone wearing her guitar.

Adam@astranchida· Jul 10

Oooh- posting my #LastFourWatched in the wee hours of the morning (for me, at least), like all the cool kids. It was a weird but enjoyable mix, with the first watches (especially the latter) stealing the show. #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity for the following films, all reviewed in-app:
•The Color of Money (4*, 1st-watch)
•Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (3.5*)
•Twins (3*)
•Dracula Prince of Darkness (3.5, 1st-watch)

Adam@astranchida· Jul 5

Breaking from the alphabetical-by-artist approach to go through a few new ones we picked up while on vacation. We were excited to finally find this classic on vinyl, and the color was a nice bonus. 86/??? #NowSpinning #NowPlaying #vinyl The Meat Puppets - Too High To Die

The aforementioned album cover, and clear-fuscia/magenta vinyl in front of the illustrated white liner sleeve, in front of an open record player.

Adam@astranchida· Jul 3

I haven’t watched a movie in a week, so no #LastFourWatched this go-round, but I still snuck-in a couple last Friday evening #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity, both reviewed in-app:
•Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (3.5*, 1st-watch)
•Dracula (1931, 5*)

Adam@astranchida· Jun 30

#sunset

Adam@astranchida· Jun 26

No. 85 of ??? I can never decide if I like the beautiful, playful but sad, bookends of this best, or parts of the jamathon between, but it’s all gold, with masterful lyrics. Happy damn Friday. Listen to something you love, loudly. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

The faux newspaper-themed cover/sleeve for Tull’s “Thick As A Brick” in front of a record player.

Adam@astranchida· Jun 26

Friday! A nice menagerie this week, and some bitchin’ posters. Hearing the CSO rock John Williams’ score live was a nice treat too. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #Filmsky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity, all reviewed in-app:
•Star Wars (5*)
•The Hustler (4.5*, 1st-watch)
•Return of the Living Dead Part II (2.5*, 1st-watch)
•All Monsters Attack (2.5*)

Adam@astranchida· Jun 26

#NowSeated (well, an hour or so ago- intermission now). I haven’t seen this the proper way (with a live crowd) in 27 years or so, and it’s hard to beat the CSO. Good times. #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Inside the CSO for a live performance of John Williams’ score to accompany Star Wars.

Adam@astranchida· Jun 25

84/??? is the next Tull installment in our collection. Their heaviness largely goes under-appreciated in my eyes, and this album has plenty of Ian’s subtle eloquent melodies and poetry to it too. A classic for a reason. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl 🪈 Jethro Tull - Aqualung 🤘🏻

The aforementioned album cover and inside liner sleeve on top of a record player playing it. A glass rooster looks on from the left, opposite a sucker and sun tan lotion strewn atop the other side.

Adam@astranchida· Jun 21

Back to where we left off with “J” for 83/??? Almost definitely my favorite full album from them… #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Jethro Tull - Benefit

The cover sleeve for the aforementioned album on top of a glowing record player playing it. Glass chicken off the to the left.

Adam@astranchida· Jun 19

Nothing but new ones for my #LastFourWatched this #LetterboxdFriday Blow Out was incredible and easily stole the show, Parsons needs full-reign, I like Paul Newman… and, I just couldn’t with Aaron (fun though). I swapped-in some other favorites, so they snuck in here too. #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity, all 1st-watches and reviewed in-app:
•Creep (2.5*)
•The Verdict (4*)
•Backrooms (3.5*)
•Blow Out (4.5*)

Also posters for my current-listed four favorites:
•Jurassic Park
•The Shining
•Godzilla (‘54)
•The Shawshank Redemption

Adam@astranchida· Jun 12

I was a little disappointed in Absolute Power with that cast, but it was an otherwise satisfying week. Not sure if anyone’s heard of Backrooms, but those’r some creepy, addicting shorts. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity, all reviewed in-app:

•Backrooms (Found Footage); (1st-watch, 4.5*)
•Absolute Power (1st-watch, 3*)
•Dracula (1958, 3.5*)
•Arsenic and Old Lace (1st-watch, 3.5*)

Adam@astranchida· Jun 8

Post a game you remember that nobody else remembers.

“Solomon’s Club” for the original Ninetendo Game Boy featuring an elf man in green with pointed hat, a fairy and glowing key, and a villainous-looking gold dude and dragon with horn in a temple setting.

Adam@astranchida· Jun 7

82/??? is another new addition, before we jump back into the collection alphabetically. Some more breezy Sunday listening this morning. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Nosferatu - score by Robin Carolan

The cover for the aforementioned album, and a die-cut poster of Count Orlok’s contract with Thomas, on top of a record player.

The inside of the cover and two sleeves, depicting various scenes from the film: the Gypsies brandishing torches going to confront Orlock at night, William Dafoe riding in a carriage and holding a torch, and Lily Rose Depp in blue-grey light and shadows looking transfixed.

Adam@astranchida· Jun 5

No #LastFourWatched for me this week, but here’s the three first-watches I got to, and the concert which blocked a fourth. #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity, all reviewed in-app:
•Cold Storage (3*)
•Wake Up Dead Man (4.5*)
The Exorcist III (3*)

Promo poster for Claypool Gold, featuring Primus, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and The Frog Brigade, with Claypool’s silhouette with glowing eyes, holding up two fingers and a golden nugget in the other.

Adam@astranchida· May 31

Some Sunday morning Sabbath 🤘🏻 81/??? Picked this up awhile ago from a local shop but hadn’t popped it in yet. Between the first three, whichever I’m listening to is probably my favorite from them; one of the best to ever do it. #NowPlaying #NowSpinniny #vinyl Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

The aforementioned album cover on top of a record player. Glass rooster looking on.

Adam@astranchida· May 29

80/??? Continuing with a few from the new haul. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning Vitamin - Recordings 1981 Was excited for this, but it’s not my thing. It’s kind of like an unfortunate, messy crossing of Dead Kennedys and The Talking Heads (bands I like/love). Definitely some punk attitude though #vinyl

The aforementioned album on a turntable, and its cover and sleeve next to it on a record stand. An ominous glass rooster peaks from the opposite side.

Adam@astranchida· May 29

A pretty great #LastFourWatched but Altered States was my favorite first-watch of the week. boxd.it/eteUAb #LetterboxdFriday #Filmsky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity for the following films:
•Chopping Mall (3*, first watch)
•City Lights (4.5*)
•Blue Ruin (4*, first watch)
•Star Trek The Motion Picture (3.5*)

Adam@astranchida· May 24

79/??? Going back to some of the random new (for us) ones we picked up from Don Giovanni Records. This is a little dreamt for my tastes so far, but it’s decent, and I love the orange #vinyl. Supercrush - SODO Pop #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

The aforementioned album cover and sleeve, featuring bright orange blue pink and deep purple tennis balls, with the bright orange vinyl loaded into our record player.

Adam@astranchida· May 24

78/??? One of my favorite whacky stretches of this so far has to be Hendrix-Hobbit-Ice Cube-Incubus. I remember not loving this right away, but it quickly after put itself right there with “Make Yourself” after “SCIENCE” for me. #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #vinyl Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder

The fold-open cover for the aforementioned album, with birds and the tracklist in back, and one of the birds on the sticker of the vinyl itself, loaded into a record player behind.

The fold-open inside cover for the aforementioned album, featuring lyrics and various drawings, with large ones of plant silhouettes, on top of a record player playing the album.

Adam@astranchida· May 24

77 of ??? Switching things up a bit from the folky-70s storytelling of The Hobbit… #NowPlaying #NowSpinning Ice Cube - Amerikkka’s Most Wanted #vinyl

The cover and inner sleeve for the aforementioned album, primarily featuring two different pictures of nice Cube and the name of the album.

Adam@astranchida· May 23

76/??? going through our #vinyl alphabetically The Hobbit Snagged this at a HPB not many years ago. Rankin & Bass’ Hobbit will always be the definitive movie version for me, so finding this (when I had no idea it even existed) was quite the score-love the colors! #NowPlaying #NowSpinning #Tolkien

Cover of the aforementioned album, featuring Bilbo and the Goblin King + a henchman, with text detailing the production’s info and mentioning a 12-page book of full color illustrations.

The beginning of the included book, with stills from the movie.

The back cover of the album sleeve reading “The Rankin/Bass Production of The Hobbit” and three additional stills from the film: Bilbo, Smaug breathing fire and two dwarves being guarded by wood elves.

A closeup of the Disneyland Records label on the vinyl, with an outline of Bilbo on the right.

Adam@astranchida· May 22

Started jamming to my Natural Child playlist yesterday for the first time in ages, and I find out that there’s a new album released TODAY (and they grew from a 3-to-5 piece)! Crazy timing. Sometimes you feel like ya might just somehow be on the right path, no matter how slight coincidences.

Screenshot of the aforementioned band’s new album “Wooden,” featuring a picture of the band’s 5 members, with today’s release date, runtime and the album title below it.

Adam@astranchida· May 22

We have made it once again my friends #LetterboxdFriday Heres to a great (hopefully long, but I don’t presume) weekend for all 🍻 Two familiar greats and two first-watches, which both exceeded my expectations, round-out my #LastFourWatched this week. #FilmSky 🎥 📽️

Movie posters and ratings from my Letterboxd recent activity, all reviewed in-app:
•Dracula (2025, 1st-watch, 3.5*)
•The Fifth Element (4.5*)
•Keeper (1st-watch, 3.5*)
•Aladdin (5*)

Adam@astranchida· May 16

Gotta celebrate the side-wins once in awhile. Definitely a nice way to start to the (way-less-important-than-division-games, but always fun) Crosstown Series! #Cubs

Winning bet slip for a 5-leg +562 parlay on today’s Cubs/Sox game.

Adam@astranchida· May 15

What’s the buried congruency between my #LastFourWatched this #LetterboxdFriday? Blonde morons. But, oh, what fun blonde morons they are! #FilmSky 🎥 📽️