Earl
@beernbugs
Microbiologist, molecular biologist, professor, amateur brewer. Music, ale, books, film/tv, food, sport. Retweet ≠ Endorsement. Opinions my own.🇺🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇱🇻🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky Jack Ryan was disappointing, but Cash Out was a pleasant surprise.
Good Morning Richard, Be well. Here are my (unusually British) #5DebutAlbumsSF3 New Pornos 🇨🇦 Mass Romantic (5 pts) The Beat 🏴 I Just Can't Stop It Freddie Hubbard 🇺🇸 Open Sesame Gang of Four 🏴 Entertainment Elastica 🏴 s/t HM: Sabbath 🏴, Smiths 🏴, De La Soul 🇺🇸, The Furs 🏴, The Tubs 🏴
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky If you haven’t seen “The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot”, see it ASAP! If you don’t like Sam Elliot, then I feel sorry for you. Being GenX, I also found Brats interesting.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky Only one new watch here, Nightingale. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it didn’t satisfy me.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky I still haven’t gotten the hang of entering things into letterboxd yet, so it’s not displaying that I gave both Marley and Smoking Causes Coughing ****. I also was listing new watches as rewatches and vice versa. The only rewatch here is Fletch Lives.
#FilmSky #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Nothing impressive here. I felt let down by Disclosure Day after all the hype.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Not a great week for movies, better week for football.
#5DebutAlbumsSF1 Liz Phair 🇺🇸 Exile in Guyville (1993) We all know the heavy hitters, so I’m not going there. This is an album that I feel gets overlooked or some people don’t know about it. To me, it’s a perfect debut. Here is a live 6’1” from @YouTube youtu.be/x1TR13o1KsM?...
#5DebutAlbums2026 The Laughing Chimes 🇺🇸 In This Town (2021) Great jangle from the other (the third?) Athens, Athens, Ohio. Home to THE Ohio University. These brothers take 80s jangle and bring it to this century. Has a chance of making it my 5. Here is the title track live youtu.be/BVSlNGZZ9ac?...
#5DebutAlbums2026 Buddie 🇨🇦 Agitator (2023) The best way I think I can describe this is power pop that has a grunge influence. It could make my 5. Here is a live clip from @YouTube. youtu.be/Nzxh6EgZY5o?...
#5DebutAlbums2026 Mt. Misery 🏴 Once Home, No Longer (2021) Great Jangle from Hartlepool. Looks to make my 5. Here is a live I Was Wrong from @YouTube youtu.be/T5MeV9K_EY0?...
#5DebutAlbums2026 The Telephone Numbers 🇺🇸 The Ballad of Doug (2021) Great jangle from San Francisco. Stands to make my 5. Here is the title track from @YouTube youtu.be/R-3Hybc-6tE?...
#5DebutAlbums2026 Jetstream Pony 🏴 s/t (2020) Great power pop from Brighton. Looks to make my 5. Here is the Trapped in Amber video from @YouTube youtu.be/tn1tLkc0jmI?...
#LetterboxdFriday on Saturday. #Lastfourwatched 1. War Machine - new watch. Okay. I really like Richter. 2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die - new watch. Better than the previous installment. 3. Central Intelligence- repeat. 4. Mando & Grogu - Didn’t meet my expectations.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Revisiting 2 films I really enjoyed, but striking out with 2 first watch attempts.
#5debutalbums9599 Madrugada 🇳🇴 Industrial Silence (1999). I finally made it to ‘99 and an album that will sure make my 5. A haunting melodic album that goes straight to my soul. If you like N. Cave or BJM, this is for you. Here is a live version of the opening track. youtu.be/-ZAQZyY7CRA?...
#5debutalbums9599 String Cheese Incident 🇺🇸 Born on the Wrong Planet (1997) A #jamband drawing from rock, funk, bluegrass and #jazz. I was living in Colorado when these guys were new. I got to see them for free in brewpubs. Here is a live Black Clouds/Land’s End. youtu.be/-XMzOnUtuQo?...
#5debutalbums9599 Dan Bern 🇺🇸 (1997) Some great folk rock from my birth state of Iowa. Very Dylan influenced. Here is Marylin (Monroe) from @youtube. youtu.be/zKEoJ_dHERs?...
#5debutalbums9599 Zumpano 🇨🇦 Look What the Rookie Did (1995) AC Newman sang and played guitar in this band before he formed the New Pornos. You can hear him beginning to cultivate that sound. Here is the video for The Party Rages On. youtu.be/JTPvmliV8Xg?...
#5debutalbums9599 #JazzSky Ari Brown - Ultimate Frontier (1996) Another good classic style jazz album. Ari knows his way around a sax. Here he is live at the #Chicago #Jazz Festival youtu.be/76nWv2o9s9A?...
#5DebutAlbums9599 Te Vaka 🇳🇿 Original Contemporary Pacific Music (1996). I was living in Hawai’i at the time and this album got some appreciation there. Good Pacific (Polynesianish) music if you like that (I do). Here is the first track live from @YouTube. youtu.be/eiWjcP_YMw4?...
#5DebutAlbums9599 Johan 🇳🇱 s/t (1996). Great Dutch power pop. How can you not like a band named after Johan Cruyff? Here is a live 2 Meter session with songs fron this debut youtu.be/B-r1o8m3rXE?...
#5debutalbums9599 Polara - s/t (1995) Ed Ackerson was responsible for several Minneapolis indie bands that tried to break out of the mold of the Mats & Huskers. This is a brilliant piece of power pop. His vocals sound like Scott Miller, but the music mor MBV. Here’s Allay youtu.be/mGVnRmBpW1w?...
#5debutalbums9599 Firewater - Get Off the Cross We Need the Wood for the Fire (1996) The debut from Tod A’s band after Cop Shoot Cop. He goes in a different direction with this band. His best is yet to come. Here is a live version of Some Strange Reaction youtu.be/CMiFcCxMoYY?...
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 2 bad old monster film and 2 newer great films BASED on actual events. They aren’t documentaries, for those offended, they are interpretations based on historical events.