Callie Petch

@calliepetch

Occasional critic, human disaster, naïve progressive. Words: Soundsphere Magazine, Little White Lies, Stereogum, and my own place. (They/them.)

68 Following202 Followers3,151 Posts

YouTube YouTube Bluesky

Is this your profile?Claim it and calliepetch.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 15h

Never has this been more fittingly used:

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 3d

#NowPlaying Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 4d

Tried to go for films I don't currently have in my Blu-Ray collection, but had to throw Flow on their to rep my love of animatiom.

My virtual Criterion Closet polaroid containing:
• Hard Boiled
• In the Mood for Love
• Ace in the Hole
• Flow

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 6d

You guessed it... Frank Stallone.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 10d

Queers of a certain age after seeing this:

Screencap from The Vampire Lestat. Lestat, having drank of Akasha's blood, is floating delirious up in the air yelling "And I have been up here for three days!"

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 12d

#NowPlaying: "Robyn" by Robyn. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 12d

#NowPlaying: "Songs of a Lost World" by @thecure.com. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 18d

#NowWatching Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 23d

#NowPlaying: "The Nightlife" by Honey Dijon. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 23d

#NowPlaying: "You're Gonna Need a Little Music" by @yardact.bsky.social. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 24d

#NowPlaying: "Distracted" by Thundercat. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· 24d

#NowPlaying: "I Used to Go to This Bar" by Joyce Manor. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 11

#NowPlaying: "AAARTH" by @joyformidable.bsky.social. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 11

#NowPlaying: "What a Life" by @themeffs.bsky.social. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 11

I see that Deadline are still sticking to their story that live-action Snow White failed at the box office entirely cos of Rachel Zegler and not, y'know, cos it looked and was shit and nobody asked for it anyway.

Screenshot of Deadline's article about the Friday performance of Moana. The highlighted section reads:

"That puts the island princess at unfortunately the same level as Disney disaster Snow White, a film with a whole other set of baggage, saddled by star Rachel Zegler's public remarks and political leanings, which led to a first day/previews of $16.2M and an awful $42.2M opening."

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 6

I don't give a damn about my reputation. [Joan Jett and the Blackhearts at O2 Academy, Leeds on 5th July 2026] #MusicSky

A photo of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts performing at O2 Academy in Leeds last night.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 5

Absolutely adore this final paragraph by @christapsell.bsky.social which gets to the wider philosophical heart of the matter.

"The real loss, as games move from the physical realm to the intangible one, is a sense of connection with what you love. A tangible, touchable, graspable thing that links you to all the people who made it. The chance to give that thing to another human, in person, and look them in the eye and tell them it's brilliant. To go to a shop or a library or a friend's house, out there in the real world, and browse its shelves. To ask an expert behind the counter for their advice, to make a trade at a car boot sale. To choose some fancy Criterion-style collector's edition of that one, particularly special game, and put it on display in your home. What we get instead is alienation. A distance and a detachment, both from the art itself and the people who made it. This has no number attached that can be weighed or measured against the alternative. There's no cost to moving humans further apart. But it is very much real, and it matters as much as anything, and you should let nobody in this world tell you it was your choice."

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 3

#NowPlaying: "Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You" by Ethel Cain. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 2

#NowPlaying: "EUSEXUA: Afterglow" by FKA twigs. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 2

#NowPlaying: "WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA" by Slayyyter. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jul 2

You've got to hold on... [ @alabamashakes.com at Millennium Square, Leeds on 1st July 2026] #MusicSky

A photo of Alabama Shakes performing at Millennium Square in Leeds last night.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 29

#NowPlaying: "Sexistential" by Robyn. #MusicSky

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 28

I like to go out, wear something nice and PUSH. [Robyn at Co-op Live, Manchester on 27th June 2026] #MusicSky

A photo of Robyn performing at the Co-op Live in Manchester last night.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 27

MAN BITES DOG [ @femtanylll.bsky.social at New Century Hall, Manchester on 26th June 2026] #MusicSky

A photo of femtanyl performing at New Century Hall in Manchester last night.

A photo of femtanyl, with takihasdied, performing at New Century Hall in Manchester last night.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 24

*Cannes screening-length standing ovation* #007FirstLight

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 21

To love me is to suffer me... [Ethel Cain at The Piece Hall, Halifax on 20th June 2026] #MusicSky

A photo of Ethel Cain performing at The Piece Hall in Halifax last night.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 20

The world if opinion columnists kept their "I personally don't like this activity everyone else does, here's 2,000 words why I'm right" broadsheet-published pieces to themselves:

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 20

I am once again begging opinion columnists (and their editors at the broadsheets) to keep/be told to keep their most asinine whiny thoughts to their Substacks/in their perma-drafts where they belong.

Screenshot of a Guardian opinion piece entitled "The hill I will die on: Going to a gig is an endurance test."

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 19

We're getting Coyote vs. ACME a week *before* the US! *blasts "Three Lions" obnoxiously out of car down a busy high street* #FilmSky

Screenshot of a press release from Ketchup Entertainment and Altitude announcing that the mythical Coyote vs. ACME will be released in UK & Irish cinemas on 21st August.

Callie Petch@calliepetch· Jun 11

Person who has only ever seen The Book of Mormon and Paddington, watching their third piece of media: "Getting a lot of Book of Mormon and Paddington vibes from this."