PL Arango

@plarango

Screenwriter (Watch EXTRACURRICULAR on Tubi, Amazon, etc. Or don't. Either way is fine with me, honestly) Creator of consumie.com General weird movie and music enthusiast He/him Signal: pla.51

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PL Arango@plarango· 10d

Got up early this morning and did a ton of work retooling a song I've been kicking around. It's about an existential crisis brought on by reading The Chronicles of Amber and ends up basically as this picture.

PL Arango@plarango· 25d

Tonight's dishwashing mixtape is one I made for my wife in I think 1996 (based on the appearance of @kochalka.bsky.social's "Breaking Things"). I can't quite make out what promo cassette I pulled out of the freebie pile and taped over.

A mixtape featuring songs from Billie Holiday, Yo La Tengo, Nice, James Kochalka Superstar, Love Child, etc

PL Arango@plarango· Jul 11

Today's listening: mix tape my wife made in... 1995?

Handwritten label for a cassette tape. Too many songs to list, but includes songs by Yo La Tengo, Superchunk, Dead Milkmen, Crayon, etc.

PL Arango@plarango· Jul 11

I had kind of forgotten that the boombox I set up next to the sink so I can listen to music while I wash dishes has a working cassette player.

A cassette containing songs by Erasure and Yaz next to a Sony boombox from the 90's

PL Arango@plarango· Jun 21

I almost always just take pictures of the cards next to paintings instead of the paintings themselves, but we went to the Whitney last week and I liked the Akira Ikezoe paintings so much that I actually took a picture of Mole Stories Around Methane Gas

Okay, so there's a field of cows and moles collecting the cow dung which they put into a big tank and other moles are working in a kitchen making food to serve to other moles in a restaurant and moles are using the bathroom which collects their waste which is used to grow the vegetables that get served at the restaurant and other moles are maybe making dung-shaped pottery from the processed cow dung which they fire in a kiln and then place into the water where it grows into giant conch shells which another mole blows to create more cows

PL Arango@plarango· Jun 5

We checked out Unmatched Teen Spirit from the library for game night, and I cannot express how excited the 10yo was to discover that the Squirrel Girl cards have actual @ryannorth.ca footnotes on them

PL Arango@plarango· May 2

EVERY PUMP TOPPER FRAME SHOULD UTILIZE 1 STANDARD PUMP TOPPER AND 1 SUPER PUMP TOPPER. INSERT STANDARD PUMP TOPPER IN ONE SIDE AND INSERT SUPER PUMP TOPPER IN THE OTHER SIDE

PL Arango@plarango· Apr 27

I also went to my first non-drive-in movie screening since 2019. I was the only weirdo wearing a mask, but getting to see Evil People with Farley and Roxburgh in attendance was great.

PL Arango@plarango· Oct 26

Couldn't sleep last night so I was awake for the bear's return visit to the hot tub. I think he desperately wants to eat the Styrofoam inside. Seemed very put out when I pounded on the window to scare him off.

Duct taped cover of the hot tub with fresh bear incursion hole

PL Arango@plarango· Oct 16

A totally normal potato and definitely not some kind of subterranean larva

An enormous curved potato with what appears to be some kind of lamprey-like mouth at one end

PL Arango@plarango· Oct 15

Yes, I will definitely trust your Medium article after seeing this graphic. Tell me more about sending tokels to my cokels server! What do I need to know to set up my clorent clever?

A terrible AI-generated image that is supposed to explain OAuth, but is full of gibberish

PL Arango@plarango· Oct 14

This is the reference I was given. She wanted something like this, but without the encircling element and in more appropriate colors for a blue jay.

A panel from Star Knights, showing a character holding a moon and star staff

PL Arango@plarango· Oct 14

8yo is going as a custom character inspired by @kaydavault.bsky.social's Star Knights, and I've been tasked with building the non-fabric parts of her costume. I am pretty crummy at woodworking, but I think the staff is turning out okay.

A blue wooden staff with a star and moon head at the top

PL Arango@plarango· Oct 13

Annoyingly, they tend to look opposite directions down what I'm pretty positive is the same street

The town of Hobb's End from In the Mouth of Madness. Of note is the white building with columns in the background and a brick building with a second story railing.

The town of Steeple Falls from The Scream Team. The same white building can be seen.

Another shot from The Scream Team, in which the brick building with the railing can be seen in the background with teenage Kat Dennings in the foreground.

PL Arango@plarango· Oct 11

In the spirit of the season, I decided I needed to create a Gothic Rock subgenre, which solved a lot of problems of acts that felt like they belonged together getting splintered between Post-Punk (a subgrenre of New Wave) and College Rock (a subgenre of Alternative)

A screenshot of Plex displaying some artists in the Gothic Rock subgenre, from Alien Sex Fiend to In the Nursery

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 30

Always seemed weird they adapted it into a picture book

The cover to "Fox and His Friends" by James Marshall, featuring drawings of an anthropomorphic fox, pig, and alligator.

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 28

We are now apparently ten months into watching terrible Saturday morning cartoons every week. Today's installment has so far included The Popples and this gem.

The title card for an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard inspired cartoon, featuring the image of an orange car leaping through the air. The episode is entitled "The Dukes in Urbekistan"

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 25

At one point, the boss bought something along these lines

A siphon coffee maker that burns alcohol to heat the water

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 16

Having a mid-year birthday means these things require a lot of research. I think "Old Traditions, New Standards" by Tullycraft was just before I turned 21 and "Sierra Nevada" by Bingo Trappers and Refrigerator "S/T" are right after I turned 22. Pretty sure I was 21 for this one and it's untouchable.

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 15

In more positive news, I did bake some pretty nice Cardamom Plum Crumble

A glass bowl containing some plum crumble and vanilla ice cream

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 14

This year's annual Mari Asato film is The Boy From Hell. I don't want to spoil anything, but perhaps you'll enjoy the Gobliny soundtrack for this segment in which a surgeon collects children to bring back to her castle home/medical practice for her once-decapitated/now monstrous son's birthday party

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 12

Added a bird to our Halloween Tree

A grim reaper bird in a dead tree with purple lights on it

PL Arango@plarango· Sep 7

Deeply disappointed this isn't actually a Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You video game

Promotional image for a videogame called "The Casting of Frank Stone." Sadly, it's not Former Professional Athlete Frank Stone.

PL Arango@plarango· Aug 31

Sadly, the book goes with the made for TV language

Chris tells the street gang (which is now the Black Lords, even though I am like 85% sure it's the Lords of Death in the movie) "Don't mess with the babysitter" instead of "Don't fuck with the babysitter."

PL Arango@plarango· Aug 31

Today's tag sale score

Adventures in Babysitting: A Novel by Elizabeth Faucher Based on The Motion Picture Written by David Simkins

PL Arango@plarango· Aug 30

Good memory! That's a good one, as is "Freak Shows" by Robert Bogdan.

Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others by Daniel P. Mannix

PL Arango@plarango· Aug 25

Why do I have this on an old hard drive?

A packet of Taco Bell hot sauce that is "Filled with Sadness"

PL Arango@plarango· Aug 25

I don't know if these all count as "weird," but here's a painting my dad bought from a colleague at a boarding school, a terrifying alabaster face my grandmother owned, a sculpture of the Laurelhurst Theatre, and a great painting by @strangegodsart.bsky.social

A painting by Doug Keyerleber of, I don't know, maybe a nun floating on a psychedelic field with some rings of color. My mom refers to it as "The Pepto Bismol Painting" due to a band of pink on it.

A creepy human face carved out of alabaster. There is another one of these as well. No one else in the family wanted them after my grandmother died.

A sculpture of the Laurelhurst Theater in Portland, Oregon perched in top of a cliff. According to the marquee, they are showing Foxes, Baghead, The Fall. and Iron Man, two of which I saw at the Laurelhurst.

A painting of a giant furry creature with a temple complex and trees growing on its back

PL Arango@plarango· Aug 25

Repost with a favorite book from your childhood Mine is Alan Mendelsohn The Boy From Mars by @danielpinkwater.bsky.social. I first read it in third grade, and have probably read it a dozen times since, most recently out loud to my kid (whom I also tried to name after a character in the book)

Paperback cover of Alan Mendelsohn The Boy From Mars. Two teenagers sit on a lawn in front of a suburban house and a flying saucer. The one with glasses is intently reading Advanced Lessons in Hyperstellar Archaeology.

PL Arango@plarango· Aug 24

This was a good impulse, but the resulting cookies are almost overpoweringly rich. On the plus side, I used up the leftover gelt from a couple years ago.