John Bleasdale

Lies Movies Tell. 1. Everyone is beautiful open.substack.com/pub/jbleasda...

Miles Davis once walked off the bandstand at the Village Vanguard rather than perform with Archie Shepp “He couldn't play, and I wasn't going to stand up there with this no-playing motherfucker" You’ve gotta love Davis’ bite.

Excerpt of The Magic Hours has featured in The Ankler @theankler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theankle...

Such a great read

I talked to Matthew D’Ancona about Horror Movies thenewworld.substack.com/p/live-the-g...

If the Middle Class can’t afford essentials maybe it’s time America renamed their class system more accurately. Being able to afford essentials is a minimal requirement for being middle class surely?

I know you’re not very good with money stuff FT but please try and keep up

I can’t believe Renée Goode and Alex Pretti died this year. They were both born in 1988. They were both decent people and they were murdered and their murders are on camera along with their murderers and nothing has been done.

“Adderley was a jazz magpie, fond of inserting bits and scraps of familiar melodies into his solos; Coltrane seemed to quote only from God.” James Kaplan

New episode of Writers on Film and it’s a mammoth on Milos Forman with Andreas Halskov open.spotify.com/episode/72yv...

This is so completely messed up and the idea that it has been allowed is nuts. Netflix used to say their major competitor was sleep. Now capitalism wants to get rid of night www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

When mum came back from the rave with her new pals

Gotta get some trees in your life.

If only a source of information existed on your phone by which you could fact check your racist bullshit before you spout it into your apparently very broken microphone

Just for a second anything similar coming to light about Obama… just imagine the media, Fox, CNN, the GOP and the Democrats themselves would be calling for immediate resignation

The New James Bond is Coming: THIS is what happened when the chose the last one. www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

The New James Bond is Coming: THIS is what happened when the chose the last one. www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

We saw you across the bar and we like your vibe....... and we want to come over and explain the intricate details of different aspect ratios and the career of some cult director from the 1970s who might be sort of fun but is actually not very good once the poppers wear off.

This is unbelievably good news: for the environment, for the world and for Brazil. The Far Right can be stopped. And must be stopped.

Blue no matter who only works for the democrats when it's their POS right wing candidate

Also worth noting that this victory came despite the interference of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta which obscured Lula's posts and made them impossible to share or like, wanting to do a solid for Trump. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Poland. Hungary. Brazil. Serbia. Far Right Populism is being beaten by pro-democratic forces. You're up next USA. Don't fuck it up.

Amazing! The students were joined by the professors and then went to the countryside and went door-to-door. Vucic used the media and the state against them. I'm so happy for my Serbian friends. And this is fantastic news for Europe. The Far Right can and must be defeated.

This is unbelievably good news: for the environment, for the world and for Brazil. The Far Right can be stopped. And must be stopped.

I too often finding it almost impossible to think of anything nice to say about my children

This is a really good reason not to privatize every fucking thing.

If you are reading Armond White reviews, you deserve what you get

"THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!"

It Can't Happen Here, happened here

Far be it for me to explain jokes to right wingers, but the point is it's a Cheesecake Factory DESIGNED BY SADDAM HUSSEIN, the EX-Iraqi dictator with a reputation for tasteless bling. To slide past the dictator bit and clutch pearls about the Cheese Cake Factory is an interesting choice.

My power went out during a podcast recording and I ended up frozen looking like Wolverine’s weaker brother.

The one day I wish I didn’t like watches so much.

Oh why? WHY?

"How did you get into tabletop role playing games?" Yes D&D, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu but also

There have never been more interesting horror movies around but are they becoming less scary? The Gentrification of Horror For @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Caturday.

Morning Shatner

Reading

Happy birthday to my dad Jeff Goldblum

Such a great film

New episode of WRITERS ON FILM with Chris Bujold talking about his memoir on watching movies in the 80-90s podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

Is it a headline or a metaphor ?

I love it when you publish a left wing post and someone scolds you for ever having the naivety to things otherwise like Granddad didn’t give all your aunties communist middle names (which he did).