#DOC NYC

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That is the Approach God Deliberate It' Evaluate: Eye-Opening Information Buzz

Like lots of people, I first noticed Billy Preston in “Let It Be,” the place his luscious electric-keyboard noodlings supplied the candy middle to songs like “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Get Again.” But it surely wasn’t till “The Live performance for Bangla Desh,” George Harrison’s trend-setting rock-concert film from 1972, that I registered who Billy Preston actually was. For many of that Madison…

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"The Dmitriev Affair" in NYC (and Online)

US PREMIERE  Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory from the eternal doom of oblivion. Dmitriev’s riveting story is a…

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LGBTQ+ highlights at 14th annual DOC NYC fest

DOC NYC, the nation’s largest documentary festival, returns for its 14th edition this month, running in-person from November 8th until 16th at Manhattan’s IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika. The fest continues online US-wide until November 26th, with most films available digitally to US viewers. Ahead of opening night, we take a look at the LGBTQ+ highlights including some of…

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Summertime strolls in, on schedule. (Brooklyn, 2024)

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Team Howards End at the 45th Cannes Film Festival, 1992. The photos will be from Jim Ivory, now conveniently shared in Stephen Soucy’s documentary Merchant Ivory (2023).

‘ADRIAN ROSSMAGENTY’ ;0 Also seen: Sam West, James Wilby, Emma Thompson, James Ivory, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Robbins, Vanessa Redgrave.

Merchant Ivory’s world premiere screenings will take place at the DOC NYC 2023 festival, dates as above. Details here: https://www.docnyc.net/film/merchant-ivory/

For US folk who can’t get to NYC, the festival also has an online screening option. :)

The Documentary film of Merchant Ivory(2023) directed by Stephen Soucy is on its way of Global Premiere. Firstly Nov. 11th and 12th in New York. I found a lot of black and white photos of James' attending the 45th Cannes International Film Festival in the film. Never seen them before...

[aceofthyme]

hi y’all

[gerrytheshow]

EVERY SINNER

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little small things I want for christmas 😊

-Lotion

-fuzzy socks

-more docs

-a black 1960s Chevrolet impala with red interior

-hairties

-a functioning brain

-a cat

-sweatpants

-Vivienne Westwood one row pearl drop choker

-tickets to gutenberg

-a trip to NYC

-Andrew Rannells

-A Candle

[thegothicalice]

Exhausting week, lazy outfit, revisiting batwing liner for the first time in years 🦇 Tripp NYC overalls, bandanna, and top secondhand.

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April 3, 2022.

It takes a good two months before a year starts to pick up for me. The first big win was in the final frigid day of February when I decided to take the train to Greenpoint’s Academy Annex for some records; the first stop of what would be an amazing record-store victory tour. Then arrived March. I drove four miles to the shopping mall to look for leather jackets when I discovered a new retro- video arcade opened up. Within a few days I walk in and spent the entire day re-living my Atari / Nintendo / SNES youth. Those eight hours were a thoroughly exhaustive one. I saw games which I threw many rolls of quarters into, to others I only read about and fantasized even seeing up until then. The original Super Mario Bros. cabinet, The Neo Geo MVS, Outrun, R-Type, Taito’s Superman, Atari’s Star Wars. Most of every great moment of my youth spent in delis, card stores, ice cream parlors, long-gone restaurants, and amusement parks were now all in one room.

Good thing I went because my all-time favorite ginger April* made a rare appearance in my store and I had to tell her about it. She came in to buy some A/V components like she always does and we spent a good ten minutes catching up on everything. April was a fangirl and a hardcore gamer of all formats so I had to share the wealth of news with her. Too late. She already went. Still, every visit from her counted as she was the cutest thing of pale skin, glasses, and Irish ancestry I ever seen.

I had another holiday spent with my Coney Island family. My aunt invited me to her daughter’s house in East Meadow for Easter where they, her aggressive right-wing country-music loving Trump supporter sons, her sister, and all the offspring you could think of would be there. A great four hours were had coloring eggs, watching Disney’s Encanto on the big screen, and an endless feast of Italian food were laid out for all to gorge ourselves to death. Blessings were counted and they were enough to cash them in for a bright sunny Sunday. I also enjoyed the hour-long drive from East Meadow through Rt. 27 all the way home.

In between all this was a major event I was chasing for a while. It would be nice to attend a Boy Harsher show and they’ve been making the rounds in New York City quite often. I jumped at the opportunity to purchase tickets after their Halloween show and ultimately got them - only for January show to be postponed. Blame the COVID- omicron for it. But Jae & Augustus pushed it back to April and this time nothing was stopping them from performing nor anyone attending The Music Hall Of Williamsburg.

I learned that it was a two-hour ride each way from my line to Penn Station and back due to transfers at the Jamaica Station. Not good as I had to work a 10AM shift. This time, I opted to drive out to the Babylon stop for a direct line to Manhattan and back for fifty-five minutes each. I went up the stairs and waited only a few minutes before the train arrived on an elevated platform. Nothing special about the train ride on a cloudy mid-50* weather. The show, however, was a whole other story. Everyone enjoyed the opener Twin Tribes and the headlining Boy Harsher hands-down to great fanfare. I couldn’t have waited in line to get some merch- as, once again, someone had to ride home for tomorrow’s payday.

I reversed the path from The Music Hall- by taking the L and ½/3 line back to Penn Station. It just so happened that I missed my train home by three minutes and it cost me an hour more before the next one came in. As I mentioned before, no transfers. Just a direct line from Penn Station back to Babylon where the double-decker cars awaited us. A nice surprise for me sitting in the seats above to contemplate my next major win: Sacred Bones’ 15th anniversary show. It could only get better.

Fifteen years ago from this month, a new concept was born. I purchased a 30GB iPod Classic through a ‘friend’ of mine at WUSB. Since then, I loaded all of my music into it and took it through many train rides. The iPod Classic has retired in favor of my iPhone SE. What once became a distraction has now been an auditioning process for future Omega WUSB shows and seasonal personal playlists. Nothing is off limits. Noise, backpacker, jazz, fusion, shoegaze, noise rock, post-punk, electronics, hardcore - everything. Everything I discover gets played in hopes of either being featured or forever a part of me. With a near endless plethora of outlets, mutuals, and other ways of obtaining music, there’s almost never a moment of silence outside of work or sleep.

Congotronics International: “Where’s The One”

MoE: “Beautiful Stranger”

Silent Servant: “Slasher”

Doc Hammer: “Commanche Crew Cut”

Visit0r: “God Of All Flesh”

People’s Choice, The: “Here We Go Again”

Ride: “1,000 Miles”

Thurston Moore: “The Station”

Sunrot: 21%

Joucous: “Rivers Pt. 1”

Exek: “ID’ed”

Legss: “Hyde Park Coroner”

Alice Glass: “Suffer And Swallow”

Totally Unicorn: “Daddy’s Stabby Surprise”

Aeges: “Who Are You”

Benny The Butcher & J. Cole: “Johnny P.’s Caddy”

Maneskin: “Moriro Da Re” 

Broken Vow: “Expiation”

Exek: “(I’m After) Your Best Interest”

Smash Your Enemies: “Faithless”

Death Strider: “Cardinal Sin”

Letting Up Despite Great Faults: “Gemini”

Dead Leaf Echo: “Milk.Blue.Kisses (Foil In Motion)”

Offset: Spectacles, The: “Stomp”

Caparezza: “Eyes Wide Shut”

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New York Film Festival 2023:

Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Agnes Varda -- New York -- 1967 (Agnes Varda), 2022

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watching the raimi spidermans as an adult and im kind of in awe at the reputation raimi mj has like. idk man she kinda just exists. and maybe cut her some slack for peter leading her on over and over and over again. i think she deserves to kill him with hammers for the shit he pulled at the beginning of 3 i'll say it idc

[do-u-really-wanna-know]

✵loving life tbh✵

[rjeldridge]

Komikka, 2024

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uploading all the videos i took during my time on tour with scott onto a flashdrive and there's 190 items selected omg,,,,

[aceofthyme]

yknow. sometimes my mom really catches me off-guard in the best of ways

I’m currently staying in what was her childhood bedroom while I work on my graduate degree, and she offered to rearrange the shelves so that I could put my own books there. I very much agreed, seeing as I wanted to put up my books and also display my BTTF things on the shelves. This was about a week or so ago, but just tonight I noticed what books she left sitting conspicuously on the edge of the upper shelf:

A book on science and the future, a book on physics, a book on dogs (pugs), and a romance novel.

My mom does everything on purpose and I’d be willing to bet money that this is not only a BTTF reference but explicitly a nod to Doc. She literally left this here for me to find, I can’t believe I didn’t see it sooner, especially because these are the shelves below: