David JeremysIron

@davidjsiron.bsky.social

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UK FE library worker, neurodivergent, he/him. Also a (very) amateur cryptic crossword setter at https://www.mycrossword.co.uk/ as JeremysIron.

First batch of HMs: Alan Braxe/Fred Falke - Intro At the Drive-In - One-Armed Scissor M.O.P. - Ante Up (Robbin Hoodz Theory) Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away Radiohead - Idioteque The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist Gorillaz ft. Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Clint Eastwood New Order - Crystal Royksopp - Eple The Shins - New Slang Eminem - Lose Yourself Interpol - Obstacle 1 t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said Underworld - Two Months Off Goldfrapp - Strict Machine Radiohead - There There The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1 The Roots ft. Cody Chestnutt - The Seed 2.0 Annie - Heartbeat Bloc Party - Helicopter Girls Aloud - The Show Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For Kelis ft. Andre 3000 - Millionaire Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You Madvillain - All Caps
My "last four watched": Notorious (the Hitchcock film from 1946), 4 and a half stars; My Octopus Teacher, 3 and a half stars; Homecoming: A Film By Beyonce, 4 stars; Toy Story 5, 4 stars
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: Strangers on a Train (4.5 stars); Life Itself (the Roger Ebert documentary - 4 stars); The Sting (4.5 stars); Pina (4 stars)
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: Remarkably Bright Creatures (3.5 stars), Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (3.5 stars), The Haunting (4 stars), Dark Days (4.5 stars)
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd, all rated four stars: Porco Rosso, Buena Vista Social Club, Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon), and Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years.
My last four watched: The Decline of Western Civilization (four stars); Sound of Metal (four and a half stars): The Man Who Skied Down Everest (three and a half stars); The Help (three and a half stars)
The National: Bloodbuzz Ohio Robyn: Call Your Girlfriend Janelle Monae: Cold War Marina & the Diamonds: Oh No! Arcade Fire: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) St Vincent: Cruel; PJ Harvey: The Glorious Land Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues Bon Iver: Holocene Beyonce: Love on Top Santigold: Disparate Youth Death Grips: Hacker
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: No Other Choice (4.5 stars); Kon-Tiki (4 stars); My Neighbours The Yamadas (4 stars); Jazz on a Summer's Day (4.5 stars)
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: Nanook of the North (4 stars); Hamnet (4 stars); Häxan (4 1/2 stars); The Magnificent Seven (4 stars)
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: Le Samourai (4.5 stars); Prevenge (3 stars); Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (4 stars); The Unknown (4.5 stars)
My "last four watched": The Ipcress File (4 stars), Train Dreams (4 stars), Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (4 stars), Bugonia (4.5 stars)
My "last four watched": Les Yeux Sans Visage, aka Eyes Without a Face (4.5 stars), Tokyo Story (5 stars), Corpse Bride (3.5 stars), Heavenly Creatures (4 stars)
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: The Princess Bride (4.5 stars), Putney Swope (4 stars), Misery (4 stars), Black Narcissus (4.5 stars)
Screenshot of my "last four watched" on Letterboxd: Shock Corridor (4 1/2 stars), Sorry, Baby (4 stars), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (4 stars), Menace II Society (4 stars)
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: The Battle of Algiers (5 stars), My Night With Maude (4 1/2 stars), Friendship (4 stars), Melancholia (4 stars)
Screenshot from The Simpsons of a smiling Malibu Stacy doll, still in its box, wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a pink hatband, as well as a pink frilled dress. Text on the box reads "Malibu Stacy - with NEW hat!"
Screenshot of my "last four watched" on Letterboxd, featuring In the Heat of the Night (4.5 stars), The Awful Truth (4.5 stars), The Ballad of Wallis Island (4 stars), and The Look of Silence (4.5 stars)
Poster for the film Primer, with tangled wires that spell out the title connected to a mysterious machine. The tagline is "What happens if it actually works?"
My last four watched on Letterboxd: Beyond the Hills (4.5 stars), Collateral (4 stars), Top Hat (4 stars), Wings (4.5 stars)
My "last four watched" on Letterboxd: The Harder They Come (three and a half stars), Where Dragons Live (three and a half stars), For All Mankind (four and a half stars), Final Destination (two and a half stars)
My Last Four Watched: Kramer vs Kramer (4 stars), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (5 stars), A Real Pain (4 stars), Ran (5 stars)
Scene from Pixar's Up showing Carl, a bespectacled, grey-haired old man, raising his fists triumphantly while leaning out of a window in his house, which is floating in the air, attached to thousands of multicoloured balloons
Screenshot from The Simpsons showing Selma Bouvier's pet iguana, Jub-Jub, being startled by Selma, whose facial features are distorted from wearing a glass jar on her head
Recent activity on Letterboxd, featuring, from left to right: The War of the Worlds (1953), 3 1/2 stars One Hour Photo, 3 1/2 stars BlacKkKlansman, 4 stars Jean de Florette, 4 1/2 stars
Hand holding a copy of "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride. The covers features a dark-skinned person wearing a flat blue cap, with a large red ball under their right arm
Album cover for A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead: black-and-white photograph of an abstract painting, with swirls of light and dark paint at the edges, and a roughly circular white void in the middle. In small, white, uppercase lettering in the bottom right corner of the image, the word "RADIOHEAD" can be seen, with the phrase "A MOON SHAPED POOL" beneath it.
Album cover for Time 'n' Place by Kero Kero Bonito: a printed-out photograph of a silver-haired woman's face (singer Sarah Bonito) placed centrally on a pile of colourful craft materials and other assorted objects.
Album cover for Plastic Beach by Gorillaz: image of an artificial island resting on the ocean in the sunset, mushroom-shaped but with a broad base at the bottom. It features palm trees, small buildings, and a lighthouse, as well as a large white building with many windows which sits at the top of the island. There is a ship to the left of the island. Near the bottom left corner of the image are the words "GORILLAZ PLASTIC BEACH" in white, wavy, uppercase lettering.
Album cover for Quebec by Ween: garishly-coloured illustration of two men seated at chairs around a small circular table. One man looks thoughtful as he holds a pen in his right hand and looks at a piece of paper in his left hands; the other man also looks at the piece of paper and smiles. There is a glass on the table in front of the first man, and three potted plants behind the second man's chair. At the top of the picture, superimposed on a purple and orange striped awning, the lowercase word "quebec" appears in white, with the words "by Ween" in smaller yellow text beneath it and justified to the right.
Album cover for "Automatic for the People" by R.E.M.: sepia-toned close-up photograph of star-shaped ornament attached to an unseen building. In white uppercase text are the words "AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE" along the top, and the letters "R.E.M." in the dead centre.
Album cover for Aja by Steely Dan: photograph of a woman in shadow wearing a black cloak with red and white lining, on a black background. In the top right, red text reads "aja" in lowercase with an elongated "j"; "STEELY DAN" in white uppercase appears below it.
Album cover for The Man-Machine by Kraftwerk: the four members of Kraftwerk stand in a row on a staircase in matching red shirts and black ties, looking off to the right, on a red background. In the top-left corner is written "Kraftwerk" in white on a black background, with "The Man-Machine" below it in black on a red background, both slanted upwards. Translations of the album's title in Russian, German and French appear in the bottom-left corner, slanted downwards
Album cover for "When the Pawn..." by Fiona Apple: red-tinted close-up photograph of Fiona Apple smiling and looking to the right, with the album's full title overlaid: "When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring There's no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo, you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right." Above and below photograph is a thick red border, with "Fiona Apple" written within the border at the top, to the right.
Album cover for Blackstar by David Bowie: a black five-pointed star on a white background. Below the star is the word "Bowie" spelled out using fragments of smaller black five-pointed stars.
Album cover for "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths: close-up black-and-white photograph of man lying on his back. Pink text at the top centre of the cover reads "THE SMITHS" in large all-caps, with "The Queen Is Dead" in smaller italics just below.
Album cover for Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. Photograph of the members of The Beach Boys feeding goats at a petting zoo. Text on a green background above the photo reads: as follows: On the left in larger font: "The Beach Boys" in yellow and "Pet Sounds" in white. In the middle in smaller font: "Sloop John B./Caroline No" in white; "Wouldn't It Be Nice/You Still Believe In Me/That's Not Me/Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)/I'm Waiting For The Day/Let's Go Away For Awhile/God Only Knows/I Know There's An Answer/Here Today/I Just Wasn't Made For These Times/Pet Sounds" in yellow On the right: the logo of Capitol Records (featuring illustration of the dome of the United States Capitol and the words "Capitol Records") in yellow
Album cover for "Marquee Moon" by Television - photograph of the four male members of Television facing the camera on a blue background, surrounded by a thick black border. The word "TELEVISION" appears above the photograph, and the phrase "MARQUEE MOON" appears beneath it.
Album cover for "Third" by Portishead - a white capital P and numeral 3 overlaid on each other, on a turqouise background
Album cover for "Innervisions" by Stevie Wonder: illustration of yellow, desert-like landscape. Stevie Wonder is pictured on left through a window, with a beam of light projecting from the sky above onto his forehead. The words "STEVIE WONDER INNERVISIONS" appear to his right.
Album cover for "Endtroducing" by DJ Shadow: a photograph of two customers browsing shelves at a record shop.
Album cover of Ágaetis Byrjun by Sigur Rós, featuring artwork of of an embryo with an umbilical cord and wings, on a blue background. In a cursive font, "Sigur Rós" is written in the top-left corner, and "Ágaetis Byrjun" is written in the bottom-right corner,
Album cover of Vespertine by Björk. Features Björk in a swan dress lying on rock-patterned ground, with artwork of a swan and the word "Vespertine" overlaid
Album cover of Grace by Jeff Buckley - shows Buckley holding microphone and looking down, on dark blue background
Album cover for "Funeral" by Arcade Fire
Album cover for "In Rainbows" by Radiohead