Ben Buckingham

@dissolvedpet.bsky.social

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This gets less serious each day, Mum. Cinema, society, terminal identity, anthropophagy. Viewer of THINGS! Pro-Jesus Franco & Andy Milligan account. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1cwB

A green eyed, white-faced tabby cat named Ghost demands a top-up of love and enjoys some scritches in very close-up
Two white paws protrude from beneath the blankets as a sleepy cowcat named Umberto Lenzi snoozes after a long day of adventures, his little black beans resting peacefully.
Yuri On Ice. I Was A Teenage Werewolf. I Married A Monster From Outer Space. Quest For Fire.
Japanese creme brulee from the frozen section of 7-11. Hard topped and delicious
A beautiful cowcat, with an assortment of black blobs across his white face, sits staring directly at the camera while wearing a mauve Elizabethan collar in a flower-petal design. He is a beautiful flower. He is not impressed.
Recent activity on Letterboxd: Deadly Outlaw Rekka (4 stars). Big Time Gambling Boss (5 stars). Neon Genesis Evangelion (heart). Jiro Dreams of Sushi (3 stars).
Chainsaw Man aka Denji rescued a cat in a full page panel from the manga, cradling it in his arms after a hugely violent battle with a devil.
A small wonky eyed bird, inked in delicate shades of black and white, sits atop a pedestrian crossing sign and says "If you want to live, your body will be mine." An eyeball lies on the ground in the next panel, staring blankly upwards. Darkness.
Volume 1 of the manga 'Ex-Yakuza & Stray Kitten'
A ridiculous man snuggles a baby goat while wearing his HEALTH band shirt that says 'Don't kill yourself' in mirrored text
Cassidy the black and white street cat, still smelly like a homeless fellow, exposes his tummy for scratches while wondering why you are doing nothing
Sad boi doing culture and internet
The delicate curves of a harbour, the clouds and blue of sky and water, looking out from Hobart, Tasmania.
A saxophonist going hard at the Northcote Theatre gig of Kim Dracula. Very purple lighting.
The large tome that is Madame Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine. Volume 1 & 2: Cosmogenesis & Anthropogenesis
DVD of prison exploitation film Broken Bars starring Wings Hauser
Junji the tuxedo cat lounging on a chair, black splodge on his chin and big white paws
Book cover. Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Television. Edited by Dr. John Marland, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Lauren Stephenson. Creepy dolls faces stare blankly from the cover.
A ball on a string hangs mid-air, half way between Fritz, a large, fluffy, gingery brown cat with piercing green eyes, and the camera (Fritz was not named for "the Cat", rather her name comes from Fritz Lang & Fritz, the brother in Hysterical [1983]).She stares intensely at the ball but also into our soul. We cannot see her nose or mouth. Only those eyes peering over the edge of the ball, and the whiskers appearing to stick out of the ball. Time to die, ball.
Original Australian daybill posters for Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet and Cat O' Nine Tails.
Jar of Bryne Co Kimchi, definitely made for Australians who are scared of flavours.
A crazed cowcat named Umberto Lenzi peers down at you from atop a cover, an image of a knife welding cat saying "What?" sit on the wall beneath him
Playlist of HEALTH's ORDINARY LOSS, Sawano Hiroyuki's The Weight of Lives, KOHTA YAMAMOTO's Splinter Wolf, & Vaundy's CHAINSAW BLOOD
Bruce Greenwood with beard and flowing Swayze hair
VHS ex-rentals of The Protector (1997), Robo Warriors, and Probable Cause
A cowcat named Umberto Lenzi pokes his head out from behind a Nightmare VHS boardgame from atop a bookshelf filled with horror movies.
An illustration of a bear sized cat in a yellow.striped apron looks on with loving disdain as their "owner" gets ready for work, pulling on high heels, while looking harried. The cat holds a bag nd a jar containing the owner's lunch. The title text is the name of the show: The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today.
A massive pile of Junji Ito tomes
Illustrated poster for Shaolin Drunkard showing various characters from the film doing martial arts magic
A silly young cowcat named Umberto Lenzi reaching a paw, with pink and black beans, towards the camera from atop the pantry cupboard.