James Bell

@jamesbellcentral.net

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Overthinking folk singer and general Mr Fancypants. Lots of thoughts on serious issues but will try to avoid typing more than 0.5% of them. I came here to hi ho and fiddle de dee. And I'm all out of fiddle de dee. (He/him.)

A collection of bath rubber ducks, but the ducks are all different animals. They are also ducks.
May morning celebrations in Oxford, UK
A jar of mango chutney with a tagline: love me or your money back.
A pub sign for Jude The Obscure, portraying the titular character as the lead singer from the Britpop band Menswear.
User Dolphin Pilot responds to an trolling AI bot user by asking it to write a haiku about the mighty penguin, which it promptly does.
Big f-ing tiger.
A lemon wear only a small piece of rind remains.
Swedish (well, Finnish) band KAJ give what is hopefully a winning performance at Eurovision 2025.
Wall-E watches 'Hello Dolly' in his eponymous movie.
The preamp panel on an electro-acoustic guitar. The fader marked ‘Brilliance’ is pushed up full.
Looking at the night sky, taken from the movie Spirited Away.
Gandalf the White appears atop a mountain, and says: "People keep asking if I'm back, and I haven't really had an answer. But yeah, I'm thinking I'm back."
A photo of The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr.
A small island containing just a house and a tree, viewed from the train in the movie Spirited Away.
Charlton Heston finds the remains of the Statue of Liberty at the end of the original Planet of the Apes.
Winona Ryder smoking at the end of the movie Heathers.
Alvin and Rose watch the rain in David Lynch's movie The Straight Story.
Nathan from the movie Parasite can't stand people who cross the line.
Henry tries to put into words what makes Tommy funny in the movie Goodfellas.
Sculpture: 'Fourteen Year Old Dancer' by Edgar Degas
The 'Hide the pain, Harold' meme.
Painting: ‘Black In Deep Red’ by Mark Rothko (1957)
Martin Sheen's character arrives at Colonel Kurtz's lair, and realises everyone has gone insane, from the movie Apocalypse Now.
Painting: Self-Portrait (1887) by Vincent van Gogh
Painting: 'Fight with cudgels' by Fransisco Goya.
At his desk, Tony Leung descends into his emotions once again, from the movie In The Mood For Love.
Jake Gyllenhaal realises that the guy who has invited him into his house is probably the murderer. And hey - he has a basement! From the movie Zodiac.
Lisbeth Salander decides not to waste bullets as her enemy burns, from the US movie of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Painting: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
Painting: 'Alone' by Heliodoro Guillen Pedemonti
Sculpture: 'Profile of Time' by Salvador Dalí
Clint Eastwood decides in which order he’s going to shoot the three hired goons, from the movie For A Few Dollars More.
Painting: 'An Old Man at a Casement' by Govaert Flinck [1646]
Buster Keaton is about to have a house fall on him, from the movie Steamboat Bill, Jr.
A screaming Lego man, from The Lego™ Movie.
A briefing room full of journalists all get the same text message: "Wrong!" From the TV series Sherlock.
Painting: 'Tête de Saint Jean' by Théodore Chassériau
Image of Girl and Balloon by Banksy
Robin Williams flings off his tie as he storms down the corridor.
Superman is having a bad day. (From the movie Man of Steel.)
In the Old West, Buster Keaton forces a smile (with two fingers) while the card player opposite points a revolver at him.
TECH REVIEWER: Okay, the moment has finally arrived. It's the one we've all been talking about: this is the new Andromeda Lifebox. [Gestures to 5ft by 2ft metal box styled like a gaming phone.] TECH REVIEWER: Now, what you do is crawl through that door and kinda curl up – I'm not going to do that now, and you'll see why in a moment. And then... then, well, then this box will feed you, keep your body healthy, safe, and not only that – it will entertain you every waking hour with a constant stream of AI generated content specifically tailored to your neural makeup. Forever. For the rest of your life. Now... [Gestures to the box's open door.] Once you get in, this door will actually close behind you and lock permanently so you won't ever be able to get out, so there is that downside. But check this out... [Waves hand slowly by the side of the box and upper panel glistens with thousands of tiny multicoloured LEDs.] TECH REVIEWER: Siiiiiiick!
John Turturro—actor, director, dancer, muse to the Cohen Brothers—gets urinated on by a giant robot in the movie Transformers.
Jackie Chan is hanging on to the back of a speeding double-decker bus.
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette Painting by Vincent van Gogh
At the front of the convoy, a madman on a truck full of amplifiers plays a guitar that’s also a flamethrower, in the movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
A guard watches brave Sir Lancelot approach in a confusing manner in Monty Python & The Holy Grail.
Simon Pegg and leafy sidekick take a forlorn train ride to the middle of nowhere in the movie Hot Fuzz.
The characters of the movie Spirited Away pull the contents of a polluted river out of a Japanese bath.
Bluey, Chilli and Bingo celebrate their conquest of the daddy monster.
I wrote the words Avenge Me in frost on a playground bench.