Philip

@tebbs.bsky.social

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I like nerdy stuff, cult TV and films, books with a sense of fun, and nature. You might find me writing, gardening, out for a walk or bike ride, foraging or brewing, or just watching Star Trek. My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/aaSTF

Close up of a quickly bubbling airlock on top of a demijohn of yellow fluid.
Classic school plimsolls, basic slip on canvas shoe for generic sports.
Screenshot of my Bluesky feed showing a post by @boingolyrics.bsky.social followed immediately by Sophia's above post.
Photo of a pint of hazy pale ale.
Photo of Bredbury National Grid Substation.
My last four reviews in Letterboxd (up to Fri 28 Feb). Posters for Heart Eyes - 3.5 stars, Companion - 4 stars, A Real Pain - 3.5 stars, and House ('77) - 5 stars
My four most recent in Letterboxd: posters for Captain America Brave New World - 3.5 stars, Bridget Jones Mad About The Boy - 3 stars, Memoir of a Snail - 4.5 stars, and I'm Still Here - 4 stars.
My last four reviewed in Letterboxd. Posters for The Lost City - 3 stars, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - 4.5 stars, Lisa Frankenstein - 4.5 stars, and Champions - 4 stars.
Watercolour painting of Linda, Gene, and Gayle riding in a gravy boat on a gravy lake, singing "Sailors in your mouth..."
My last four watched films in Letterboxd. Posters for Saturday Night - 4.5 stars, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - 3 stars, Mrs 'arris Goes to Paris - 3 stars, Destroy All Neighbours - 4 stars.
Pan of lentil and bacon soup on my hob.
Posters for my most recent reviews in Letterboxd. A Complete Unknown - 3.5 stars, Star Trek Section 31 - 2 stars (though I might drop it to 1.5), The Night Stalker - 4.5 stars, Destroy All Neighbours - 4 stars.
A bunch of Star Wars Power of the Force figures that I've had boxed up for a couple of decades.
Photo of a battered old copy of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat original London cast soundtrack recording on LP. The inner sleeve is printed with a cassette and crossbones image and the phrase "HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC AND IT'S ILLEGAL".
My parents on the steps of the church, grouping with children's TV characters from the 70s.
A black coffee and slice of fruit pie.
Screenshot from title sequence of The World of David Gnome, featuring Mr & Mrs Gnome dancing, caption reads 'Executives in charge of Production Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein'.
Still from the movie So I married an Axe Murderer, Brenda Fricker's character May MacKenzie is reading The Weekly World News.
Boingo LP moving irrevocably towards my record player.
Paperback book Skraelings by Carl Sherrell. Cover art depicts a demon-man standing tied up, but threatening, over a native American woman in the snow.
3/4 view of brass tiger next to Mattel Cringer/Battle Cat figure. Facial and body details are almost identical but the brass one is slightly smaller.
Presentation pack of the RM Star Trek TV and movie character stamps and the sheet of logo stamps from the commemorative booklet.
Rimmer, Cat, and Lister from Red Dwarf, dressed in red Zoot suits for the Tongue Ties music video. Cat is on his knees, Rimmer and Lister stand behind him, strong backlight gives them halos.
A watercolour illustration of Winnie the Pooh characters decorating a fur tree.
Poster and stills from 2005 movie Cursed, featuring Christina Ricci.
Tree decorations, a glass bauble shaped like an open tin of sardines, and a pretzel home made out of polymer clay, hanging together on a sprig of our tree.
My last four listed films in Letterboxd. Posters for The 'burbs - 5 stars, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - 5 stars, Wicked - 4 stars, and Innerspace - 4 stars.
Image of Peter Gibbons from Office Space.
William Sandler and Jada Pinkett as Brayker and Jeryline, the knights of the movie Demon Knight. There is also a black cat in the photo.
Zoey Deschanel as Jovie in Elf, a young woman dressed in a department store elf costume.
My last four watched in Letterboxd. Posters for Stuart Little 2 - 3 stars, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe (BBC serial cut into one feature) - 5 stars, Red One - 3.5 stars, and last week's holdover Nothing But Trouble - 4 stars.
My last four films in Letterboxd. Posters for Nothing But Trouble 4 stars, The Matrix 4 stars, Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones 3 stars, and Venom Last Dance 3 stars.
Demijohn with 5 litres of mead in it, frothing slightly following its first daily shake to stop the yeast from settling in the bottom.
My four most recent in Letterboxd. Posters for The Black Cauldron 3.5 stars, Rescuers Down Under 3.5 stars, Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 3.5 stars, and The Substance 4 stars.
Today's shirt plaid. White, green/blue, and mustard.
Title screen for the Puddle Lane TV show, watercolour illustration of a stone gatehouse across the end of a street, maybe built in the middle ages, with a sign above the arch saying Puddle Lane. The sign has a magical blue glow.
Photo of Yahoo Serious as young Einstein from the film of that name. He's a feral looking young Tasmanian man with chaotic orange hair, rocking a home made electric guitar
Posters for Insidious 4 - 3 stars, Labyrinth - 4.5 stars, Doctor Strange 2 - 3.5 stars, and Heretic -4 stars.
Photo of me at the top of The Old Man of Coniston, a fell in the Furness Fells of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, the ridge of the fells trails away behind me.
Imagine from Doctor Who serial The Curse of Peladon. John Pertwee as the 3rd Doctor attends to a small green puppet fella under a perspex dome, a human-ish local alien stands behind him, an Ice Warrior (wasted in this story) is next to him, and a large green one-eyed tardigrade-like being wearing a cape is on edge of frame.
Posters for my four most recent films from Letterboxd. Insidious 4 - The Last Key 3 stars, The Wild Robot 4 stars, and last week's Coco 4.5 stars and Casper 4.5 stars.
Image from the film Be Kind Rewind in which Jack Black, Mos Def, and their car are decked out in home made sci fi dressing for the purpose of restaging a film.
Photo of Seven flip top bottles of varying size lined up on a wall, each with a brown liquid just starting its bottle priming process. Small handwritten labels say D+D Root beer. A print on the wall behind them shows an exploded diagram of the puppet submarine Stingray from Gerry Anderson's TV show of the same name, illustration by Graham Bleathman.
Tendi and Rutherford platonically hanging out in a Jeffries Tube, each doing a task they enjoy, in a still from Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Photo of my TV with Joan Cusack as Debbie, a blonde femme fatale in Addams Family Values, explaining her tragic backstory in which her parents bought her an inappropriate Malibu Barbie for her birthday.
Two matching Doctor Who socks on a duvet.
My four most recent reviews in Letterboxd, posters for: Coco 4.5 stars Casper 4.5 stars Joker 3 stars Addams Family Reunion 3 stars
Poster for the movie Nothing But Trouble, featuring stars Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Demi Moore pasted into the sky above an American gothic landscape, also overseen by a vulture.
Handwritten list of song titles, thus: (Do you like it when I put my finger in) Your Ear, Baby *beautiful baroque electronic instrumental* Chesticles Dawn Licky Popcorn - sequenced with audio samples of vibrators Wife Won't Wax My Buttcrack Blues Don't Like EDM, But I Love Your BDE SPLOOSH (There it is) Soaring On Red Wings No (Say it loud, say it proud) Some People Like Vanilla We're Diggin' Your Vibe Don't Nibble My Toes, They're Still Quite Itchy
Video cover for Addams Family Reunion featuring the family, headed by Tim Curry and Daryl Hannah, grouped together on a tennis court.
Photo of the pumpkins on offer in my local Spar. A green plastic crate containing five roughly spherical white skinned pumpkins and one elongated, ovoid white skinned pumpkin.
Famous image from It Came From Beneath The Sea, in which It is a giant octopus and It is attacking the Golden Gate Bridge.
My four most recent films in Letterboxd. Posters for Young Frankenstein - 4.5 stars, ParaNorman - 4 stars, Within The Woods (A Sensical FanEdit) - 3 stars, and He-Man and She-Ra The Secret of the Sword - 4 stars.
Cover of the DVD box set of BBC's Chronicles of Narnia serials. A still image from each of the four stories is shown against a black background.
A glass object (vase?) that looks like something used to depict the missing FBI Agent. A white cylinder with rounded edges, with an orange bulb projecting high up on one side.
My four most recent films as listed in Letterboxd. Posters for Clifford - 5 stars, Megalopolis - 3 (tenuous/generous) stars, Strange Darling - 4 stars, and Kiki's Delivery Service - 4.5 stars.
CD and liner notes of Mojo Magazine's 2016 A Life In Music sampler, one track from each of Lou's RCA & Arista albums. Tracklist is: Lisa Says Andy's Chest How Do You Think It Feels White Light/White Heat Kill Your Sons Metal Machine Music pt 1 She's My Best Friend Follow The Leader Real Good Time Together I Want To Boogie With You Teach The Gifted Children The Gun Make Up Mind Fly Into The Sun I Remember You
Two page spread in a magazine, showing a cutaway diagram titles "Specifications of Thunderbird 3". Thunderbird 3 is a red rocket ship from the supermarionation TV puppet show Thunderbirds.
Photo of a Snickers 'retro edition' packaged as Marathon.
My Letterboxd Recent Activity. Posters for Benji 3.5 stars, Romancing the Stone 5 stars, Lee 3.t stars, and Brewster McCloud 4 stars.