Conrad Quek
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A few rolls back from the lab. I used to do my own scanning but good grief it’s so much easier if somebody else does it. Too many processed but unscanned rolls of film laying around for months, years.
Tokyo and Okinawa, 2026.
1. Ginza.
2. Audrey, Oomori.
3. Naha, Okinawa.
4. Ōmori.
Link to my books in bio.
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@Doug_rooney Is there reading you’d recommend on this? I’m totally unfamiliar
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Hiroo Onoda and the other Japanese hold outs were just serial killers who used the opportunity of war and its aftermath to prey on peasantry. That they are remembered as anything else is because Japan did not want to draw attention to how depraved their wartime soldiers were
WW2 The Eastern Front@ShoahUkraine
Hiroo Onoda was the last Japanese soldier who surrendered on Lubang Island in the Philippines in 1974, nearly 29 years after World War II had ended.
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@28_stab_woonds @Pribaris Inb4 Fidesz redoubt in the Carpathians
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🚨🇪🇺 Ursula Von Der Leyen banned lakes in Europe
She said "It's not a European value, but an American degeneracy."
Your thoughts on this?
Grace Ryan@nycgraceryan
The European mind can’t comprehend American lake summer
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@d4doome And in spite of its flaws still one of the best moments in the franchise
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The Bond movie that everybody hates. For me it's not a favourite but I don't think it's terrible at all. And it has Britt Ekland and she's an awesome Bond Girl.
LucaSquirrel@LucaSquirrel
Now Watching: The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) What better way to celebrate Spooky Season than to watch 007 battle horror maestro Christopher Lee? 💀😄
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@Kirk9580 I'm surprised none of the later entries (even games) have tried paying homage to this
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What's your favourite movie poster?
Too many to choose from but from a Bond point of view, it will always be this...
All The Right Movies@ATRightMovies
What's your favourite movie poster?
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@nise_yoshimi Quem é o gangster homossexual? Eu não me lembro
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Sean Connery bond villains are Dr. Medvedev Chan, SMERSH assassin, jaywalker and homosexual gangster (in the novel there's ten pages about this). Roger Moore villains are a really good actor killed in the last act by being kicked by a mule off a plane with a slide whistle effect
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@nise_yoshimi Yaphet Kotto, Christopher Lee, Curt Jürgen, Michael Lonsdale, Julian Glover, Louis Jourdan, and Christopher Walken is an insane casting run
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@jetskitosway2 Well a fictional Caribbean country, but yes
That said, speaking of Bond films where a large part of the film (explicitly) takes place in Jamaica...
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ok when I tweeted this I was unaware a large part of the film takes place in Jamaica. that’s on me
Master of the Flying Jetski@jetskitosway2
Paul McCartney writing Live and Let Die: ahh it’s almost perfect…romantic and thrilling just like a Bond theme should be. All it’s missing is a white boy reggae section
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@JustSpringY84 @DavidGArnold @AmazonMGMStudio I know Eric Serra's soundtrack is controversial but it's a guilty pleasure of mine haha; definitely feels much more game-like though
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@conradquek @DavidGArnold @AmazonMGMStudio Thank god he stepped in for that scene, shame they didnt have time for him to redo all that film
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Mr @DavidGArnold just totally gets James Bond and Bond music
@AmazonMGMStudio if you want to get Bond 26 right then hire this man ASAP and let him do his thing
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ExpectingMrBond.com - The 007 First Light Blog@ExpectingMrBond
David Arnold talking about the #007FirstLight theme song at @BAFTAGames
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“I’m going to continue to do my little Nancy Sinatra thing every now and then and pretend it's the title track."
Pop Base@PopBase
Official title sequence reveal for ‘007 First Light,’ featuring the original song “First Light,” written and composed by Lana Del Rey & David Arnold.
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@Deathcheat6 @Moistc0mics Also one of the best pre-title sequences ever
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@Moistc0mics It’s one of my favorites (and I have a soft spot for Chris Cornell of course) but my absolute favorite Bond song is Nobody Does It Better. It’s just James Bond incarnate for me.
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Movies used to suck your penis for you in the movie theater.
Emir Han@RealEmirHan
In Casino Royale, just when you’re recovering from Daniel Craig’s intense, brutal opening on James Bond, the new Bond intro theme hits—and you can’t help but think, “Oh my God.” “You Know My Name” by Chris Cornell will always be a brilliant pick.
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@taipan168 Also, the last time DMK (Don Mueang) was known as Bangkok's international airport was when Björk beat the crap out of that reporter haha
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@taipan168 I though ICN (Incheon) is now Seoul's main airport? GMP (Gimpo) is now primarily domestic?
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My list of weirdest, least intuitive major airport codes:
- CGK: Jakarta
- DMK: Bangkok
- FCO: Rome
- GIG: Rio de Janeiro
- GMP: Seoul
- GRU: Sao Paulo
- MAA: Chennai
- MCO: Orlando
- MSY: New Orleans
- ORD: Chicago
- OTP: Bucharest
- PVG: Shanghai
- YUL: Montreal
- YYZ: Toronto
taipan168@taipan168
As an airport code nerd, it grinds my gears to see this, because LDN airport is an airport in Nepal, rather than in a global city with red telephone boxes.
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@EllroyReader Clearly SPECTRE has made leaps and bounds in their HR practices
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Always found it interesting that in Sean Connery's Bond films Spectre goes from an organisation that 'doesn't tolerate failure' to one where Blofeld has signs saying 'If In Doubt ASK' in his command centre.
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@souljagoyteller poltwt finally awakening to nuanced analyses of LKY was not on my bingo card
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I wonder why Lee Kuan Yew felt he could totally ignore polling lmao
Hvygens@Hvygens
Lee Kuan Yew: "I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind. An inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. You're not a leader."
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