Hey listeners!

This episode of Film fancies, here on you're listening to radio revel gives me an opportunity of talking about that film that kind of went viral for probably the right and wrong reasons, as the title suggests: Saltburn.

If you want to see my vegetable garden during a rain storm this mid-February, you can check out the version on the YouTube channel. The transcript is available on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, as always, you can support me if you've a desire to on Patreon.

Cheers!

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Let me take you to Ávila, Spain. It's 1991, New Year's time, weather's been warmer than usual.

José and Pepe get themselves into a pinch and they're way of getting out of that pinch, well, it was just about as stupid as these two men could think of.

Enjoy this story, written in 1991 while I, myself, lived in Ávila. Kind of reflects what I thought of the place while I was there.

You can read the story on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon if you'd like to.

Welcome back to Mature Audiences Only on you're listening to radio revel.

This week's episode, Ávila and the Santa Teresa, catches us up a bit with the beginning of the left-over decade, the 1990s, from Season Three.

I'm going to pack up and move to the northwest mountainous region of Spain, find myself enclosed in a mediaeval walled-in city. Some adventures that lasted just a few months before changing track totally.

Remember, you've got the transcript to read on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and you can support me on Patreon if you'd like.

Cheers!

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Wish I'd been able to see this film in a movie theatre. Big, brash, colorful production, right amount of humor, majestic performances by three actresses, The Favourite is my personal favorite of Yorgos Lanthimos' catalogue.

Set in the court of Queen Anne, you get a kind of crazy, sometimes funny, always human look at three women in the 18th century, navigating their own wants and needs in a world where women didn't usually hold the rudder.

You can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog, and, if you want, support me on Patreon.

Cheers!

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Welcome back to you're listening to radio revel.

This week's episode is the first in the series I'm calling Tall Tales. This series is mainly a bunch of short stories I've written (or am writing!) over the years, stories that have not seen the light, or only barely so.

This week I tell a Kafka-like story about a young man who decides to move through a process. It's based on a dream that was related to me, a dream that impacted the dreamer enough to uncharacteristically get out of bed and write the dream down so as to not forget a detail. I've pretty much retold that dream in my words here.

Don't forget to listen, like, subscribe and share. Support me if you want to on Patreon, and check out the blog for the transcript of this, and all episodes of you're listening to radio revel.

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Do you have a favorite aunt or uncle who kind of served as an alternative parenting model? Someone who you visited regularly and who actually paid attention to your silly anecdotes, dreams, expectations in life?

Such was my Aunt Maxine. She didn't have to put up with me every day, just a couple of months every summer, so she was there to animate me to follow those dreams, to encourage me to be creative.

This episode of Mature Audiences Only is only a brief introduction to that "favorite aunt" in my life. She wasn't the only favorite aunt, but probably the most influential one.

Transcript on the blog. Chance to support me on Patreon. Listen, like, subscribe and share!

Cheers!

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Hey all.

Just a quick update to announce the return of you're listening to radio revel Season Four: Mature Audiences Only.

Transitioning from telling autobiographal stories from the first four decades of my into trying to relate to others who, like me, have begun or entered the sixth decade, Mature Audiences Only hopes to bring in new voices and talk about how we see the current world, how we live in it, how it's changed and changing.

Hope you all tune in for the first episode, going live on the 5th of February.

Cheers,

revel.

Hey all.

Between seasons here but still producing an update from time to time. This episode is my take on the Nicolas Cage film Dream Scenario.

As with most updates, there is a YouTube video with images that have nothing to do with the narration of this episode. This time you can see the initial steps in upholstering a chair that I was restoring about five years ago.

As always, you can read the transcript on the you're listening to radio revel blog. And, if you've a hankering, you can support me on Patreon.

Won't be long before I let you all know where Season Four, which ought to start sometime in February, is heading. Got some ideas, even got some planning done, but not quite ready to let the cat out of the bag just yet....

Cheers,

Back with another opinion!

This time I talk about the series The Fall of the House of Usher.

It's a good watch, though I spend most of the episode talking about the shortcomings.

The video is one I began five years ago but never got around to producing. This is the first part of me cleaning and repairing the base of a chair, number 3 in a series of 4. A future video will show the finishing up of the chair.

You can read the transcript on the blog!

And you can support me, if you want, on Patreon.

Wow, Thanksgiving just got done with and Santa Clause is in every ad spot on the TV! Kind of ran out of time.

There's more stories to this season, actually the entire fourth decade, but I won't get to them until Season Four, and maybe even in one of the new formats I'm planning of trying out.

I'll still drop an episode now and then, won't stop looking at movies and series that I'll probably have an opinion to share about.

Hope your upcoming holiday activity is pleasant and peaceful.

Cheers,

revel.