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Cow-Patty Bingo
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Have the national sports media really only now gotten around to the concept of Cow-Patty Bingo?
“Gee whiz Martha, what will they think of next? Donkey basketball?”[…]

BRITNEY SPEARS – “Autumn Goodbye”
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BRITNEY SPEARS – “Autumn Goodbye”
Twinned quaintness: a B-Side, and a Britney tune carried mostly by its sung melody. It’s A-Side was “…Baby One More Time”, which may not be the best of her records but is sti[…]

Sexually explicit film version of Nick Hornby’s 31 Songs cuts 22 songs to fit the sex in.
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Sexually explicit film version of Nick Hornby’s 31 Songs cuts 22 songs to fit the sex in.
Alright, that is actually a lie. Instead Michael Winterbottom has made what may well be an unreleasable sex’n’concert film where a young coupl[…]

It seems that my new favourite genre of films is work proceedurals
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It seems that my new favourite genre of films is work proceedurals. Shattered Glass does it for highbrow journalism, and painstakingly spends much of its time telling you how rigourous the editing and fact-checking process is. It then spends the rest[…]

The Asphalt Jungle. Really.
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The Asphalt Jungle. Really. Ananova runs on the “new kind of volcano” as the selling point here, whilst a small bit of cinematic history would have given them my much better title. Underwater volcanos off of Mexico which spit out asphalt […]

Tanya’s Round of Rubbish: The Eagles – “Desperado”
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This mob don’t stop. Not happy just to blight the cocktail supping set, the tequila obsessed foursome also have to get their digs into the French Teenage bouzing market. Consider, the French youth have enough to worry about, having to listen to[…]

Tanya’s Round of Rubbish: The Eagles – “Tequila Sunrise”
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Now if anyone asked me to get them a cocktail as part of a standard pub round, I would be more likely to look at their arse and enquire what happened to their previous tail. Frankly the effort of mixing various alcohols together to make something dem[…]

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