Archives – 2005 – August – 01  

Lowdown Thunder
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Haysi Fantayzee – “John Wayne Is Big Leggy”
This MP3 has been prepared especially for The Lex of ILX, who it turns out has never heard of John Wayne. Mr Wayne is famous for making cowboy films but he’s surely more famous as th[…]

Black Is Black
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I want my baby back.
But what if Black isn’t Black? You probably don’t get your baby.
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the blackest black there is. SUPERBLACK. How black is this black? Very. It is 2% blacker than Black Paint, and […]

Dates for your diary
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That Crazy Frog thing Mark S is talking about below can be found here. Nim nim.
Did we mention that POPTIMISM is back? On August 19th? Downstairs@The Polar Bear on Lisle St, 1 min walk from Leicester Square tube, playing pop music, 7 till lateish, &p[…]

He’ll be like a new signing for us
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And so we come to one of my favourite times of year as a football neutral: the Season Previews. Full of things I’m a sucker for: paper-thin analysis, inexplicable predictions, wild optimism, bogus claims. Of course reading one in a sitting is a[…]

Tim Story by name, Not by nature
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As promised here: what is the Fantastic Four like as a film? Judged on its cinematic merits, it is pretty rubbish. It is a real flash back to the hey-day of lousy action movies (1990’s) where special effects ruled the roost and films were judge[…]

Lambrini News
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In Sainsbury’s the other day I noticed that Lambrini had a special offer on, and was now 99p a bottle. That’s ninety-nine pence for 750ml of 7.5% booze – the same price as Tennants or Spesh, only slightly weaker and 50% larger. Risk[…]

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