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What Album Covers Are Really Trying To Tell Us: 4: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
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— 4 Jul 2007 Tanya Headon 10 comments

I set fire to an arcade once.
Well, who could resist burning the leaping loons playing Dance Dance Revolution. I heard the thumping base of “You Can’t Touch This”, two synchronised robo-teens and all I could think of, whilst lightin[…]

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— 4 Jul 2007 Pete Baran Comment

Faceyourpockets. Pictures of your face and what’s in your pockets. Some Russians keep ice skates in theirs.[…]

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— 4 Jul 2007 Tom Comment

Modern kids read Moomin and Asterix comics: “very interesting and very strange, in a good way”.[…]

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Skooby Snacks & Spotty Man
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— 4 Jul 2007 Pete Baran 3 comments

So I had a little wander through the snazzy Brunswick Centre today. Mainly to go to the bank, but i thought I would sniff around. And I thought I would reacquaint myself with Skoob. Skoob being a rambling old second hand bookstore belov’d of ol[…]

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