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Apologies for lack of blogging
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— 13 Aug 2000 Tom Comment

Apologies for lack of blogging this weekend – two birthdays and a giddy social life have brought Blue Lines and NYLPM low – but for something to read here’s a new Freaky Trigger piece on High Fidelity, a film review and also a piece[…]

Unfaithful: High Fidelity And The Big Pop Lie
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— 13 Aug 2000 Tom 2 comments

“Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?” Good question. I’ve asked it myself for years; John Cusack phrases it neatly in the first minute of High Fidelity. But then he […]

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