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The Neptunes Present… Clones
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The Neptunes Present… Clones
Let’s get the bad bit out of the way immediately. What is this Spymob/High Speed Scene pair of tracks in the middle of the album? Tedious rock tracks that are utterly out of keeping and not obviously linked in[…]

Three more interesting things about the Black Bull
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Three more interesting things about the Black Bull:
ONE: it’s that rare treat, a reverse TARDIS pub. It looks like it’ll be some vast wasteland of tables and chairs and misery from the mock-Tudor exterior but it turns out to be a comfort[…]

The Black Bull in Whitechapel
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The Black Bull in Whitechapel is a nice enough, rough and tumble kind of boozer, and despite what FAP says, they had a corking beer from suffolk (Nethergate’s Augustinian) on last nite. i only frequent this pub when we’re on our way to […]

Sleepy and tired are two different things
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Sleepy and tired are two different things, and the former can be quite nice on occasion, when you give your body the chance to just settle. A couple of moments in a day to do nothing, just think yourself a perfect blank, can be wonderful.
Depictions […]

Art Forum
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the mag with the pretty pictures and reviews that deep throat farther then linda lovelace ever had, has gone up 3 bucks and added 20 per cent more ad copy.
i had bought it every month for years, more and more disappointed, but still out of habit, an[…]

THE BROWN LOG: EDGE
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THE BROWN LOG: EDGE
What is the Brown Log? Part of the Wedge’s remit is talk about magazines. And where better to read magazines than on the bog? Every week I will buy a magazine – sometimes one I’d normally get, often one I’d[…]

The Man That Knocks The Cradle (Of Life)
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With some pride and not a little enthusiasm, my source at Paramount announced that they were going to the UK Premier of the second Tomb Raider movie on Tuesday (in its entirety: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life – they really must sort[…]

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