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THE HIDDEN FORTRESS
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THE HIDDEN FORTRESS
dir. Akira Kurosawa
STAR WARS (original cut)
dir. George Lucas
It was all down to luck. On Thursday a friend gave me a copy of what appears to be the most elaborate (on disc) DVD bootleg I’ve yet seen, a copy of the origina[…]

Now I know more about 23 than ever before, I guess
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Now I know more about 23 than ever before, I guess — by chance, as with the best of my library discoveries, I stumbled across Simon Ford’s 1999 book Wreckers of Civilization, his story of the folks behind COUM Transmissions and Throbbing […]

Terror alert: Gin in peril
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Terror alert: Gin in peril
Gin drinkers of the world unite.
The juniper bush is in sharp decline across Britain. No juniper, no gin.
People are being encouraged to look for remaining bushes. Their reward? Free gin.
Think not of what your gin can do f[…]

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