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Channel 4: Not Rubbish
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Channel 4: Not Rubbish
04:35 Honda F4-Stroke Powerboat Race Series
Navigational errors cause race upsets in the penultimate rounds of the 2004 Honda Formula 4-Stroke 150hp championship at the Honda British Grand Prix in Plymouth.
Perhaps I should […]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
A sadly lacking game. Six or so out of ten. Come back Driv3r, all is forgiven.
Oh alright, bigger review coming.[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS: 5. Razorblades on the Waterslide
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There’s a Matt Groening cartoon called “Kids Want To Know”, reproduced by Greil Marcus in Dead Elvis, in which one of the “Life In Hell” rabbits is glumly musing upon various difficult questions. “Which would you r[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS 6. Being Buried Alive
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FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
6. Being Buried Alive
I am a fear faddist. Generally there’s one thing which will worry me desperately, obsessively, for a few months and then suddenly fade from my thoughts – to be quickly replaced b[…]

teaching our grandmothers to suck…
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“teaching our grandmothers to suck… EGGSES”
“I headed off to a village in central Flores where we heard the most amazing tales of little hairy people whom they called ebu gogo: ebu meaning ‘grandmother’ and gogo &[…]

The problem with short films
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The problem with short films is that you nearly always see them in collections. I remember at the Dublin Film Festival seeing a whole day of shorts, mainly local ones, that the only ones that really stuck out were the really ropey ones. A good short […]

Poetry in a foreign language
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Poetry in a foreign language
If you have the chance to go to the current Steve McQueen exhibition at the South London Gallery until the 7th of November, go. But if you do go, try not to hear anything about it beforehand. That’s how I went, on S[…]

Stay behind after class
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Stay behind after class
So, the fourth series of teachers has started on C4 with very little fanfare. I guess everyone else round here has given up on it, but I saw the beginning of the first ep on Tuesday. Since Andrew Lincoln (or Egg, as he&#8217[…]

A magazine editor once gave me a very severe look…
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A magazine editor once gave me a very severe look when I told him ‘Century of the Self’ was better than any movie in 2002. I don’t think he owned a TV. I like what I’ve seen of Adam Curtis’ newie ‘Century of PH34R&[…]

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ACTUAL REAL LIVE HOBBITS DISCOVERED IN INDONESIA!!!
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ACTUAL REAL LIVE HOBBITS DISCOVERED IN INDONESIA!!!:
ok they are not live, they lived there “at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world”, as the BBC rather weirdly puts it (ahem if the world is our colony where are we s[…]

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