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Paintbox Jury (scroll down) – readers of ILM may raise an eyebrow at this.
Good Songs From Useless Albums – good column idea from Matos.
Peter Blake designs Brian Wilson album cover – massive missed opportunity here, surely[…]

i am excited about Agnes Martins new work–for the longest time nothing seemed to phase her, she still painted the same thing. She could live beside the grotesque and new fangled creations of Bruce Nauman (as she had been for almost forty years, until 2000 where she had to be moved into a nursing home), and have him over for tea but still put lines on canvases, she could move from Saskatchewan to New York to Taos and still put lines on canvases, she could be 90 and in the tate and sold for a million and have her book of writing out and still put lines on canvases. She could be a cult favourite instead of loved by everyone and still put lines on canvases. Sometimes the fields are a different colour, more bright or more dark, sometimes she uses yellow or taupe instead of lavender or mauve–and sometimes the lines are dark, sometimes they are almost Pace and sometimes they hum like power lines–but she has had a zen forbearance, like the man who spent 70 years painting bamboo. Then in her latest work, now at the Pace Wildenstein in New York–she has placed yellow tipped triangles and black trapezoids in the middle of her lines, and i’m ecstatic, its the most exciting, new and sexy thing i have heard in at least this year–and she did it in her mid 90s … gives me hope, it doe
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— 3 Jun 2004 Anthony Easton Comment

So, i am excited about Agnes Martins new work–for the longest time nothing seemed to phase her, she still painted the same thing. She could live beside the grotesque and new fangled creations of Bruce Nauman (as she had been for almost forty […]

disaster movie howler&spoiler: look away now!!
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— 2 Jun 2004 mark sinker Comment

disaster movie howler&spoiler: look away now!!
OK in DAY AFTER TOMORROW it is very poorly explained why there is suddenly a tidal wave. Surely as more water became ice ABOVE sea level, sea level wd drop not rise?[…]

The Day After Tomorrow
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— 2 Jun 2004 james Comment

The Day After Tomorrow
Brrrrr! Wrap up warm!
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Why are cinematic portrayals of librarians always so cliched? – Oh the precious books! Don’t burn the precious books! philistines! – I was thinking that I’d burn the books wit[…]

well i say it’s ART so bite me
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— 2 Jun 2004 mark sinker 1 comment

well i say it’s ART so bite me
newscaster jon snow on c4 news just now: “to pursue the metaphor, is there not a danger that you’re crying wolf before the stable door is bolted?”[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: Part 2
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— 2 Jun 2004 Archel Comment

The Post-TV Diaries: Part 2
Now that I don’t have one, I see television EVERYWHERE. I feel like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. My days are full of annoying glimpses of Eastenders in the launderette, Hell’s Kitchen at my grandmother&#821[…]

Brian Cox is Swiss Toni is Agamemnon
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— 2 Jun 2004 Pete Baran Comment

Brian Cox is Swiss Toni is Agamemnon. From the near opening moment of Troy when this fact is revealed you know the whole affair will be ludicrous. Appreciated as a film version of a orally told tale makes things a lot easier. After all, Homer probabl[…]

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FT Top 100 Films 90. Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1997 )
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— 2 Jun 2004 mark sinker Comment

[Rescued Notes, Unaltered, from a Decommissioned Contemporary Review (the editor changed his mind and gave it to K!m Newm4n, a lovely chap labouring under the burden of having seen EVERY HORROR and SCI-FI MOVIE EVAH MADE!!)]
If Independence Day was[…]

PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK
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— 2 Jun 2004 Pete Baran 2 comments

PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK
The sports question is often a groaner for those of us who are rubbish at sport. This next question was particularly annoying last night because even when you work out what the question refers to, you still need addition[…]

OMG WTF!!!
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— 1 Jun 2004 Tom Comment

OMG WTF!!!: Worthy but flawed ‘guide to online lingo’ from US Missing Kids centre (it’s a .pdf file). The idea is for parents to be able to ‘crack the code’ of their kids’ logged online chats and so find out if the[…]

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