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Poptimism – Lesson Twenty Three
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Eric Cartman in the 25th century – South Park intro
Wear Your Love Like Heaven – Definition Of Sound
The Happening – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley (Heatwave remix & DJ Z-Trip boot)
Hood Boy –[…]

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The Bible Of Badness: Dolly Parton – JOSHUA
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Many people find it hard to take Dolly Parton seriously as a musician, despite a long and distinguished songwriting career full of hits and songs which are now seen as country standards. I find it hard to take Dolly Parton seriously as a musician bec[…]

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Brandwatch 2007
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It’s a quiet week for the marketing press as everyone is still doing the Skiving Britain thing. The “Irritating Ads 2006” survey deserves a separate post and may get it, but mostly what we’re looking at are predictions for 200[…]

Trends Of 2006 Movies: Respected Directors Return To Form (Often By Making Shorter Films)
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Terrence Malick makes, on the whole, boring films. Of course the beauty of the cinematography and the peaceful, contemplative aura of the production could well be another way of say “boring” and I’ll hold my hand up to that. I like […]

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I WAS A GOBLIN: There is another world, there is a better world
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A big selling-point of tabletop RPGs – possibly a legacy of the era they appeared in, the liberal 1970s – was their non-competitive, open-ended aspect. Individual players wouldn’t “win” games, the group would only achiev[…]

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List of Films With The Most Utterances Of The Word Fuck in it. I luv Wikipedia…[…]

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Talking Parrot Confounds Science, Article Confounds Sense
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I haven’t really got an awful lot to say about N’Kisi, the talkative parrot whose ability to talk seems to contradict the usual suggestion that that parrots merely mimic. I don’t know enough about the science, my philosophy of lingu[…]

Trends Of 2006 Movies: The Disguised Time Travel Movies
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Time travel, its just science fiction right? WRONG. Well, right, but you tell that to people who want to see Keanu Reeves/Sandy Bullock romance films or Jerry Bruckheimer police procedurals and they might not go see your movie. You see 2006 was notab[…]

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