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PLAN 10 FROM OUTER SPACE.
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We are very firmly of the opinion that Humans are the best animals at Freaky Trigger, and it is nice to see that yet again this is proved by looking at the energy efficiency of our walking style. As this hopefully trustworthy BBC report* has it, walk[…]

Pop Open Week 6
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This week’s tracks are on the theme of PASSION – please don’t ‘spoil’ what they are. If you want to join in the voting etc. then go here.[…]

Windbagpuss
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I was directed to this article by Rosie of Popular Comments Box fame (and actually a lot of this post was a reply on her LJ) – it’s a (spiked) Daily Mail piece by Oliver Postgate, creator of much loved kids’ TV icons The Clangers, […]

“i would go with you to hades — or even britannia!”
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i. this series of RHOME is much better written (and i loved the first series)
ii.  haha WOW to our first meeting with LIVIA* — this was an AWESOME ep all round, for sudden density of stress, ultra-perversity and OMG WTF did i just see that TV
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Ambushed by unexpected samples
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Playing solid Brit-soul outfit The Real Thing’s “Love’s Such A Wonderful Thing” for the first time and I’m stopped in my tracks twenty-five seconds in – “Love! Love’s such a wonderful thing – thi[…]

things we don’t do so much anymore #1346: link to “pop” stuff on the interwebz
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unexpectedly beguiling forum Q&A with of all ppl steve albini: eg from page 2, “I would have loved to watch Stevie Wonder play a whole album by himself”
(i found it via lawyers guns and money)[…]

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Bible Of Badness Special: 1 Corinthians 15:55
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Biblical scholars, have recently queried the standard translation of this particular part of the Bible. One of the more famous bits, this common exclamation was seen as a way of thundering against mortality, at challenging the heavens and claiming o[…]

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Moaning About Black Snake
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Black Snake Moan advertises itself as a pulpy throwback exploitation movie. There, in its stab at an authentically distressed poster, we have a masterful Samuel L.Jackson towering over a chained up, skimpily dressed Christina Ricci. “Come and see a[…]

Lollards Of Pop!
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Freaky Trigger and the Lollards Of Pop is gearing up for its second smash-hit season – keep yr peepers peeled for date announcements – and in the meantime we’re putting together a compilation of the best bits of Season 1, as an intr[…]

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since when has this bit been “angel”?
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ok so i went into islington this morning to begin changing banks, and was in the co-op where pentonville road meets islington high st — as i wz waiting to be seen i wz lookin round and there on the wall, complete with old-skool monopoly logo, […]

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