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Pop Open Week 5
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This week we have five songs on the theme of LOVE. To take part in the voting, go here, or email your favourite two, in order, to leagueofpop@gmail.com (you can only vote for the ones you don’t already know!).

You can find the results for last[…]

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East Meets Kanye West
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If you have seen the Kanye ‘Stronger’ video but never seen Akira, here’s what you need to know:

More screenshot comparisons here
I disagree with almost everything on that site. “There’s a lot of stuff in this music video th[…]

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Agatha Watch: Thoughts on Joan Hickson’s Miss Marple
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Having been reading some Miss Marple novels I rented on a whim the 1980s Joan Hickson-starring adaptation of one of them (The Body In The Library). I remember being quite an avid fan of this series when small – watching it again, while knowing […]

KITAN on the KEYS: a bad pianist’s practice diary #2
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ok here is the vast and absurd practice structure i drew up for myself at xmas — it went into the shape of a pear almost immediately when i wrneched my left ring finger lifitng my dad’s wheelchair out of the car, which took two months to […]

PerpMotionWatch: UPDATE
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it is with the usual tremendous irresponsible glee i am able to inform youse all that this story remains ongoing! yay ORBO best of all the boes[…]

note to self re notes to self: plz provide translation and/or TARDIS, yr pal LORD SUKRAT
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ok this one (and it’s NOT THAT OLD) reads:
• read ziz — [what? which bit? ALL OF HIM!?]
• = suss’n of BNs — [actually translated by pure chance — see below]
• zizek/banksy — [yes? and?]
• g04 — [are […]

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What Album Covers Are Really Trying To Tell Us: 4: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
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I set fire to an arcade once.
Well, who could resist burning the leaping loons playing Dance Dance Revolution. I heard the thumping base of “You Can’t Touch This”, two synchronised robo-teens and all I could think of, whilst lightin[…]

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Faceyourpockets. Pictures of your face and what’s in your pockets. Some Russians keep ice skates in theirs.[…]

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Modern kids read Moomin and Asterix comics: “very interesting and very strange, in a good way”.[…]

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Skooby Snacks & Spotty Man
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So I had a little wander through the snazzy Brunswick Centre today. Mainly to go to the bank, but i thought I would sniff around. And I thought I would reacquaint myself with Skoob. Skoob being a rambling old second hand bookstore belov’d of ol[…]

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  1. I appreciate the author’s insights! I played the Sprunki game today, and it was awesome. Highly recommend it! No matter…