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Poptimism – Year One
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37 mins, and 34MB, of my favourite tracks from the last year of podcasts…
Ain’t No Other Man – Aguilera, Christina
Not This Year – Aly & AJ
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Me & You – Cassie
Don’t Let Stars Get U[…]

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I can’t get all the news I need from the weather report
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So GlastoWeatherWatch has left us a little in the lurch this year (congratulations on your wedding though :)). OK, so there’s Glasto Festival Forecast attempting to fill the gap, but they look like they’ve jumped into bed with THE MAN, h[…]

Pop Open Week 1
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These are the tracks for the Pop Open, week one. Theme: sex.
[ROUND OVER – TRACKS UNLINKED]
What is the Pop Open? It’s a game we’re playing over at the Poptimists LJ community. It’s too late to be a contestant but not too late[…]

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OddieWatch
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Last year Freaky Trigger reported on the madness of Bill Oddie. Well, he’s back on our TV screens for Spring Watch, the BBC’s seasonal look at the birds and beasts of these fair isles. For an hour. EVERY DAY. (more…)[…]

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The FreakyTrigger Top 25 Brands: 21: POKEMON
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Marketers at Nintendo has credited the popularity of Pokemon to its expert combination of two previous fads – the Tamagotchi and the Beanie Baby. Fair enough, but this isn’t why Pokemon has become so successful as a brand, capturing the imagi[…]

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BRANDWATCH: London 2012 (aka MINE EYES!)
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So they have unveiled a new logo for the 2012 Olympic games. Some quatrters are calling this the most significant step since we won the right to host the Limpies two years ago. I would suggest that the plans, the compulsory purchase orders and the en[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Forty One
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It’s Alright – East 17
I Know – Fiona
Pengeleng – T.O.K.
Make it Hott – Uffie (Crystal Castles remix)
Burka Blue – Burka Band (B. Morgenstern Mix)
Magnets – Digitalism
Rave Dave – Trash Fashion
Minuit […]

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Spider-Man: The Red Menace?
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Who are the bad guys in the Spider-man movies? And what does this tell us about the politics of the character?
Spider-Man 1:
Uncle Ben’s Killer (see Spider-Man 3): A petty street crook. BUT He is allowed to kill Uncle Ben because Peter Parker […]

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Jindabrandin’
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Jindabyne is second or third hand goods. No problem in basing your film on a Raymond Carver story, they are a pretty good little basis for films. But the story in question “So Much Water So Close to Home” was already one of the nine or so[…]

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