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In The Court Of The Crimson Cyber-King
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— 25 Dec 2008 Pete Baran 16 comments

There. I just wanted to say that before anyone else on the interwebs (and I probably haven’t).
OK, of all the accusations that could be thrown at Russell T.Davies, closet prog-rock fan seemed, before tonight, unlikely. He has had ample opportu[…]

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Why Don’t You…? THE MOVIE
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— 23 Dec 2008 Pete Baran Comment

Inkheart is a fun little kids movie which has a couple of contradictions at its inky heart that it can never really shy away from. Oddly its the most British of the recent batch of fantasy films, despite being set in Europe and starring Brendan Frase[…]

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500: 32-46
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— 18 Dec 2008 Tom 4 comments

A quick recap!
This is a series of posts “liveblogging” the Pitchfork 500, reflecting the book’s dual purpose as criticism and playlist. The ground rule is that I do the writing in real time as I listen to the music: no edits after that (except[…]

Chartmythwatch: “Hallelujah” Special!
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— 18 Dec 2008 Tom 10 comments

On two separate news reports last night I saw it mentioned that – if the Facebook campaign to get Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” to No.1 is a success (or a near-miss) – this week we might see the first instance of the same […]

Blog ’92: THEY LOOK AT THE SKY
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— 16 Dec 2008 katstevens 4 comments

21. Opus III – It’s A Fine Day
Whilst I might not have experienced the (ahem) primary effects of rave culture aged 11, I definitely succumbed to the vast swathe of hippy b0ll0cks that seemed to permeate the early nineties. Commune with na[…]

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Kate Beckinsale Ruined My Marriage
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— 16 Dec 2008 Pete Baran 7 comments

Ah, the influence brigade are back in town. But for once they have put down their videogame controllers and have turned their gaze from violent horror movie to the insidious harm done to us by ROMANTIC COMEDIES! As this study suggests (in no way conc[…]

How to shoot down someone who outdrew ya
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— 15 Dec 2008 Tom 10 comments

(This entry crossposted with Blackbeardblog.)
It’s certain that Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” will be the Christmas #1. But which version? PR Media Blog reports on a Facebook campaign to put Jeff Buckley’s version at[…]

Blog ’92: ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?
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— 12 Dec 2008 katstevens 4 comments

20. Praga Khan – Injected With A Poison
Like ‘The Magic Friend‘ earlier on, I found this a bit too intense on the first listen – acid squelching, whooping vocals courtesy of Jade 4U, and a scary man singing about poison. And p[…]

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Little Horrors
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— 10 Dec 2008 Pete Baran 2 comments

The Children is the second British horror movie this year using the previously untapped fear potential of the under sixteens. But whilst Eden Lake put its Kate Ashfield-a-like heroine in a ripped-from-the-fever-dream-of-the-Daily-Mail battle with del[…]

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500: 17-31
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— 10 Dec 2008 Tom 16 comments

A quick recap!
This is a series of posts “liveblogging” the Pitchfork 500, reflecting the book’s dual purpose as criticism and playlist. The ground rule is that I do the writing in real time as I listen to the music: no edits after […]

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