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Saturday, 23 February 2013

Why sound is just a little more important than you might think in film

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After doing the comparative bit with Leon Russell’s Song For You, I thought I might do something similar but for a different reason. W...
Friday, 22 February 2013

Fingers are being crossed in Paris and Berlin that The Buffoon is not back - some hope given a decent but dull opponent. In Spain Rajoy promises to chop off his own hand, while in Athens the Greeks learn to swim

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Well, all good thing must come to an end, and Italy’s recent resurgence in the credibility stakes could well breath its last in two days. Th...
Monday, 18 February 2013

Some of tomorrow's TV highlights here in Old Blighty: can you wait?

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I do so hate to be thought a party-pooper or a misery guts, but I am beginning to wonder about the sanity of my fellow countrymen, or at l...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

History is made as British Prime Minister gets Pope's go-ahead to marry his guinea pig. And Queen sensationally found hiding in Leicester car park

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Well, the cat’s is out of the bag: David Cameron has pulled it off. He has persuaded the House of Commons to allow a man to marry another ma...
Saturday, 2 February 2013

Song for you: a comparative analysis of different versions, with reference to what is crap, anodyne and pointless (Whitney Houston, The Carpenters and Michael Buble) and two - Donny Hathaway and Herbie Hancock/Christine Aguilera - which at least do the song justice. Oh, and Russell's original (which I like best of all). And then just a little bit about gay marriage, to keep you buggers on your toes (bad joke not intended)

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NB (24/05/21) I’ve just looked up this entry because I want to send a link to it to someone who has been in touch (hi, Miz Walky Talky), and...
Friday, 25 January 2013

How to lose money quite quickly: an easy-to-follow guide involving cheap Chinese tablets, Hong Kong-based crooks, Chinistore and Paypal

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Those loyal readers visiting this blog whose sole thought every morning is to log in and see what else has been happening in my life might b...
Sunday, 13 January 2013

Exactly how bad is Quentin Tarantino? Well, pretty bad - in fact, even worse than that, but as long as he rakes in the dollars, Hollywood ain't going to tell him: kill the golden goose? Come one. And don’t accept Tarantino’s version of slavery. Try Howard Zinn’s account instead

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Every industry and art form needs its new blood, whether it is a fresh way of cooking the books in accountancy, dreaming up new scams in ban...
Monday, 31 December 2012

Salmond and Farage: unlikely kissing cousins but they have a lot in common

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A question, although only those of you in the UK should bother trying to answer. Those of you dipping into this ’ere blog who live abroad ar...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012

The Deadwood stage stops here: why after David’s Milch’s Deadwood we should never put up with anything but the very best. (Oh, and hats off to casting directors the world over)

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Let me start on a very obscure note. Some people, surely a small minority, stay behind a little when a film has finished and the credits rol...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012

What would Christmas be without a heartfelt plea? So here's mine: think of those who aren't as lucky as yourselves

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Let me be frank: I like Christmas, though I must add that without children (which, for me is any young person up to and including the age of...