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Entertainment

Nostalgia aint what it used to be

September 18, 2006

Oh my. Like the man said, Scarlett Johansson + Super 8 = the best Bob Dylan video ever? All that work, to make it look bad. And that’s not a link, it’s a grab.

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Git along

August 10, 2006

A good western is like a twelve bar blues. There’s a basic simple structure within which more or less everything is predictable. And then there are the little riffs and trills that bring delight because they are not quite what you expected. Open Range is one such, directed by Kevin Costner and starring him, Robert [...]

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Scenes from Roman Life 6

July 17, 2006

I dunno. You wait 28 years for a Bob Dylan concert and then two come along in 8 months. Outdoors at the Auditorium and most entertaining it was too. First off, Italians slow-handclapping because The Man had not appeared by 10 past the appointed hour. How ironic is that? To be honest, their hearts didn’t [...]

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Not quite ready?

June 20, 2006

I hurried off to Mog, ready to try some of that feel-good musical group hug it offers. I read the blurbs, which don’t actually tell you all that much about what you are getting into, and decided, “what the heck, I’ll register”. So my first two choices of screen names were taken. No biggie. I’ll [...]

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Why our Gods are old

June 6, 2006

All the baby boomers did was buy their records and attend their shows. Hard on the heels of yesterday’s iconic Cash/Dylan duet, a fine piece from Philip Marchand in The Toronto Star. Marchand’s point is simple, but one I’ve not seen explored elsewhere. That the heroes of the 60s are not of the generation that [...]

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Two Gods good

June 5, 2006

God bless the Viscount LaCarte. He pointed me to Anita, who pointed me to The Heretik, who had this clip of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. I’m going to attempt the very web 2.0 feat of saving you the clicktrain. And dare I admit that Nashville Skyline was always one of my favourites?

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If only I’d been there

May 15, 2006

The BBC interviewed a cabbie instead of Guy Kewney. If only I’d been there, I could have told them they had the wrong bloke, and that the man in question was not my old mucker Guy. p.s. Note to The Mail on Sunday, which carried the story: wise up. WMV files are so not useful. [...]

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This cannot be right

December 23, 2004

You are Belle Watling. You are Atlanta’s Bad Woman.The Madam of your own brothel, you make goodmoney tending to the needs of the citygentlemen. Yet your occupation proves yourpersonality otherwise. You can be quite gentleand motherly when the situation calls. Which Character from ‘Gone With The Wind’ are you? brought to you by Quizilla

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The Wooden Camelids

May 29, 2004

I swear I saw a couple of llamas being led across the market in ancient Greece. Or maybe they were alpacas. Anyway, definitely not horses.

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Christ!

March 3, 2004

I swore I wasn’t going to note anything to do with the whole sorry mess, but this is just too good not to share. Thanks ftrain.

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Luigi’s List

February 17, 2004

This just in from Luigi in Fiji (or wherever he was when he sent it). “Yeah yeah ok ok, here they are … Best Picture: Lord of the Rings. Because it just must. Best Director: Peter Jackson. Because he must. Even if you don’t like the movie, you just have to admire the sheer technical [...]

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Over to Ruth

February 13, 2004

Hullo this is Ruth and these are my Oscar picks. I used to be quite cocky about the annual face off between Luigi and myself — mainly because I always won. I won for years and years and years and years. Then Luigi moved to a place where he could actually see some of the [...]

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List time

February 12, 2004

In a stunning meld of geekery and glory, we take advantage of a new feature in Tinderbox to bring you my predictions for the Oscars. I’ve never taken this sort of thing seriously before, but Ruth and Luigi have apparently competed for years, and now I’m ensnared in their web of high intrigue and low [...]

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Out on a Limb

January 11, 2004

If Bill Murray doesn’t get a Best Actor Oscar for Lost in Translation, there’s no justice in the world. Likewise Tim Robbins for Best Supporting Actor in Mystic River. And as we all know, there’s no justice in the world.

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