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Movies: Lars and the Real Girl

2007-10-29T06:08:13Z

Lars and The Real Girl by Nancy Oliver and Craig Gillespie (2007, MGM). Is it ironic that a film that, at its root, is about loneliness, I'd rather have watched it alone? In the midst of a half full theater, instead of being as engrossed into th...

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last.fm says: downtempo

2007-10-28T09:20:31Z

In this round of last.fm recommendations, there was a distinct push towards the chillout end of my musical spectrum. Well, that's not exactly true. I've never really liked the term chillout and especially not as interchangeable with downtempo. Zer...

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Books: Mouse Guard - Fall 1152

2007-10-28T08:38:19Z

Mouse Guard Volume 1: Fall 1152 by David Petersen (2007, Archaia Studios Press). Halfway through Special Topics in Calamity Physics, I lost interest. I was reading a line here, a paragraph there, a chapter during an ambitious afternoon and then t...

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one line/one song: space is the place

2007-10-28T08:15:12Z

The dance floor, I would argue, has always been a plane apart, a space for freedom of movement literally, and in the mind’s eye. (via negrophile)

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last week on last.fm

2007-10-22T06:14:43Z

Top Tracks for the week ending 21 Oct 2007 1 J-Love – Return Of The Theodore Unit (f/ Ghostface, Sean Wiggs and Trife Da God) 5 1 Foals – Mathletics 5 1 Lifers Group – Short Life Of A Gangsta (...

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The Dead Don't Dance

2007-10-21T17:24:21Z

The dead don't dance. That was the root of the argument James was making as he presented his faux-Japanese proverbs to me. True enough, but, still, I wasn't going to dance. "Live every day like it is your last," he pressed. "Won't you be upset if...

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Movies Meme

2007-10-20T15:30:02Z

Have I done this before? AFI's top 100 movies. Bold the ones you have seen. Strike out the ones you couldn't finish. * the ones you have seen more than once. 1. Citizen Kane (1941) 2. Godfather, The 3. Casablanca (1942) 4. Raging Bull (198...

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last.fm this week

2007-10-15T02:42:50Z

Top Tracks for the week ending 14 Oct 2007 1 Gap Mangione – Boys With Toys 4 1 Little Brother – Life Of The Party 4 1 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Nobody's Baby 4 1 ...

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Flashback Friday: In Every Way

2007-10-12T15:04:13Z

It's off a new compilation but I'm sure it's a rare groove older goodie because Gilles picked it. It also perked up my morning like the percolator. Does anybody still remember how to do The Percolator?

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Grey's Anatomy: Izzie Revisited

2007-10-12T14:37:10Z

How I gauge the quality of a show is in its ability to get me invested in the characters and the world that surrounds them. My three favorite television shows of all time - Six Feet Under, The Wire, and Homicide: Life on the Street - do this incre...

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