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http://www.filmindependent.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/sexybeast1460.jpg Love Ben Kingsley in that - so f**kin vicious .. about a million lightyears away from Gandhi for sure. The plot's a bit daft (why bring Ray out of retirement to do the job?), but it's worth the price of admission just to se...

The Medieval Machine, The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages - Jean Gimpel

Hugely interesting and told with a nice wit.

2012 National Geographic traveller contest - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-19316451

Ropey brit-rockers Kasabian are named after Linda Kasabian , a member of the Manson family, and there's a dodgy old industrial band called Spahn Ranch . There's also the obvious Marilyn Manson and the less-obvious Nine Inch Nails connections (Trent Reznor recorded The Downward Spiral in the 'Tate Ho...

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/16/article-1313507026700-0D72EFA700000578-108455_636x440.jpg Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises , 2012 "And the winning number for the tombola is.. 06858!" Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? what's your problem with it, besides the annoying zimmer s...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2kno5ZCvl5I/TRivPV2IiXI/AAAAAAAAAOw/1ilau5s0crQ/s1600/esq-01-tron-legacy-still-120810-lg.jpg TRON: Legacy (Joseph Kosinsky, 2010) Well, it looks good. I was expecting it to be awful so watched it with an incipient cold and a snoring dog on my knee. It turned out not to be ...

ARP – Raga For Moog & Violin (2nd Variation), live at Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.

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Clic Clac Baby : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19080876

Initially struggled with the Iain M Banks-isms, and the sometimes heavy-handed wordplay isn't getting any easier, but I'm enjoying the story unravelling now I'm into it.

free math wrote:Ha, nice. Didn't know the source of the name.

It freaked me out a bit as I'd spent Sunday afternoon reading (OG) Meg & Mog to my friend's kids...

Meg & Mog?

Sounds like Drive to me Speaking of which... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CbqM3DKjD1s/T3XoDjch3hI/AAAAAAAAA-w/5rWp6GGjNVE/s1600/Ryan-gosling-drive-movie-mask-rubber.jpg Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn) Surprisingly dull. It's enjoyable to watch but all the life's been squeezed out to make room for s...

SMWs 33.117, 'A Doctors' Bag'. http://distilleryimage3.s3.amazonaws.com/c0b51c3ad4fd11e1a953123138104e29_7.jpg Just a wee dram to keep the damp out. 7 years old, cask strength at 64.3%. One of only 151 bottles produced. Jeez-o. Pop the top on this and it's like being hit in the face by an entire isl...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3zkipqIyf1qb25zuo1_500.png Gothic (Ken Russell, 1986) I've not since this since my days as a whelp staying up late to watch film nights on Channel 4 and I think the best I can say is 'ripe for a remake'. The drug-fuelled phantasms of a highly-strung and drug-fuell...

Apropos of none of the above, been finding myself listening to Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult a lot recently.



THE DEAD HATE THE LIVING!

Just started The Chrysalids last night.