Dan_Dare
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finally got my last.fm set up- now you can all witness the fitness that is my music collection
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what, none of you have it!?
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aw you really should. it's proper awesome' The sky was the colour of a television set tuned to nothingness he's such a good writer
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Any William Gibson fans? Cyber Punk pioneers ftw
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ok cheers. at least there's a few left
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I kind of feel bad about that band- I saw them live and just didn't get it at all. It was only months later that i realised they're a kind of insane genius and make some really interesting sounds.
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Oxigen already mentioned American Pastoral, which is a particularly great one- it's about how one man is destroyed by his faith in the American Dream when his life makes it impossible to follow. Really good stuff. It's also part of a trilogy of novels including I married a communist and The Human Stain which, again deal with self/social destruction in America, taking the themes of Macarthy era witch hunts and racism respectively. Both ace books. he's also done some stranger books- Portnoirs complaint is like a 250 page jewish sex joke and it's just hilarious. I've also read The Plot Against America which imagines the pilot of the spirit of st louis gets elected President in 1940- as a far right anti Semite, America never joins WW2 and jews start becoming an abused minority. Also worth a curiosity is Everyman which is a biography of a man told through the significant medical events of his life. quite interesting
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Fucking Awesome Movie my day has been pretty good- slept the morning off, rocked the halo a bit, and some virtua fighter, then tonight we threw a surprise party for a friend's birthday. twas all good
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as resident English sudent supremo, i expect you to treat my opinion in this thread as law. with that in mind, I'd recomend Philip Roth to anyone- he's an American Jewish writer with a taste for the emotionally brutal, political end of the spectrum with a talent for intensity and intricate character portraits. my favourite author.
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anyone know how many eps we're expecting this season, strike included?
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I watched part way in to 2. It's a pretty solid character drama that I should pay more attention to really. It's miles better than most tv, like, ever. for the record, who was in it twice?
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it has Olyphant in who had a most excellent stint as a lone ranger made good in Deadwood- I've never seen such a convincing portrayal of a 'good' man with a capacity for vicious violence as his in that show. a good cast can be undermined by the scripts of genres with a track record like game adaptations though- see Reign of Fire for reference. £5 says it's dogshit
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mirthsome effort critics are calling hitman '88 minutes of meritless torture' sounds great!
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Anyone? Dr Oatker is my GT, I fancy a game
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it's a song scientifically crafted for gazing out of a window across winter street lights while single. true fax
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gnnnar. I hope that means that Bale, an acting genius, brings some credability and darkness to the role- alas, I suspect that he's probably gone and done another Breath of Fire and got himself involved with a destined guff of a movie.
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Lover, You Should Have Come Over is a bit of a notable example, like. See also Forget Her, both by Jeff Buckley
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I watched The Machinist tonight Christian Bale once again proves he's the best method actor going these days with a truly brilliant turn as Trevor Resnik (great name, incidently) but the plot seemed a bit...vague. It has elements of Fight Club and its ilk but I'm not sure what they were going for at the end. Nicely put together though, and worth watching. 7/10 seems fair.
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............... why?
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it's....warm in Egypt?
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added bold to point out how this is clearly PR. There's no real news story, but tonnes of wii facts planted throughout. And a pro bowler in a wii sports story? ridiculous.
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apologies- i thought lee directed. miiissstttaaaake! mini reviews of what I've seen. thing is, I've never been so utterly convinced of a chracter, in any medium, as I have by Ennis Delmar. not once. Ledger's performance is just utterly incredible, along with most of the supporting cast, and it remains the only film to ever make me break down in tears. Cinema has to engross me in something, and for that brokeback is hard to match.
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the only originality in story telling is in how, not what. In those terms, Brokeback deserves as much praise as any. on an Ang Lee note, anyone seen 2046? that's a bit ace is that.
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I got Assassins Creed and Virtua Fighter 5 for £6 today
