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02-Dec-2009 10:08
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I have caught two interviews with the mother of Matthew Shepard, the young man beaten and left for dead in Laramie, Wyoming, in an anti-gay crime.
My concern is that the situation has been oversimplified, and class conflicts and town-gown tensions have been shoved aside. The convicted killers were unemployed total loosers, high school dropouts from the wrong side of the tracks. They had to pool their change to buy a glass of beer in the tavern where they met Shepard. Their girfriends were also dim bulbs from the same social strata.
It is quite a contrast: the killers are two broke and unemployed jerks who had hardly been outside their home county, doubtless did not have passports, and as victilm a young man who had traveled a good bit overseas, was attending school, and at least had enough money to have a normal student life. It is hard to beleive that the two killers were...
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01-Dec-2009 14:39
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03-Dec-2009 10:30
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'The F Word'...A cooking show hosted by Gordon Ramsey's mate, Matt Moran....'Trawlermen'...A BBC Doco and replays of 'The Time Team'................................Yours, in your neck of the woods?
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01-Dec-2009 12:58
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06-Dec-2009 06:51
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Hey, does anyone know where i can get a copy of 1001 arabian nights with all 1001 tales in it. If there really is 1001 tales that is. Thanks in advance.
A Talking Picture (+Um filme falado+), by Manoel de Oliveira.
Breathtakingly bad and pretentious. I don't typically write reviews of films on websites any more, but this one has an enemy in me. It has not a single redeeming quality. Simultaneously vapid and pompous, it features a John Malkovich acting more like an effeminate kitten than his normal reptilian self, a bored Catherine Deneuve, along with a couple of other luminaries that should've known better. I wanted to see all of their characters devoured by sharks. Oliveira's 2003 effort transcends mere badness, becoming a cinematic force of evil. Reading the reviews on imdb.com was good for many laughs. The only people who seemed to like this waste of celluloid were wannabe Europeans from the US, too insecure to trust their judgment that the film sucked. They obviously thought there was something profound to be gleaned ...
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sound against december > > > http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198683599448
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29-Nov-2009 04:30
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thoughtpolice »
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10-Dec-2009 06:26
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is in theaters now.
I was expecting the worst, release was delayed for a year or more and that often indicates problems.... they had also introduced a woman as a star, a startling turn of events if you know the book.
I was wrong, they did not screw it up and the movie is relatively faithful to the excellent Cormac McCarthy book. But... it is not light fare, it is pretty tough to jollify a thoroughly grim tale of a post apocalyptic world. It is almost but not quite relentlessly grim, a testament to the will to live when there should be none.
The book was truly frightening and so is the movie. Not frightening in the timeworn zombies-roam-the-planet-in-a corny-movie sense, but more in the 'this could happen' sense. This one will haunt me.
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28-Nov-2009 19:21
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28-Nov-2009 19:21
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I started to voluteered to teach Chinese in one Tibetan school several years ago and it last for a while. Then I am trying to learn Tibetan, Amdo Tibetan. I have no idea how long it will take me to learn it well, but I do wish I could have a little talk with Tibetan, the local next time when I travel there again.
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28-Nov-2009 13:24
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06-Dec-2009 06:52
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I want to go see alex cornish, but he's supporting sandi thom. Should I just spend the money on laura veirs?
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28-Nov-2009 02:38
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skynet »
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28-Nov-2009 02:39
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Hagakure - The book of the Samurai
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27-Nov-2009 20:08
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orangutan »
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04-Dec-2009 16:16
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stephens9042 »
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would you go to, if you could only choose one:
muse, the killers or yeah, yeah, yeah?
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27-Nov-2009 14:12
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02-Dec-2009 21:12
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im an artist in houston.
(you'll need to add me, sorry.)
several hundred photos >>> http://www.facebook.com/xombe
others on myspace >>> http://www.myspace.com/xaca
please comment if you like them, thanx.
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26-Nov-2009 19:19
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02-Dec-2009 08:28
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I will be spending the next three to four months in Kigali. I love to read and would like to take some books with me as well as download several on to my kindle. Any favorites out there? I have a few pertaining to the Genocide. And of course, Gorillas in the mist. Any gems that come to mind? If not, I would take suggestions from any other country in Africa. Thanks!
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24-Nov-2009 03:01
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satan_claus »
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08-Dec-2009 12:06
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The Cohen bros. have done it again! Watched it at the cinema last night - nice to see them back in form, as frankly I wasn't that impressed by Burn After Reading. (No Country..., on the other hand, must range as one of the best films of
the decade) What an eccentric, weird and absolutely lovely movie! Hopefully they will keep entertaining us for years to come.
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22-Nov-2009 15:55
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Ria »
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09-Dec-2009 06:09
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This didn't get many replies on WT so I'll try here too.
I had a chat with some co-workers about the ending & they were the first people I've met who loved the ending. What's your thoughts on the film & the ending?
*Inside to NOT SPOIL it for anyone who haven't seen i*t...
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21-Nov-2009 19:56
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Always been a big fan. It doesn't get much sweeter than this . Thing is, looking back on this clip of James Taylor and J. D. Souther you gotta wonder about the amount of inspirational pharmaceuticals consumed prior to laying down this little number. Enjoy.
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