December 2009
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Thought for the decade
Tomorrow ends a decade if you hadn’t heard.
It didn’t really have its own identity as it was more of a Passover decade – a bit like how 1910 still stank a bit Victorian. Its been said that a centuries’ culture peaks in the middle (the 50s set the change of course for the 20th century), and so this next one we will still dress like those of yesteryear. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun –...
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See me on Last.fm →
I’ve joined, so add me and let us make passionate musical love.
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David Mitchell: Save the world – keep... →
“Our long, unaffordable global lunch is coming to an end and a headachey afternoon in the office beckons. We’ve spent the last 10 years downing extra digestifs to delay the arrival of the bill. But here it is, without so much as an accompanying mint, and it’s massive. The trick now is to persuade the third world to pay an equal share even though they only had a soup.”
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1960s New Wave films online for free →
7 Days, 7 Films “Stella Artois brings you the best French classics of the 60s. Enjoy a different film every day of the week”.
It’s a week-long online film festival featuring classic European new wave movies, Stella Artois teaming up with movie website The Auteurs to offer a different film per day from December 15th, completely free - the first time these movies have been...
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