Year: 2019
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Charlotte Adigéry Wigs Out
I think I’ve heard this a few times maybe Duckie even though I didn’t recognise it then, and most recently heard it on Don Letts Culture Clash where I was doing something else and half-listening and thought ‘what’s that Lily Allen one?’. Oops! Turns out it’s actually Charlotte Adigéry with High Lights, seemingly an ode…
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Hit Me Shakespeare One More Time (A Celebration)
I don’t usually post TED Talks, but I’ll make an exception for this talk on repetition and music by Colin Morris who is a data scientist and educator based in Toronto with a Master’s in Computational Linguistics. I love how he uses quite disparate techniques to prove that yes, pop music is getting simpler and…
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Fat White Family – Feet
Loving the song and now video for Fat White Family’s Feet – a big hit at Duckie when I was there, I can guess the video also had part in that….Querelle and Genet (in fact I’m guessing the Panther/Cuban ‘rebels’ are a nod to his later work) meets Paul Cadmus, via a comment on the…
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Ghostbusters Remakes
Ghostbusters: The Musical HAS to be made! Quite funny how Leslie Jones is bitching about not being in Ghostbusters 3, I mean her version didn’t exactly set the world on fire – it didn’t lose money but not the massive blockbuster it was supposed to be, hence Sony canned a sequel. The proof is in…
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RC 297: BANUARY IDOL
After a gluten free Christmas, it’s a New You and a fresh start on those resolutions that will last about 2 weeks – Veganuary, Dry January, going to the gym, etc. Yes let’s give up nice things on the most depressing, grey and dark time of the year! That’ll work! So bucking the trend we…
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The Age Of Sail
A beautiful short film about sailing and the switch to steam, it was shortlisted for an Oscar and in the Venice Film Festival Selection, and I can see why. (via Adventures of the Black Gang) Here’s the blurb: Set on the open ocean in 1900, Age of Sail is the story of William Avery (voiced…