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Boneless.

Friday, February 26, 2010

For a film entitled ‘The Lovely Bones’, you never actually see any bones. Instead you get some philosophical metaphor about bones growing around relationships, or something, from a girl trapped in a fantastical limbo before ascending to heaven. ‘The Lovely Bones’ is actually a rather good film, though. Peter Jackson, of course, manages to piss off the [...]

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Shock.

Friday, November 20, 2009

I just got round to watching Babel, which stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Really they’re not in the film a whole great deal, but their story is considered the central narrative, I suppose. The idea to the film is that one little event ripples out into devastating waves which effect lots of lives. In this case, that [...]

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Dinosaur.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Before you get all depressed, before you think: “What will I see when I am dead, what do I amount to?” – just pause and take a second to remember the ancient reptiles. This old planet’s snubbed protagonist. Lament of the Tyrannosaurus Rex “I could have been…” these toxic words. I could have been so [...]

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Currency.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Of all my chocolate coins, none were Sterling. Had the Euro and the US Dollar. I’m pretty sure there was even a Danish Kroner. No Pound. Talk about recession. However, my stomach is definitely the best place to put money. Including them time when I was five and ate a 2p piece. I was playing [...]

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