Time magazines all time 100 best movies.
Channel 4’s 100 greatest war films.
Internet Movie Database top rated documentaries.
This was adapted from an image found at Tom Brinkman’s superb badmags.com.
Tom is publishing an eponymous book this year:
Bad Mags is a book devoted to strange, bizarre and peripheral magazines because the back alleys of the publishing industry have been little explored in print. In most cases there isn’t any information readily available, [...]
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From Boing Boing:
Here is NWA’s classic gangsta rap album Straight Outta Compton edited down so only the profanities remain. The result is a stupidly funny machine gun of dirty words. I like how the creator lists the EPR (explicit content ratio) for each track. For example, Fuck Tha Police is the most explicit track on [...]
From ABC News:
Morgan Spurlock made his name with the Oscar-nominated documentary “Super Size Me,” about the impact on his health of a month’s diet of McDonald’s burgers, shakes, chicken nuggets and soda.
Now he has developed the concept into “30 Days,” a television series that places people in unfamiliar social circumstances.
In one show, a conservative straight [...]
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In his book Why We Tell Stories {Amazon .co.uk / .com ], Christopher Booker claims there are just 7 basic plots in all literature:Overcoming the Monster
Rags to Riches
Quest
Voyage and Return
Comedy
Tragedy
RebirthTwo more contenders…Rebellion and MysteryExtracted from a Washington Post review by Denis Dutton (editor of the excellent Arts and Letters Daily).
BBC - Comedy - Kath and Kim
Fiona saw this in Bali and assures me it is funking hilarious.
Urban Junkies are touting it too.
It starts tonight (henceforth every Thursday)at 10pm on BBC2.
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Here are a few sites that sell DRM free music (e.g. it is not restricted to play in only one iPod or Computer):
eMusic.com
Audiolunchbox.com/
Magnatune.com
mp3tunes.com
Listen.com
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The HDTV reveals every flaw…
Apparently the Channel 4 documentary “The Gospel Truth” which aired on 21 March 2005 at 8pm was deeply facinating. Here is an accompanying article from the C4 website (reproduced in full because they tend not to have archives):
The Gospel Truth by Mike Gerber
Unless you’re a vinyl junky, the discs you spin on your hi-fi these days [...]