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“Press ‘Play’ on that one, and ‘Record’ on that one.”

I heard someone say it today at STV.  It about sums up the best of my childhood, that.  From copying a rental edition of Empire Strikes Back (later paying for it twice on VHS and again on DVD, not to mention the cinema tickets for the re-release) to making mix tapes to impress a girl,

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Coffee morning

We had our new coffee machine wake us up with a fresh pot this morning.  I’ve never been much of a coffee-drinker, but now I’m beginning to feel like I did when the family took its first foreign holiday (to Rimini, Italy) when I was fourteen or so and I discovered that I did like

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Films that remind you other films that you’d rather be watching.

Here’s a list of films that take the bold and unwise decision to remind their audience of better movies:   Film: Sleeping With the Enemy Better Film: The Shining Reminder: Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (specifically, the fifth movement), used extensively on the soundtrack for SWtE, but forever associated with the opening credits of TS as

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Sighthill Cemetery

Published on January 9, 2010 by in Personal

A lie in today, then to Tesco, then to Sighthill Cemetery for dog-walking.   It wasn’t only dead people whose remains we roamed among.  Check out these high rise flats (now a lot flatter than once they were):       Why walk the dog in a cemetery?  It was there. Technorati Tags: monty the

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