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    The great 80's brit synthpop thread

    Buick - oranges and apples and all that. "Boys" is Sabrina Salerno, not Sinitta Malone. For the record - I looked up those surnames; I didn't know them. Kings of Convenience known to be Sabrina fans, visiting her (TV Show?) when they were in Italy.
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    Cubillas of Peru takes a couple of free kicks (70s football)

    I never did see Maradona, but I had the pleasure of seeing George Weah when he played for AC Milan (scoring three goals vs Bari). And he was easily the best player I've ever seen in a live match. This is quite a nice "whole pitch" run from home in another match - . Yeah - you can easily spend...
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    Female artists doing it for you right now...

    Samarah - http://samarahspace.com avant Annette Peacock - http://www.imtheone.net jazz/avant Stephanie McKay - http://2006.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/5479.html nu-soul/rnb also listening to some 70s hippie stuff - Annisette (of Savage Rose) - http://www.thesavagerose.com
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    Books you've never got around to finishing

    "One Hundred Years of Solitude"/Marquez. Not because it's difficult. Just because the first two hundred pages are a drag, that this whole magic realism just doesn't work, that the male leads in the book have the same name and I thought to myself - this is not really going anywhere. How on...
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    scratch-and-sniff "what hi-fi have you got" thread.

    Marantz PM4200 amp (I think this is an "anglified" Marantz) Sony MXD-D40 CD/MD (with high-speed copying from CD to MD) Denon TU-580RD Tuner Wharfedale Diamond 8 Speakers with proper cables Optonica RP-3500 record player with a Rega pickup Every item simply bought when I could afford it, on...
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    UK ISPs ???

    I avoid anything owned by a cable company - their customer services should you ever need it are the worst. And there comes a time when you want to cancel when moving (house/or from unhappines about service). With cable that can almost be impossible. The horror stories I've heard about NTL...
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    once in a forever

    And then there is 06/06/06 soon - get ready for all those babies being named Damien ... :rolleyes:
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    once in a forever

    OS/X is Unix (some BSD or other) is it not. So in a shell script it would look something like this (parameters might be slightly different / check your man page): year=`date +%Y` month=`date +%m` day=`date +%d` hour=`date +%H` minute=`date +%M` datestamp=$year$month${day}T${hour}$minute cp -p...
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    The Lovers Thread

    I can see hippy-jazz girls with flowers in the hair and lost love in their eyes shuffling hazily along to some of Supersilent ... Never seen it though - it's more based of an idea of watching the 60s on telly and having been to a couple of jazz clubs - where most people are knowledgeable...
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    The Lovers Thread

    Ice cold Coke from a glass bottle on a warm day. Hail Jack White. Taking a vinyl record out of its sleeve and putting it on. punk duets the web film noir Associates Ben&Jerry's fishing trout Stiff Records The Damned the World Cup Mary Coughlan Stina Nordenstam Omar and Des'ree King Crimson's...
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    The great 80's brit synthpop thread

    "great" all of that stuff Was/Not Was?, but The Associates - "Party Fears Two", "Gloomy Sunday" or "White Car in Germany" still is
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    great unlikely collaborations

    "Rosensfole" - Jan Garbarek's late 80s, wonderful colloboration with traditional folk singer Agnes Buen Garnås. I never found Garbarek's work with the Hilliard Ensemble that rewarding - but with Agnes Jan takes on ancient Norwegian folk songs in a timeless way. I guess the colloboration...
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    The great 80's brit synthpop thread

    haircut 100 - "favourite shirts" propaganda - "dr mabuse" jan hammer - "miami vice theme" kim wilde - "kids in america" and if you are totally utterly shameless and really want to scrape the barrell sabrina - "boys" sam fox - "touch me" then you will have to make up for it with john foxx -...
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    The Red Hot Chilli Peppers thread (not much love to be found here)

    Yeah. It's the only stadium band that got something going for them. Sure they are a bit samey, just like the weather over there - maybe they need to move from California? They haven't gone totally stale though. That Iberian/Latin/breezy "Cabron" from their last album was cheerful in a good...
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    Hot Old Skool Babes

    Ava Gardner, hellraiser extraordinaire - I've got Lee Server's bio on Mitchum and the reviews have been good on his Ava Gardner one as well - http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/McLynn_04_06.html
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    Cubillas of Peru takes a couple of free kicks (70s football)

    I remember watching this guy Cubillas of Peru in the World Cup when I was a kid - probably one of the best free-kick takers ever. Every time Peru had a free kick outside the box you just waited for that ball to go in the top corner. The top two when you search on him on youtube shows one with...
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    NME - state of…

    I called the NME "Hello" in another thread. Everything is going downhill - not just the NME; but also there's seems to be no decent mag for young males anymore (maybe Arena in it's early days wasn't that great - but it sure as hell was better than all those tittie mags from Nuts to...
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    Tagging Asylum Seekers

    well at finally the left/centre papers are catching on - both the Indie and The Guardian have been running longer pieces on civil liberties in the last couple of weeks (Observer email conversation with Blair yesterday, front page of the Indie today). Now all that's needed is for the red tops to...
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    youtube

    an long list of art&music youtube links http://greylodge.org/gpc/?p=411 Warhol, Manson (Charles that is), Pistols, Coltrane, Miles Davis etc (via http://www.thingsmagazine.net)
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