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if being an unpublished writer is working in or near the media then every literate person in the world does - the guy was a teacher who tried and failed to get paid to write

why group these together? I don't understand what schmidt had to do with arty outsiders, the nicholson character was a corporate manager didn't perceive that moral myself and it was hardly a quick shag, took half the film to pull off! and the 'meathead' clearly wasn't going to be happily...

what about those of us who are beginning to wish we were expatriate? :rolleyes:

and i was almost put off watching it in the first place cos i thought about schmidt was overrated crap

loved this as well, the relationship between the characters is very reminiscent of swingers as stelfox say, paul giamatti is a genius at body language & facial expression acting. have to disagree with the knocking of its cinematography which i thought fit perfectly - i've never seen california...

reggie rockstone is known as the godfather of hiplife music in Ghana, a hybrid of hip hop, dancehall & highlife although from what i've heard his own stuff is fairly imitative of US hip hop (I think he mainly raps in english). Better stuff imo has come in his wake, like obrafour, buk bak, 4X4 &...

anyone watch the nme awards? Absolutely vindicated some of the thoughts on this thread - a procession of guitar bands with genetically-cloned power chords all using the precise same level of distortion & tone - unbelievably anodyne lyrics and songs that should have at least had the dignity to...

depending on what computer you have you need to turn it into an mp3 file, loads of different software can do that. Then you can use www.yousendit.com - you 'send' the file to an email address (easiest to use your own) what you are doing is uploading it to their server where it will stay for a...

the sleepy thing rings true, I watched solaris for the first time on a 14" on greek tv whilst lying in bed at about 1am and was bewitched, especially by the soundtrack - I went out the next day and was in this tiny record shop which had mostly tapes & cds and found this new record put out by...

It's a very good point - but what does that say about middle class suburban kids connection with hip hop I wonder, what does buying in to that fantasy world reveal about them? may be pedantic but most subcontinental asians in east london are bangladeshi or pakistani, not indian seems to me...

Am I missing something? How does a cover version prove you can write songs? Shurely shome mishtake :confused:

I've heard that the DJ in question in Mauro Piccotto - I can't believe the mp3 files were all pirates, I mean someone that well-known would have plenty of access to free promos. If he is being prosecuted for the act of ripping from vinyl or cd to mp3 then the record industry has gone completely...

what about the rebuilding of vast areas of mostly east london after the blitz? Most of the rest of london was built by capitalist property speculators with scant regard for public space. A lot of the squares in London were or still are private property. The whole of bloomsbury was a gated...

Agree totally with sentiments regarding new labour's appalling record regarding big public spectacles and the likelihood that the lea valley complex would be mediocre at best but there is a possibility, and I don't think it's misguided optimism, that london would get an infrastructure boost that...

forgive me if this point has already been made somewhere (there's been a lot of grime threads recently and i can't claim to have read them all) but surely the 'manifest content' of grime that BB refers to is inherited from US hip hop. And given that a lot of US rappers talk up the violence &...

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wow, i was still fucked off about missing that free screening of stalker at the national gallery last year, having only seen it on video - must be able to make one of the 44 screenings this time around :D

I also remember being particularly impressed at the time by the fact that he had a guitar that used to belong to pete townshend (hey, I was only 16) and having a strum on it. Looking over his discography on that site Nick posted I see that one of his albums was produced by townshend so it figures.

I remember him appearing on kid's tv in the late eighties - he was demonstrating some sort of quirky sound-making apparatus or something. I wouldn't have known who he was under normal circumstances but his son danny was a schoolfriend of mine and when we first got talking I realised that I had...

yeah it's that genre-skimming thing where you skim a few things that have come to the surface, that fit within your own skewed taste, off the top of genres you aren't really into wholeheartedly. A lot of 'eclectic' type djs are like this (I'm thinking of coldcut axis, say) where the tracks they...