January 2009
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The War Room
I watched The War Room over the break and was struck by the similarities between the campaign of Bill Clinton against George H Bush in 1992, and Obama against George W Bush 2008: the Republicans kept loading on the character attacks, the Democrats were all about the economy (“it’s the economy, stupid”), and changing the future (Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop...
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The Killers - I Can’t Stay
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Happy Chinese New Year!
It’s nice to know from the horoscope segment of the Hong Kong television programme that as a Monkey, I’ll be okay in the Year of the Ox.
““What, in the end, was the common thread linking them all? Forget politics...”
– From a review of 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Matt Kurlansky, in The Economist, January 3rd-9th 2004 issue.
Unflinching, Bergman unleashes this character on...
Ingmar Bergman had created one of the most unpleasant female characters I’d watched on screen : Monika, from Summer With Monika. Petulant, insipid, irresponsible…I felt like giving her a tight slap on the face, especially when her poor husband Harry was trying so hard to make ends meet towards the end of the film. When she complains of herself being fat, even when she’s...
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L.E.S. Artistes (XXXchange mix) - Santogold...
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So I left Chicago today, city of Great Food, ending off my visit with a very hearty bang at La Scarola, a Chicago institution of Italian cuisine. The interiors were crammed full of people and the food was good (grilled calamari, hearty pastas and risotto). It’s that kind of an institution where photographs of the owner with various celebrities over the years are displayed on the walls,...