December 2010
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The Worst XI in the premier league (so far)
After reading this Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/dec/22/worst-premier-league-team-mario-balotelli and disagrreing with it almost in its entireity I thought I’d have a stab at naming a better worse team of the season so far…you know what I mean. It’s a metaphor, get it? We’ll start with the goalkeeper and no-one deserves this role more than...
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My Year In Lists - Films
5. Das Wiesse Bande (The White Ribbon) - Michael Haneke I can’t remember if this came out at my local picture house this year or last. If it turns out to be a 2009 film my number 5 is “Twilight Eclipse”. Anyways, The White Ribbon is Haneke at his unsettling best. The deliberately slow pacing and almost hypnotic mundanity of much of the film only serves to amplify the key events...
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My Year In Lists - Albums
10. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM To make an album that helps you forget the horrid horribleness of the movie “Antichrist” is no mean feat, especially given the amount of genital torture which takes place in that film. But Gainsbourgs “IRM” is more science of sleep dreamy pleasentries than William Dafoe based torture. And that’s a good thing. 9. Beach House - Teen Dream...
The Tron Legacy soundtrack is rather good to listen to whilst playing COD. Makes it seem more epic then me playing xbox on my own. All day…. In other thoughts - The Stig is Daft Punk’s driver yes?
If the people in The Apprentice are so good at business why don’t they make their own money instead of making money for someone else?