First of all, if you emailed me in the last 12 hours or so, your email might've gotten bumped due to lack of file space...
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Secondly, I forgot to cut&paste some rather funny (and, um, not-nice) reviews of Tony Blair's New Britain that I saw on Amazon (and check out the cover photo; heeheehee):
New Labour, new stinking hypocrisy by a reader from London
The "thoughts" of the most cynical, unprincipled man ever to hold public office in Britain, and who continues to do so only because his opponents are even more despised than he is.
Blair's complete inability to think other than in soundbites is mercilessly exposed in his own words.
"Young country"? Far from it. Britain is a very old country, and therefore far too grown up for this oik, who has absolutely no respect for anything old at all. I was about to say he has no respect in principle, but then he has no principles at all as far as I can see.
The whining, smug, ever-flexible "credo" of a constitutional vandal and sleazy second-hand car salesman.
Good for a laugh by Henry Raddick
I must declare an interest (that in itself shows I'm no Blairite) - I dress to the right, politically speaking. The sight of Tony on the cover, grinning like a wanking jap, made me feel queasy. The book, needless to say, was gobbets of nonsense, though I give it 2 stars as I admire any man who slaughters his own food - "Cherie held the piglet down, careful to lean away from the muzzle of my .38 and I just unloaded a clipful into it, thinking of bacon."
Pathetic, hopeless drivel...sometimes unreadable by a reader
Dreary, depressing, plodding "essays," speeches, and newspaper articles penned by Britain's latter-day Pilate. I dare you to read this one and not be shocked by the narrowness of his thinking.
Well, the second guy has some admiration for the way Tony, umm, shoots his breakfast (?! Also, kinda unfortunate turn of phrase in there, "wanking jap"...but still, we get mad at "Jap" but not at the national-name-shortening "Brit"...hmm, an issue for further analysis...), and the last guy admits it's not all bad; it's only sometimes unreadable.
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I wacthed another movie last night, Enemy at the Gates. I think my thumb is steadfastly...sideways. It has great actors in it, but...it's so removed from reality, I think, with how these two dudes stalk each other so specifically in a place where bombing, shelling, n firefights would make any sense of order or specific-person stalking impossible. "A place" meaning Stalingrad under siege in 1942. "Based on a true story," they say, but I think a better, much more real movie is the German-language film Stalingrad that came out a couple years ago. There is little romance or fancy-pants Hollywood-heroism in that one, so I guess you can decide whether you want the more romantic, realism-flouting flick or not...
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I am having what has to be the laziest day ever. I'm just listening to CDs I needed to listen to more and doing stuff on the computer. Put on Nick Drake Pink Moon, Zappa/Beefheart Bongo Fury, Juliana Luecking Big Broad, some Graham Parker Squeezing Out Sparks, and now, ha, some live Sabbath from Past Lives.
Nick's album is good. The Zappa has a couple great things, mostly "Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy." Juliana's spoken word is, ehh, okay, not fantastic. It's very lesbionic and alternative. Graham Parker, hey, I love a few from that album, nuf said. Sabbath was just sitting here on my desk. I have to seek out more neglected CDs now. Happy weekend, you savages.
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Secondly, I forgot to cut&paste some rather funny (and, um, not-nice) reviews of Tony Blair's New Britain that I saw on Amazon (and check out the cover photo; heeheehee):
New Labour, new stinking hypocrisy by a reader from London
The "thoughts" of the most cynical, unprincipled man ever to hold public office in Britain, and who continues to do so only because his opponents are even more despised than he is.
Blair's complete inability to think other than in soundbites is mercilessly exposed in his own words.
"Young country"? Far from it. Britain is a very old country, and therefore far too grown up for this oik, who has absolutely no respect for anything old at all. I was about to say he has no respect in principle, but then he has no principles at all as far as I can see.
The whining, smug, ever-flexible "credo" of a constitutional vandal and sleazy second-hand car salesman.
Good for a laugh by Henry Raddick
I must declare an interest (that in itself shows I'm no Blairite) - I dress to the right, politically speaking. The sight of Tony on the cover, grinning like a wanking jap, made me feel queasy. The book, needless to say, was gobbets of nonsense, though I give it 2 stars as I admire any man who slaughters his own food - "Cherie held the piglet down, careful to lean away from the muzzle of my .38 and I just unloaded a clipful into it, thinking of bacon."
Pathetic, hopeless drivel...sometimes unreadable by a reader
Dreary, depressing, plodding "essays," speeches, and newspaper articles penned by Britain's latter-day Pilate. I dare you to read this one and not be shocked by the narrowness of his thinking.
Well, the second guy has some admiration for the way Tony, umm, shoots his breakfast (?! Also, kinda unfortunate turn of phrase in there, "wanking jap"...but still, we get mad at "Jap" but not at the national-name-shortening "Brit"...hmm, an issue for further analysis...), and the last guy admits it's not all bad; it's only sometimes unreadable.
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I wacthed another movie last night, Enemy at the Gates. I think my thumb is steadfastly...sideways. It has great actors in it, but...it's so removed from reality, I think, with how these two dudes stalk each other so specifically in a place where bombing, shelling, n firefights would make any sense of order or specific-person stalking impossible. "A place" meaning Stalingrad under siege in 1942. "Based on a true story," they say, but I think a better, much more real movie is the German-language film Stalingrad that came out a couple years ago. There is little romance or fancy-pants Hollywood-heroism in that one, so I guess you can decide whether you want the more romantic, realism-flouting flick or not...
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I am having what has to be the laziest day ever. I'm just listening to CDs I needed to listen to more and doing stuff on the computer. Put on Nick Drake Pink Moon, Zappa/Beefheart Bongo Fury, Juliana Luecking Big Broad, some Graham Parker Squeezing Out Sparks, and now, ha, some live Sabbath from Past Lives.
Nick's album is good. The Zappa has a couple great things, mostly "Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy." Juliana's spoken word is, ehh, okay, not fantastic. It's very lesbionic and alternative. Graham Parker, hey, I love a few from that album, nuf said. Sabbath was just sitting here on my desk. I have to seek out more neglected CDs now. Happy weekend, you savages.
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i haven't seen Enemy at the Gates. in fact it's been quite a while since i saw a "new" movie at all. i think the last movie i watched was The Deer Hunter. wait, that's not true, i picked up a used DVD of Resident Evil a few weeks ago.
[Edited on Aug 02, 2003]