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The Unmumsy Mum

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This is not a parenting manual. This is real life. The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood...

Guy Maddin recommended Grey Gardens (1975) in Movies (curated)

Grey Gardens (1975)

1975 | Biography, Comedy, Drama

5.7

(3 Ratings)

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"The documentarians David and Albert Maysles found some real-life Tennessee Williams characters in Edith and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, mother and daughter eccentrics holed up for years in a sagging, cat-and-raccoon-infested mansion in otherwise grand East Hampton. The ladies’ kinship with cousin Jackie Bouvier Kennedy explains their old-money sense of entitlement, but nothing can explain why two people would want to hammer away at each other for decades on end the way these two trapped souls do. Except that maybe you’d do the same thing under the same circumstances. I’d like to think I would, anyway."

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Lindy West recommended Wow, No Thank You in Books (curated)

Wow, No Thank You

Samantha Irby | 2020 | Essays, Humor & Comedy

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"Full disclosure: Samantha Irby is my real life actual friend, but that’s only because I was so rabidly obsessed with her perfect, brilliant, peerlessly funny writing that I flew to Chicago and forced her to love me, so I think that hardly counts as a traditional conflict of interest. I was a fan FIRST. This book doesn’t come out until March, but I was lucky enough to read an early manuscript, and it’s exactly the collection of new Samantha Irby essays you’ve been yearning for, the perfect spring promise to keep you trucking through the winter."

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Alan Cumming recommended Matter of Life and Death (1981) in Movies (curated)

"This is a film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger that was called Stairway to Heaven when it was released in America. I saw it as a child and it really fascinated me, the idea that death was debatable, and it also drilled into my mind how life was so precious and flimsy. I also love how all the famous characters from history are seen in Heaven taking part in the debate. Powell/Pressburger are amazing filmmakers, and I wish we had more like them these days. “Magical realism” is a rather trite phrase, but their films are both magical and real."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Romancing the Stone (1984) in Movies

Apr 10, 2021

All About The Stone

Romancing The Stone- is a classic action-adventure film. It has a great cast and director.

The plot: A dowdy romantic-adventure writer is hurled into a real-life adventure in the Colombian jungle in order to save her sister, who will be killed if a treasure map is not delivered to her captors. She is helped out by a brash mercenary, and together they search for the priceless gem located in the map.

Micheal Douglas and Danny DeVito are the best parts of this film. Also Robert Zemeckis directed it. Its a good film.

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Kristina (502 KP) rated The Hard Truth About Sunshine in Books

Dec 7, 2020

The Hard Truth About Sunshine was a very raw, very real experience of how I couldn't even begin to imagine a wounded veteran feels like. Sure, I mentioned that Christopher was hard to like, but I never for a second forgot the trauma he was living with. Even still, I was thankful to watch his perspective on life change. Traveling with Christopher, Jillian, Conner, and Barb was enlightening. There were so many ups and downs, but the meaning behind the book is a lesson that's not just hard to learn, but impossible for some people to acknowledge.

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Waiting On You by Lindsay Ell in Music

Jul 11, 2019

Oh girl... Don't get me started. You had me from the midnight kisses and the tremolo.

“Where this is going baby I can’t say
Every time you leave me I just want you to stay
but I gotta know where you stand”
— Lindsay Ell

Like a fast car waiting for the green to go this feels like the Nashville machine took a second to say what's up with real life: young love and maybe a night out on the town. It's the candy you want at the end of the party; a fusion of Nashville pop and Country know-how.