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Good Pastures: Some Memories of Farming Fifty Years Ago

T. Bedford Franklin

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Originally published in 1944, this book provides a highly readable account of agricultural life in...

David Zellner recommended Kes (1969) in Movies (curated)

Kes (1969)

1969 | Drama

8.0

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"I’m a sucker for films of the “boy/girl and his/her dog (lion/bear/whatever)” variety. I love gritty British kitchen-sink dramas of the sixties. I love a good angry-kid coming-of-age film. Kes has it all, minus the sentimentality and anthropomorphism of so many animal films. My heart aches for the kid and his bird—I just want their companionship, his only form of stability, to last forever. Fantastic, bittersweet score by John Cameron. My favorite Ken Loach film. "

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Helen McCrory recommended Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience in Books (curated)

"I read these out loud quite often. The letters are gathered from such a diverse range of people, from Steve Martin to Napoleon, and David Bowie to Mary, Queen of Scots—in this case on the night of her execution. There are love letters, letters of state, there’s a particularly funny one from a British ambassador to Moscow. They are tiny chinks of light into all these different lives, from Charlie Chaplin to Hitler. Each letter is reproduced as a facsimile of the original."

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Silver & Gold by Nikhil D'souza in Music

Jul 11, 2019

You put that British-sounding electric guitar against some strings and everyone will cry The Verve. But more, it's got that command of something we are all trying to get to. The delivery is epic and stadium-worthy. It could almost be an extension of the falsetto facility we remember from Jeff Buckley. You be the judge.

Nikhil D’Souza was born in Mumbai and his new release ‘Silver And Gold’ is distributed through Warner Music. One thing is for sure: this production is spot-on.