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Ultimate Guide to Sugarcraft: The International School of Sugarcraft

Janice Murfitt and Ann Baber

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A compilation of the best-selling International School of Sugarcraft Book One and Book Two, now...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Conor McGregor: Notorious (2017) in Movies

Apr 22, 2021 (Updated Jul 4, 2021)

Your standard sports doc - and if there's anyone in the sporting world right now who *isn't* standard, it's Conor McGregor. The general rule of thumb I use for these is whether or not it's more insightful than what I can find from ~10 minutes of research, this is not. For following this guy around for 4+ years you'd think there would be something under the hood but there isn't a single for-the-doc interview in this - just a broken collage of quick 5/10 second conversations that rush right past anything half interesting. I swear this is like 90% B-roll footage. Seems like it's in such a hurry to be another generic, surface-level rags-to-riches documentary for people going into this already knowing they're going to love it. I'm not saying you have to deflate the guy's ego, I like the guy - but if you're going to make a puff piece like this at least make it a good one. It would be so easy to sit back and just let this unique, caustic, energetic performer breathe rather than cutting his screen time to shreds - let it be 3 hours who gives a shit? Would have much preferred a 90+ YouTube compilation of his famed trash talk + fight footage over this "the world isn't going to stop me!" snooze. Should have been a miniseries.

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Darren Fisher (2447 KP) rated Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) by Brian Eno in Music

Dec 18, 2020 (Updated Jan 15, 2021)

Eno On Peak

In the 80's I got into Brian Eno via Talking Heads (with the excellent Remain in Light alvum) and David Bowie (Low, Heroes and Lodger), rather than through early Roxy Music.
My first introduction to Eno's solo work was the compilation More Blank Than Frank in 1986, which after listening to, was enough to convince me that I really needed to check out more of his work. I found Taking Tiger Mountain on cassette in the bargain bins at Our Price (I think). No inlay card but it was going cheap. Taking a punt I got it home and was instantly blown away. Musically upbeat for most of its duration, the lyrics told dark, humorous and downright weird tales about espionage, Limbourg Asylum and the rape of a woman by a crazed machine. There's also a lot of references to China (as the album title suggests).
So obssessed by this album I once recycled my smashed up electric guitar body in to a 'skinning up' table (with coaster bed legs so you could push it from person to person). The main centrepiece of this 'table' was a big mound of wax which I attempted to mould into my own Tiger Mountain... Damn the drugs were good back then hahaha 😎✌

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Third Uncle
The True Wheel

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Midway Arcade

Games and Entertainment

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Get ready to mash some buttons! INCLUDES 10 GAMES!!!! Spy Hunter, Rampage, Joust, RootBeer Tapper,...

Double Dragon Trilogy

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A groundbreaking, uber-popular game upon its arcade debut in 1987, Double Dragon is the undisputed...

West Side Story by Stephen Sondheim

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of West Side Story, one of the best-loved musicals of all time,...

Paleo Plate Pro

Food & Drink and Health & Fitness

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Over 150 (and growing) of our favourite Paleo and gluten free recipes broken up into delicious...

Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated How To Be A Complete And Utter Blunt in Books

Sep 3, 2022

I think this is the shortest book I’ve ever read (I finished it within half an hour) but that doesn’t stop it from being entertaining.
I have seen some of James Blunt’s tweets before, but having some of them compiled into a book is even more entertaining than reading them when I come across them.
James has a dry and sarcastic sense of humour, and when it comes to being insulted by members of the public, he seems to know exactly what to say to both make it seem like he’s not bothered and get one over on the person tweeting. No one is safe, he even insults Piers Morgan when he’s having an argument with someone else.
I actually think he could have included more tweets and made a longer book and it would have just got better and better. I love the self deprecating sense of humour that he has over his music, and the fact that he doesn’t take himself too seriously. The only thing that let this book down was how short it was, I think there could have been so many more tweets in it.
Fingers crossed that James Blunt decides to make another compilation of his tweets in the future, I would definitely be buying that book after having read this one!