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Hold My Liquor by Kanye West
Hold My Liquor by Kanye West
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"Definitely my favourite song on that record [Yeezus]. I think it's a great record, if you can get past the ""bitches"" and what's that about Chinese pussy? Kanye, fucking grow up man, you're not 15. I was talking to Michael Azerrad, 'cause he's got me to do a couple of podcasts for him. And his clever little thing is to get musicians to review other albums. In conversation, I mentioned this track, and he said he got Lou Reed to write about the record. He said Lou Reed was in tears listening to this track. It's a very emotional track and it's very clever. He switches between making jokes and sounding very desperate indeed. One minute he's being very flippant, and I guess it's like being drunk and not drunk. The drink and the comedown, the hangover, whatever. Really beautiful, but also powerful, and quite punk in a way. And the arrangement is so clever and unexpected and unusual. He'll give you one thing and then give you something quite different, but it all works from section to section. I heard this while I was making What Happens Next and I was really impressed with the synth bass sounds, so I ended up having Thomas [McNeice] in, and we worked out where there would be a mixture of his bass playing and some electronic bass. You know, Lou Reed's point is that Kanye is demonstrating what he can get away with, which is good. I think there's quite a few ""I can do what I like moments"", including talking about ""sweet and sour pussy"" [sic]."

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The City of Tears (The Burning Chambers #2)
The City of Tears (The Burning Chambers #2)
Kate Mosse | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
9
9.0 (2 Ratings)
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The story of Minou and Piet continues, starting with their idyllic lives in Puivert: Minou is the chatelaine, and Piet has returned from fighting for the Huguenot cause. They have two children: Marta, a precocious little girl, and their baby son Jean-Jacques. As a family they decide to travel to Paris for the wedding of the Catholic Marguerite de Valois (the Kingโ€™s sister) and the Protestant Henri of Navarre (the first Bourbon King of France - and I never know whether to think of the biscuit or the drink whenever I hear the word โ€˜Bourbonโ€™ ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ). Their union is hoped to end the religious wars in France.

But of course nothing goes to plan. Cardinal Valentin is there in his role as the Duke of Guiseโ€™s confessor, and heโ€™s out for revenge. The St. Bartholomewโ€™s Day Massacre tears Minou and Pietโ€™s family apart so that it is forever changed.

I donโ€™t want to give too much away, but I will say that Minou and Piet end up in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam their is a peaceful change in power from Catholic to Protestant. Itโ€™s interesting to see how their lives change, and how they are able to live in relative peace and cooperation with their Catholic friends and neighbours. Itโ€™s no less exciting than The Burning Chambers though. The familyโ€™s adventures take them back to France and in to more danger.

 I loved all of the historical detail, and the thoughts and beliefs around religion at this time - and I cannot wait to read the next TWO books in this series! Iโ€™m hooked!

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for this serialisation - it was outstanding!
  
King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword (2017)
King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword (2017)
2017 | Action, Drama
Pick your poison: ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ meets ๐˜–๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ธ ๐˜’๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ, 300: ๐˜™๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ meets the ๐˜ˆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ'๐˜ด ๐˜Š๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ movie, or ๐˜Ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜Œ๐˜จ๐˜บ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต meets ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ (2018) - you decide. Either way they all eventually mesh with ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข, too. As stupid and trashy as it needs to be, legit some of the dumbest stuff imaginable lmfao. Pure junky spectacle with jaw-dropping visuals and neurotic editing, felt like somebody laced my drink with crack while I was watching it. God-tier Law performance right here, chews the scenery so much that legend has it his jaw dislocated. Unmistakably Ritchie in areas but unfortunately often sacrifices auteur personality for genre convention (take a shot every time you see a side character you'll remember and you'll end up totally sober - and that stupid joke about the roundtable at the end was puh-thetic). To say this frankly disgraceful excuse of a screenplay is the exact same movie as all of these other edgy historical action-remakes for high school boys would be a severe understatement. Glad it didn't turn too much into jokey blockbuster corn or yet another over-emphasized failed origin story (most of this is wisely cut to montages with like nu-gothic heavy breathing scores lol). In short, the type of movie I'm *shocked* wasn't released in 2003/2004. I feel bad for those who love King Arthur and then saw this movie - but Jude Law cuts off a guy's ear then whispers into it and Charlie Hunnam full-on does the ๐˜›๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต: ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ angst-run through the woods. So of course I, for one, enjoyed the hell out of it.
  
Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny
Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny
Brian Limond aka Limmy | 2019 | Biography, Humor & Comedy
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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Funny but at times harrowing auto-biography
I wouldn't say I was a huge fan of Limmy's. I've seen a few of his sketches on youtube and have heard him interviewed on a few podcasts. He seems quite strange and a bit of an odd character. I have read his books of short stories and found them to be brilliantly well-written and original.
His auto-biography starts brilliantly, giving a great insight into the childhood that shaped the comedian. There are funny stories of growing up isolated and playing strange games with strange friends. This gets darker as Limmy ages, as he finds himself looking for danger and things to make him feel alive. This inevitably leads to trouble with the police, and on to drink and drugs and more police trouble.
He seems to have always been looking to try and find somewhere to fit in, a niche in the world where he can be himself and be otherwise left alone, though he is his own worst enemy along the way. Battles with depression, suicide and social issues hold him back at almost every stage. He finally finds his niche when he discovers flash programming. This gives him an avenue for his creativity and silliness, and leads to his genius being discovered, eventually leading to a successful podcast and TV shows - though even those weren't plain sailing.
This is the charming, though at times harrowing, story of a man with so many ideas in his head, but so many issues holding him back, and the battle to overcome demons to do what he wants to do, and to do it his way.