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Jurassic world: Alive
Jurassic world: Alive
Games
7
7.5 (2 Ratings)
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Dinosaur graphics are good (1 more)
Drone shots have a element of skill.
Distances are pretty far to really go anywhere on foot. (1 more)
In the battles. The Dino’s don’t touch. Stupid.
Feels like better Pokémon go.
  
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Amoree Esterdahl (267 KP) created a post in Audiobook Greatness

Nov 3, 2018  
I started listening to audio books back in June when I had to do a 14 hour drive to NY. I've learned so far that I prefer audio books narrated by females rather than males. Men tend to drone and it doesn't make for a good drive!
  
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The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) Nov 9, 2018

interesting.... any favorites so far?

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Amoree Esterdahl (267 KP) Nov 10, 2018

Yes! I've listened to the Wicked series by Janet Evanovich and I never wanted to stop. There is also a book by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley called The War That Saved My Life. That was super good, the narrator also had an accent.

I was sent a copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I have about 6 books in this series. I adore it. The update gives information about hackers and possibly murderous clowns in addition to getting away from a drone attack.

This book is a quick, easy read and packed with tidbits I hope I'll never end up using.
  
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Colin Newman recommended track All I Want by Joni Mitchell in Blue by Joni Mitchell in Music (curated)

 
Blue by Joni Mitchell
Blue by Joni Mitchell
1971 | Folk, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
9.2 (6 Ratings)
Album Favorite

All I Want by Joni Mitchell

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"At the moment she’s in the news for all the wrong reasons [the 71-year-old Mitchell was recently hospitalised after being found unconscious at her LA home]. So I would like to get it on record that I’m a fan. The emotional content is great, but the sheer musicality of it all is amazing – it’s written on a dulcimer, one drone string, which really appeals to me a lot"

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Eye In The Sky (2016)
Eye In The Sky (2016)
2016 | Drama, Mystery
This thought provoking drone strike thriller is a tense and exciting watch with some excellent work from Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul and the much missed Alan Rickman. I liked how the film satisfyingly explores the political, ethical and emotional implications of ending a human life thousands of miles away from behind a computer screen. It was quite disturbing and sadly very realistic to see politicians arguing over the positives of murder. Well worth checking out.
  
Ad Astra (2019)
Ad Astra (2019)
2019 | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
If ever there was a movie guilty of misleading it's viewers through its trailer, it's this one.

Trailer makes it look like an exciting Sci-Fi spectacle.

What you get instead is a boring sci-fi snoozefest, that I struggled to stay awake in long enough to make it through.

Aiming for the 2001: A Space Odyssey vibe, this fall's well short, with Bradd Pitt's internal monologuing a near constant drone throughout.

One to avoid.
  
Blair Witch (2016)
Blair Witch (2016)
2016 | Horror, Thriller
Almost identical to the original (2 more)
Lots of running and shouting in the woods
More shaky camera work
More of the same
Nothing new here at all. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a sequel, although I think it is, but it could be a remake. Almost identical to the original scene for scene for large parts. The only difference is the camera is up to date and they have a drone. Don't waste your time.
  
Stranger Things  - Season 2
Stranger Things - Season 2
2017 | Sci-Fi
Brings me back to the 80's D&D with my cousins in the basement. (0 more)
Some episodes and drone on. (0 more)
Childhood Revisited
I have really enjoyed the series thus far. It brings a bit of nostalgia mixed with SciFi that just melts the heart a little bit. The sound track is fantastic and fits the series very well. Acting is good! A well rounded cast really brings life to the normalcy of 80's and not so normal upside down!
  
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Cate Le Bon recommended Pipe Dream by Mary Jane Leach in Music (curated)

 
Pipe Dream by Mary Jane Leach
Pipe Dream by Mary Jane Leach
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"She’s a classically avant garde, experimental composer who was part of the 70s New York scene that people like Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell were also a part of. Her album Pipe Dreams, which was given to me recently when I was living on my own in the Lake District, became a soundtrack to the moments where I embraced the solitude of living somewhere quite secluded by myself. It has these beautiful drone sounds that interact with bass, and it adapts to your mood in a way. It’s completely transportive – an album to lose yourself in."

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Talking To A Dead Queen by Leif Elggren
Talking To A Dead Queen by Leif Elggren
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"He's a Swedish multi-disciplinary artist. I chose that to represent all of my friends, composers and people that I know who make extraordinary experimental work. On one hand it is a drone, and it's a really fantastic drone. It's a copper pipe on a pillar driven by it's own amplification - it's a fantastic sound. The other part is a reading of an autopsy of a Dutch queen when she dies. It's an old autopsy so it's got this great formality: it talks about the 'colouration' of the skin. The poetry is in the age of the language. It's something that's absolutely fascinating but it also has no relevance, all it is is about it. It's a composition, it's a piece of imagination. One could mention 'The Gift' by The Velvet Underground. I remember the first time hearing that and it was split in stereo and thinking: 'God that's extraordinary'. Why do I not always sing my own lyrics? It seems to fit better to me. It's the proof that sometimes it's a good idea not to think about things too carefully. The way things roll is sometimes good. It's a funny thing to Wire, it's not what we thought about, it was a practical solution to a time when we were in need of writing material. I never learned to play the guitar, and it turned out to be an incredible device, this distancing, which threw it into interesting spaces. It gives it a theatrical quality that's not drama theatrical, but theatrical in the same way as you'd have with someone like Pinter, where you'd have very normal speech but because of the context that you put things into, suddenly you have something that's quite peculiar."

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