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Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry, #1)

Simone Elkeles

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When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that...

How Many Letters Are In Goodbye?

Yvonne Cassidy

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It's been almost eleven years since Rhea Farrell last wrote to her mother. It was a Friday night...

Ian Anderson recommended Over-Nite Sensation by Frank Zappa in Music (curated)

"This was my album of 1974, although it came out in 1973. I guess I was always catching up with Frank Zappa. The first album by him that I bought was Hot Rats, and I found that a rather irritating album of not very evolved guitar playing. Frank was a bit of a one-trick pony as a guitarist, but as a musician, arranger and bandleader of the traditional sort, he was at the top of the tree, although he wasn’t unique as a bandleader. There were by then other bandleaders in rock, blues and soul groups like BB King, James Brown and in England John Mayall. In America, Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart were bandleaders of an apparently tough-cookie nature, although everyone who worked with Frank seems to have revered him as a musician and a person."

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Wallace Shawn recommended The Rules of the Game (1939) in Movies (curated)

The Rules of the Game (1939)

1939 | Comedy, Drama

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"When people have asked me suddenly, “What is your favorite film?” I have sometimes said “Contempt by Godard,” also in the Criterion Collection, and sometimes I’ve said “The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu) by Jean Renoir.” There are a couple of more recent films that seem to sometimes be my answer to that question, but those two have stayed on my “perhaps my very favorite” list for a long time. I first saw The Rules of the Game around fifty years ago, and I saw it again quite recently. Apparently I’m the same person I used to be, because I still felt that everything in the world is in that film, and I’m inside of it myself somehow. By the way, another French film that made an enormous impression on me was À nos amours by Maurice Pialat."

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