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Ross (3284 KP) rated Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley in Music

Jun 5, 2020 (Updated Apr 12, 2021)  
Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley
1958 | Rock
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Album Rating
Rolling Stone's 216th greatest album of all time (455th in the 2020 list)
Very influential early rock and roll album. Very interesting how he brought Afro-Caribbean influences in the rhythm of a lot of the songs.
  
The Fountain (2006)
The Fountain (2006)
2006 | Drama, Sci-Fi
I'm torn about this film. I really wanted to like it a lot and I love Hugh and Rachel, but the editing for the movie was just bizarre. I could not get invested for a long time.
  
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Peter Shephard (2822 KP) created a post in Smashbomb Council

Jun 16, 2022  
What has happened to Smashbomb? Is everything OK with the organisers/managers?

Not a great first impression when 2 of the recent giveaways haven't been given away yet?

There seems to be a lot less involvement throughout
  
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Bird (1704 KP) Jun 17, 2022

The Giveaway draw for the recently ended will take place before next Friday and we have added 2 new items to the Giveaways section to get it back on track. 👍

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Pete Thompson (4339 KP) Dec 30, 2022

Seems like nothing has really changed seems very inactive at the moment.

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David Byrne recommended La Incompara Celia by Celia Cruz in Music (curated)

 
La Incompara Celia by Celia Cruz
La Incompara Celia by Celia Cruz
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"I was listening to a lot of Cuban music and salsa, a lot of Latin music. I worked with Selena on the last thing she recorded. And there was a whole series of Celia Cruz records I loved. I did a duet with her for a Jonathan Demme movie, Something Wild. Her early Cuban records were done with a band called Sonora Matancera; those are really great. Instead of going to rock clubs, I would go to Salsa Meets Jazz downtown and the Corso Ballroom uptown to hear salsa bands. There was lots of dancing. I liked the idea that you were dancing to live music, not just DJs, and grew to really love the music. It opened me up to a lot of sentimentality and feelings that maybe didn’t come naturally to me. I decided I wanted to do a salsa record, which I did in the early ’90s. And I did another one a few years after that. It was a little less strictly salsa, but it was still in that vein, and I had a wonderful time with a huge band, [Rei Momo]. We toured everywhere, and a lot of folks in the United States did not like it at all. Oddly, people in Latin America really liked it, but not because it was their music. For a lot of their rockers in Argentina or Mexico, it was like, “He's playing our parents’ music.”"

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Eat Yourself Healthy: An easy-to digest guide to health and happiness from the inside out
Eat Yourself Healthy: An easy-to digest guide to health and happiness from the inside out
Megan Rossi | 2019 | Food & Drink, Science & Mathematics
1
3.5 (2 Ratings)
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I really wanted this book to be useful, especially I've I have just yet another health kick. However, there seemed to be a lot of words and not a lot of substance.
I received this book on my #kindle It was poorly formatted for the kindle with a lot of sentences repeated with paragraph, different don't sizes and pages referenced that just didn't exist. As far as I'm aware I didn't get a sample copy but the pages referenced to were in triple figures whereas my copy must have had about 50 pages. There was also a lot of "do this survey on this website" which I didn't like. I'm also a bit dubious about the "facts" given in this book, for example how yoga can be as effective as the FODMAP diet for IBS. I was also hoping for some more recipes, because, as the title suggests, the book is a "digest guide" and how can one digest without a ton of food. But there were only a few and they were thrown in the back of the book. On the whole, somewhat disappointing
  
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Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Murder on the Orient Express (2017) in Movies

Nov 14, 2017 (Updated Nov 14, 2017)  
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
2017 | Drama, Mystery
Branagh's direction and performance (0 more)
A Serviceable Retelling
I'm not going to tell you that this is one of the greatest detective movies ever made, but it is a lot better than a lot of reviews are making it out to be and I had fun with it. Branagh does a good job with directing the all star cast and they each get a moment to shine. He is also brilliant as Poirot, working as the staple that holds the whole movie together. The lighting and the cinematography in the film is stunning. It does have it's cheesy moments and certain actors could be mistaken for being in a pantomime, but that comes with the territory with a period murder mystery story. I'm not saying it's brilliant, but it is good fun and as remakes go, it could have been a lot worse.
  
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs | 2013 | Children, Young Adult (YA)
10
7.9 (128 Ratings)
Book Rating
The book is very descriptive of ever character. You can practically see them in your mind. There is a lot of mystery with answers, and a lot of suspense. (0 more)
The book was not long enough. I could have read this book 3 times as long, it was that good. (0 more)
Good book
I have not yet seen the movie, as I do not want to take away from my reading experience. This book has a lot of imagination, I would say it captivated me the way Tolkien's books captivated me. The descriptions of the characters are specific, and the atmosphere, and the villains. I wish the book was longer and it could certainly go much deeper. I think the author was not allowed to write as long of a story as would have liked, maybe for production value.
  
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Miguel Covarrubias (143 KP) rated Maniac in TV

Apr 23, 2019  
Maniac
Maniac
2018 | Comedy, Drama
Comedic timing is brilliant, cast is fantastic, visuals aren't distracting, great concept dealing with coping, Fun (0 more)
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The Techno-Thriller-Comedy that Nobody knew we needed
We unexpectedly loved maniac. It had a lot to say about fantasy vs. reality. The beautiful modern take (extremely loosely) on Don Quixote had a lot to say to the current era that we find ourselves in. A near future almost hopeless setting shines a lot on how we currently attempt to cope with our reality by escaping into our virtual realities. It's especially difficult on millennials who are trying to overcome the arrested development that we've been placed in. We had too much of a good thing, technology, and haven't quite figured out how to balance virtual with analog reality. 9/10 well worth your time!
  
Definitely not my favourite cozy mystery series - there was a lot of internal dialogue that I did not enjoy. I did like her lists, I thought those were cute and funny - I thought some parts were funny and entertaining but a lot of it was just .. blah, like why is this necessary, why are we repeating this again, why is this happening - but the end was good and fun

I called a lot of the book but it was still fun toward the end to read and the very end - I also called but it was still absolutely joyful to read.

Reading the struggle of a new mother was fun too - it was an interesting take on a mystery trying to be a PI or solving a mystery while literally taking care of a brand spankin new baby and separation anxiety ..