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Look I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany

Stephen Sondheim

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As he did in the acclaimed Finishing the Hat, Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with personal and...

Becoming Superman

J. Michael Straczynski

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In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood’s...

Stephen Morris recommended Neu! by Neu! in Music (curated)

Neu! by Neu!

1972 | Experimental, Rock

8.7

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"As a drummer, Klaus Dinger was important to me: [he taught me] how to make one riff last a lifetime! It's a great riff though, don't get me wrong. Neu! was absolutely brilliant; it's another record where the first time you buy it and put it on, you think 'I've never heard anything like this before'. I was into Krautrock and that's why I bought it - I bought anything that came out of Germany - but Neu! were just completely out there. I had no idea who was in the band, there was just a big 'Neu!' image on the front… it was striking, kind of punk. The way that they used cut up music, and bits of ambient sound… as soon as I heard it, I thought 'If I ever start a band, I'd like them to sound a bit like this - as adventurous as this'. A lot of Krautrock was trying to plough its own furrow, but there were other bits that were trying to Germanize Western things. And the odd thing about it is, I never knew that Michael Rother lived in Wilmslow for a time - which is just around the corner from me - in the 70's. I was watching a Krautrock documentary and he was saying: “I've always been surrounded by flowing water, there's always been a river - the Rhine, the Elbe, the Bollin.” And I said: “Hang on, did he just say the Bollin!? That's just down the road!”"

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Nyctophobia: Vampire Encounter

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The night is cold and dark. It's hard to see where you are or where you've been. "A road trip gone...

Liverpool: Gangs, Vice and Packet Rats: 19th Century Crime and Punishment

Malcolm Archibald

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Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different...

Andrew Koltuniuk (767 KP) rated Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) in Movies

Dec 12, 2019

This movie.... Was.... *sigh* such a letdown. I wanted to like this movie so much. Iron Ma-- I mean, Spider-man was pretty good in this film. But it felt like a teenage romcom/road-trip movie and a superhero movie thrown together. It was like eating my favorite appetizer dipped in ice-cream.... Yuck. I thought that Jake Gyllenhaal's performance was probably the best. And as a villain he was one that we had seen at least four times before. Also, this is the second Spider-Man movie in a row where we didn't get a Spider-Man villain, we got an Iron Man villain who takes it out on Peter. Boo.