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Butch Vig recommended Pretenders by Pretenders in Music (curated)

 
Pretenders by Pretenders
Pretenders by Pretenders
1980 | Rock
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Every song on the Pretenders’ self-titled debut is so good. The energy is superb; it's a band playing at the peak of their powers. Unfortunately they didn't really last - they buckled under the pressure, under their own personal demons. However this record is just amazing. You put it on and the energy and vibe and Chrissie Hynde’s lyrics and singing are pretty powerful and undeniable. Chrissie Hynde is one of my favourite female artists in rock music with one of the most gorgeous voices in rock. I know that Shirley adores her and cites her as one of her influences - some lyrics of Shirley's in one of our songs, 'Special', is a total nod to Chrissie."

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TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated Stories and Songs of Faith: My Journey with God in Books

Feb 24, 2021  
Stories and Songs of Faith: My Journey with God
Stories and Songs of Faith: My Journey with God
Alexis A. Goring | 2020
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
<i>Stories and Songs of Faith: My Journey with God</i> by Alexis A. Goring is beautifully done. I am still reading it (on day/week 35) but I am loving how Alexis A. Goring combine’s real life experiences, the Bible, and songs that uplift and inspire. The songs seem to stay with me as what I’ve read keeps spinning in my mind. I love the reflections and her personal life examples, plus I have truly enjoyed the flow of topics in covered in the book. I think many of us can relate to the examples laid out in this book as they are relevant to everyday life. I also have enjoyed finding some new worship music
  
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David Duchovny recommended Chinatown (1974) in Movies (curated)

 
Chinatown (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
1974 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
8.1 (8 Ratings)
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"I’m gonna say Chinatown. That’s just great storytelling, acting, directing. I think Polanski’s an amazing director. It’s opera, you know. It’s the biggest issues. You can’t tell an epic without a big problem, and Chinatown is brilliant in the sense of Los Angeles history — the whole creation of the Valley, and the diversion of water to make the Valley. [Screenwriter] Robert Towne was able to take a very interesting historical fact — what’d he call it, Mulwray instead of Mulholland? — and tell this amazing personal story about it. I like that very much. I guess The Godfather is similar to that in many ways; obviously based on certain facts. I like that historical aspect to Chinatown as well."

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William Finnegan recommended Homage to Catalonia in Books (curated)

 
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell, Julian Symon | 2013 | Biography
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"""Among all of Orwell’s great unflinching reportage, this book stands out as a personal odyssey and first-person witness to history. He went to Spain in 1936, during the civil war there, to help fight Fascism. He joined a leftist militia and found himself targeted not only by Franco’s forces but by Stalinists intent on crushing anyone not toeing the Moscow line. Orwell’s descriptions of wartime Barcelona and impoverished rural Spain, his clear-eyed analysis of the shifting factions in the war, are triumphs of tender, hard-headed participant-observation. He was wounded at the front, shot through the throat by a sniper. His peerless moral grasp of the dangers of totalitarianism began in Spain."

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John Bailey recommended The Wages of Fear (1953) in Movies (curated)

 
The Wages of Fear (1953)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
1953 | Adventure, Thriller
6.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This is a companion portrait of the existential man of The Fire Within, but it is the obverse—men facing their end not by the personal choice of suicide but by literally being blown to bits. Beginning in a slow, sleepy town (an extended sequence that was once severely trimmed), it tracks men who are moving toward death on a literal and metaphorical road but whose ability to face the void ahead of them is Camus-like in its indomitability. Screwed down as tightly as a pipe bomb, this Clouzot film threatens to blow up in front of you at every turn. You want to scream as you reach to grab the truck’s steering wheel."

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