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The Cauliflower

Nicola Barker

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"Extremely ambitious". (Financial Times). "An imaginative tour de force ...She really is a genius"....

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Sally Emerson

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Sally Emerson's compelling sophomore novel takes the reader into a dark labyrinth of physical danger...

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)

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In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in...

Ross (3284 KP) rated Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band in Music

Jul 6, 2020

Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band

1970 | Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter

8.6

(5 Ratings)

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Rolling Stone's 23rd greatest album of all time

Tiresome self-indulgent rubbish from the former Beatle. Songs about his abandonment by his parents and psychological torture show a certain amount of self-discovery (I am assuming some form of yogic therapy allowed him to revisit times in his childhood). However completely lacking in self-awareness as he used to beat his first wife and he himself abandoned his first son in favour of increasing amounts of fame. It just seems that he has now earned enough money to be safe for life and has discovered certain drugs and spiritual awakenings and is now trying to rewrite his history. The music is also pretty boring.

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Llewellyn's Sabbats Almanac 2018: Samhain 2017 to Mabon 2018

Llewellyn

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Make your seasonal celebrations more magical than ever with the rituals, rites, recipes, and crafts...

Sebastian Lelio recommended Solaris (1972) in Movies (curated)

Solaris (1972)

1972 | Sci-Fi

8.4

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"This is one of my favorite science fiction films ever. It feels like everything in Solaris is transcendent and so deep. It’s hypnotic. It has so many sequences that are unique and unforgettable, like the part where the characters float in the library or when the wife comes back to life and then breaks apart as if she were made of glass. And there’s the idea of this spaceship floating on top of a strange ocean that seems to have some form of consciousness. All of those ideas are so strange and beautiful. It’s remarkable that Tarkovsky was able to make a film this spiritual in the Communist era. I don’t know how he did it."

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Yannis Philippakis recommended Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48) by Alan Lomax in Music (curated)

"Alan Lomax was a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who was making archival recordings and field recordings in the 40s, and this album consists mainly of prison chain gang songs. The first time I heard it, it stopped me in my tracks - it was incredibly moving to hear because it's just the sound of male voices and pickaxes and nothing else... it sounds haunted but hopeful. Like listening to ghosts, the quality of the singing and the recording [is such] that you can never have again - a document of its time. It's spiritual: the pain is in their singing, which would have been their only mode of expression. It's singular and not something I'd put on everyday, being a heavy listen."

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