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Erika (17789 KP) rated Upload - Season 1 in TV

Jul 11, 2020  
Upload - Season 1
Upload - Season 1
2020 | Comedy
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
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I don't binge watch shows in general, unless they're true crime. I find Greg Daniels, the creator, very hit or miss.
This was a hit, and was already renewed for a 2nd season. In the not so distant future, people can live beyond death when their consciousness is uploaded to a cloud. Nathan, played by Robbie Arnell, dies in a strange and suspect car crash, and his slightly crazy fiance, who is basically a horrible, annoying person has him uploaded to the cloud.
Andy Allo, who plays Nathan's 'Guardian Angel', was the stand out for me. The angels are essentially customer service reps.
This series was funny, and a very quick watch. I highly recommend it.
  
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Under Different Stars (Kricket #1) in Books

Jan 6, 2021  
Under Different Stars (Kricket #1)
Under Different Stars (Kricket #1)
Amy A. Bartol | 2018 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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So Good

This isn't what I expected it to be like at all. Sci-fi I generally expect to have strange looking aliens and stuff , and this did but it was a gradual thing. We started off on Earth and slowly transition to Ethar, new words which are explained, new creatures also explained. New everything, all of which was explained. We weren't just dumped in the middle of the world and left to fend for ourselves.

Then add in the romance element and I was hooked. It was soooo goooood! Even went and bought the second and third books at the half way point through this. Off to start book 2 now!!!
  
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Heat Wave in Books

Jan 8, 2021  
Heat Wave
Heat Wave
Karina Halle | 2016
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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3.5 stars, i think.

I guess the storyline might not be for everyone but i didn't have a problem with it--it is fiction after all. I liked the description of Hawaii, it sounds beautiful, and kinda deadly. I loved the connection between all the co-workers, they really were like one big family.

I loved the second chance romance, though I found it a little strange how suddenly Logan's attitude changed to Ronnie. One minute they're arguing and winding each other up, the next they're kissing and admitting their love for each other. I know it'd been brewing in the background for seven years but... yeah, i didn't quite understand it.
  
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Yannis Philippakis recommended Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists in Music (curated)

 
Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists
Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists
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"A compilation from South Africa in the 80s of Soweto sound at the time. My mum's from SA and she had it on double cassette and would play it in the car as she drove me to school. It's full of unashamed joy and has a kind of cheesiness to it that I love. There's an innocence to the songs, which is interesting because you can sense the strange American influence in SA music at the time - which is similarly mirroring some current musical trends from abroad. You can hear Prince, a bit of Michael Jackson and American pop, but retranslated through musicians and equipment that they had access to at the time. It's a killer compilation."

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Reggie Watts recommended Brazil (1985) in Movies (curated)

 
Brazil (1985)
Brazil (1985)
1985 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
8.7 (9 Ratings)
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"This is an amazing film, so visually stunning and strange and melancholic. It’s a good film to remind me of a time period that I was living at that time; it made me feel very heavy, you know, as a kid in 1985. I would have been twelve or thirteen, and it was just a formative time of existence. It affected me in a pretty intense way, just simply by its mood alone. Terry Gilliam’s imagination was so surreal and rich. And the propulsion of the story with the atmosphere in this world, and the gadgets and inventions and trials that all these characters have to go through, it’s a fantastic voyage of the mind."

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Stephin Merritt recommended More Bawdy Cockney Songs, Vol. II by Elsa Lanchester in Music (curated)

 
More Bawdy Cockney Songs, Vol. II by Elsa Lanchester
More Bawdy Cockney Songs, Vol. II by Elsa Lanchester
2012 | Comedy
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"True, other Elsa Lanchester albums have her husband Charles Laughton introducing each track, but only this one has both "When a Lady Has a Piazza" and "If You Peek in My Gazebo." Lanchester, most famous for playing the Bride of Frankenstein (technically, the bride of Frankenstein's monster) and Laughton's wife in Witness For The Prosecution, has an actor's voice, with perfect stage-Cockney enunci-OY-tion, which is perfect for this material. "Please sell no more drink to my father. It makes him so strange and so wild. Heed the prayer of my heart-broken mother, and pity the poor drunkard's child." She sings this with such relish, it's easy to see whose side she's really on. "

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