Hello listeners, and a happy Friday to you all. We kick off this edition of Music Weekly with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. The irrepressible singer was in London for a series of shows, but found time to tell Rosie Swash what makes a brilliant live show and why Do You Realize? was voted Oklahoma's official rock song. Singles Club sees Rosie pit Solange Knowles's cover of Dirty Projectors' Stillness...
Inspired by kitchen-sink realism, the Sheffield band reimagined time-honoured tales of lairy lads for a new generation More top 10 albums of the decade "Saturday night you have your fling at life ... and Sunday morning you face up to it!" ran the tagline for Karel Reisz's classic 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. After watching it, Alex Turner noticed that it shared similarities...
Twitter awards list unites Compare the Meerkat, Manchester City FC and Alan Rusbridger The first annual Twitter awards – the Golden Twits – took place last night at London nightclub Fabric. Winners had to keep their acceptance speeches to 140 characters or less, naturally. Winners included Nesta (category: business-to-business), Comparethemarket.com's Compare the Meerkat marketing campaign...
It calls itself “the ultimate BitTorrent source”, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a cease-and-desist court ruling in August from Dutch entertainment rightsholder group Brein . As the site’s staff write in a blog post , only content uploaded via the site’s legal P2P distribution service will be available,...
OK it's a quote from Vladimir Putin but it's worth reading ( s ent by a lovely reader of this blog ): "Excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state's omnipotence is another possible mistake... Instead of streamlining market mechanisms, some are tempted to expand state economic intervention to the greatest possible extent... In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made...
Last night I channel hopped into Question Time, the BBC's late night political panel show, and caught the beginning of the question they had about climate, etc.. And I can report that, although maybe only temporarily, there has been, I think, a definite change of atmosphere in the argument about climate change. Melanie Phillips and Marcus Brigstocke said, respectively, yes and no, to the question about...
But it's not what you think. You need to go lay your hands on some K-Y Jelly : Dubai’s successful but hideous entrepot model depends on the confidence capital markets, and as a rule markets don’t react to nasty shocks with a shake of the head and a song and dance routine. It’s as if plague has descended on every stock exchange in the world; investors are fleeing for safety. Overnight,...
Roland Dodds was born in Brawley, California. He is currently a graduate student focusing on international politics at the University of Edinburgh, but was previously a teacher in California and Korea. He once fancied himself a musician and toured around...
"I`m gonna fix that rat thats what I`m gonna do, I`m gonna fix that rat" Staff at the outlet in Newquay, Cornwall, chased after the rat with a broom and a cardboard box as shocked diners looked on. And it wasn't even a good-looking rat, much to the disgust of one customer: She said: 'The rat was about a foot long, it looked really mangey and had lost most of its hair .' I guess its diet didn't...
Red Herring What do comedians do when they can't get their ideas on the television or radio? Is it possible for a comedian to create and then successfully broadcast their work on their own, without the need for the involvement of mainstream media? For the past 7 weeks, comedian Richard Herring has been attempting just that; writing, performing, recording and releasing a podcast of the live stand-up...
[FBI SPECIAL AGENT BUCKNER] Early 40s. A friendly, backslappy, guy's guy kinda guy with a serious dark side. A big bear of a guy who seems like he could easily work in an insurance company until you see him with the lights out in his eyes... and then he's one scary dude...CO-STAR/POSSIBLE RECUR [FBI SPECIAL AGENT DANFORTH CROWLEY] Early 30s. A young, friendly agent who's a family man with a patriotic...
STORY LINE Lightman investigates the case of a police officer shot in one of the local projects, and uncovers a scam that involves the Police Department... [DISTRICT CAPTAIN DARREN JAMES] A CAUCASIAN police officer in his 50s, James is a grizzled veteran who has worked his way up through the ranks, the kind of cop who's not above meting out "street justice' when necessary, but who's still a man...
What happened to all the cocktail napkin and sleazy postcard artists and illustrators of the 1950 decade? Drawing for the masses of returning soldiers from World War 2 and the hoards of surburbanites who had tasted war and were in the mood for stimulation, these anonymous and much maligned purveyors of illustrated fantasy cheescake are now being rediscovered on the VINTAGE SLEAZE website, the creation...
Smith & Williamson Chartered Accountants named partners N F Hickling Gareth Pearce are the subject of ongoing serious criminal allegations of racketeering organised crime and criminal liquidation offences in the FBI Scotland Yard Carroll Trust $1,000,000,000 crime syndicate offshore tax evasion case. Smith & Williamson partners Peter Yeldon and Peter Mills also executed fraudulent valuations of the
Want to download The Road full movie online ? The Road is the latest blockbuster to hit the screens in US. Read on as I share with you more about the movie and where to download The Road . The Road - The Plot Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee star in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's...
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