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  • Randall Lard
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    dripping sounds yield to stillness
    Oh well, fuck them then...
  • Mike Edwards
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    Pussy Riot Petition
    I tried to sign it, but that website didn't seem to care for my Android.
  • Randall Lard
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    feline vs ferocious
    it's no surprise a male dog barks aggressively.a pussy would sing soprano. did you sign the petition Mary and Mike?
  • marye
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    in other news
    it appears that Cyndi Lauper sings "At Last" very well.
  • Mike Edwards
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    Vaginal Vigilantism
    I nominate Pussy Riot for the best band name ever.
  • slo lettuce
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    SNL "E-Meth" skit with Aaron Paul...
    helps to fill the void of no more Breaking Bad. Completely politically incorrect, too. Enjoy :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5q8KWL6Ezw
  • Randall Lard
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    Cornelia Parker What Do Artists Do All Day? In Conversation Cornelia Parker is a London-based sculptor and installation artist. She was born during the year 1956 in Cheshire, England. She was raised on a Cheshire smallholding. Cornelia Parker's work is regarded internationally for its complex, darkly humorous, ironic style. Cornelia Parker's work is highly allusive and patterned with cultural references to cartoons, a style which she adapts to her need to capture things in the moment before they slip away and are lost beyond human perception. When examining her work holistically one can see the following themes driving her work forward consumerism, globalization, and the role of the mass media in contemporary life. Cornelia Parker was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and featured in the 8th International Sharjah Biennial in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates in 2007. Cornelia Parker has rural roots, as Simon Hattenstone for the Telegraph writes, Her sickly father had never been out with a girl until he was 34 and met Parker's mother, a German girl who had been traumatised as a Luftwaffe nurse in the second world war. Life was tough and physical – mucking out the pigs, milking the cows. "My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour." Later, Cornelia Parker studied art and received her MFA at Reading University in 1982. The Telegraph reports that Cornelia Parker trained at Wolverhampton Polytechnic because she was turned down by the larger colleges in London. After her Masters degree Cornelia lived a bohemian lifestyle in the fringes of Eastern London where she worked from home. She was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Wolverhampton (2000), the University of Birmingham (2005), and the University of Gloucestershire (2008). As the Telegraph writes: While she got teaching jobs in the art schools that had rejected her, she was opposed for years to the commercial art market, and wasn’t represented by a gallery until she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997. Parker is married to the American artist Jeff McMillan. She has a daughter Lily, with whom she became pregnant with at the age of 44. The pregnancy is depicted in a piece of art in which Parker purchased the night gown worn in the film Rosemary's Baby hoping to wear it for birth but it was too small so she displayed it as a piece of art. Many of Cornelia Parker's artworks are ephemeral or 'site-specific', created for a single time and place. Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) was such a work, in which Cornelia Parker had the British Army explode a garden shed, and the fragments were suspended in the air around a single source of illumination casting shadows of the shattered pieces on the walls. This work was displayed at the Tate Modern Gallery. Mark Hudson wrote the following in a review of the work for Telegraph: Squashing a brass band is quite another. Flattening a whole band’s worth of instruments and sending them to the North East, home of the Durham Miners’ Gala, where the blare of brass is the very breath of proletarian pride, suggests a degree of chutzpah bordering on the suicidal. The striking style of the suspended sculpture, which challenges the limitations of time and space, is typical of Cornelia Parker's work. Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson) (1999) is another example of this type of sculpture, in which charred fragments of a building supposedly destroyed by arson are suspended by wires and pins in a pattern which is both geometrical and chaotic. The work captures the identity of the two states by a retroactive positioning, much in the manner of a forensic scientist might reconstruct the scene of a crime. Cornelia Parker has had numerous solo exhibitions in England, Europe, and the United States, at the Serpentine Gallery, London (1998), ICA Boston (2000), the Galeria Civica de Arte Moderne in Turin (2001), the Kunstverein in Stuttgart (2004), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (2005), the Modern Museum at Fort Worth, Texas (2006) and Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima Peru (2008). The work of Cornelia Parker was included in group exhibitions and public collections at the Tate Gallery in London, MOMA in New York, the British Council, Henry Moore Foundation, De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Yale Center for British Art and many other venues. Some of her most noted exhibitions and works include Chomskian Abstract (2008), Never Endings (2007, 2008), Brontëan Abstracts (2006), The Distance (A Kiss with String Attached) (2003), Subconscious of a Monument (2002), Blue Shift (2001), Edge of England (1999), and The Maybe, in collaboration with Tilda Swinton (1995). b. 1956, Cheshire, England For some years Cornelia Parker’s work has been concerned with formalising things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something that is quiet and contemplative like the ‘eye of the storm’. She is fascinated with processes in the world that mimic cartoon ‘deaths’ – steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary. 2013 a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery, London 2012 The Unseen: 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China 2012 Medals of Dishonour a group exhibition at Hermitage’s Menshikov Palace, St Petersburg, Russia 2011 Thirty Pieces of Silver York St Mary’s, York 2010 Doubtful Sound, a solo exhibition at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 2008 Latent News, a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery 2007 – 2008 Never Endings, a touring solo exhibition at IKON, Birmingham; Museo De Arte de Lima, Peru 2001 a solo exhibition at GAM, Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna, Turin 2000 a solo exhibition at ICA Boston http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/uploads/artist_cvs/Parker%20CV.pdf
  • slo lettuce
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    National Geographic Channel presents: 'Cribs' ...
    Next week's episode: "The Do's and Don'ts of Financing a Hollow Log" - {%};-)
  • PalmerEldritch
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    Nice write-up, Anna. I loved the series but found the finale a bit disappointing. I guess I was hoping for a little more thought-provoking ending. Instead, it was a pretty predictable shoot-up. I thought maybe Walt finally succumbing to his cancer, quietly, alone, might have been more poignant. And the machine-gun in the trunk seemed a bit far-fetched. (we knew Walt was a genius chemist, but now apparently he is also a brilliant mechanical engineer....(?)) My favorite seasons were 1 and 2; those seemed to be the most realistic to me. After that they sometimes seemed to try a little too hard. Still, I loved all of it. I think it's the greatest psychological suspense/thriller i've ever seen (movies, TV, or otherwise).
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    After capturing three Emmies this year alone (Best Dramatic series; Best Supporting role }Anna Gunn, Walter White's wife 'Skyler'[; Best Production/Technical values (or similar)) I would have to say that the ending episode of the series, it's ultimate conclusion, was satisfying. The series was always praised by TV critics. One of the things underlined before the final episode by said critics, and myself also here in this thread last year, is the playing out of the series on a lean, spare run to it's logical conclusion. That is, every episode had something to contribute to the plot line and there was no playing out tangents that had nothing to do with furthering the dramatic content of the series, with the possible exception of the "fly in the super-lab" (not it's official name) episode. Now, as for the ending.... It wasn't one of those confusing or ball-bustingly unsatisfying endings that leaves you gnashing your teeth and wanting to yell at the ceiling. For instance, it would have been a bummer if Walt had left Jessie slaving away in a Meth mine for the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang bent on supplying the Czech Republic's meth-head population. It would have been unsatisfying had not the whole Aryan crew not been taken out by a simple but tech-savvy swiveling machine gun in the huge trunk of an old American car. An older car, but an American classic that logically had room for such a device. The ending continues to play out with such things as Walter being able to pay for his son's college education (coincidentally, with the amount he originally set out to make in the first episode) and getting back at his old lover and her new husband who had used Walter's brilliant technical research for their ultimately wildly successful high-tech start-up called "Grey Matter" or something to that effect. Brilliantly, Vince Gilligan's writer's manage to kill a third bird by including Jessie's two old cohorts whom he has using laser pointers to convince the couple that they are guns for hire who will kill them should they not give "Flynn" (the nickname for Walter's son named Walt Junior) his college cash. that Lydia, the conniving bitch who plays the materials handler for the big German conglomerate that provided a necessary, hard to get precursor chemical gets hers with a simple phone call from Walter saying ricine had been spiked into her stevia sweetner packet at the cafe (slightly unbelievable unless you believe he is willing to kill everybody using stevia at said cafe that day). The number of people who end up being killed on this series during it's six year run is truly staggering and if I had to hazard a guess I would say the number is somewhere around two to three hundred starting with an obscure character chained up in the basement of then Jessie's aunt's house. There is poignancy being developed even at this early point as neither partner in crime wants to kill somebody and they end up having to toss a coin to see who will do the deed. Walt shows a father's tenderness by cutting the crusts off the sandwiches he is feeding his prisoner and showing some real angst about the matter, an angst that is only dispelled when he realizes, by solving the cognitive puzzle of a missing piece of dinner dish that is a jagged shard, that his prisoner intends to kill him with should he get the opportunity. Fast forward one or two seasons when Walt, Jessie and Gus Freyne narrowly avoid being killed by an apparent drone missile attack called in by the DEA, I think, on the marriage of an important cartel relative that is also a summit between two cartels and thus a prime target. The missile kills probably 50-100 people. Fast forward to the last episode while Jessie slowly strangles to death the baby-faced Aryan brotherhood sociopath stone killer whose uncle runs the prison gang. Walt kills the uncle without any compunction at all. The scene that follows is what I found most interesting about the whole final episode: Jessie picks up a pistol and prepares to shoot Walter, who seems to welcome the death which is impending from all angles. Jessie finds this too easy and asks Walter's permission, which he enthusiastically grants. Jessie finds that all too easy and drops the pistol, telling Walter to do it himself. Well thought-out ending by Gilligan's writers of the interaction between these two main characters. Jessie then high-tails it out of the compound, busting a gut laughing while he busts the gate. Walt, meanwhile, takes a final tour of yet another meth lab on the premises of the Aryan compound Jessie has been forced to labor in as the police close in. Whether it be from the cancer, the cops or the bullet wound he has sustained in the final scene, Walt knows he is dying and is no longer running from the law. The most telling scene in the entire episode comes earlier when he is talking to his wife Skyler about why he did this continuing series of crimes when he had had multiple opportunities to just walk away with mad stacks of Benjamins. He says something to the effect that he likes it. It was something that made him feel alive, even as he was dying. Two supporting characters that are worthy of mention and probably rate Emmy's for their support roles, are the lawyer Saul (not even his real name in the fictional mode) who was always good for a laugh whenever he made an appearance. He had the lawyer/criminal/lawyer role nailed right down to the white Cadillac with the license plate "lawyrup". The other was Mike, the former cop turned hard core criminal security chief. The show would have paled somewhat without the brilliant performances turned in by these two. I have to say for a final time that I loved the pathos of this show and the social commentary it provides as a plot for so many people's lives in America, whether it be for the ongoing $800,000 a year lifestyle or the Eighty million dollar empire built up over time. Otherwise good people are turned bad for the slightest of justifications. In America there are ever so many more people "Breaking Bad" rather than "Breaking Good". Thank God for the example of those Breaking Good. May their example always shine brightly! (Please excuse the length of this review, I hope you found it a good summation and a good read.)
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The show "America's Toughest Jobs" is pretty good. Last night they were gold mining on a private claim in Alaska and panned and dredged a over a couple ounces in 2 days. Hippie Ben with the dreadlocks just made it to the next round.
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saw a pretty trippy show on NOVA last night about how they discovered the "black hole" at the center of our galaxy.
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Has anyone seen the "Ice Road Truckers" on History channel......NOW, those men are brave! They're up in the Artic Circle...........trucking........ Gypsy Cowgirl
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then there's also......Project Runway, Dancing w/ the Stars, Are you smarter that a 5th Grader? & DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS!!!!! (I'm waiting til they put some GD on-that'll be funny)..........xoxoox Gypsy Cowgirl

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truckin' - cuz they got their chips cashed inthey're gonna keep truckin - like the doodah man probably together - more or less in line they just keep truckin' on cuz there's so many ice roads to ride The long and winding ice road?
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I like "Whacked Out Sports"!
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Way to go Jon! .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo…') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cJim Cramer Interview Outtake Pt. 2Daily Show Full Episodes
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Premise: A high school chemistry teacher earning 42,000 a year with one child and one on the way has terminal cancer. He wants to leave his family with 748,000 dollars, the amount he figures they need. He decides to make meth with a 20 year old former student with a low rider Monte Carlo with the license plate "The Capn". Oh yeah, his brother-in-law in the small Arizona city he lives in works for the DEA. So begins his zany adventures. Won an Emmy. Good writing. Check it our, it's one of the best series on TV right now.
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I just love the way good tv shows break the mold of mutinous. This is highly recommended, and by far one of the best shows out there. Just be careful with little kids around. _____________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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A gourmet travel show with Anthony Bourdain, who often likes to get drunk with his hosts. Last week he went to Medellin, Columbia and wasn't too interested in the food. I wonder why?
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...has a show called "Secrets of the Dead".
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did a story on a guy in Portland who converted a small Datsun to run on electricity and his batteries give him 300 hp. He takes it down to the Motor Speedway for drag-racing on amatuer night and there's nobody who can beat him! It's so funny to watch this little electric Datsun blowing away Corvettes and Beemers and other big muscle cars in the quarter mile. They also showed an electric motorcycle built for drag racing that goes from 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds !
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damn fine show produced by the BBC about long con grifters. the mother load is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/hustleseasons I suggest you scroll all the way down the list and start with season 1 episode 1. co-starring, the American actor; Robert Vaughn. enjoy! peace.
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John Stewart goes off on UCSC hiring someone to manage the Grateful Dead archive. He is incredulous that the person must have a Masters in Archiving(?!?) He asks, what does this person do all day? Pick out pieces of blotter acid from Phil Lesh's underwear he wore on the Blues for Allah tour? Can't believe nobody commented on this! (sorry, don't know how to embed the link but you can go to the website).
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on sundance channel-- this week it is with richard thompson, nick lowe, allen touissant, and levon helm! and they play 'tennessee jed'! and ray lamontaigne is a guest too. it's a neat program anyway (although i find elvis to be sort of a pain)- and this episode is really great. worth checking out. caroline
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I don't have cable, but I sure hope that comes out on DVD!
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Maybe it's just me but Loudon Wainwright III always has this psychedelic smile when I see him. Most recently he did the song, "Ramblin Blues" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and I was just thrilled with his performance. Too bad it's not up on YouTube because NBC's stupid website isn't playing that show at all (Sigourney Weaver is still awesome, btw!). They need to get whoever is doing Comedy Central's site 'cause it's the "Jam" compared to all others... even if Jon Stewart did make some douche remarks about Phil, his underware and blotter acid. *shakes fist in air, holding a sharpened pitchfork* I'm not finished with you Stewart! ; - )
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A secret cult has been discovered operating under the guise of a political satire.The 'Daily Show' hosted by notorious left-wing fanatic Jon Stewart on the subversive cable station 'Comedy Central' has been known to....Siriusly (s.i.c.) though Lamagonzo,I think there might be a bunch of folk(myself included)who for whatever reason do not have cable.If not for a few good people sharing recordings of this very entertaining show with me,I too would be in the dark....
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Did anyone catch Mickey on the History channel's "The Universe" series, spotlighting pulsars and quasars? I can't believe I hadn't posted this before now... very cool.
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Was Mickey's contribution purely musical, GRTUD? Or did he have something other to add?
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Well gonzo, Mickey showed how he found the rhythm of pulsars and quasars to be very psychedelic and with it, he was able to use those beats to express a spiritual link he was feeling by perceiving this active engagement with The Universe, in a musical manner. His part of the segment is just about half way through the program and is only a few moments long but, as is the case with Mickey, it made everything worth while!
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2nd Episode, 2nd Season 10 est. Was definitely among last year's best.
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I have seen Jon channeling Glen Beck,it's funny in a "Why are there people like Glen Beck" sort of way....Compliments from Robin Williams are high praise indeed....
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Did I see that? Did anyone else? This morning on CNN, about 6-7:00AM PST, some clips kept being interrupted with flashes of Jerry playing acoustic. I don't even remember what the storyline was, it wasn't related at all to music, or us, in any way semi-remotely connected to any Dead or awakening, etc. No commentary, no music, just flashes of Jerry. Do we have a plant at CNN, flashing subliminal pro-transformative interjections of positivity? Or is it a manifestation of collective consciousness? Or are my neural synapses misfiring again?
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My guess is it's yer head,but groovy any way ya look at it....
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...but it looks like there will be a third season. The shows were good to very good this year but they moved away from the time lapse cloudscapes and other scenes of New Mexico. Not that any of that is related to the story. It has made the series grittier. The acting is very intense and well done.
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but Carnivale did it for me. Simply a beautiful show. Oh how I wish HBO would bring it back :(
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...really sucked for the US Open at Pebble Beach this year. Give me Ian Baker-Finch and the team from the Golf Channel anyday.
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anything, ANYTHING to spare us from the inane blather of Johnny Miller... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Yeahhh, Miller is a serious griping sourpuss. Guess he missed out on the big money during his career, huh?
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Did anyone catch Tina Fey's "shout-out" to johnman and myself on the last episode? Hahahaha! Very kewl...!
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AMC has announced a 4th season of "Breaking Bad" They will rerun the last three seasons in hour segments before then. I urge people to watch this show unless you're not into quality everything about the production values and acting. The plot-line may not appeal to some but you can't say it isn't filled with real pathos. I think it's the best thing on TV.
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Bernie Sanders laid it on the line. Extending Bush's tax cuts for the rich by Congress while cutting programs for the poor by the Republicans now in power.Now these inane assholes like Boehner and Cantor (R) majority leaders in the house and Senate, want to do away with: Social Security Medicare Medicaid Minimum Wage Collective Bargaining And much, much more that effects your children now. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention (or are one of the rich people making more than a 100 million a year that we should lynch in the public square.) Hey folks! 3 years past on this Wall St scam pulled off by Goldman and not one person has gone to trial, never mind to jail. Bernie Madhoff wasn't guilty of mortgage-backed securities being hedged (all dogs have their day) I am proud that the only independent socialist senator comes from the state where I live. The great State of Vermont where Democracy is real. I know reading these pages not many people care, but I do. See the extended version at www.theDaily show.com
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...much anticipated and short on dialog. I think this is a great series and the characters comments during lead-up to series premiere really shows where the show is headed. Great panoramas and and scenes, cameras work edited, in New Mexico.
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Surreal show of the year: Wilfred. Starring Elijah Wood, a twenty-something loser who's next-door neighbor's dog is a guy in a dog suit who talks and smokes weed- but only Elijah sees the guy. Everyone else sees a real dog. Why this happens is NEVER explained which is part of the genius of this show. A must see. J.T. Gossard http://thehallucinogenicbible.blogspot.com/
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Mark Lawson interviews Gilbert & George. Wonderful to them on television again. Beautiful artists.
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Frozen Planet - the new David Attenborough series. absolutely astonishing. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 -
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....I was on tour and missed the last three (or four) episodes of Breaking Bad. Anybody know where to find it on the net?
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Bad break. I'm guessing by the question that you don't have any AMC On Demand options on your cable/satellite? I think that you can pay $2 an episode to watch on amazon instant video. There also seemed to be an indication that AMC will show something on Dec 5...but what I saw didn't have a lot of detail, no episode listing just a date and time (12 am EST).
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I do have Commcast on demand but this must be a premium, pay per view series.
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a beautiful adaption of Nigel Slater's autobiography; wonderful cook, inspirational human being, let food come to LIFE! ignite your culinary tender fireworks and seek out his books and programmes. gentle explosions on the tongue, fizz and effervescence, sticky and sweet, soft and crisp, sweet and sour, sugar and all things spice.
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i freckin can't figer frickin out how to put my picture on these thing it don't even have a freckin tape deck whats happen to us if wanted some cool hippi gear you went to cool hippi gear place and hung out as a real true hippi communitie were papa dancin bear made sure that sister dancin bear was'int bein hassled by the monster rat and made to turn the gratefuldead up so loud that only the bears would be happy come on don't everybody forget about what the music was way before letting the monster rat deskies it's money hungery untrue uglyhate in clouned hippi gear.please set a better example in the many generations of trueness in the deadheads ways and please don't desrespect were we came from and the excitement those dudes up by hieght street gave to us for free the music brothers and sisters please don't let the monster get the baby dancin bears us old time deadheads hippi gear was what ever we found crusin down billboard avenue alagateralagateralagater!!!!!!!!! come on don't be yes a phil and be true peace & rockon righton and livelong hippies becouse the wizard is very sleepy and is missin to much untrueness can't keep up with the swepin up with the not forgotten