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  • Randall Lard
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    M.R. James: Ghost Writer Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of MR James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? Mark attempts to uncover the secrets of James's inspiration, taking an atmospheric journey from James's childhood home in Suffolk to Eton, Cambridge and France, venturing into ancient churches, dark cloisters and echoing libraries along the way.
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    A monument to American excess mixed with a reverse twist of sarcasm. Colbert is a monumental ego who addresses his audience as "Nation". Inevitably there would be a comic who took it to this edge. Although a stupid conservative might feel a kinship with Colbert's comments, it is his unique brand of sarcasm that makes his show witty and Emmy-winning. Although entertaining, it can wear on the intelligent mind after a longer or shorter period.
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    can't come a moment too soon. Robert Hood, Luke Slater, Jerome Sydenham, Shifted, jozif, Fritz Zander Oval Space/ 29-32 The Oval; Bethnal Green; London E2 9DY; United Kingdom. we await a plan for the floor.
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    'There's a marvellous antidote to the surfeit of office party faux-bonhomie and murder-inspiring John Lewis ads this Christmas thanks to Robin 'Scanner' Rimbaud. The electronic artist is curating a night called Scanner: Lachrimae takes place on December 13th 2013, and features the following excellent mordant entertainment: Scanner will be performing his interpretation of John Dowland’s Lachrimae, Carter Tutti and Gazelle Twin are playing, Chris Turner and Anna and Maria von Hausswolff are screening films, and friend of tQ Spencer Hickman of Death Waltz Records will be gothing it up in the lounge after.' Details and persons wishing to buy tickets are available here - https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadA… Tickets £15, concs £11.50 (Members pay £1.50 less) http://thequietus.com/articles/13796-scanner-gothic-festival Scanner - Lachrimae -

    Scanner / Lachrimae from Favourite Colour: Black on Vimeo.

    'One of the UK’s foremost composers presents an evening of live music and film inspired by the the gothic spirit. As well as performing an interpretation of John Dowland’s mournful ‘Lachrimae’, Scanner will be joined by Gazelle Twin and Carter Tutti in exclusive live cinematic performances, and present specially made films by Chris Turner and Anna and Maria von Hausswolff. With Death Waltz Records presenting spectral, dissonant dancefloor tunes in the Benugo lounge until late.'
  • Randall Lard
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    Thank you. Please see PM. A heartfelt response is coming soon.
  • Randall Lard
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    i sincerely urge everyone to watch this documentary film. Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer i sincerely urge everyone to sign the Amnesty petition to release Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina. http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/PussyRiot http://freepussyriot.org/news
  • PonchoBill
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    With season 4 just around the corner I can't help but wonder what's in store for some of the beloved characters. I haven't read the books so I really haven't a clue. But I will say that i'm rooting for the dragons and hoping for King Joffrey to have his throat slit from ear to ear...very slowly.
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    Side note from the mod: DO NOT POST FULL ARTICLES HERE.
    All things considered, I am not for the moment going to unpublish the full copyrighted article posted above. For future reference, as we have noted previously, please post a short excerpt with a link, as we have no legal rights whatever to reproduce other people's articles here, unless it's the author or another rights holder doing so. See the TOS, not to mention the Berne Convention. I will be editing down all future posts of the work of third parties in this fashion. Thank you. And now back to your regularly scheduled discussion. Thanks.
  • Anna rRxia
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    Excellent, heartfelt writing there, Mr. Lard
    I wrote about Pussy Riot in the Current Events thread when the incident happened and it drew exactly -0- response from deadheads. As you aptly observe, nobody gives an apathetic two shits about Pussy Riot. These three courageous and creative protesters might as well be from Mars, being from Russia. Now they have disappeared into the Gulag with only Amnesty International left to look after them. I'm afraid institutional prejudice is going to win the day in this case and there is not much to be done, unless Ed Snowden takes up their cause personally with his new pal Putin. But I'll sign the petition. I believe what they did in the US, depending on geographical location, would have warranted a stern legal warning from a Catholic lawyer to stay away to a charge of Criminal Trespass with perhaps a few days of jail time, if it happened in Tupelo, Misssissippi. The Russians are a strange, long-suffering people and you don't want to cross them. Not in this way, in this institution. I think you aptly pointed that out. I know it sounds trite, but how would Christ have responded to Pussy Riot?
  • Randall Lard
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    by Grace Dent - Storyville: Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer. Review - The Independent. 'The actions that skewered Russian protest group Pussy Riot, causing national trauma, are, to the British viewer, so minor that the footage is rather laughable. We watched during Pussy Riot – a Punk Prayer as the girls donned pastel-coloured balaclavas in the Cathedral of Christ Saviour, Moscow, then ran about dancing, singing and making some unsporting comments about Putin. In fact, most Brits wouldn't even find this laughable. More utterly unremarkable. If I were to go to Westminster Abbey this Saturday and leap about in a silly hat and no bra saying David Cameron was a prick, I'd have a bloody long wait for Sky News and the police to turn up. The reactions, I'll wager, would involve: some Christian types who were mid-Mass tutting, someone in a Boden cardigan mumbling that this was a bit like when Jesus protested against money-lenders, some nuns on a day trip from Tring putting me on Instagram and then, eventually, a volunteer in a tabard from the tea shop bringing me a cup of milky PG Tips and a lavender slice. What it would certainly would not lead to is national horror, mass rallys, calls for my hanging, my burning, my exorcism and my eventual transportation to Penal Colony Number 14 in Mordovia. As the documentary aired this week on BBC4, Pussy Riot member Nadia Tolokonnikova was being transferred to another unconfirmed colony. Nadia was, essentially, missing in the Russian prison system, which feels, to me, as disconcerting as the threats that the girls would “be killed in Siberia” for their unholy, feminist, anti-establishment actions that were heard during the trial footage. Nadia is an enigmatic character. She is staggeringly beautiful and aware of the fact. She is emotionally ungiving and puts her feminist beliefs before her role as a mummy. She is wholly shameless about a previous protest she took part in where she had sex in a museum. She is calmly, aloofly and defiantly unrepentant about this whole Cathedral business. All of these elements – each and every one – so very very unbecoming in a woman, especially a Russian woman. The Orthodox Church, the media and her prosecutors detest her. The manner in which the Russian Orthodox Christians of 2013 quickly slip into calling Nadia, Masha and Katia “demons” or discussing how there must be a devil moving in them to commit this “sacrilegious act” feels like earwigging on footage of the Salem witch trials. But it's 2013 and they're holding the Winter Olympics there next February. As we watched footage of the girls in their prison cage, being refused the right to see their children, being warned they might die in prison, while their ageing parents were jostled about by Orthodox thugs, it struck me how half-hearted and duplicitous the tone of tolerance and acceptance would be at the Sochi opening ceremony as compared to Danny Boyle's explosion of Great British free-thinking tolerance. Pussy Riot could have ran across Boyle's Green and Pleasant land topless with chainsaws and, in the grand scheme of things, no one would have cared. “But don't you see, in Russia dancing in a cathedral is the equivalent of pissing on a war memorial?” someone Tweeted the other evening as I watched. And, yes, the documentary showed this too. It showed a country where religion was suppressed for many years and is thus now doubly sacred. But, more importantly, it showed a country with no history of performance or conceptual art protest; therefore, Pussy Riot playing bad electric guitar near an altar felt literally like the end of days. Like the Sex Pistols going on TV in the Seventies in Britain and telling Jesus himself to fuck off. Meanwhile, in Britain 2013, we're bored to death with performance art, with Spiderman clinging to Buckingham Palace shouting about his rights as a father, or the Turner Prize exhibition full of child mannequins with cocks for faces or a whole array of passionate political fools who turn up daily on the green at Westminster in fancy dress as toilets, sheep, vaginas etc waving banners to make their point about clean water, EU quotas or chlamydia. In fact, we're so bored by the British equivalents of Pussy Riot that when laws are brought in to deplete our rights to protest, we don't really give a damn. Whether one agrees with Pussy Riot's beliefs or their methods, A Punk Prayer's examination of the girls' fearlessness, their determination to shove feminist protest in the face of Russian Orthodoxy and their unflinching calm in the face of jackboots and holy water was wholly compelling. Before the girls were sentenced – their vows that they weren't being sacrilegious, weren't militant atheists and were in fact making a comment about state involvement in religion roundly ignored – they were permitted to give statements. Katia said: “I now have mixed feelings about this trial. On the one hand, we expect a guilty verdict. Compared to the judicial machine, we are nobodies, and we have lost. On the other hand, we have won. The whole world now sees that the criminal case against us has been fabricated.” I'm not sure that the whole world knows Pussy Riot's story, but this Storyville certainly helped augment their growing legendary status.' Randall Lard - I once again humbly urge everyone on this site to sign the petition here - http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/PussyRiot
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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