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Tunes for a Tuesday – 10 September 2013
Common Sentiments – Typhoon – Fuel/Friends Chapel Session (03/20/12) [Listen] Corner Soul – Ethan Lipton – The Sandinista Project [Listen] Help Me Hold On – Travis Tritt – History of Country Vol. 18 – 1990 – 95 [Listen] High Hopes. … Continue reading
Posted in Mixtape, Music, Tunes for a Tuesday
Tagged 1990, 95, A Seed Buried in the Ground, Common Sentiments, Corner Soul, David Bowie, Doris Day, Ethan Lipton, Fuel/Friends Chapel Session (03/20/12), Gene Clark, Help Me Hold On, High Hopes., History of Country Vol. 18, Might, Ministry of Sound Disco Classics, New Religion, Oh Minnows, Roadmaster, Second Version, She's the Kind of Girl, Some Chicken, Suffragette City, The Cloud Hymn, The John Peel Singles Box, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, The Sandinista Project, Travis Tritt, Typhoon, Unique, What I Got Is What You Need, Wide
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Now that winter’s almost upon us….
..it’s time to hone those snow-clearing skills. A toe-loop with a double axel in this case, methinks. I normally slip in a Biellmann spin. Either that or a Salchow jump. Showoff that I am….
Posted in Bloody hell, Too good to miss
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Would YOU buy a used car from this guy?
Or: How I almost bought a Saab 9.5 station-wagon. You think that you’d be fairly safe buying from a chartered accountant and auditor who used to work for KPMG and lives in one of the better parts of Mainz. That’s … Continue reading
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This.Is.Marketing.
Stumbled over this couple in an article in (AFAIKR) the Frankfurter Allgemeine about young vintners sometime last year. They have 3ha (which is bugger all) in Stutttgart, limit their yield to achieve better wines and brand them themselves “RUX” (from … Continue reading
Posted in Crikey I thought, Economics, Too good to miss
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Cranberries
Jason Kottke writes: This video seems like it was made specifically for kottke.org. In the first half of it, you learn how cranberries are harvested. In the second half, there’s gorgeous HD slo-mo footage of wakeskating through a cranberry bog. … Continue reading
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Tunes for a Tuesday – 3 September 2013
The Best Girl I Ever Had – Gene Dozier & The United Front – The John Peel Singles Box [Listen] Bewitched – Bill Snyder – Billboard Top 30 – 1950 [Listen] Bloop Bleep – Danny Kaye – The Best … Continue reading
Posted in Mixtape, Music, Tunes for a Tuesday
Tagged 1950, A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector, Bewitched, Bill Snyder, Billboard Top 30, BIRP! January 2012, Bloop Bleep, Cluster One, Danny Kaye, Days, Della Reese, Gene Dozier & The United Front, Green Aisles, Hand-To-Mouth Boogie, High Fidelity, Larry Adler, Oh! Sweet Nothin', pink Floyd, Real Estate, Sleigh Ride, Stop!, Stranger in Paradise, The Best Girl I Ever Had, The Best of Danny Kaye, The Division Bell, The John Peel Singles Box, The Ronettes, The Velvet Underground, The Virtuoso of the Mouth Organ, Yes Know
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You’ve been Vinnied
Vinnie Jones is an ex-footballer with an aggressive streak that bordered on the psychopathic. Gets booked in the first 3 seconds of a match. Sent off goodness knows how often Actor in Guy Ritchie’s “Lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels” … Continue reading
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