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Overseas and Overwhelmed

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:03:20 -0800

Inspired by this feature at Pictory ... The first place I ever really got culture shock was Australia. The odd thing was that I, even at that age, I'd travelled a fair amount before - going all over Europe, Morocco, Cuba, swathes of South East A...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:18:28 -0800

I really don't get the content industry sometimes. I mean, I do - insomuch that occasionally I can flip my perspective and sort of see things from their world view in which they live in a world in which they don't really understand why the things ...

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Show me this earth thing that you call 'Urination'

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:53:32 -0800

Alternative titles: Bathroom 51 X Flies Kinkiest threesome ever "Honey, are you sure the child is mine?"

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I CAN HAZ TURDUCKEN

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:04 -0800

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♫He could play that plastic guitar just like ringing a bell♫

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:48:56 -0800

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:15:34 -0800

I struggled getting started writing this week's 90MM because I don't actually have the vocabulary to describe The KLF. I started off trying to write something comparing them to that scene in [insert name of practically any teen movie here] in whi...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:57:14 -0800

House music has always veered between having a sense of humour about itself and being thoroughly up its own arse. Tracks have trodden the very thin line between novelty, kitsch and playfulness - witness the differences between The Prodigy's "Charl...

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In which I date myself

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:59:03 -0800

I'm pretty sure the only person in my neighbourhood who might get this was 8 at the time it came out. Also: by date myself I mean - "give clues as to my age" not "pick myself up, take myself out to dinner and then hence to watch a movie before a...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:45:14 -0800

Apparently #musicmonday is a trending topic on the Twitters - bunch of bloody Johnny Come Latelys. Some of us have been here every Monday morning (for various definitions of 'every', 'monday' and 'morning'), mining the rich vein of at-least-a-deca...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:19:42 -0800

Placebo are one of those bands that I always feel oddly guilty about enjoying which is odd because "Nancy Boy" is damn fine blistering 3 minute pop song which lovely crunchy guitars and a thumping bass line. I mean the video's a little bit "Art sc...

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