Month: November 2012
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No More by Malcolm Dimmick #sundaypoem
No cobblers hammers tap no more No church no more, no steeple No grammar schools No homes for fools No factories, no people No smiles and no good morning sir No vision nor no planners No steam train nor no sulphur clouds No courtesy, no manners No fishing pools, no mushroom stools No wooded bank, […]
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three wise men, by Ioan Pearce – Dec 20, 2010 #sundaypoem
we three kings are having a jar, bearing gifts we stole from the spar, money counting, profits mounting,… selling em in the bar. ooh, ooh, car of wonder,pile of shite, pinched it from a building site, we proceeded, they don’t need it, taxi’s dear this time of night. we three kings are shy of a […]
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#midweekfilmclub – On The Road – It’s a bit like the A470…
Jack Kerouac‘s On The Road is a staple of the Beat Generation; those drug addled, jazz fuelled writers and poets that liberalised publishing in America as it was. This sprawling, autobiographical book, manifestly takes in endless locations and characters, many a passing blur, as a chameleonic group of hedonistics do their utmost to tear a […]
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In Flanders Field by John McCrae, May 1915 #sundaypoem
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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Film: Argo – Dir. Ben Affleck #midweekfilmclub
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much; let’s be honest, Affleck’s had a patchy career at best, so a sortie into directing had me fearing the worst. But, and here’s the key, the story looked really interesting. That Affleck was also trying to switch from leaden actor to lead actor didn’t help my fears either. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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