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		<title>My top 25 of 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 was a hell of a year for music, folks, this top 25 only scratches the surface really. Click on my track picks for a download. 25. Janelle Monáe: The Archandroid (buy) One thing 2010 was surprisingly good for was pop music, in particular this debut album from Janelle Monáe, an innovative sci-fi pop concept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=390&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dying together is even more personal than living together</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock is a very important figure in cinematic history. He was The Master, a person whose films were so rigorously constructed that he grew bored of making them, that he felt the need to complicate his films to challenge himself. This led to the shrinking space of Lifeboat (and later to the apparent single-shot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=385&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;but for the accident of birth, you might be as they are</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The inevitable discussion when Tod Browning&#8217;s Freaks comes up is that you could not make this film today for reasons of political correctness, but the truth is it was not all that acceptable then either, it came under protest at its release in 1932 as morally reprehensible (one viewer attempted to bring a lawsuit against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=380&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We deal in lead, friend.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the commentary track to Magnificent Seven, director John Sturges is quoted as saying, &#8216;I thought we were making movies, not history.&#8217; You wouldn&#8217;t know it from his pictures, though, which from the beginning were as boldly message-driven as John Ford&#8217;s later quasi-revisionist westerns (like Cheyenne Autumn and The Searchers). In a film that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=377&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST of 09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom http://www.amazon.ca/Glitter-Doom-Live-Tom-Waits/dp/B002QJX33O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1261782927&#038;sr=8-1 Tom Waits has always been awesome, but he has also grown into his awesomeness more and more as time has passed. He was practically a standard-issue crooner when he debuted, but then whiskey and cigarettes very rapidly turned his voice to that bourbon rasp we all know and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=375&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This road goes all around the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a fascination with gay cinema &#8211; from the earliest transgressive hints in Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora&#8217;s Box) to the fevered imagination of Kenneth Anger to the overheated, closeted homoeroticism of the likes of Top Gun, it&#8217;s a pocket universe of cinema that is unique and almost perpetually metaphorical. Perhaps it intrigues me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=371&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Cinema: Buster Keaton in The General</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The General There is a moment in Sunset Boulevard where Buster Keaton makes a cameo, playing bridge in Gloria Swanson&#8217;s house with a table of washed-up silent film stars. The camera lingers on his face as he says &#8216;Pass&#8217; and there&#8217;s a flicker of something there. When Buster Keaton made The General he was one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=366&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why no melancholy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty is quite possibly my favourite Disney animated feature. However, what makes me love the film is a subtext that may not be at all intended. The main thrust of this is that Maleficent is the most intriguing, complex, and powerful villain to ever grace an animated film, and none of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=358&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>coming on to it I wasn&#8217;t sure what I was looking at</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 Foot Flame: 2 Foot Flame The musicians involved in 2 Foot Flame come from art backgrounds and this is very much an art project. Hell, there&#8217;s nothing more art than savaging the credentials of artists you disrespect, and with the first track, they tear New Zealand/Czech portraitist Gottfried Lindauer to shreds. I think. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=354&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>solely in my chest is my heart a drum of water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms Having listened to Secret Machines&#8217; 2008 self-titled album made it clear that Benjamin Curtis had absconded from the band with all their atmosphere and mathematical complexity. When I realized that he had done so in favour of starting an electronic/dream pop act, I was certainly intrigued. There are only the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3555785&amp;post=351&amp;subd=jshopa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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