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Recent Posts
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Tukovideo: ‘Sunset Man’
This is a promotional video for the song ‘Sunset Man’, created in Magix Movie Studio after a few hours worth of seeing how it works and fitting a short bit of film into a longer (48 seconds!) piece of music. So the video is raw, but I like it and what is this if not…
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04/19
It is today we visited you / It is four whole years
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The Sand
Once on a time in our Tamissos / (Near to Sis
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Tickets and Prozzies
I suppose it marked a change to the really dumb questions, but in 1966 the idea that the Beatles song ‘Ticket To Ride’ was about prostitutes was put forward and immediately ridiculed. It has been ridiculed ever since. But is the idea so ridiculous? In a modified form, I don’t think so. In fact, I…
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Roland
Roland was a famous Norman warrior who met a heroic death fighting the combined forces of the Basques, the Saracens and Gripper Stebson.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who wrote about someone named Mal whose real identity has never been revealed. Baudelaire may have been a vampire.
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Bēowulf
Bēowulf was a famous Geatish warrior who slew dragons and whose name means ‘bee wolf’. Beewolf. Bee. Wolf.
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Arthur Rambo
Arthur Rambo passionately believed in the total deregulation of all the senses. He worked as a clerk for the French entrepreneur Alfred Bardey in the Yemeni port of Aden and later sold rifles to the Abyssinian warlord Menelik.
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Samuel K Amphong
Samuel K Amphong was one of the most important rock critics in the late ’70’s and early ’80’s. He wrote for the New Musical Express. His whereabouts were and are unknown. He may or may not be still alive.
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Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll was a Victorian mathematician and author who loved children.