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In Heaven

27-Sep-08

Eraserhead:

The

craziest

movie

i’ve

ever

seen.
I love it.

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Cradle of Civilization

05-Jun-08

One of rooms in the British Museum contains a series of reliefs originally carved into the walls of a palace by the Akkadians, or Assyrians, or something equally ancient and Mesopotamian. They depict a lion hunt, what the guidebook describes as the ’sport of kings’, where a bunch of guys in chariots chase starved wild [...]

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The Sparrow

20-Dec-07

It isn’t particularly difficult to find individual reasons why The Sparrow was such a fantastic experience. The play draws liberally from many points of (popular) cultural interest from my childhood and beyond which continue to resonate with me to this day. It is, however, very difficult to articulate why this particularly combination worked. The play [...]

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