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Vox Hunt: Recent Purchase

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:41:31 +0100

Show us the last thing you bought.

...because in a couple of weeks I'm going to see a new play that is inspired by it.

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Music discrimination

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:19:34 +0100

Have just discovered that the company I work for has blocked all the BBC's live music players on the web so I can no longer listen to BBC 6 music while I work. (Or Radio 4 news programmes which is kind of important as a journalist.)

Classic FM isn't blocked though, what are they trying to say?

And what is next banning iPod's at your desk?

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Dark Knight voyeurs and Oscars

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:35:34 +0100

Joker2

I think it is absolutely disgusting that people are rushing to see the Dark Knight because of some morbid fascination with seeing Heath Ledger's last completed role before he died, rather than the film itself. You wouldn't catch me hot-footing it to the Clappy Picture House when it opens on Thurs. Ahem.
But all this talk of an Oscar, really. Regardless of how good Ledger is as the Joker, the cynic in me suggests that people wouldn't even be considering him as a contender if he were alive today. History suggests that the Oscar judging panel tend to overlook most films with a fantasy element, unless it is a kiddie-flick let alone something that based on a comic strip.
And if Ledger does get such an accolade I think it will be a bit of a shame. In Brokeback Mountain, he not only proved he could act with a stunning performance but did it with a bold and brave choice of character, something a lot of Hollywood actors could learn from, and for that he should have been honoured with a statuette.
On the other hand, I'm inclined to think, and basing this on not having actually seen Dark Knight yet, that if such a genre of film is considered for an Oscar it would be a great step forward for the Academy.

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Swede inspiration

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:02:44 +0100

'Amy Winehouse', originally uploaded by Rev Stan.

I think the sculptor* has perfectly captured Amy Winehouse's inner...vegetable.

More veggie sculpture in my Lambeth Country Show collection and at Flickr

* Turns out, in a small world sort of way, that the sculptor is none other than the West End Whingers

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Makes ya wanna buy one don't it?

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:57:38 +0100

Makes ya wanna buy one don't it?, originally uploaded by Rev Stan.

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Heavy metal loving monk records second album

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:48:11 +0100

This is for Mosh and because I thinks it's brilliant (thanks to Dan for pointing it out)

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Achievement of sorts

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:20:48 +0100

Thanks to Mosh for pointing this out (although goodness knows why he did it 'busy' freelancer that he is) but if you Google 'bats in bras' my post of a few days ago is the third item in the list. If my mother understood what the internet is she might be proud.

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Is Beardy Man* famous?

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:15 +0100

I ask because I was at a Nissan press 'do' with Mosh last night at the Tate Modern and he was the entertainment. Also on the bill were a troop of street dancers doing incredible things with skipping ropes and the sort of stuff that, when I was growing up, gangs of teenage boys would try to do on a pieces of cardboard in Somerfield's car park.
It made me feel old (I'm not sure whether that's the reaction Nissan was hoping for, I presume I'm supposed to find the young and hip approach to branding aspirational).
Anyway it was a complete contrast to the press do I took Mosh to where the industry I write about chose the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, champagne and er, well the art was the entertainment.

*Apparently he is twice UK beat box champion and here's a clip from when he was on a BBC talent show:

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Vox Hunt: Vive la France!

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:22:38 +0100

In honor of Bastille Day, show us something French.

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Tipping over

nobody@vox.com(Rev Stan) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:08:53 +0100

The front page of The Independent today is taken up with an expose of unscrupulous restaurants which pay their waiting staff below the legal minimum wage and use customers' tips to top up the salaries.
Among those named and shamed are the likes of Pizza Express, Cafe Rouge, Strada, Cafe Uno and Chez Gerard.
I could go into a socialist-tinged rant about big corporates exploiting their workforce but Alan, my company union rep, would have a field day and I have a reputation to uphold.
Instead I'll just add this 'discovery' to the list of reasons why I don't dine at shit chain restaurants.

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