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The Profound Truths of David Brent's Nights Out in Chasers. When I first watched The Office, I was 9 years old.
A lot of people don't believe me when I say that, but the truth is that somewhere between dressing up as Woody from Toy Story and recording demos on my Fisher Price tape player, I had precious little time for "friends". In this space I relied pretty heavily on music, books and TV to hang out with me. I vividly remember my Dad asking me to come and watch something with him one evening, simply saying "I can't tell if this is real or not. " In the years that followed, this odd BBC2 sitcom became a focal influence on my life and stayed there. Why a comedy about the inefficient regional manager of a paper merchant in Slough so enraptured my young imagination I don't know. Put simply, The Office became my blue-print for human interaction. 6 Reasons Modern Movie CGI Looks Surprisingly Crappy. It's been over two decades since CGI came careening through the silver screen to murder cops, lawyers, and other civil servants in Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park.
Since then, both films have been praised for their inexplicably realistic effects, even though both movies have birthed a handful of sequels with much more powerful special effects technology at their disposal. The Profound Truths of David Brent's Nights Out in Chasers. Six seconds that shaped 1,500 songs - BBC News. Amen, Brother was a little-known B-side released in 1969.
Barely noticed at the time, its drum solo has been hugely influential, appearing in different forms in more than 1,500 other songs - but the band behind it never made any money from it. "It felt like plagiarism and I felt ripped off and raped," says Richard L Spencer, lead singer of The Winstons - the band that recorded the original track. Spurious Correlations. Steve Reich Interview: On Radiohead, Aphex Twin And 'The Rite Of Spring' Chris Cunningham's Videos for Warp Records Were My Horrible Punk Rock. “Forget progress by proxy – land on your own moon.
It’s no longer about what they can achieve, out there on your behalf, but what we can experience... up here... and in our own time. It’s called mental wealth.” My first, unwitting encounter with Chris Cunningham was the Playstation advert he created in 2003. I was in the dull wilderness of middle-class youth, in a remote part of Wales; starting to visit parties in the hills and the woods, exploring new highs and lows with a raggle-taggle bunch of people from the local communities. Everyone just wanted to lose it; to get high, to sit round a campfire or on a sofa till the next afternoon, by which time the atmosphere could get very weird. The video, entitled 'Mental Wealth', featured a teenage girl whose face had an uncanny touch of manga, or sci-fi alien, delivering a Scots monologue totally irrelevant to the product in question.
E3: How No Man's Sky took on the games industry - and won. 12 June 2014Last updated at 02:04 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, Los Angeles WATCH: The No Man's Sky footage that wowed the E3 expo attendees The Hello Games team doesn't have a stand at E3.
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The 50 best Aphex Twin tracks. There are certain musicians who prompt a special kind of following; a specifically cultish attitude to fandom that might lack the worldwide spread of say, The Beatles, but more than makes up for it with intensity. Tool, Boards of Canada, Radiohead – these are the sort of acts who, to use Boards of Canada as an example, can encrypt clues for their new album in the code of a message board header and have their fans discover it within a day. It’s an obsessive approach that only a small scattering of acts, worldwide, prompt, and Richard D. Funny little man: the facts and fictions of Aphex Twin’s mythology. In delving through the discography of Richard D.
James to come up with the top Aphex Twin tracks of all time, the FACT staff revisited old favorites, unearthed forgotten treasures, and — like the video for ‘Come To Daddy’ — ran around causing mayhem as if James’ face was our own. But spending that much time in the head of such a gifted, maddening, and singular artist will have its side effects — like not being able to decipher which parts of James’ self- and fan-created mythology are true.
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Chances are good that you passed something on your way to work this morning that would make our ancestors accuse someone of witchcraft. But we never stop to wonder what awe-inspiring creation someone could be producing right under our noses, because why would anyone build something impressive and keep it a secret? Plenty of (usually insane) reasons, it turns out. The world's longest aircraft in the making. The longest aircraft in the world has been unveiled at an airfield in Cardington, England, from where the great airships of the 1920s flew. Continue reading the main story. Battle of Athens (1946) The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946.
The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of political corruption and voter intimidation. The event is sometimes cited by firearms ownership advocates as an example of the value of the Second Amendment in combating tyranny.[1][2][3][4] Background Citizens of McMinn County had long been concerned about political corruption and possible election fraud.[5] The U.S. If The Lion King Was Made By Hideo Kojima. Heligoland. Heligoland (German: Helgoland; Heligolandic: deät Lun ["the Land"]) is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1,127) are located in the Heligoland Bight (part of the German Bight) in the southeastern corner of the North Sea.
Proof That "Silent Hill" Is The Sequel To "Kindergarten Cop" The Problem With Review Scores, Part V. When we try to quantify experiences, there's no room for embracing the notion that we can love flawed games. Amen! This is what I want. I want reviews that recognizes flaws and show readers why the writer loves the game in spite of those flaws. You know, real criticism. Slick Stock Man: Penny Stocks. One of the main questions I usually receive is...
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Can you think up a human horror? I’ve probably seen it or a picture or video of something very similar. Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World's Most Infamous Tragedies with Children. 5 Recurring Movie Extras You Won't Believe You Never Noticed. Real Life Photos Mixed With 16-Bit Video Games Are Amazing. Commuter Uses Newspaper Photobombs to Liven Up a Boring Ride to Work. The New York Daily News reports that an anonymous commuter has decided to improve his boring ride to work everyday in a very unique way: newspaper photobombs. The 25 Best TV Episodes of All Time, According to IMDB Users. By Dustin Rowles | Seriously Random Lists | April 9, 2013 | Comments (217 View. Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: 'I always felt sorry for her children' Smile, You're Fucked!
Photos: Paul Graham, courtesy of the artist and Les Filles du Calvaire gallery. Photo editor: Nicolas Poillot. Between 1984 and 1985, British photographer Paul Graham took thousands of pictures in hundreds of welfare centres across the United Kingdom. Originally implemented at the end of World War II, the welfare centres enjoyed a new lease of life at the beginning of the 80s after Margaret Thatcher came to power and stuffed them full of jobless young men and women. Graham was never given the official OK to take any pictures. Priests Watch DVD Screeners While Pirates Download Filth in the Vatican. The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51. Top Gear in Iran: Why do Iranians love Jeremy Clarkson? Unit 731. The Irrepressible Ingenuity Of People Who Draw Dicks In Video Games.
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