As much as his departed partners Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun did, the journalist turned entrepreneur/producer transformed modern American music. A few things he had his hand in: Ray Charles. I…
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What have I learnt this week? During study, when noting an important part of a book, write the page number beside it. You know, so you can find it again…
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You've all probably seen this already. But still. I only wish I'd had the balls to have pulled something like that one of the handful of times I was compelled…
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This evening, for a project unrelated to this blog (that is, a paying gig), I was obliged to watch both The Wild Bunch and the picture from which the above…
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall is an ideal post-Festival palate cleanser: a saucy comedy fresh off the Judd Apatow production line (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up). Here he gives the…
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