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The N8 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/09/16/...-first-reviews/ It's got an HDMI out to plug it straight into a telly...

Daft £1 singles Chelsea six nil Blackpool to manage a draw Liverpool to come back and win Man City to come from behind and win Bologna to come from behind against Roma

Fingers crossed Stevie's taken neither

Sports Direct signage. Source on those wages btw?

Rovers fans thoughts... "What a fucking moron. Even on 1st April that wouldn't have been funny." "Poor deluded fool needs a reality check or his head examining" "I have given him the benefit of the doubt wit a lot of his actions and interviews but this is shocking, I hope we get taken over as soon as possible and he gets sacked. This is shocking. And since when are newcastle a bigger club than us?" Did he get booed yesterday?

It's the club that keep telling us the horrible losses we're making http://nufc-ashlies.blogspot.com/2010/03/a...abramovich.html

Smith an unused sub. Never doubted hughton

Premier league win ratio = 40% Best since the mighty Roeder.

Couple of places in shields do this sort of thing if you can face mingling face to face and not online. I think one is Timberline and the other is Travis perkins (I think) on commercial road. Champion. Two nil to CT. The only place I knew in Shields was Ashley Timber but they only do external stuff. Thanks. Next....fitting it

Reet, that's just about done. Now, where can I buy a bannister and spindles and all that shit online with delivery? B&Q are a frigging rip off.

CASEY AFFLECK wants to come clean. His new movie, “I’m Still Here,” was performance. Almost every bit of it. Including Joaquin Phoenix’s disturbing appearance on David Letterman’s late-night show in 2009, Mr. Affleck said in a candid interview at a cafe here on Thursday morning. “It’s a terrific performance, it’s the performance of his career,” Mr. Affleck said. He was speaking of Mr. Phoenix’s two-year portrayal of himself — on screen and off — as a bearded, drug-addled aspiring rap star, who, as Mr. Affleck tells it, put his professional life on the line to star in a bit of “gonzo filmmaking” modeled on the reality-bending journalism of Hunter S. Thompson. “I’m Still Here” was released last week by Magnolia Pictures to scathing reviews by a number of critics, including Roger Ebert, who wrote that the film was “a sad and painful documentary that serves little useful purpose other than to pound another nail into the coffin.” “The reviews were so angry,” said Mr. Affleck, who attributed much of the hostility to his own long silence about a film that left more than a few viewers wondering what was real — The drugs? The hookers? The childhood home-movie sequences in the beginning? — and what was not. Virtually none of it was real. Not even the opening shots, supposedly of Mr. Phoenix and his siblings swimming in a water hole in Panama. That, Mr. Affleck said, was actually shot in Hawaii with actors, then run back and forth on top of an old videocassette recording of “Paris, Texas” to degrade the images. “I never intended to trick anybody,” said Mr. Affleck, an intense 35-year-old who spoke over a meat-free, cheese-free vegetable sandwich on Thursday. “The idea of a quote, hoax, unquote, never entered my mind.” Still, he acknowledged that Mr. Letterman was not in on the joke when Mr. Phoenix, on Feb. 11, 2009, seemed to implode his own career by showing up in character as a mumbling, aimless star gone wrong. That was just three years after he had received an Oscar nomination for his spot-on performance as Johnny Cash in “Walk the Line,” and memories of the film were fresh enough to induce shock in the millions who watched him on the show and in later Internet replays. Mr. Letterman summed up the interview: “Joaquin, I’m sorry you couldn’t be here tonight.” Asked whether Mr. Phoenix would be in character for his return to Mr. Letterman’s program on Wednesday, Mr. Affleck said, “No, no, no.” And Mr. Letterman has not talked with Mr. Phoenix about the coming appearance, he added. Most mockumentaries, in the way of “This Is Spinal Tap,” wear their foolishness on their sleeves, leaving no doubt about their character as fiction. But Mr. Affleck, who is married to Mr. Phoenix’s sister and has been his friend for almost 20 years, said he wanted audiences to experience the film’s narrative, about the disintegration of celebrity, without the clutter of preconceived notions. So he said little in interviews. “We wanted to create a space,” he said. “You believe what’s happening is real.” As the film progresses, Mr. Affleck explained, subtle cues were supposed to provide hints of his real intention. Camera techniques, extremely raw at the beginning, become more sophisticated as the film goes on, for instance. “There were multiple takes, these are performances,” Mr. Affleck said of unsettling sequences in which Mr. Phoenix appears to snort drugs, consort with hookers, and hunt to the ground an assistant who has betrayed him to the press — again, mostly actors. But the movie never quite showed its hand. “There was no wink,” Mr. Affleck said. One of the trickier elements was to win the cooperation of Mr. Phoenix’s agent, Patrick Whitesell, of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. On telling Mr. Whitesell that he planned to make everybody believe that a prized client “has lost his mind and make him as unattractive as possible, you would think he would have me killed immediately,” Mr. Affleck said. But Mr. Whitesell, instead, took a part in the film. Mr. Phoenix’s unconventional background may have helped convince some that the film was true. Now 35, he was one of five children in a free-spirited family that bounced from life in a religious cult through a time when the siblings worked as street performers. Mr. Phoenix’s brother River, also an actor, died of a drug overdose in 1993. His sister Summer eventually married Mr. Affleck. In the film Mr. Phoenix is often called “J. P.,” both an attempt at a rap stage name and the inevitable shorthand of a star’s inner world. At one point in the film Mr. Phoenix howls at his crew in exasperation: “J. P. is all of us.” As Mr. Affleck now makes clear, he is actually none of us — which is something of a relief. But Mr. Phoenix may now have his work cut out for him when it comes to repairing an image that was marred by what Mr. Affleck portrays as his best performance. The Los Angeles Times reported this week that Mr. Phoenix, who makes much of abandoning his screen career in the film, is fielding offers for new roles. Mr. Affleck, for his part, will return to acting for a while, probably in a film for Andrew Dominik, who directed “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” for which Mr. Affleck received an Oscar nomination. At least one element in the film was genuine, Mr. Affleck said. That was a snippet of a home movie that showed Mr. Phoenix and his very young siblings performing, Jackson Five style, on the streets of Los Angeles. The rest, Mr. Affleck said, clearly requires a bit more understanding than he has allowed the viewers to date. “It is a hard movie to watch,” he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/movies/1...tml?_r=2&hp

Not many share your optimism.... http://www.outlookafghanistan.net/news_Pag...20news3.html#03

A TV smaller than 42 inches.

He's about as convincing as a Nigerian Prince with £12m to be placed in my account.

hoity toity!

I don't see why assassination and terrorism would be mutually exclusive? Obviously we don't know anything about this specific case yet, but there's a bit of a debate about anti-terror laws being used and abused when trying to detain other types of criminal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11346001 Five arrrests by counter terrorism police "in relation to a potential threat to the Pope". Is it terrorism if you're specifically targeting one bloke?

Well there's ingredients go in I can use again and again. Tomatoes onions carrots celery mushrooms garlic wine/stock basil Honest mate that's all you need. FYP

Another bad Labour legacy tbf .... Thanks Gordon If only the Tories had cut this legacy rather than the free PC's. Made me sick watching it on the news, absolutley repulsive.... ...did anyone else see Susan Boyle doing a few Hymns? Thankyou! No but seriously folks, people were throwing their kids at the evil fuck

Wilco - Kicking Television Went to see them on Tuesday. Fantastic live band.

3700 turned out tonight.

http://business.maktoob.com/20090000513968...ine/Article.htm

I love the west. I love our laws. I love our justice system. I love our freedoms. I'd love to see them expanded around the world. Unfortunately.... 30,000 Held in Iraq without Due Process; Evidence of Abuse. Charles Menezes Illegal Phone and Email tapping The right to protest at parliament withdrawn and back on topic....Freedom of religion potentially infringed I don't get how you can defend the weakening of democracy both here and abroad and claim it's me that's anti-west. I want to defend our core values and you want to throw them away, to do exactly what the terrorists intend. the very things you attack here, are part of the freedom you cherish and are being eroded by those you defend, who want to change our country into their homelands. There is no understanding of each other, tolerance, and back slapping with these fuckers man, they want you praying to Allah 5 times a day just like they do, and there is enough of them to see you dead if you don't conform to their ways to enable them to keep growing in numbers, and growing, and growing. ...... Just because something is on a BNP leaflet it doesn't mean it's a fact..... Some of it's propaganda. For example.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more...ess/8190033.stm

Oh, I see, it's from facebook.