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A story about "Beetlejuice"

nobody@allconsuming.net (T. Francell) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:44:18 GMT

Beetlejuice

I LOVE This movie! It’s one of my all time favorites!

Hard to go wrong with a Tim Burton film.

A story about "This American Life: Who Can You Save? (#336)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (T. Francell) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:04:02 GMT

This American Life: Who Can You Save? (#336)

by WBEZ Chicago/ Ira Glass

This American Life #336: Who Can You Save?
Description below is from the “This American Life” website at these links:

http://www.thislife.org/

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1196

Stories about the pitfalls of trying to do the right thing.

Some Special Notes

This episode features a story from what is arguably the most groundbreaking new show in public radio: Radio Lab, from New York Public Radio. If you haven’t heard it, everything they’ve done is available as free downloads from their website.

Also, in Act Two, Ira interviews a retired diplomat, Kiki Munshi, about testimony she gave to Congress about Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq. You can read her testimony, and The Atlantic ran a story that goes into more detail about Kiki’s experience heading up a PRT.

And Brady Udall, who tells the story in Act Three, also wrote one of the most popular pieces of fiction we’ve ever run: “Otis Is Resurrected,” from our episode In Dog We Trust.

A review of "Taking Liberties"

nobody@allconsuming.net (T. Francell) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:18:26 GMT

Taking Liberties

by Elvis Costello

This one is a must have for ALL Elvis Costello Fans.

This one tends to get overlooked because it was released in England under a different name as, “Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How’s Your Fathers” which was initially a UK cassette-only release. Original cassette copies were made of gold plastic and came in a gold case.

“Taking Liberties” sometimes doesn’t even appear on Elvis Costello Discography lists, like at his “official home page” http://www.elviscostello.com/ but it does at the more complete http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/album_index.php

And although this is a 1980 release, most of the songs feel much earlier or more RAW than his previous albums.

Just get it, you’ll like it.

How "An Endless Search for Substance" changed my life

nobody@allconsuming.net (T. Francell) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:55:41 GMT

An Endless Search for Substance

by 23 Degrees

My best friend, who recently died, sent me a copy of this back in about 1995 and it really did “change my life.”

I had heard “Ambiance” style music at clubs before, but I had never had my own, this CD change all that, sending into a mad search for another Ambiance CD that was this good. I never found one.

If you like Ambiance, this is a “must have”

This is a classic.