Tag: ohio
Lambchop
Before I saw the band in concert, I would never have called the music of Lambchop romantic. Somehow, within a couple of tracks from their new release OH (Ohio), I found myself feeling the lurve. It could have been the semicute gaucheness of singer/guitarist Kurt Wagner, though he is rather an acquired taste. It could …
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Hot Fuzz
Director: Edgar Wright United Kingdom, 2007 As far as genre parodies go, any British attempt to do a buddy cop movie would have to make do with American material. That’s what makes Hot Fuzz …
- Originally published: 25 Feb 2007 in Film
After Dark
Haruki Murakami Vintage (2008) I’ve been a devoted Murakami fan for years, mainly because he has always echoed and expanded my own thoughts and feelings. I came to him after a number of “classic” …
- Originally published: 18 Sep 2008 in Books
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Director: George Roy Hill United States, 1969 This movie is a legend about a legend, if you will. Newman and Redford are the pardners in crime, an iconic double-act that robs trains and banks, …
- Originally published: 19 Feb 2007 in Film
Soled out?
I found it a bit irritating to read that the style of a pair of shoes for which I’ve been looking around for a while now had become fashionable owing to them …
- Originally published: 4 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Milan
Think of Italy and the Pisan belltowers and Roman arenas of our mind aren't usually capped with snow. It's February and this is Milan! …
- Originally published: 11 Feb 2010 in Europe
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm based in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is St Feuillien Brune.