I am a huge fan of films that explore stories and characters that don’t have great big stereotypes hanging over them and ‘If You Ever Get to Heaven’ is definitely one of those films.
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Culture
Whilst late night in a laboratory, Tim Quinn is reading his favourite comics, but after being exposed to deadly radiation the comic books fuse into his skin…. he becomes Super Tim, the entertainer and extraordinarily nice bloke!
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His vocal display is a wonder.. this man is 68! But he still has a full, throaty voice, a thick red wine, which hits the high notes in a blistering blast as he dances like a man of even half his age, a nimble Pied Piper, or Pan…
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Ana Silvera must have an old soul. She sings her beautiful folksy songs with a wisdom beyond her years and with a confidence that would make anyone believe that her tales of biblical figures and kings from ancient times were her own experiences.
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A night then, of indefinable culture…all Gitanes….and Absinthe glasses….a Sally’s ‘Cabaret’
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The autumn leaf that’s falling through your mind
Has fallen through a million minds before,
And will fall on through countless millions more,
Like countless million others of its kind –
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I want to believe that there’s a reason, a plan, for my existence. I’d like to be the culmination of a million years of a breeding program just to make someone as amazing as me. But I’m not really amazing, and neither are you. Or maybe you are. It all depends on how you judge amazingness, I suppose. And all my novels, short stories, poems, address that issue. The calculation of amazingness.
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Bob Dylan didn’t go to his audience and beg to be accepted. They found him, and when they did they found him valid, and their word of mouth spread like a cultural flash flood.
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Will Smith, the writer, comedian and star of The Thick of It, would frequently post pictures of Pierce Brosnan on Twitter, with captions such as the following, accompanying a shot of Brosnan painting in his garden with a hat slung behind his neck: You come home to find your new gardener painting your wife in the nude. Why, I asked him, is Pierce Brosnan so brilliant? “Because he’s like a walking Rolex ad,” he said. “Because of the seriousness with which he’ll put on a cufflink or pick up a shot glass. But also because he knows exactly how cool and ludicrous he is at the same time.”
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The New Goodbye is a project aimed at demonstrating to publishers the potential of new formats. With the iPad now on the market, giving Apple a reading device of yet more scope, the potential is even greater. What I personally want to show, by using the app as a platform to secure a publishing deal, is that, done the right way, these formats can create demand for a printed book, and will not cannibalise print sales as most publishers fear.
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At last, the waiting is over, he steps on stage, ACID DRENCHED AND SILVER SKINNED, a comic book hero, biker king, a self-styled messiah, stretching, preacher thin, hidden eyes surveying the “mosh pit” below with a threatening stare, a wolf amongst the sheep….
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Every poet is invited to submit one entry, it can use any poetic form, but must be previously unpublished, the poet’s own work and less than 40 lines.
The judges are looking for distinct poetic voices that display originality, craftsmanship and memorability
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