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Quite possibly the best thing I’ve ever seen

May 13th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Brilliant video of a random bunch of guys who sing Lady Gaga hits acapella, complete with brilliant dance moves and beat boxing. It’s like what Glee would be like if Glee was good.

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Wild things

May 10th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Kate super loved Where The Wild Things Are, and now that it’s out on DVD and BluRay she has a good reason to gush about it and berate you for not feeling the same way.

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Inception

May 9th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Christopher Nolan’s new movie is going to be spiggin’ awesome.

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All the DVDs I’ve never watched

May 8th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Here are all the DVDs that are in my flat that have been bought, borrowed, given or otherwise acquired and never actually watched. Jeez.

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The Back-Up Plan

May 5th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Kate goes to see a film and it offends her innate feminist instincts, which she then reveals at great length.

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Kick-Ass – and why Roger Ebert has this one all wrong

April 15th, 2010Posted by katiesol

CONTAINS SPOILERS – Well known and generally respected American film critic Roger Ebert gave Kick-Ass a paltry one-star for all the wrong reasons. Barely known and not at all respected nobody Kate Solomon explains why he shouldn’t have done that: why should one fictional young girl be required to feel remorse when we readily accept that hundreds of fictional adults don’t?

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Book Club of One: Twilight Eclipse

April 13th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Kate reads Twilight books one and two, knows they’re rubbish, but loves Edward Cullen so much that she’ll put up with it. Then she goes on holiday and reads book three, then takes to the internet to complain that it’s not even up to the sub-par standard of the first two.

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Life goal: Send letter like this

March 31st, 2010Posted by katiesol

From Letters of Note

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It’s not easy being short

March 30th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Last night I went to see a band*.
Well, that’s a bit generous – what I actually saw was a lot of people’s backs, a host of phones and cameras waving about in the air and a rip-roaring light show. In the absence of being able to see anything worth looking at I spent some time [...]

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I suspect it’s known as ‘growing up’

March 15th, 2010Posted by katiesol

I’ve forgotten almost everything from when I was a kid – when, how and why did this happen? I must not have been paying enough attention or something, because I can only remember about a day’s worth of stuff from the first sixteen years of my life. And what made me realise this?

Shameful. Thank goodness [...]

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