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At Warwick Castle

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 02 Jul 2009. Posted in Courtney.

I spent the afternoon at Warwick Castle yesterday. I’ve been wearing a t shirt from the place for a couple years now so it was about time.

Anyhoo, I must say it’s really worth the trip. All that medieval nonsense just sends me.

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The most fascinating thing though is this waxwork of a young Winston Churchill. The man was gorgeous.

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I’ve heard a couple stories of how the Brits got into WWII:

One is that they had a very old pact with Poland which left them no choice.

The one I like best is that Hitler told Churchill he would leave England alone and make him the highest ranking official in the realm if they would abolish the royal family and pay some kind of monetary tribute to Germany.

Winston Churchill told Adolph Hitler to fuck himself.

What a man.

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Courtney’s Movie Reviews: The Wrestler

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 15 Jun 2009. Posted in Courtney, Movie Reviews.

The Wrestler

(2008)

Directed by Darren Aronofsky

The only thing more depressing than a movie about a guy who fucks everything up is a movie about a guy who fucks everything up then dies.

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Courtney’s Movie Reviews: Ronin

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 08 Jun 2009. Posted in Courtney, Movie Reviews.

Ronin

(1998)

Directed by John Frankenheimer

Even the ham-fisted writing, scoring and sometimes editing can’t stop Robert DeNiro and several other great actors from entertaining you for around 100 minutes of “okay, let’s have another car chase….um, again”.

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The Gospel of The Christ Vader

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 04 Jun 2009. Posted in Courtney.

Now there’s an idea.

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Courtney’s Movie Reviews: Star Trek

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 02 Jun 2009. Posted in Courtney, Movie Reviews.

Star Trek

(2009)

Directed by J.J. Abrams

Not only is this amazing (in spite of the cheap drama of Kirk getting the crap beat out of him for about two solid hours) but more importantly it will go down as the greatest feat of casting in the history of motion pictures.

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Dolls

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 27 May 2009. Posted in Courtney.

We had some of the New York Dolls over to the Odditorium for dinner the other night. So fun. Really cool guys. Had great food and drank a case of damn nice wine. Then we jammed. Zia and Sylvain Sylvain put some French vocals on a piece of our Tafelmusik record and boy is it cool. I think we might actually have a single in french speaking countries for our three hour record. We also had them play on the Breathe Easy project which we will hopefully have time to crank back up fairly soon.

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Removing The Undigestive

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 19 May 2009. Posted in Courtney.

Our three hour dinner party soundtrack is progressing surprisingly well. After quickly learning to remove any “undigestive” sounds, putting our loops and keyboard jams into a sensible evenings order has been fairly simple so far. Minimalism being the key to subtlety here.

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By the way, we regret now terribly not setting a camera up during those jam days but we’re going to at our next practices. We’ll post them somehow. Even if they’re not interesting.

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Courtney’s Movie Reviews: Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 14 May 2009. Posted in Courtney.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

(1962)

Directed by John Ford

No matter how much high school stage performance is going on here, I could watch Lee Marvin, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart for another six to eight hours easy.

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Couple of Books

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 14 May 2009. Posted in Courtney.

From what I’ve read so far, there’s nothing here quite as clever or alluring as the title.

The Geeks Guide to World Domination

A lot of trivium of varying kinds. Can’t even remember one.

This, on the other hand, is very clever and insightful, but with a not as clever as it wants to be title.

Wishful Drinking

It’s a rant that is half anecdotes from growing up to become a pez dispenser and half bits of wisdom for dealing with what she thinks are her unique problems. They’re actually very normal problem but often with famous names attached to the anecdotes. Quick read. Great for travel.

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Apples to Apples

Written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor on 11 May 2009. Posted in Courtney.

Well I have now played Apples to Apples, and it actually is really great. And this comes from a bona fide 1950’s tape-on-the-corners, boxed wood tiles, beveled edge, Scrabble-Man, four-way with a Lazy Susan. This game and rent-a-movie will get an entire night to happen for several people. (If you get the movie right.)

Apples to Apples