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20/06/2013

TBF – To Be Finished (Maybe)

While I’m thinking about it, I’ve updated Monday’s post with a clearer, Spanish-subbed Fence video. I had something really smart to say but I’ve forgotten what it is… Che Guevara had excellent hair. (That wasn’t it.) I’m going out to see The Great Gatsby in a bit and I’m nervous because we’re doing the novel in school… Continue reading

Books, June 2013, Movies, School

‘The Great Gatsby’, Carey Mulligan, Che Guevara, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Indifferent Ignorance, memes, Tim Minchin
28/04/2013

AS Standards II: Psychology Revision

I really need to do some multi-tasking because yesterday my Picture of Dorian Gray audiobook sent me to sleep for four hours, and I didn’t get all the work done I need to if I’m going to pass looming exams. So we’re going to revise together! Subject #1: Psychology Question: How many links from the syllabus… Continue reading

April 2103, DISCUSS., Movies, School, Videos

‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’, AS Revision, Harold Shipman, Indifferent Ignorance, John Bowlby, Mass murder, Psychology, Sigmund Freud
02/12/2012

Six Degrees of My Headache

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Books, December 2012, Movies, Paywall, Pure Insanity, Videos

‘Come on Eileen’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Heroes of Olympus’, ‘Heroes’ by David Bowie, ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’, ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’, Dexys Midnight Runners, Emma Watson, Greek mythology, Indifferent Ignorance, Logan Lerman, Rick Riordan, six motherfuckin’ degrees of seperation
05/07/2011

Frank’s Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Moving Image Appreciation Post #1

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(All Hail) Creation, Art, Funny, Internet, July 2011, Movies, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Paywall, Pure Insanity, TV, Videos

4 Chord Song, 7 Things Guys Don’t Have to Do, 7 Things Spoof, Amish Paradise, Axis of Awesome, Born This Way, Forrest Gump, Gerard Rokcin’ Out in His Pajamas, Interwebz, Lady Gaga, Motion Picture, Music video, Parody, Venetian Princess, Weird Al Yankovic

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Movies

TBF – To Be Finished (Maybe)

AS Standards II: Psychology Revision

Six Degrees of My Headache

Frank’s Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Moving Image Appreciation Post #1