tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72789520689727429602024-02-20T10:59:51.797-08:00It's A Wonderful LifeNina Gerstenberger's blogNinaantoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337523352639206509noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278952068972742960.post-51221773889092927592012-07-02T09:47:00.000-07:002012-07-19T15:50:15.317-07:00This is the one I've waited for<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm 15 years old and I
have to make a decision. I can overcome my shyness and fear and walk
up to one of my biggest heroes and ask for an autograph or I can stay
hidden in the car and miss the chance of a lifetime. It's August
1997. Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, has just died with the
unpleasant effect that Primal Scream had to cancel their gig at the
Manchester Appolo (I remember Bobby Gillespie describing Lady Di to
be 'as Welsh as a kebab' back then). Me and my parents are forced
to rearrange our UK holiday to come back a week later for
the rescheduled date. Or to be more precise, I throw a teenage
tantrum and force my parents to return with me to Manchester a week
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Primals were extraordinary that night and I was over the
moon to see my favourite bassist of all time live. When the
groundbreaking Primal Scream single Kowalski came out in 1997 I
considered switching from playing guitar to bass. It's a monster of a
song, driven by one of the meanest bass-lines ever. No one plays the
four-stringed instrument as melodious and as groovy as the man Mani.
And no one has mates like he has as I found out when I finally made
my way up to him (proudly wearing my Stone Roses T-shirt). Mani was standing outside the Apollo before the
gig, having a fag and a laugh with his friends. One of them, a bloke
who told me an interesting story of his life in a Munich prison, later
tried to sell a stolen bicycle to my dad. He polity declined the
offer.</span></div>
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when I asked for his autograph. He started to chat to me animatedly,
being his usual enthusiastic self, and I immediately lost all my
fears. I was talking to a really kind and genuine bloke. What on
earth had I been afraid of? Mani scribbled down his name on my
concert ticket, and a smiley. Then I chatted to his ex-convict mate
for a little while and then I said goodbye. It had been one of the
most important moments in my life. I learned that I was able to
overcome my fears- if I really wanted to.
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of seeing the Roses live one day seemed as likely as a trip to
the moon. My timing had been really shit. I got into them exactly at
the time they split up in 1996. The first issue of the Melody
Maker I ever bought run the cover story of that disastrous Reading
performance. I discovered The Stone Roses because they had influenced
my favourite band OASIS. I learned that Rock'n'Roll history is
like a massive family tree. One band can't exist without the other.
The Stone Roses gave birth to OASIS when Liam stood in front of the
stage at one of their gigs, mesmerised by Ian Brown and deciding
there and then what he wanted to do with the rest of his life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's 1999 and I travel
throughout the UK with my friends. In Manchester I discover a
graffiti on a brick wall - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'Reni lives' </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it says. I take a
photo and hope it's true. At that point there was no way of knowing
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Ian Brown had established himself as a successful solo artist, John
Squire had recorded an album with his new band The Seahorses and Mani
had become a permanent member of Primal Scream. But no one knew what
had become of the magnificent Reni who seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. In short - a Stone Roses reunion
was as likely as Mario Balotelli having a sensible haircut.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'I've got four tickets for
the Roses!' I shout. I'm on the phone to my mate Christian, a massive
fan who's been lucky enough to have seen them live during the Second
Coming tour. Somehow I managed to get four tickets for the live
concert event of the year - 3 days in a row at Manchester's Heaton
Park, 250 000 tickets sold in 60 minutes and four of them are mine!
I'm ecstatic. I can't believe that I will see one of my favourite
bands live after 15 years of believing that I never would. A band who
has shaped my attitude towards life in such a fundamental way only
comparable to the influence OASIS had on me: Love life, love yourself
and follow the only golden rule there is: be yourself. I can't
believe my luck and I'm already counting the days. It's October 2011
and I'm about to turn 30. The ticket is the best birthday present I
could have asked for.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people claim that
this band has changed their lives. Would I ask the ravers, indie
kids, mods, rockers or whatever who surround me 7 months later in a
muddy field on the outskirts of Manchester, I'm sure they would agree. The Stone Roses made me understand that
expressing oneself creatively was not a choice but something I <i>had</i> to
do. The result is a feeling of deep gratefulness towards the four
tiny figures on the collosal stage in the distance. As I look around,
I see the same feeling reflected on hundreds of smiling faces.</span></div>
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read of Heaton Park will be full of praise, positive and
enthusiastic. And yet you will come across some cynical and
destructive remarks by people working for the Guardian, the Independent or the BBC,
who state that the Heaton Park gigs 'were an experiment...people
indulging in a mass event and not a concert...the band had only one
great album (bollocks!!!)' calling them 'conservative' (WTF???) and who overanalyse Ian Brown's vocal
abilities. Here's a message to all the Brown haters out there- you
wanna hear technically perfect singing? There's a few TV programmes you'll love then- they're called X- Factor and The Voice. Enjoy! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my opinion, those
critics lose the moment they start to intellectualise those concerts
or the band. If the music does not resonate in your heart and soul,
there is nothing your brain will make you realise. I laugh because
after all those years those people have called this band 'overrated',
the Roses are now pissing all over them. Sometimes there's justice in life
after all.</span><br />
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mind after only a few songs into the set is 'triumph'. I'm not at all
surprised to see it being used in many reviews the next day. Of
course there will always be journalists who will never appreciate the
Roses for what they were and are. Unfortunately this is exactly what
happens in Germany, an ignorant country when it comes to recognising
great music. Germany has missed The Stone Roses the first time around
in the 1980's, and will probably do so again.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We arrive at the site just
as The Wailors come on and I'm blown away by how good the sound is.
The Wailors and Primal Scream are both brilliant and set the mood for
what is about to hit us. You couldn't have picked worthier bands to
play just before the Roses.</span></div>
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Park is brilliant.The rain that was forecast hasn't happened and everyone's beaming. A girl not far from me collapses but the people next to her
help her up immediately. Later during the concert Ian Brown tells us
'When people go down, pick them up. When someone goes down we pick
them up.' I somehow feel he's not just on about people who faint or
had too much to drink.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, life is good, apart
from the hour long queues in front of the bars and the loos (the
connection between the two is easily made). By the time Primal Scream
come on, I'm a bit thirsty. I'm grateful when a few kind blokes give me a pint
of Fosters which I in return share with my friends. A mate later
tells us how some Scousers at the front were freely sharing their
coke. And they say charity is dead in our society.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next morning, the
Scottish couple that is also staying ay my B'n'B tells me how they
queued up for 90 minutes at the bar before the staff gave up and
abandoned it. 'Help yourself' they told everyone. This explains why
suddenly I saw loads of people carrying 5 Foster bottles in each hand, two in their trouser pockets, two in their jacket pockets...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ian Brown and Mani on stage, Heaton Park 29.6.2012. Concert photos taken from NME.com.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #355e00;">I
Wanna Be Adored</span> is the first song and we all knew it would be.
People are not just singing along to Ian's words, but they sing
Mani's bass lines, Reni's drum patterns and John's guitar riffs. It's
like every single tone this band has ever recorded is ingrained in
people's consciousness. The four band members were teenagers when Punk
happened and its free spirited attitude is reflected in their music. There is no other band on this planet where four so totally
dominant individuals manage to give one another that much freedom and
room in the music they are creating together.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Browny</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #00b8ff;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Mersey
Paradise</span></span><span style="color: #00b8ff;"> </span>is a blast and
the crowd manages to get even more mental as it already is during
<span style="color: #ffcc99;">Song For My (Sugar Spun Sister).</span> Ian
Brown shines as he gives heartfelt renditions of <span style="color: #996633;">Sally
Cinnamon,</span> <span style="color: #ffd320;">Where Angels Play</span> and<span style="color: purple;">
Shoot You Down. </span><span style="color: black;">His voice is nearly
tender and it feels like</span> the sky has come closer and if you
reach up you could touch the clouds. We're now flying and the
heartbreakingly beautiful tune that is <span style="color: #00cccc;">Bye Bye
Badman</span> is keeping us up in the air.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Squire</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time the much loved
intro of <span style="color: magenta;">Ten Storey Love Song</span> kicks in,
I not only know that this is the best gig I've ever been to, but I'm
also painfully aware that I'll never experience such a great concert
again. <span style="color: #280099;">Standing Here</span> I always loved
dearly due to its wonderful guitar sound. No one switches as
effortlessly and freely between chords, riffs, melody and some other
stuff I don't have words for like my guitar hero John Squire.
I'm in awe. <i>'I really don't think you could know that I'm in
heaven when you smile'</i> Ian Brown is singing. <i>Everyone</i>
around me is smiling. I'm laughing because it's nearly ridicules how
fucking good this concert is.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reni</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #804c19;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Fools
Gold </span></span>is the most amazing live performance by a band
I've ever heard. Reni plays the drums like Maradona used to play
football- effortlessly, waywardly and uniquelly. He looks like a
sheik with his new headgear and I doubt it'll catch on like the
bucket hats did. I phone my dad (like I always do during great gigs)
to share this incredible moment. He later tells me that the song
sounded fantastic over the phone. Some have said there have been
sound problems on the first night, but not where I stood. In actual
fact it was nearly perfect and I have never experienced such a good
sound at an open air concert, or indeed in an arena or a club.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'My legs are old but my
heart is young' the gentleman next to me tells me half way through
the set, he's probably in his 50's. He makes friends with a man of
the same age next to him, they are both in pure ecstasy about what we
are experiencing. This music is timeless and the Roses are not a band one likes, but one loves. <span style="color: #ff3333;">Something's Burning</span> is
as cool as Antarctica and <span style="color: #0066cc;">Waterfall</span>
proves it is the Roses' very own 'Wonderwall'. Even the mute sing
along. During <span style="color: #9966cc;">Don't Stop </span>I'm wishing the
night would never end. <span style="color: #c5000b;">Love Spreads</span> is
as sharp as a razor-blade before <span style="color: #666666;">Made Of
Stone</span>'s heartbreaking melancholy is only bearable because
we're not listening to it on our own.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before <span style="color: lime;">This
Is The One </span><span style="color: black;">Ian Brown is </span>asking us
'Who's from Manchester?' I lie and shout 'Me'! The song doesn't
bring the first tear of the night to my eyes. Then the old guy next to me
makes me laugh with a dismissive comment about ManU. <span style="color: #666600;">She
Bangs The Drum</span>s is pure joy as we all are finally able to sing
at the top of our lungs <i>'Kiss me where the sun don't shine, the
past was yours but the future's mine, you're all out of time.</i>' I
can see Brownie singing this song when he's 90 and it will still make
sense. Then his sharp critique of the Royal family before the
poignant<span style="color: #94006b;"> Elizabeth My Dear</span> reminds us
that outside the gates of Heaton Park an unjust and complex world is
awaiting us.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mani</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course there is only
one song that can come last.<i> Dam dam dadada dam dam, dadada dam
dam</i> Mani's bass goes. We all play air bass. And air drums.
And air guitar of course. After the song I turn around and through my
blurry eyes I notice a man, probably in his late 40's. He is holding
on to his woman, tears in his eyes. <span style="color: purple;">I'm The
Resurrection</span> sums up everything this night has been – it's
glorious, beautiful and immortal. At the end the band hugs and bows. They linger a little longer on the stage as the black night sky
is lit up by a lovely firework to the sound of Bob Marley's
Redemption Song. It's time to go home.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so we start walking.
Tens of thousands of us. Transport has been a nightmare, getting to
Heaton Park had been an adventure in itself and so will be the way
back. There's simply not enough trams, buses or taxis to take the 75
000 of us back to the city centre. I suddenly feel how badly my feet
are hurting after a very long day and I know I have a four mile track
ahead of me back to Manchester. A Scouser asks me where one could
have a few drinks around here - we're in the Jewish area of
Manchester and watering holes are as rare as they are in the Sahara.
But no one is complaining, I don't hear a bad word being uttered.
We're all far too happy. We're pilgrims on our way back from Mecca
and the lights of the city in the distance promise us food, drink and
soft beds. We walk on the main road, hundreds of taxis rush past us
that were never meant to stop. I pass an abandoned white Ferrari in
the middle of the road and feel tempted to knick it. My feet are
hurting badly. But then I see the coppers car nearby and remember
Fools Gold - <i>'These boots are made for walking...'</i> I trot on.
A mate later tells me that he saw the white Ferrari driving up
and down Manchester during the day. 'Maybe someone knicked it
from Browny while he's busy' he jokes. After about three miles I
finally manage to stop a cab and get back to the B'n'B - hours before
the Scottish couple who </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ended up having to walk all the way back to
the centre.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Germany loses against
Italy in the Euros on the evening before the gig my mate Christian tells me <span style="font-style: normal;">'It
could be worse- you could be seeing Steps tomorrow'.</span><i> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Wiser
</span>words have never been spoken. I will not think of the football
again during the rest of my stay in Manchester- what means so much
to me, alongside the usual fears and worries, became </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">irrelevant in the light of what was happening.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Heaton Park concerts
are a triumph for the audience, a triumph for Manchester, a triumph
for British music but most importantly, they are a triumph for The
Stone Roses. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Don't stop!</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">> My company Live
Forever Productions now has a Vimeo channel. Check it out!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/liveforeverproductions">https://vimeo.com/liveforeverproductions</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">> Live Forever Productions will film a short
documentary about London suburb Teddington during the Olympic cycle race at the end of July- in conjunction with Teddington Business Community and community music project Orquesta Sin Fronteras.
It will be busy and it will be fun! Maybe I should do what some
residents in Manchester did after the concert- set up a grill outside my house and sell
burgers to the crowd?</span></div>
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<br /></div>Ninaantoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337523352639206509noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278952068972742960.post-8104222222002584462012-05-09T08:53:00.001-07:002012-05-09T09:01:26.580-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Up in the Clouds</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just started this new part-time job,
doing social media moderating, that made me look at the internet with
fresh eyes. I'm getting paid for being online and that's pretty cool.
Because I like being online. And 'being' is the right word, isn't it?
You just don't simply read stuff or look at pictures or moving
images, thanks to social media you're actually able to engage with
content in your own, individual virtual reality. This is what my
brother (whose age better remains undisclosed) means when he says
that he has to go and 'harvest his crops' in FarmVille.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes when people discuss the
internet, they are referring to 'the Cloud'. I know, the term
actually relates to services provided online but I quite like the
visual connotation of that expression. Like the internet, clouds are
always present, unpredictable, in constant movement – and
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<a href="http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/">http://cloudappreciationsociety.org</a> .How (on earth) did cloud fans get connected before the internet?
And that's exactly what I love about the WWW- there's something
out there for everyone- and you never feel alone or isolated with
your special, exotic, eccentric, geeky, unusual, boring, cool,
fascinating, pointless or silly interests. Hence, I decided to
dedicate this blog to two very special (and very different) internet
phenomena I've discovered recently – American comedian GloZell and
English Non-League football platform Football Exclusives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came across this woman when I watched
an American late night talk show. The show, which name I've already
forgotten, wasn't that memorable-apart from one bit. Lord of The
Rings and Wilfred actor Elijah Wood told the story of how he
encountered an overexcited fan in the middle of nowhere at a Quiznos
fast food restaurant outside LA. And I don't think 'overexcited'
quite hits the nail on the head. They showed a snippet of the fan's -
GloZell- version of the encounter from her YouTube channel. For
nearly 9 minutes, GloZell is telling the story of how Elijah Wood was
walking into the restaurant the very moment she was telling her
boyfriend how amazing his new show Wilfred is.... in a Quiznos
restaurant. 7 hours from LA in the wilderness. In the middle of
nowhere. It's a small world, right? Especially in the US. Call it
fate, coincidence or whatever you like- I laughed my head off at
GloZell's crazy tale. So I immediately went on YouTube to check out
the whole clip. And I thought I was starstruck... dear Lord, I
thought, this woman is mental. But in a really cool, original, funny
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's
someone who doesn't give a shit about how she might be perceived by
others. She is just herself. And that's something most of us -and too
many individuals in the public domain- do never achieve. I like
GloZell because she doesn’t seem to give a fuck what others might
think of her. This is a woman who is not afraid to sometimes make a
fool of herself (often involuntarily- see the Valentine’s accident)
but is always cool, spontaneous,unique, unpredictable and most
importantly - extremely funny in doing so.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The comedian likes to team up with her mum (who sometimes pops her head into GloZell's bedroom while she is recording one of her exuberant clips to see why the hell her daughter is shouting so much) or her boyfriend SK, to elaborate on the important issues of our lives- ranging from Vegan food to wigs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GloZell has got a BA in Fine Art/
Musical Theatre and is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
During the last couple of years, she has managed to build up an
online profile through her facebook page and YouTube channel which
has already achieved 110 Million (!!) views. Not bad, ey? She is a
self-made comedian who intelligently uses social media for
self-distribution and operates outside the mainstream by commenting
on the mainstream. And that's exactly what makes her so likeable –
she worked hard for her success and doesn’t need mainstream media
and its hype machinery that makes people 'famous' nowadays. She also
manages to come across as eccentric and down-to-earth at the same
time, which can't be said of many people. She willingly admits to and
celebrates her fascination with celebrities. But at the same time her
commentary on current affairs<i> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and
her personal life</span> are spiced with her opinions regarding
feminist or racial equality issues.</span></div>
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Rain: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLWB9Hnk8U&feature=BFa&list=UU7FhOuPmxz8spz_xvJf_xow&lf=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLWB9Hnk8U&feature=BFa&list=UU7FhOuPmxz8spz_xvJf_xow&lf=plcp</a></span></div>
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website/online platform for Non-League football called Football
Exclusives. Those guys are actually doing what I wanted to do years
ago but wasn't able to due to a lack of funding- giving Non-League
football clubs a much needed media presence online. FE update their pages on a daily basis with exclusive content such as articles,
match reports, match highlights videos and post-match interviews with
managers and players. They also extensively report on other football
related topics, for example the Kick It Out programme against racism
in football. The brilliant thing about FE is that they are embracing
the internet in its full glory- a website, a facebook page, a twitter
profile and a YouTube channel are the four pillars of this multi-media platform.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FE was started in 2011 by Non-League
football enthusiast Mike Bandry who placed an ad in Gumtree looking
for like-minded collaborators. Sports journalism student Ravit Anand
replied and together they set out to get their first story- an
interview with players and the manager of Hampton and Richmond
Borough FC, a club they are both following. The task seemed easy
enough but as we all know life is never simple. Mike and Ravit got
lost on the way to the training ground and arrived when the session
was over. They hitched a ride back on the mini bus with the team and
finally got to ask manager Mark Harper their questions at the
clubhouse.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FE focuses mainly on Blue Square South clubs
in Southern England such as Hampton and Richmond Borough FC, Basingstoke
Town, Woking FC, Havant and Waterlooville FC, Thurrock FC, Eastleigh
FC, Boreham Wood FC, Maidenhead United, Sutton United and Staines
Town FC. The young team of journalists is made up of dedicated media
students and volunteers, each club having their own reporter
attached. The aspiring sports journalists not only gain valid work
experience in return for giving up their free time, but also the
chance to support the clubs they follow by giving them a voice
online. Most of the clubs have welcomed FE with open arms, grateful
and appreciative of the coverage and media presence they are gaining
through this new platform.</span></div>
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clubs share the appreciation for FE's efforts as well. The benefit of
supporting a Non-League club is that you're actually able to talk to
players and management staff before or after matches but you don't
always get the chance to or you don't want to pester them with your
questions, especially after a defeat. So having FE on hand to always
ask those all important but sometimes uncomfortable questions is a
massive plus. I was away in Germany for Hampton's crucial last two
weeks this season and not being able to attend the final three
matches that would decide the club's fate regarding relegation was a
tad annoying to put it mildly. Hence, I was immensely grateful for
FE's coverage during that time to keep up to date with developments
back home. And sometimes pictures can tell you more than a 1000
words- seeing the soaked and sad Hampton fans and drooping players in
the background during the post-match interviews after the decisive
match against Thurrock that sealed Hampton's relegation was a bit
much. But I was still grateful that FE was there and kept me informed.</span></div>
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more media outlets that cover the Non League are either scrapped
(Setanta, Non League Today) or under threat of being cancelled (BBC's
Non League Show) the need for new, innovative platforms like Football
Exclusive is massive. Media coverage is not only essential for the Non-League to keep existing fans informed but also to attract new supporters to the financially
struggling clubs that rely on their loyal fan base now more than
ever. Thankfully, FE are filling the gap and one can only hope that
they will continue to grow and expand to cover clubs in other regions
of the UK as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out my new promotional video for
Hampton and Richmond Borough FC:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy memories from the 11/ 12 season-
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hAIMOom3Jk&list=UUToI_vVNB_OtnXecj4niZSw&index=2&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hAIMOom3Jk&list=UUToI_vVNB_OtnXecj4niZSw&index=2&feature=plcp</a></span></div>Ninaantoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337523352639206509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278952068972742960.post-76688970879580873802012-02-15T16:21:00.000-08:002012-02-16T07:08:30.007-08:0010 Reasons Why Supporting a Non League Football Club Makes Sense<div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">It’s about time that I dedicate a blog entry to one of the few things in life that are really important. Football.</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Inside the cover of the album ‘The Remote Part’ by Indie band Idlewild it is written to ‘Support your local poet.’ </div><div style="text-align: left;">Let me rephrase this appeal - support your local club! And by this I really mean your<i> local</i> club, not the Premier</div><div style="text-align: left;">League club that is closest to you. After all that would nearly make me a Chelsea fan and that of course is not</div><div style="text-align: left;">possible (in actual fact, I believe Fulham are even closer to where I live, and that’s actually not too bad.</div><div style="text-align: left;">I like Fulham. Beautiful stadium, friendly fans. A Michael Jackson statue in front of the ground. What’s not to like?)</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">No, by local club I mean the Non League club of the geographical place you call home. In my case that’s</div><div style="text-align: left;">two clubs: VFL Kirchheim of my hometown in Germany whom I used to watch as a child with my mates. </div><div style="text-align: left;">One of their players lived in our house as a lodger and we were his little fan club. We were so proud to know</div><div style="text-align: left;">a football player personally. A really nice lad who always had time for us kids. And Hampton and Richmond</div><div style="text-align: left;">Borough FC which I was lucky enough to discover in 2008. Yes, discover is the right word. When I moved to the</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hampton area 5 years ago, I walked past the Beveree Stadium several times without realising there was actually</div><div style="text-align: left;">a football ground hidden behind the houses and trees that are surrounding it.</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">OK, to sum up all the reasons why you should support your local club I came up with a Top 10 of Good Reasons</div><div style="text-align: left;">to do so. Here we go:</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>1) By supporting your local club, you’re supporting your local community. </b></div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">And that is a sensible thing to do. You’re counteracting social exclusion and fragmentation, isolation and</div><div style="text-align: left;">people’s general indifference towards what’s going on around them. In times of recession and personal </div><div style="text-align: left;">hardships, London Riots and increasing Youth crime you know why it’s making sense to play a constructive </div><div style="text-align: left;">part within your local community.</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Non League Football clubs are very active in organising cultural and social events such as concerts, </div><div style="text-align: left;">comedy nights or away trips like Golf days or to the racing as they’re always keen to attract new supporters. </div><div style="text-align: left;">They’re also well aware that such occasions are a great way to strengthen the community spirit amongst</div><div style="text-align: left;">the supporters and that organising such events is one of of their responsibilities within the local community. </div><div style="text-align: left;">When a club is fortunate enough to have a Supporters Trust, like Hampton does, its members are often</div><div style="text-align: left;">very active when it comes to organising events or taking part in community activities such as fairs and parades. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The other pillar of community involvement of a Non League Club is of course the development of youth football. </div><div style="text-align: left;">When joining the youth team or Football Academy of a club, local children and young people are given the </div><div style="text-align: left;">opportunity to develop their footballing and social skills on and off the pitch. This will not only strengthen their </div><div style="text-align: left;">personal development but also their identification with their home town.</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2) The rich don’t need to get richer and the poor don’t need to get poorer. </b></div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">It’s bad enough that society is going that way but when it comes to football we all got a choice. Why support </div><div style="text-align: left;">a rich Premier League club that really doesn’t need your hard earned money when a Non League club is</div><div style="text-align: left;">desperately needing every penny to make ends meet to remain in business? And as mentioned above,</div><div style="text-align: left;">it’s not just the footballing side that a club is responsible for but all the other aspects as mentioned in</div><div style="text-align: left;">point 1. This of course doesn’t mean you have to stop supporting your League Club. Just by attending </div><div style="text-align: left;">matches of your local club only now and then you’re already making a great contribution. And many</div><div style="text-align: left;">League team supporters will find the experience so rewarding that their professional team will in return </div><div style="text-align: left;">become their second team as they start to support their Non League club ‘full-time’. This continues to be </div><div style="text-align: left;">the case at Hampton. Ask any fan there and most of them will tell you a similar story about how they got </div><div style="text-align: left;">disillusioned with League football- or simply couldn’t afford it any longer- and ended up at the Beveree. </div><div style="text-align: left;">And- if you’re a season ticket holder of any League club, you can get in half price at Hampton matches.</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>3)</b> <b>You can get involved.</b></div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">I’m selling the Golden Goal tickets at Hampton home matches. I know, it doesn’t sound that exciting </div><div style="text-align: left;">but it’s actually really rewarding to hear at the end of the season how much money we made for the club just</div><div style="text-align: left;">by selling those tickets. It adds up to 1000’s of pounds. And that’s really cool.</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b> 4) You make new friends.</b></div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">As much as I love Hampton, I have to admit that the football wasn’t that rewarding the last few seasons. </div><div style="text-align: left;">But that’s OK. We’ve seen better times before and they will come again. But just by thinking of the amount </div><div style="text-align: left;">of good friends I’ve made since I’ve been supporting the club makes all of this worthwhile: the cold </div><div style="text-align: left;">Tuesday night matches standing behind the goal in the pouring rain and waking up the next morning </div><div style="text-align: left;">with a fever, the 5th home defeat in a row when you just wonder what the hell is going on, those </div><div style="text-align: left;">popular away trips to Chelmsford, the heart-warming encounters with our Womble friends*. It’s all </div><div style="text-align: left;">worthwhile because you experience it with people you like and get on with. No one is in it alone.</div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Just one example. One day we were playing Woking at home. At the far end of the pitch I spotted a little </div><div style="text-align: left;">flag someone had put up on the hoardings. Did my eyes play a trick on me? No, they didn’t. </div><div style="text-align: left;">It was the <i>German flag.</i> Turns out Simone, a football fan from Bavaria, was visiting Woking where </div><div style="text-align: left;">she used to work as an Au-pair. Since that time she has been following Woking FC. On that day </div><div style="text-align: left;">she came along with the Woking fans on their away trip to Hampton. We’ve since met up many </div><div style="text-align: left;">times at Hampton or Woking home matches respectively and have stayed in touch on Facebook. </div></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.1px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">And then there is Christian the groundhopper from North Germany who supports St. Pauli, my friend </div><div style="text-align: left;">Callie who teaches German, my Womble mate...ups, there I said it. Yes, I’m friends with an AFC Wimbledon<br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Before we look back at Fontana’s triumphs in the 1960's and 70's let's quickly analyse the situation of female scriptwriters today to put her achievements into context. In 2011 only 13.6% of all film screenwriters in Hollywood were female (<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica;">8% of directors and 19.1% of producers). In TV the situation isn't much better. </span>In 2007, 35 percent of scriptwriters were women but in 2011 this number did drop to only 15 percent. Experts blame the recession, broadcasters taking fewer risks (one has to wonder why employing a woman is still viewed as a risk in 2012) and to put it plain and simple - old-fashioned sexism - for this troubling development.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">You will probably be not surprised by those numbers. But if you would argue that Hollywood has always been sexist and unfair towards women regarding employment behind the camera you would be wrong.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In the ‘Classic Hollywood’ era it was common practice to employ female writers to cope with the ever-growing demand for great screenplays. The term Classic Hollywood - the Silent Era (1910-1927) and the Golden Age of Hollywood (ca. 1927-1950) stands for the heyday of the great Hollywood studios like Paramount Pictures, Fox Film Coperation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. Brandie Ashe explains one of the main reasons for the dominance of female scriptwriters at that time in her blog W<i>omen in Early Hollywood</i>:</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“It's no coincidence that the golden era of the female screenwriter occurred at the same time as the golden age of the actress. In the 1920s and early '30s, when female screenwriters dominated, actresses ruled the box office to a degree that hasn't been seen since.”</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In the excellent book <i>Script Girls:Women Screenwriters in Hollywood</i>, Lizzy Francke depicts how, as the industry grew, screenwriting became the only area of film production in which a woman could play a significant role. Back then about 50% of all screenwriters were female. Impressive, ey? Compared to the situation today, it’s quite depressing to see that Hollywood’s employment practices have actually developed backwards in that respect.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">However, when it came to TV scriptwriting in general, and the male domain of Science Fiction writing in particular, during the 1960's women did not exist on television networks’ radar as potential writers for their shows. </div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">But just like it did in so many other respects, the visionary programme <i>Star Trek</i> challenged this blatant injustice by employing a young female story-editor and scriptwriter - Dorothy Fontana. Aged 27 she was the youngest story editor in Hollywood at the time. During the next few years, Fontana would play an important role in the development and shaping of this innovative and groundbreaking TV series.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Although the show was set in 2266, the episodes were dealing with many of the important themes and issues that would define the1960's as one of the most influential decades in history: racism, gender equality, drug use, false Gods, the damaging exploitation of natural resources, freedom, pacifism, war and the corruption of power, to name just a few topics.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Dorothy Fontana wrote some of<i> Star Treks</i> most remarkable episodes, such as <i>The Way To Eden, The Enterprise Incident, Tomorrow is Yesterday, Journey to Babel </i>and <i>This Side of Paradise</i>. To make her acceptable to the predominantly male science fiction audience who might not have trusted a woman to write a good Science Fiction story, Dorothy Fontana was credited as D.C. Fontana or used male pseudonyms such as Michael Richards or J.Michael Bingham.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;">D.C. Fontana understood that <i>Star Trek </i>owed a great deal of its appeal to the believable characters. Consequently, she championed collaboration with the actors and they were heavily involved in developing the characters they portrayed. This approach was not only evident in regard to Nimoy and Mr. Spock but also to DeForest Kelley and Doctor McCoy. The actor from Georgia, known for his dry humour and wit, developed the <i>Enterprise’s</i> emotional and sarcastic chief medical officer as a direct counterpart to the logical and unemotional Spock, which resulted in many unforgettable and often hilarious on-screen arguments between the two. In Kelley’s biography Fontana remembers: “Everything to do with McCoy we did with Kelley’s input. We created McCoy with Kelley right there.”</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">D.C Fontana’s understanding for character and her ability to develop potential ideas into well-structured and dramatic scripts, soon cemented her place among the chief production personnel of the series. Kelley biographer Terry Lee Rioux describes how Fontana earned the respect of the show’s producer Robert Justman when she reinvigorated the idea behind the episode <i>Charlie X</i> which evolved around a troubled teenager with superpowers.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">“It had been a ‘junked’ story Roddenberry had been fooling with. Justman knew Fontana was a writer, that she was good, and that she would work on speculation. ‘Give it to Dorothy, and see what she can do with it’ he advised Roddenberry. Fontana resuscitated the good that was in it.”</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Fontana’s emancipated writing is often subtle and funny at the same time, but always intelligent and even visionary. A great example of this is when Air Force pilot Captain Christopher is beamed on the <i>Enterprise</i> after the ship’s unintentional time travel to 1967 in <i>Tomorrow Is Yesterday.</i> Kirk greets him in the transporter room and they walk into the corridor where a female crew-member walks past. Christopher can’t believe his eyes and looks after the woman.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
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KIRK: Morning. (drags Christopher along) Captain. <br />
CHRISTOPHER: A woman? <br />
<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial;">KIRK: Crewman.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;">In 1967 the roles of women in the military were restricted to medical and administrative tasks and the long-standing combat exclusion law for women pilots in the Navy and Air Force was only repealed in 1992. So one can forgive Captain Christopher’s astonishment to meet fully trained women aboard a far-travelled Starship.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">After<i> Star Trek</i>, Dorothy Fontana went on to produce the Emmy-winning animated series of the programme in the 1970’s. She also wrote many scripts for other TV programmes such as <i>The Six Million Dollor Man, The Waltons </i>and <i>Dallas</i>. Furthermore, she wrote several novels that were set within the <i>StarTrek </i>Universe. Today she is lecturing Screenwriting at the American Film Institute.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">A little while ago I had the pleasure to encounter D.C. Fontana personally. But not the real one, but an excellent British Mod/Soul band of the same name. The band has an impeccable taste when it comes to their 60’s influences and has named themselves in tribute of the great writer. The combo is truly fantastic-live and on record- but one has to salut them as well for their original and brilliant name. </div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Books</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Leonard Nimoy- I’m Spock</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Terry Lee Rioux - From Sawdust to Stardust- The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Lizzie Franke- Script Girls: Woman Scriptwriters in Hollywood</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Maureen Ryan- <span style="letter-spacing: -1px;">Why Is Television Losing Women Writers?</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">http://www.aoltv.com/2011/09/08/women-television-producers-decline/</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Brandie Ashe- Women In Early Hollywood</div><div style="font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">http://www.moviefanfare.com/fanfare-guests/women-in-early-hollywood/</div>Ninaantoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337523352639206509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278952068972742960.post-82600331507905656362011-12-14T06:42:00.000-08:002011-12-14T06:48:37.857-08:00The Wonderful World of Fan Fiction<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">I'm currently writing my first fan fiction story! And I've already published the first six chapters! Hurray! Only 10 or 20 more to follow...OK, it's bloody hard work but brilliant fun. People actually read fan fiction and I noticed how in that respect it’s more rewarding than blogging or script-writing. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">It’s amazing, people actually <i>demand </i>you to write your story, to finish it, to put the next chapter up asap. It's called a Story Alert. As a reader, you are notified when an author you like has published a new piece of work. But it works both ways- the author is notified as well when someone is alerting their stories. I know for sure there's at least ten people out there who are biting their nails in anticipation for my next chapter (that's how I like to picture it anyway). Believe it or not, it's actually important for a writer that someone is reading their work. And if it it's just one person. <i>Someone</i> else has to read it. Imagine a baker whose cakes no one is eating, a painter whose paintings no one is looking at, a celebrity whose reality TV show no one is watching...you get the idea. You feel like an ice pick in the dessert. Totally useless.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Writing fan fiction is also such a refreshing experience because it's free from any professional pressure or expectations. I don't want to sell it because it's nor for sale, I don't need to pitch it to anyone as I just press 'publish' and the job's done, there's no competition as reading someone else's work is just as much fun as coming up with your own story. In short, the geeky world of FF is an appreciative and safe one. And one of the best parts of it is the instant feedback you're getting from your 'audience'. Not much can make my day like another raving story review.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">In case you're wondering my choice of fiction is <i>Star Trek- The Original Series</i>. It should be noted that I'm not a 'dressing in a yellow Starfleet Uniform, going to a convention and trying to get William Shatner's autograph with 500 people ahead of you in the queue' kind of Trekkie. I'm more of a 'having the Science insignia tattooed on your forearm' kind of fan. But as the word count is already working against me, the reason why I love Trek should be the subject for another blog. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Anyway, I never knew such a thing like fan fiction existed until I came across it coincidentally when browsing the internet. I can't quite remember how by researching a possible PHD subject I ended up on a page called OrionPress but there you go...</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Now, I also believed until that point that Slash is either one of two things: the guitarist in Guns'n'Roses or a punctuation mark that you either use in between two subjects that are somehow listed/or are related to one another. It also means homoerotic fan fiction and I quickly realised that Kirk<b>/</b>Spock (romantic fiction) stories are very strange and not my cup of tea at all and that Kirk<b>&</b>Spock (friendship and adventure fiction) is more like it and stays true to what was initially intended for those characters. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interestingly, one of the many things we own to Star Trek is fan fiction itself. Already during its initial run on NBC from 1966-1969 fans were picking up on the endless possibilities the Trek Universe was offering to tell stories that were science-fiction and utopian but at the same time deeply grounded in our realty due to the human (and Vulcan) characters. But when the series hit syndication in the early 1970's the Star Trek Universe really started to manifest itself in our world: conventions, marathon viewing sessions, fan memorabilia and fan fiction became the pillars of a Trekkie's life. Dozens of fanzine's were published mainly around the USA but also in Europe. Well-known science-fiction authors were providing the content, alongside amateur writers. You can imagine what the invention of the World Wide Web meant for this sub-culture: the printed 'zines gradually disappeared but the stories multiplied and became accessible more easily. Now, anyone, anywhere at anytime can publish their stories instantly. For most of us, that's 3 AM in the morning for some reason. Probably, because that's when you've got time to do it.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">What is fascinating (!) about FF is the fact that a considerable large amount of it is of such a high standard, it makes you wonder why the writers aren't published. An American mother of three (that is not her pen name, but her self-description) is my favourite author. Another one I like is a Russian who writes some of the best English I've ever read. But writers do get published sometimes- my American idol told me recently that one of her stories was picked up by a fanzine. That's wonderful news, as those brilliant writers deserve all the kudos they can get. But that's the point with FF you see- people don't write because they have ambitions to be recognised outside the scene or to become famous. Everyone's got a pen name for starters. The motivation is to pay respect to the fiction you love by creating your own stories and to share those with like-minded fans. It's purely writing for writing sake's. It's total freedom. FF is the one-night stand of creative writing. No strings attached.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Oh, and if you think there's only Star Trek, Harry Potter or Twilight FF- wrong! Stories are written (and read) as we speak about any possible film or TV series you can imagine, including Perry Mason, Baywatch, Roseanne and Dad's Army. No? Yes!</span></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">The trailer for my 2010 mod documentary We Are The Mods has now over 10 000 hits on YouTube. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3zneFydg-A&list=UUToI_vVNB_OtnXecj4niZSw&feature=plcp">We Are The Mods-Trailer</a></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Recently I’ve done a short promo for the excellent Pandora’s Box event in Shoreditch, East-London. Pandora’s Box is a great night that showcases female poets and musicians. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XblUb8lmhhk&list=UUToI_vVNB_OtnXecj4niZSw&feature=plcp">Pandora's Box Promo</a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">The English language version </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">of my new documentary about the groundbreaking and independent internet channel fluegel.tv in Germany is now online.</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> </span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q1A9dGvUAQ&feature=related">We Are The People</a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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</div>Ninaantoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337523352639206509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278952068972742960.post-83606111734008351582011-11-14T15:38:00.001-08:002011-11-14T15:38:40.822-08:00Some Kind Of Wonderful-John Hughes<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">First of all-</span></span></span></b></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Why on earth have I started my own blog? When reading other people's blogs I notice that they're usually intelligent, funny and interesting. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">However,</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">* I enjoy writing about things I deeply care about. Makes sense.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">* I went to a business seminar where the highly successful and professional</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> marketing expert told us to start a blog. I do as I'm told (usually).</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">* It's good writing practice. And that can't be bad.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">No one will read my blog. I have to admit this is my main worry. But since you haven't actually read this admission I feel much better already.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">It would make sense to give my blog some structure, so I will make it a habit to divide it into two sections- a topic relating to my profession as a filmmaker or a general topic that could be about anything (with the exception of Chelsea FC and Man United) and a What's Going On section that really should be dedicated to the Marvin Gaye album from 1971 but for self-promotional reasons it will be dedicated to me.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></b></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Some Kind Of Wonderful-John Hughes</span></span></span></b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></b></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">As a primary school kid in the early 1990's you knew that every children's birthday party would eventually reach the stage when </span></span></b></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">a) Pizza was ordered (or served - if you were lucky enough to be invited to your Italian classmate's party) and </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">b) a VHS of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Home Alone </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">(1990) would be watched. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">I hadn't realised until recently that I have been a fan of John Hughes' work since my childhood. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Beethoven </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">(1992) and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Home Alone</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> (1990) were favourites of mine as a kid and I actually saw those films at the cinema.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">John Hughes was one of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">the</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> defining directors, scriptwriters and producers of the 1980's and early 1990's. Films such as </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">The Breakfast Club </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">(1985), </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Ferris Bueller's Day Off </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">(1986) and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Planes, Trains and Automobiles</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> (1987) were critically acclaimed and immensely successful at the box-office at the same time. Hughes is often referred to as the Godfather of the High School movie but he could do it all: drama, comedy, satire, slapstick – you name it. Ready for some tasters? There you go:</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>Insightful</b></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.' </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Andrew in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">The Breakfast Club</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>Bittersweet</b></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">'May I admire you again today?' </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Duckie in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Pretty In Pink</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXh9filTFz8Ar_tqKK6Xq_SSy94_5clhZHZ4pU53L-GAgVIeHml1G4fiu4V6k8Mcda-IzCslbXBoXIEhcNNIIhTjFXIhIxx1KKn3bvSwLP-89fhb8Lv3czOtRFj4OxHBLvTI476rFZAo/s1600/Pretty-in-Pink-movie-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXh9filTFz8Ar_tqKK6Xq_SSy94_5clhZHZ4pU53L-GAgVIeHml1G4fiu4V6k8Mcda-IzCslbXBoXIEhcNNIIhTjFXIhIxx1KKn3bvSwLP-89fhb8Lv3czOtRFj4OxHBLvTI476rFZAo/s400/Pretty-in-Pink-movie-05.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></span></span></span></a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Do you get the feeling this picture was taken in the 80's? Yeah, me too.</span></span></i></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>Funny</b></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Neal: Del... Why did you kiss my ear?</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Del: Why are you holding my hand?</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Neal: [frowns] Where's your other hand?</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Del: Between two pillows...</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Neal: Those aren't pillows! </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i></i></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3V-EYtuttEi7veQ62SQXFCJOjcgXnhOQ8jRnROdoqR4j_kuJcASdqxGcUWfxrBPoPDx43oTypLKzr9jjIBq6jA9gvzLSQsABygwH8-adSi1pPJC3tDx2u878ia9aVnNv3TeuWIkk-RCY/s1600/000096_20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3V-EYtuttEi7veQ62SQXFCJOjcgXnhOQ8jRnROdoqR4j_kuJcASdqxGcUWfxrBPoPDx43oTypLKzr9jjIBq6jA9gvzLSQsABygwH8-adSi1pPJC3tDx2u878ia9aVnNv3TeuWIkk-RCY/s1600/000096_20.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></span></span></span></a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">It's not often that great directors are also outstanding writers. John Hughes was. Many of his best scripts he didn't direct himself e.g . </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Pretty in Pink </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">(1986), </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Some Kind of Wonderful</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> (1987), and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Christmas Vacation</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> (1989), the only Christmas film I can watch when it's </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">not </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Christmas. Craft and talent are one thing, but I believe John Hughes was such a wonderful writer- and director- because he deeply loved and cared for his characters. And his (often adolescent) audience. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">I also admire his work because it dealt with strong themes. A John Hughes film is not just entertaining, it actually means something. His characters aren't just good or bad, brilliant or horrible. They are all unique individuals. Scriptwriting guru's Robert McKee or Syd Field would call them 'multidimensional'. Hughes' characters have clear reasons to be the way they are and therefore they 'feel' real. Those reasons relate to the characters' backgrounds, their environments and their attitudes towards life. Social prejudice, loneliness and self-acceptance of one's individuality were reoccurring themes in Hughes' work. These are universal themes we all can relate to and emphasise with. I believe this is why John Hughes was so successful and his work is still important today. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Planes, Trains and Automobiles</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> is one of my favourite films of all time. It's one of the few films you can watch dozens of times and every time it feels as fresh and engaging as the first time. It was John Hughes first real venture into 'adult' cinema and the film was an instant success with critics and audiences alike. John Candy and Steve Martin both give outstanding performances as involuntary travel companions Del Griffith and Neal Page on a journey from hell, or to be more precise, from New York to Chicago. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Hughes' screenplay is a master-class in how to keep the right balance between comedy and drama. As their relationship gradually develops from open antipathy into friendship, the two main characters undergo major changes regarding their personalities and attitude towards life. Career man Neal realises he needs to spend more time with his family and that hurting someone else's feelings is hurting oneself just as much. Drifter Del learns that he can't no longer escape his loneliness on his business journeys. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">In one of cinema's most moving closing scenes,Neal comes back for Del at the train station in Chicago after they had already bid their farewells. Neal has a hunch that Del has nowhere to go on Thanksgiving Day. And he is right. He finds Del sitting on his own in the deserted station. Del finally opens up and confesses that he has been on the road since his wife's death 8 years ago. Until the release of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Planes, Trains and Automobiles</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Martin and Candy had been pigeonholed as comedians. If you watch this scene you realise they were superb actors as well. Their gestures and mimicry speak more than a thousand words: Ashamed and insecure, Del holds on to his hat like it was a life-belt during his confession to Neal. The reaction on Neal's face both reflects the grief for his friend and his realisation that he would be equally devastated if he was to lose his wife.</span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><br />
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</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">John Hughes retired from the film business in 1994. John Candy passed away the same year aged just 44 after suffering a heart-attack. Hughes was deeply saddened by his death. Friends of John Hughes say that if Candy had lived, the director would have made more films. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">John Hughes passed away in 2009 after suffering a heart-attack.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">There's a documentary about him called </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Don't You Forget About Me </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">following a bunch of filmmakers who set out to make a film about Hughes' work and try to track him down after he disappeared from the public eye. </span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">I am</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> currently trying to track down that documentary...</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">> My new documentary 'Befluegelter Protest' about the groundbreaking and independent internet channel fluegel.tv in Germany is now online:</div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOj_Kvh96iM"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/user/liveforeverprod1?feature=mhee#p/a/u/1/bOj_Kvh96iM</span></span></a></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The English language version is coming soon.</div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">> I'm currently taking part in a video competition by THE WHO. The winning clip will become the official video for the song 5.15, accompanying their box set release of Quadrophenia. Until 6pm, 18.11 you can vote for my clip here:</div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_67776070"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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