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Thursday, 28 February 2013



Book 80: It's Not Me, It's You!: Impossible perfectionist seeks very very very tidy woman: Jon Richardson

It's Not Me, It's You! is a book written by British comedian Jon Richardson and is based on his 2011 comedy show of the same name. It was published in the UK by HarperCollins on 23 June 2011. Richardson has said "it is not a autobiography" but rather it is a "relationship guide from the point of view of someone who hasn't been in one for eight years".The book began as an article in The Guardian newspaper's Weekend supplement Valentine's Day issue that was printed on 13 February 2010.


Tuesday, 2 October 2012




Film 817: The Thin Blue Line

Trivia: Was rejected by the Oscars for Best Documentary category in 1989 because it was considered to be a fictional film due to its scripted content.

Errol Morris spent 2-1/2 years tracking down the various players in the Randall Adams case and convincing them to appear in the film.

Thursday, 27 September 2012



Book 74: In Cold Blood: Truman Capote

In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote detailing the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a successful farmer from Holcomb,Kansas, his wife, and two of their four children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Nelle Harper Lee, and together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested some six weeks after the murders, and Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book. The book became the greatest crime seller at the time and is almost universally acknowledged as one of the best books of its type ever written.