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Aaargh! That really sucks about The Walkmen, at least I managed to see them live on their last tour, but it's a bummer that it will have been the only time.

What's your budget for scotch?
I second the Lagavulin recommendation if you like them peaty/smoky, it's also fairly sweet and fruity making it appropriate for all occasions.
On the sweetier lighter side, Glenfarclas is usually very good and relatively cheap.
If your wife and kids are feeling generous a bottle of Dalmore…

Congratulations!
I'm sure it will be fine, don't worry about being rusty, an adaptation period would be expected anywhere, and it can be down to anything.

Still working (and will tomorrow…), but only for seventeen more minutes, then to the pub! The London Fields Brewery one, they brew the stuff on site, it's usually quite tasty.

Is the idea to celebrate this strictly American holiday with only foreign films? That would actually be nice.

I'm not sure the target audience is into social drinking.

At first I thought your username and this comment were a sign that you were a particularly clever gimmick, oh well…

I meant that the focus is about the people, extremists of various kinds rather than conspiracy theorists (even if there is some overlap), also the only conspiracy theories he mentioned were those around the Bilderberg conference, and while he involved himself in finding out as much as he could, it read more like a…

I first read about David Icke in Jon Ronson's Them, which in itself is not really about conspiracy theories, but is still an amazing read.
He definitely seemed quite a character.

I saw the Pixies do it with Doolitte and I was very happy (although it was more about seeing the Pixies), I'm still kicking myself that I missed Sonic Youth doing Daydream Nation (even if to be fair I wasn't really into them at the time), and there are probably a few bands I would go see that way. The way Springsteen…

It definitely would. I keep hoping that one day he would play "Darker with the Day", it's probably unlikely as it would be quite a downer (but I just love that song), but who knows, the request he took back then was for Lime Tree Arbour, and I've heard him play about half of The Boatman's Call in total.

I've seen him a few times this year, and he tries to have songs from most of his albums every night, Nocturama and Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! are the only two he didn't play anything from (don't mind about the former, would have enjoyed something from the latter).
And given that technically he already did the Push the Sky…

That book looks pretty fascinating, I may have to renew my library card.

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In history class, we watched a bad TV movie called 1788 that was about the cause of the French revolution.
I'm pretty sure we watched a film adaptation of Zola's L'assomoir in French class after reading the book, but I can't find which one it would have been, I do however recall a fight scene between two women where…

That's the one I started with, and it defintely sent me on the hunt for more. I also think Sonic Nurse could work as it's a great pop record.
I assume someone needing a gateway would need to start from the poppier end (I guess thatwould be Rather Ripped actually, but I really don't like it).

There was a retrospective at the BFI a couple of years ago where I got to see a few.
There are a few sets in R2, but it's one of the few directors where resorting to other means used to be the only way to come across some movies; not that I've watched them yet…

Sokurov movies aren't really about acting and writing. If you haven't seen anything by him before and are going because you want to see a relatively straightforward adaptation of Faust, you'll probably be disappointed.

I would unconditionally recommend everything Sokurov has done from Mother and Son onwards.
I haven't seen many of the earlier ones, but they seemed a bit more hermetic thinking about Kamen in particular, haven't seen Whispering Pages @GhaleonQ:disqus is praising upthread).