Wow—that is a serious bummer. Maybe you should pop in—tell 'em who you are, I'm sure they'd be cool, right?
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Kate Nash's Slade cover is fantastic. I"m gonna find it & post it so everybody can see you you mean. It's a great cover, & she is just so goddamn adorable—her little wink at the end just slays me:
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It's fantastic. Now I just wish they'd release the Christmas special that was the basis for the album. It's on YouTube, for now ( http://www.youtube.com/watc… ), but we need a DVD release already.
Assuming you're really asking, you're probably thinking of Paul Thomas Anderson.
Not Pompeii itself—that was a pretty working-class harbor town, but not far away you have resortier areas like the Amalfi Coast, which were playgrounds of the rich even back then.
There's one where a guy is referred to as "Garlic-farter". Comedy gold, indeed!
I wasn't suggesting it was no biggie—quite the opposite. As I comment elsewhere here, there's plenty of ACTUAL drama & tragedy in the true story—Hollywooding it up is both unnecessary & a diminution of the real losses. Side note: The reigning Emperor, Titus, led a major effort to assist those in the Bay of Naples…
And/or slow.
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Don't forget Stabiae & Oplontis!
Actually, most of them survived. Of the 25,000-30,000 people who lived in Pompeii, only about 5,000-7,000 of them died in that eruption.
Yikes. Where to start?
It's ALWAYS gluten.
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It's possible, I suppose, but like I said, it seems unlikely. That tomb inscription you mention is also speculative—there are no reliable accounts of Scipio's funeral or burial, not even proof that he was actually buried away from Rome as legend has it. There is, however, a Scipio family tomb on the outskirts of…
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Yeah, Cannae did NOT go well.