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Middle-earth Monday 35: Field of Celebrant
November 26, 2012

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature!  Middle-earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a […]

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Minor Key Monday 35: Peter Murphy – A Strange Kind of Love
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I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”.  Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like.  No, not [just] Black …

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Mid-month Metal Masterpiece 33: Varathron – His Majesty at the Swamp
November 15, 2012

Sometimes "black metal" is a difficult genre to pin down. While 90% of black metal pretty much either sounds like Emperor or Immortal, there is quite a lot of diversity to be found in the …

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My Favorite Movies 35 – The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
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Few directors dominated the early 1940s like Preston Sturges.  While not the first writer-director, Sturges was the most famous early example of a screenwriter who also directed his own films, paving the way for Orson …

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James Bond Picture Book I: Dr. No
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