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Middle-earth Monday 9: The Haven of Umbar
September 27, 2010

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 […]

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Minor Key Monday 9: Autechre – Bike
September 20, 2010

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 7: Deicide – Deicide
September 15, 2010

Welcome back to Mid-Month Metal Masterpiece, where I discuss a different classic Thrash, Death, Black or just plain “Heavy” metal album on the 15th of each month. Of course, I’m an old school fellow, so …

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Le Boucher – Claude Chabrol’s Masterpiece
September 13, 2010

Claude Chabrol, one of the central figures in the French New Wave movement passed away yesterday at the age of 80.  Thus, like my Altman, Bergman, Antonioni and Rohmer memorial posts, I thought I would …

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Internet Meme Monday 9: www.isleyunruh.com PostSecrets
September 13, 2010

Welcome back to Internet Meme Monday!  What is a meme you say?  Well, as I understand it, a meme is similar to a gene, except instead of passing on genetic information it passes on cultural …

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Mailbag Monday 16
September 6, 2010

Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again!  On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say?  Do I really get that …

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Monthly Movie Reviews – August, 2010
September 1, 2010

Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August. Stats Movies watched – 25 Movies that were new to me – 21 Short films to pad my numbers – 2 Monthly Masterpieces - Rain, …

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IO5M 1: The Top 5 John Wayne Performances!
August 30, 2010

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Middle-earth Monday 8: Drúwaith Iaur
August 23, 2010

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Minor Key Monday 8: Johnny Cash – Ain’t No Grave
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