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Posts Tagged American Beauty

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March 31, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

There’s a Clip I Watch on YouTube and I’m Not Joking When I Say I Look at it Most Weeks…  

It’s a film-student interviewing John Cusack and she can’t believe her luck, you see the class was watching American Beauty that day, and she skipped out to interview its star – only Cusack, quite reasonably disagreed, given he’s not in the film at all. His interviewer presses the point that he is in fact in […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged American Beauty, Blog, Cinema, Film, John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Movie, There’s a Clip I Watch on YouTube and I’m Not Joking When I Say I Look at it Most Weeks…, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, YouTube ·

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October 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: How Not To

There’s a clip I watch on YouTube and I’m not joking when I say I look at it most weeks.  It’s a film-student interviewing  John Cusack and she can’t believe her luck, you see the class was watching American Beauty that day, and she skipped out to interview its star – only Cusack, quite reasonably […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Actor, American Beauty, Film, How Not To, Interview, John Cusack, Poem, Poem: How Not To, Star ·

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July 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 95

The Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead (1970) I am a Grateful Dead fan but I don’t own much of their stuff on vinyl; maybe it’s just too much of an undertaking – there’s too much so I never really wanted to get started. But I’ve always wanted this and one day I must get American Beauty […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1970, 50th Anniversary, American Beauty, Easy Wind, Grateful Dead, LP, Record, The Grateful Dead, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 95, Vinyl, Workingman's Dead ·

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October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Weir: Blue Mountain

Bob Weir Blue Mountain SMG Here the former Grateful Dead co-frontman sits up with a set of cowboy tunes, campfire songs – and even if his big production cost was the time taken to grow that beard it was time/money well spent – for this is Weir’s best set of songs since way back to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, American Beauty, Blue Mountain, Bob Weir, Cowboy Songs, Kingfish, The Grateful Dead, Workingman's Dead ·

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September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Grateful Dead: The Best of The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead The Best of The Grateful Dead Grateful Dead/Rhino It’s Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Season if you didn’t already know. It’s also 20 years since Jerry Garcia, spiritual centre of the band, left this world to spiral on elsewhere, down some other tie-dyed highway. The band has played its last ever shows under […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2015, 50th Anniversary, American Beauty, Best Of, Compilation, Double, Jerry Garcia, St. Stephen, Terrapin Station, The Best of The Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead, Touch of Grey, Workingman's Dead ·

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