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June 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Seconds (June 11)

The Wellington Film Society’s program is back after a week off – and we’re still in the sixties, following on from Alphaville we’re in the world of John Frankenheimer. His Seconds (1966) is in fact the third film in his “Paranoia Trilogy” (following 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate and 1963’s Seven Days In May). The film […]
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October 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Seconds

And on the day that love was handed to him on a plate, he was patient. He was happy to wait. He was good at it by then. And then immediately he asked for seconds…  
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October 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1267

U2, War (1983) I was a huge U2 fan as a kid, the early stuff – even if Joshua Tree was the first album I owned; that was more because it was right around when I started buying tapes myself. All the pre-Joshua Tree albums were (kinda) on my radar. My aunty owned them all […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1983, Bono, Boy, Joshua Tree, LP, October, Seconds, U2, Unforgettable Fire, Vinyl, War, Zooropa ·

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