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edward said
yesterday the professor of comparative literature at columbia university in new york, edward said, died of luekemia after a long battle. he was born in (at the time) british controlled jerusalem and emigrated to america as a teenager. his parents were pasestinian and he grew up feeling at home in both arabic and western soceity…
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messu
tomorrow we are going to a furniture fair in the convention centre (messukeskus) nearby. its called habitare and apparently all of the convention centre has been filled. so expect our apartment to be littered with hundreds of brochures tomorrow evening.
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last three
three more movies watched. two tonight (thursday) and one last night (wednesday). wednesdays movie was “last party 2000” narrated by philip seymour hoffman. it dealt with the american presidential election in 2000. visiting both the republican and democratic conventions, and then going to flordia to see a bit of the vote counting. a very good…
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half way mark
im now half way through the six movies im going to go see at the helsinki international film festival. it was only meant to be five, but a spare ticket for the britpop documentary “live forever” was going and i went. “live forever” covered the 1990’s british music industry, concetrating on blur, oasis, the labour…
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winters coming
winter is coming, and in preparation for the dark nights (and days) we are booking ourselves into a nearby sports hall for a few hours every week so as we can keep fit during the long winter. yesterday we went to a new one recently finished in kumpula. after we got some information we decided…