Name: Simon Barrett
Weblog: zzsimonb.blogspot.com
Articles: 93
First Published: Friday, January 19, 2007
Last Published: Thursday, August 2, 2007
Currently listing articles 93-51:
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Book Review: A Song For The World – The Amazing Story Of The Colwell Brothers And Herb Allen: Musical Diplomats by Frank McGee— A great and heartfelt work, Frank McGee has certainly done his homework, he follows the Colwell’s and Allen across the planet
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An Interview With Gerrie Hugo About Africa Will Always Break Your Heart, Part Two— On apartheid: Africa Will Always Break your Heart is my final apology and effort to try and set the record straight."
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An Interview With Gerrie Hugo About Africa Will Always Break Your Heart - Part One
— "For too long the white man’s political views on the Southern tip of Africa were just cleverly disguised Nazism."
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Book Review: Africa Will Always Break Your Heart by Gerrie Hugo
— A hard look at South Africa during the grim age of apartheid.
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TV Review: The Sundance Channel's Big Ideas For A Small Planet - "Work"— “When most people go to work they leave their environmental ethics at the door," says Joel Makower.
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An Interview With Damien Lewis About Cobra Gold — "My experiences with rebels armies, terrorists, war lords, freedom fighters, genocidal leaders ... is the powerhouse that drives my fictional writing."
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Book Review: Cobra Gold by Damien Lewis
— $50 million in gold, would you take it?
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TV Review: The Sundance Channel's Big Ideas For A Small Planet - "Sports"
— Big Ideas takes aim at the world of sports, and features companies and individuals that are making equipment both sustainable and eco-friendly.
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Movie Review: A Mighty Heart— The director has done a fine job of neither glorifying nor gorifying the story.
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Mrs. Sam "Soul Man" Moore Speaks Out On Piracy In The Music Business— Remember bootlegs? Sam "Soul Man" Moore does. In this exclusive interview, Sam's wife Joyce speaks out on how piracy turned an icon into a victim.
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TV Review: Sundance Channel's Big Ideas For A Small Planet - "Paper or Plastic?"
— A new eco concept, 'cradle to cradle', means everything needs to be sustainable.
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A Shocking Interview With Matthew Carr About The Infernal Machine - The History Of Terrorism— This is the second book in as many months that I have reviewed and has been banned from being sold in the United Kingdom!
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Book Review: The Infernal Machine – A History Of Terrorism by Matthew Carr
— The author explores how in many cases terrorism is actually used to a government's advantage.
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TV Review: Kids - Big Ideas For A Small Planet— “You want to get money out of adults? Well you have to talk serious to them”.
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You Should Have Listed To Al, An Interview With Al Stewart— "It wasn’t the Sex Pistols that got me, it was Loverboy."
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TV Review: Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Create— Upcycling, a new twist on eco-friendly methods.
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Movie Review: Rise - Blood Hunter— "Death is different now."
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Book Review: Taj - The Woman And The Wonder by Sandra Wilson— And you think you know the history behind the Taj Mahal?
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Book Review: Wearing The Spider by Susan Schaab— This thought-provoking read draws you into a whirlpool of plot twists and intriguing characters.
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Book Review: Death Is On The Dead Beat by Richard Winston— Murder, mayhem, and blackmail are involved; what more could you want from a novel set in Los Angeles?
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Music Review: The Queers - Munki Brain — The Queers are hard to pigeon hole, on the surface they look like a Brit-pop band, but they also operate on many other levels as
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Book Review: The Scatterlings Of Africa by Peter Davies— What we in North America saw as a simple case of apartheid, was anything but simple.
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An Interview With Colette Waddell and Nina Morecki About Through The Eyes Of A Survivor— They kept their names completely secret so that nothing would be told to the Nazis, even under torture.
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Book Review: Through The Eyes Of A Survivor by Colette Waddell— A disturbing life story and great analysis of the Holocaust period, but also a compelling account of a friendship created between author and subject.
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Talking To Author Matthew Fort About Eating Up Italy— "He consulted his mother on the advisability of 125cc Vesper. 'Uncle Matt will kill himself,' he told her."
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Music DVD Review: Blood Sweat And Tears - Spinning Wheel— An interesting DVD featuring a live performance from 1980
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Book Review: Weber’s Charcoal Grilling – The Art Of Cooking With Live Fire by Jamie Purviance— This is a book that is guaranteed to make you hungry.
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Music DVD Review: Pink Floyd's Meddle Gets The CSI Treatment— This well known album is put under the microscope by some members of the music world.
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Book Review: Behind The Eyes by Francisco X. Stork— Hector must come to terms with the turbulent world of poverty, crime, and ever-present gangs.
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Tomorrow is Today’s Backup Plan – An Author’s Journey (Part 3)— You may have a glossy cover and 269 pages of funny material, but you have to persuade people to buy it!
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Tomorrow is Today’s Backup Plan – An Author’s Journey (Part 2)
— So, I had to find an agent. This turned out to be a huge fiasco and the biggest waste of time.
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The Hound Dogs Of Literature— Sometimes even well known and well-respected authors manage to bring a true stinker to fruition.
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Tomorrow is Today’s Backup Plan – An Author’s Journey (Part 1)
— Artists often feel there is only so much work or space to go around; if they share their knowledge, they create more competition.
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Google Goes Retro! (But Just For The Day)— Google Email on paper, what's not to love?
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An Interview with Robert "Ordinary Joe" Wickes— "Here’s my advice: Stop voting for incumbents; they probably lied to you anyway."
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DVD Review: Oasis - Morning Glory: A Classic Album Under Review— In a nutshell, there is too much talking, and too little music!
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Book Review: Schmucks!: Our Favorite Fakes, Frauds, Lowlifes, Liars, the Armed and Dangerous, and Good Guys Gone Bad by Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder— France gave us Impressionism, the Statue of Liberty, and the freestanding street pissoire where you can take a private leak in public.
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Music Review: Anchored In Love - A Tribute To June Carter Cash by Everyone You Have Ever Heard Of— The cast of performers is as compendious as the list of musicians that have played at the Grand Ole Opry!
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Interview With Corey Fayman About Black's Beach Shuffle— Why Fayman writes about murder and high tech vaporware along the edges of San Diego.
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Movie Review: Idol— Combining some horrible casting, horrible dialog, horrible direction, and an even worse sound track, Idol turns this all into a very unsatisfying movie event
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Book Review: Eating Up Italy by Matthew Fort— Matthew Fort has produced a fascinating book - part travelogue, part cookery book, and part discussion about the state of the human culture.
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Book Review: Black's Beach Shuffle by Corey Lynn Fayman
— From page one we are propelled into the world of big money, big egos, and big vaporware...
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Music Review: Johnny Cash - Ultimate Gospel— Johnny may be dead, but he is not forgotten. His music lives on!
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