EVA CASSIDY - a tribute to her life.

Advantages: An angel that died.
Disadvantages: died too young.

...This is the month when we have been asked to write musical reviews. I wrote a review on Songbird, a record by Eva Cassidy, though feel it is not enough to write about her record. Her life mattered to a lot of us, and without her songs, my life would not be as it is today. This is my tribute to a short life that left its mark on me. Eva Cassidy was born on the 2nd February 1963 and died on the 2nd November 1996. She grew up just outside Washington, and came from a musical background, her father teaching children with learning disabilities and part time musician. She was a child that loved music from a very early age and formed a band with her father and brother, and went on to be a backing singer for more well known artists who recognised the quality of her voice. I cannot put into words the kind of music she sang. It was a cross...

thingywhatsit 23.09.2003 · Read review
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The Green Gem

Advantages: Great movie, wonderful performances, brilliant direction and a terrific script
Disadvantages: The DVD extras are almost none existant

...By most people?s standards, I am quite a little movie buff and will generally watch anything and everything when it comes to the movie world. My favorite genres are most definitely the 'Horror/Sci fi' and 'Action' films and the 'Drama' section is my least favorite, I do prefer films that go crash, bang, wallop to something you have to sit and listen to. It may come as a surprise then, that I am about to give such high acclaim to a drama movie. The Green Mile staring Tom Hanks is an exception to my fast paced standards, the movie has just about everything in the mix to suit almost everybody's tastes. There is a brilliant combination of laughs, shocks, suspense and drama and it is simply one of those films that you dare not stop watching. ~~~~~~THE STORY~~~~~~ The Green Mile is set inside an Alabama death row prison ward in...

deano_76 30.10.2002 · Read review
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Al Green

Advantages: Great songs
Disadvantages: None

...Most people are surprised when they hear about my musical tastes. Most see me as someone purely into heavy metal, my friends as heavy metal and clasic rock, but even my very close friends don't seem to understand how far my taste goes. I have always loved every type of metal and some rap and dance but it is only recently when i discovered the wonders of 70's Soul and funk. The first time i heard Al Green was on Pulp Fiction with the song "Let's stay together". I loved the song from the first time i heard it but never looked into it until i bought the movie soundtrack, since then i have been searching Al Green in youtube and discovering all sorts of other great music. I have always been into laid back songs and have often skipped through albums to find that one slow love song. With this collection you get some of the best of Al green...

joe-survey 02.12.2008 · Read review
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Eve Green

Advantages: Lovely descriptive novel, beautifully written
Disadvantages: None

...A friend lent me this book this week, I started reading it yesterday afternoon having been off work with a stomach bug and finished it this morning. I had never heard of the author Susan Fletcher and wasn't aware of the novel which had won the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and was on the Richard and Judy Summer Read list 2005. However it transported me to the Welsh rugged countryside and helped take my mind of feeling unwell and gave me some inspiration to write another review. The story is told by Eve Green the central character in the novel and she is 29 years old and expecting her first baby. The book describes her memories from when she was 7 years old, that was when she first learnt to fully write her own name "Evangeline Green" and when her mother died. Eve (or Evie as she is also known) goes to live with her...

AJ26 06.04.2006 · Read review
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Tuborg Green - A Very Good Lager.

Advantages: good taste, good price for the quality, pull ring caps on bottles.
Disadvantages: not as widly available as other lagers.

...About The Tuborg Company - Tuborg is a Danish Beer company founded in 1873, it has been making Tuborg Green, a pilsener lager since 1880. Tuborg is now apart of the Carlsberg company since they merged in 1970. Tuborg gets its weird name from an inn called Thuesborg ("Thues castle") which was in the area of the original brewery. Tuborg also does alot of sponsorship with music events, as one of its trademarks is 'the liquid soundtrack' and it sponsors Escape into the park event, Wireless Festival, Download Festival, Latitude, Glastonbury, and Reading and Leeds festivals. Tuborg green is very popular in eastern Europe, particularly in Russia where it is the best selling international beer, this is mostly thanks to the music events put on by the company called 'Tuborg greenfest'. The packaging - Tuborg Green has a 4.6% volume and is sold...

drew_face 08.10.2009 · Read review
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Green Street [Hooligans]

Advantages: Violence
Disadvantages: Elijah Wood, Bad Cockney Accents, Ridiculously Unrealist

...Hot on the heels of The Football Factory  comes another attempt at understanding the British thug sub-culture. This time (in an obvious attempt to increase American awareness) Elijah Wood is cast at the centre of it all, playing a Harvard journalism student turned hard-edged football hooligan. Sound ridiculous? It pretty much is. Green Street is not a hugely terrible film, but it is difficult one to take seriously. Matt Buckman (Wood) is wrongfully expelled from College, and jumps abroad a plane to London to visit his sister (Claire Forlani) and husband Steve (Marc Warren). Soon Matt starts hitting the local pubs and going to "Soccer" games with Steve's bad boy brother Pete (Charlie Hunnam), and becomes involved with the GSE firm (a supposed imitation of West Ham's notorious Inter-City Firm). As an actor, it is understandable by...

andycarrington 10.02.2009 · Read review
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Dookie - Green Day

Advantages: pop music
Disadvantages: boare

...'Welcome to Paradise' was originally included on the bands 1992 album 'Kerplunk', however was rerecorded for the 'Dookie' album and is one that I feel has been pulled off incredibly well here. It is one of my favourite Green Day tracks and every time I listen to this one I smile. The vocals are strong, the chorus is excellent, and the guitars shine through magnificently as the band smash this one out with great attitude and a huge level of excitement. The band sound so full of life and energy here, this is in my opinion Green Day at their very best. 'She' is another of my favourites from this album. It is a well written track and once more shows the band at their best I feel. It's quite soft in sound but the lyrics are hard hitting and it works extremely well at the centre of this album I feel. It is an incredibly effective track, it...

srikanth1045 19.02.2009 · Read review
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The Green Ship - A Real Gem

Advantages: Heart warming story, great illustrations, one to read and re-read
Disadvantages: None

...My 4 year old son received this book for Christmas and I have so enjoyed reading it to him that I'm sharing the experience with you all. The Green Ship is written and illustrated by Quentin Blake, who you will probably know from his illustrations for Roald Dahl. As well as providing illustrations for many other children's authors, he has also written his own books, some of the most well known are Mister Magnolia and Clown. He was Children's Laureate in 1999 and generally considered a national institution. The Green Ship takes you into the world of fantasy - two children, whilst staying with their aunt one summer, climb over a wall into the neighbouring garden of a large house. Here they discover a 'ship' made out of hedges trimmed to be a bow and stern, two trees clipped to look like funnels and two tall trees with a few branches...

sonic0209 01.01.2009 (03.01.2009) · Read review
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The Greatest Days of Green

Advantages: Some terrific tracks are included in this collection.
Disadvantages: The two new tracks recorded for this release are not very good.

...over the years. Such energy is contained within these two, the pop punk music of this band comes through incredibly well here and never does the music disappoint. The guitar riffs are always excellent and the vocals of Billie Joe Armstrong come through sensationally well. 'Dookie' is not my favourite Green Day album, it does however feature a number of excellent tracks and those that are featured here are all well worth listening to I feel. 'J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)' is included here which featured in the Patrick Read Johnson directed 1995 film 'Angus'. This is by no means one of the best songs to have been recorded by Green Day, it is however well worth its place on this album and it a track that is put across well by the band. Green Day vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong sounds extremely young here, his voice is fresh sounding and I...

RazzaLazza 01.05.2008 · Read review
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Greens Cheesecake Mix:

Advantages: Cheap, Easy, Tasty
Disadvantages: None

...Greens Cheesecake Mix: I love cheesecake but I am not too keen on the frozen ones as they always seem a bit lame. Making cheesecake isn?t too hard but its faffy and generally there are things I would rather be making in my kitchen. In Asda, (well on asda.com), I saw these cheesecake mixes for a mere 55p each and decided it would be rude not to try them. You get a box much like the boxes on any other cake mix and it contains a little packet of biscuit crumbs, (to form the base), and a packet of cheesecake filling mix. You will also need milk and butter. To make the cheesecake is simple, you just line a cake tin, (something like a Victoria sponge tin), with tin foil then you melt the butter and stir in the biscuit crumbs and put in the tin. Then you make the filling which is the same as making and angel delight, add milk and whisk. Pour...

donnabroom 07.05.2009 · Read review
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