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My Favourite Albums of All Time: Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’
The traditional narrative of Radiohead, as scrawled across various online forums by self-proclaimed music critics and white middle-class art students, tells of the transition from grungy rockers to...
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Confessions of a Tolkien-aholic: A Critique of ‘The Hobbit’
Bilbo’s sceptical reaction to Gandalf mirrored my lukewarm reaction to the film. Sometimes you can smell a cowpat just before you tread in it. This is especially true if the owner of said excrement is,...
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Lesson 14: A New Year’s Revelation
So another tumultuous 365 days has passed. Our little rock of a planet has soldiered on in its gentle meander around the sun and we must do the same. I dislike the term ‘New Years Resolution’, mainly...
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Men’s Style 101: My Five ‘Essential’ Items for Men
Of all the words thrown around within the fashion industry, the word ‘essential’ has to be one of the most criminally misused. This struck me yesterday while I was perusing an article lauding metallics...
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Seven Albums for Every Stage of a Breakup
Despite often adopting the facade of a cold-hearted, woman-hating cynic, I’m actually a hopeless romantic. This has many advantages. If you want a three course meal, regular offerings of roses and...
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Five Items of Clothing I’d Sell An Organ For
Despite all that I preach regarding how easy it is to look good on a student budget, I rarely walk the walk with the same confidence as I talk the talk. Perhaps that’s why I’m banging away at my...
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My Favourite Albums of All Time: Belle and Sebastian ‘If You’re Feeling...
If one starts to pick apart the various criticisms levelled at Glasgow’s Belle and Sebastian, the word most commonly thrown around is ‘twee’. Let’s see what Urban Dictionary, that last bastion for the...
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Men’s Style 101: Polka Dots
Prints? We’ve all had enough of them, haven’t we? Whether it’s Topman’s latest offering of ghastly shirts that look like someone vomitted Aztec print all over them, or the unsettling predominance of...
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Man Crush of the Year: Eddie Redmayne
Despite my pristinely made bedding, zealously strict grooming routine and severely bloated wardrobe, I am actually a happily heterosexual guy with a healthy fondness for all things female. This even...
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The Post-Christmas Sales: The Spoils
I’m the first to admit that the January sales do for my shopping problem what Mitt Romney’s comment about plane windows did for his election campaign. Last year, it was All Saints that had me reaching...
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My Three (Realistic) New Year’s Style Resolutions
I’m not good at life changes in general. The past year has seen every lamentable endeavour from vegetarianism to teetotalism to celibacy, with each ill-fated attempt coming to a swift and predestined...
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Some (Ethically Sourced) Food for Thought: My Vegetarian Experiment
Two things about me should become discernible while reading this blog. Firstly, I have an unhealthy obsession with a certain 80s independent rock band. Secondly, there’s nothing I find more...
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Les Miserables: A Musical-phobe’s Perspective
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then it’s seems reasonable to assume that the overbearing presence of something will make the heart indifferent and apathetic. Strangely enough, this logic...
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Five Real Guilty Pleasures
I’ve always thought of the term ‘guilty pleasure’ as being somewhat oxymoronic. Frankly, I can’t think of anything less pleasurable than guilt. When I think back to the darker periods of my life, it...
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My Favourite Albums of All Time: Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
For many years, Death Cab for Cutie was as omnipresent yet remote an entity for me as a vast ocean on the horizon. Their alluring melodies, interwoven with Ben Gibbard’s unparalleled skill with the...
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Lesson 15: Love Yourself (or no one else will)
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.” - Anthony Powell “Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.” Maxwell Maltz “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” - Edmund...
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Five Pairs of Shoes That Every Man Should Own
It may come as no revelation to us guys that our biology dictates the exact point our eyes rest on when we first meet a woman. I’m not going to be so vulgar as to specify exactly where that point is...
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Street Style and Why it Matters
Street Style. The term conjures endless images of white, middle-class dandies with two much time and money on their hands, boasting their style credentials from one high street coffee chain to another,...
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The Ultimate Anti-Valentine’s Day Playlist
For me personally, Valentine’s Day is an appropriate time to sit back and evaluate another 365 days of unrequited obsessions, drunken bedroom fumblings and a series of brief but disastrous encounters...
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Lesson 16: ‘Everything will be alright’ does not mean ‘everything will stay...
It’s time to start a clean page… “Ester asked why people are sad. “That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to...
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