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The name’s White… Jack White And this is his co-star, Miss Keys. Together, in
Quantum of Solace, they will be performing ‘Another Way to Die’, the latest Bond theme. It’s the first duet to be accorded that honour. If you’d care to remind yourself of all its predecessors (including the “non-canonical” ones), we can point you in the direction of an exhaustive and lovingly compiled fan site – complete with sound clips and lyrics.
Here you’ll find not only the themes themselves, but other associated Bond movie songs such as ‘Under The Mango Tree’ and ‘Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’. It’s particularly enjoyable to make the reacquaintance of less-often aired numbers. Your Basseys and your Matt Monros are all well and good, but we at Web Sleuth prefer Nancy Sinatra’s fabulous ‘You Only Live Twice’.
By George, a great journalGeorge Orwell may be best known as the author of
Animal Farm and
1984, but he was also a peerless writer of non-fiction. His essays, criticism and journalism remain the gold standard in their fields. The Orwell Prize – the main British prize for political writing – has now come up with ingenious idea of reissuing his diaries in blog form with each daily entry posted
here exactly 70 years after he wrote it. And speaking of
1984, if you fancy a sardonic, mirthless chuckle, get yourself over to
here and savour the awful irony of it all.
The cat’s pyjamas All hail Simon Tofield, whose
Cat Man Do won Best Comedy at the 2008 British Animation Awards. Part of the
Simon’s Cat series, it features a determined moggy only too familiar to those in need of a bit of peace and quiet. What’s more, we think Simon’s latest episode –
TV Dinner – is even better. To watch these wonderfully observed cartoon shorts, click
hereVideo freebies ahoy! Got a Sony WALKMAN®? As in the WALKMAN Wirefree, the digital kind? If you do, then check out the 7Digital website
here, where you can get five free music video downloads in MPEG4 format to watch on it. That’s the kids’ birthday presents sorted, then.
Waiting for good dough Not only is The Drunken Bakers quite unlike any other cartoon strip in
Viz magazine, it’s also quite unlike any other cartoon strip we’ve seen anywhere. What could so easily have been a series of cheap laughs at the expense of a pair of comedy alcoholics is instead a set of achingly bleak minimalist dramas reminiscent of Samuel Beckett. Nothing happens. Time crawls. The dipsomaniac duo’s best efforts to ply their trade are doomed from the start by their worst habits. It should be appalling. It is appalling. And yet it’s painfully funny, full of wit, pathos and exquisite comic timing. Its written by Barney Farmer, and the cartoonist Lee Healey is some talent - find out more on him
here.
Story by David Bennun
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