HITCHCOCK HITCH Re: Scotsman Screening Room

We went to see Hitchcock's The Birds on Sun Oct :3 at the Scotsman's Screening Room and had the full meal package at 5.739 per person. Food and seiyice in The Brasserie were excellent but the screening was a big disappointment. They said there would be complimentary ice cream (there wasn't). the DVD wasn't lined up on the screen correctly. but worst was the air conditioning which was on right through the moVie causing a very irritating hum and rendering the screening room free/ing.

Just not good enough. even for the price for the screening alone $78.50.

Tam

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MANIC TUESDAY Re: Exit Calm, The Sweet Leaves and Exit Music, ABC2, Glasgow

EXIt music: iiice lads With a bit of Turin Brakes and Badly Drawn Boy to their sound. The Sweet Leaves (Whiteinch's Oasis?) chucked in a Dylan cover. Great. Top class. The best was left for last though Exrt Calm produced a sonic landscape that hows boy and his booming voice could paint all over.

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LETTER OF THE FORTNIGHT

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THESE GHOULISH THINGS

Let’s hear it for the good guisers What's the deal with modern day guisers? Is it just me. or are trick or treaters starting to short-change their neighbours on the ‘trick' part of the bargain? I'm not asking for a full song and dance routine la couple of good jokes would do) but ringing a doorbell With no fancy dress on. surrounded by ten of your mates. can seem a bit like a polite. door-to-door mugging. What makes the whole charade (or shocking lack thereof) worse is that a few days later we get the whole thing again on Bonfire night when the ‘penny for the guy' brigade turn up in the streets or worse still back on the doorstep with a barely stitched together sack of rags in a \fvheelbarrow asking for more contributions for their 'handiwork'.

Some kids in the guise of ‘guisers' last year actually asked me if I had cash instead of chocolate. It was a bit like Opening my front door to a group of teenage beggars. I hate to sound like a Halloween Scrooge. but I think I might swnch all the lights off in my house this year.

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‘finder's keepers' little world. and was a welcome change from all the doom-mongering in the news just now. Thanks for publishing something so light- hearted and different plus all that scavenging might be good training. If the financial meltdown really is about to hurl us into a new era. where we're all penniless and jobless. we better start scouring the pavements for left—over food and cash.

Uncle Bulgaria

Glasgow

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Re: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (614)

Just saw the new Simon Pegg film and while it was kind of fun. what really spoiled it was that I'd already seen all the best gags in the trailer. And it's not the first time. Why do movie studios insist on spoiling their own products? Comedies are particularly bad for ‘trailer spOilers'. as are horror films

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Music Like A Vitamin: Wtamin A ABC, Glasgow, Thu 9 Oct

David

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It was a fantastic night. The highlights for me were Sons and Daughters and the ensemble act at the end.

Cody

Student

I loved the TWilight Sad: they're so emotional and intense. The cover songs of Johnny Cash and Joy Division were really fun too.

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Student

Sons and Daughters were brilliant. Adele looked amazing. the best I've ever seen her. Her make-up was amazing.

Kell

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I really enjoyed it. especially Sons and Daughters: I'd never seen them before. It was all good pretty much actually.

(why show the death of key characters? Talk about spoiling the tension) and action movies (snapshots from the gung-ho finale ruin its impact). And while the gruff voiceover man WIII always raise a smile. please leave the best bits for the actual movie.

Victor Creed

Edinburgh

in The List that the guys who started it were coming to Scotland. They seem to have tapped in to our nosey parker tendencies. and I love the weirdness and humour they find in other people's thrown away things.

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