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The next four games in particular will be such formidable challenges, I'm hoping against hope that there'll still be a way back by the time we get through them all. If there is one slight ray of hope, it's that United are playing Chelsea in the FA Cup replay just a couple of days after our game with them. They're thousands of points clear of Man City so perhaps Fergie will rest a few of the usual first eleven. I wouldn't exactly be confident of getting a result against the reserves either, but it's better than facing Fatman & Robin. For some considerable time now (even when we were mid-table) O'Neill has been repeating his mantra that we're fighting relegation, and his cautiousness seems to bleed into the way we play - so lacking in belief, craft and ambition, and no plan on how to improve. I think if we survive now (barring some miraculous improvement coming out of the blue) it'll be by the skin of our teeth and by virtue of others' misfortune.
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'Comedown Machine' is now streaming, via Pitchfork... http://pitchfork.com...medown-machine/
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^And no sooner had I posted those, new tracks appeared in the form of a double a-side release. The lyrics on 'Step' contain a namecheck for Modest Mouse.
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Milla Jovovich [2] Jessica Paré [0]
The Doctor has a new jacket. New jackets are cool. http://youtu.be/EaAJgqwTbBU
Shosanna 11th? Result! Great job Mickiala, thanks for your efforts!
Europe 2.5
Vampire Weekend premiered two of their new tunes at SXSW recently. Disappointingly, 'Ya Hey' is not in fact Outkast's 'Hey Ya' played backwards.
This should be good. In many ways, I felt the third game was less ambitious than the second (which was such a huge step up from the original), but it was still excellent fun. If they return to the wider variety of customisation and drop the idea of selecting missions on your PDA thingy, I'll put the fourth installment down as a winner.
We can't even win when a game is handed to us on a plate. Gifted a numerical advantage for over an hour, gifted a penalty and a let-off for the Rose handball and we still conspire to only draw, barely even troubling the Norwich keeper along the way. I'm seriously beginning to think we might've had it. We're absolutely dire, we deserve everything we get and if we do end up going down, we'll be missed by precisely no-one. I even cheered a Newcastle goal this afternoon in the vain hope that they might do us a favour against Wigan. Urgh, I feel dirty. :yuckky:
Nice to meet you, welcome to BZ!
And finally (for now), the new video from DIIV, whose album 'Oshin' was one of my favourites of '12.
Also rather liking this lot at the moment. http://youtu.be/ECjRkhsCea0
The Strokes' video for 'All The Time' has started doing the rounds. It doesn't appear to feature any new footage of the band, instead it's made up of scenes from old video shoots and backstage clips from festivals.
What a tremendous draw for Dortmund. The Malaga game will be a cracker, as will Bayern-Juve. The PSG-Barca tie will be billed as Beckham vs. Barca by the English media and Zlatan vs. Barca by sensible people, but either way it's one to look forward to. Last night's game at the San Siro really served to highlight the ridiculousness of the away goals system. If and when a game heads into extra time, the advantage swings so heavily in the away team's favour that I would actually go so far as to say it's unfair. Surely to goodness the rule should be changed so that away goals only count as double in normal time.
Hard to say at the moment, I suppose a lot will depend on where we end up finishing. Short is reportedly growing rather frustrated at the lack of progress being made, and understandably so since he’s sunk another 30-odd million of his own money (the Bent and Henderson fees only went as far as bankrolling Bruce’s final spending spree) into the team this year. O’Neill really hasn't done much to help himself either - he's placed far too much trust in Bruce signings who simply aren’t up to it, and his own signings have been a very mixed bag. Johnson hasn’t quite been the flop some have labelled him as, but neither has he been the matchwinner we were expecting. He appears incapable of performing for longer than 15 minutes at a time and his aimless lame-o attempts at stepovers get on my wick. Can’t fault Fletcher, he’s managed to grab us 11 goals despite being restricted to about 14 chances all season by the tamest supply line in the league. N’Diaye, there’s not much to tell. He runs past opponents, they run past him, sometimes they bump into each other. Graham desperately wanted to move back to the north east, did so and then appeared to think ‘well I’m here now, I don’t have to try any more’. I get the impression that he'd have even considered going back to Boro if the money had been right. He looked half-decent at Swansea though and it's still early days, benefit of the doubt and all that. There's a lot of panic going around at the moment and I can't deny that we're in a scrap, but I do think we’ll just about be okay. I'd be surprised if we were able to get ourselves north of the 40 point benchmark with time to spare, though. It’ll probably be another flirtation with the ‘R’ word before we limp over the line again in decidedly underwhelming fashion. Unfortunately, such things just seem to be written into the DNA of the club, it doesn't seem to matter who's in charge, what players we have or how much money we throw around.
I might give it a miss for now, then. The puzzle game allowing you to unlock information about Columbia's history piqued my interest a bit, but I don't particularly care for pre-game boosters.
2 May 2014 (USA) Directed by Marc Webb Writing credits (in alphabetical order) Steve Ditko ... characters Alex Kurtzman ... screenplay Stan Lee ... characters Roberto Orci ... screenplay Jeff Pinkner ... screenplay James Vanderbilt ... story Starring Emma Stone ... Gwen Stacy Andrew Garfield ... Peter Parker / Spider-Man Shailene Woodley ... Mary Jane Watson Jamie Foxx ... Max Dillon / Electro Sally Field ... Aunt May Dane DeHaan ... Harry Osborn Paul Giamatti ... Aleksei Sytsevich / The Rhino Chris Cooper ... Norman Osborn Martin Sheen ... Uncle Ben Brian Haley ... Phil Watson
