Haunted Holiday - Hello Goodbye

Advantages: Good to get your bonfire going
Disadvantages: Everything about it

...Are our lives really so empty that we feel we have to fill the void by reading about "celebrities'" lifestyles? Today I have been unfortunate enough to have been given a copy of Hello! magazine (there is no way on this earth I would buy it). Still - there is one good thing to come from it - an opportunity to write an opinion for Ciao. Hello! magazine is a glossy mag full of pictures of celebrities arriving at parties, celebrities at award ceremonies, celebrities relaxing in their 10 acre mansions; oh, yes, and let us not forget the frequent articles on the Royal Family and anyone even remotely connected with the Royals. In this article I have here in front of me; dated March 6 2001; there are features on all of the above. What I cannot believe is that there is a 20-page (yes 20 pages!!!) feature on Celine Dion and her "miracle... Read review

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Advantages: Beutiful sounds, tunes, story telling lyrics
Disadvantages: Not everyones cup of tea.

...This was Tim Buckley's second album of 9 (the first being the self-titled Tim Buckley), with lyrics co-written with Larry Beckett and music played by Tim, Jim Feildman, CC collin's among others. This album was out before Tim took a go at advant-garde (seen in his Starsailor album), and has a soft rock appeal with political under-tones in many of Beckett's lyrics, with Tim's undaunting note perfect voice hitting the right tune through out. Track Listings 1. No Man Can Find the War 2. Carnival Song 3. Pleasant Street 4. Hallucinations 5. I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain 6. Once I Was 7. Phantasmagoria in Two 8. Knight-Errant 9. Goodbye and Hello 10. Morning Glory No man can find the war, Is a softly sung song about Vietnam, written by Beckett, before Beckett got drafted. As with most the album the soft... Read review

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Advantages: Helpful, unique, inclusive
Disadvantages: Some alternatives are unorthodox and not for everyone

...If you?re considering suicide, chances are you?ve thought about your other options and therefore the mere idea of there being alternatives to suicide seems ludicrous. After all, most of us consider death as a last resort rather than the first port of call when we?re feeling down, right? This is why I approached Hello, Cruel World with bemusement and a heavy dollop of cynicism: how on Earth can there be ANY alternative to suicide when you?re feeling suicidal, let alone 101? I was pleasantly surprised to find a smart, sassy book by a smart, sassy author that deals with suicide honestly and responsibly. Kate Bornstein has experienced suicidal thoughts and has suffered a lot of animosity ? not least because she was born male, had a ?sex change? and discovered that she is neither male nor female. This is what qualifies Kate to write... Read review

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