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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 ...
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. Just plain juicy gossip from the people that are usually on our TV screens.
THE WORLD IN PICTURES
This is a weekly roundup of interesting things from around the world. There is usually 4 or 5 interesting pictures with a light hearted article explaining what's happened, in this weeks edition to give you an example there is a half page picture of hundreds of clowns (yes clowns!) who have celebrated their 13th international convention in Mexico city. I always find these pictures interesting and different. Something out of the ordinary. At times it can be nice to compare what others are doing while you sitting at a desk at work! (In my case)
FASHION
In HELLO! They usually give a 6 or 7 page spread on a certain look or designer. It is what they call 'beautiful people, beautiful clothes'. These articles highlight what the trends are ...
izzoh 29.10.2008
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beliefs in the modern world? Although we don't go to church so much any more, do we still feel we need role models to look up to? Is this magazine cashing in on that? Why is Hello! giving celebrities some kind of God-like status?
Along with the rest of the media, this magazine is trying to tell us that this is the kind of life we should aspire to have; perfect houses; perfect families; perfect size 8 figures and perfect smiling babies? No wonder so many people are so unhappy in this world, it seems we are all striving for things we can never have, and don't really need.
Hello! tries to bring itself a modicum of credibility in the "Panorama" section, where pictures of worldwide news happenings, (such as Sarah Payne's parents coming face to face with their daughter's killer) are displayed with a few lines of text explaining the story. I ...
Dizz 11.03.2001
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Product Information for "Hello World - Xrabit & DMG$" »
Product details
Title
Hello World
Performer
Xrabit & DMG$
Genre
R&B
Sub Genre
Rap
Release Date
16/03/2009
Original Release Year
2009
Label / Distributor
Big Dada / PIAS UK/Sony DADC
Guest Artist(s)
Xrabit & DMGS
Producer
Xrabit
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5021392131825
Catalogue Number
BDCD 131
Additional notes
Album Notes
European house-influenced hip-hop beats meet rowdy Dirty South deliveries and oddball rhymes on HELLO WORLD. German-born, London-based producer Xrabit weaves spacy next-level trip-hop beatscapes that range in style and influence from Kraftwerk to Technotronic all the way down to Spank Rock while Texan MC duo Trak Bully and Coool Dundee (DMG$) flip alternatively brainy and off-kilter flows, making for one of the most inventive hip-hop albums of the year.
Album Reviews
Clash (magazine) (p.108) - "Teaming inventive, genre demolishing tracks unafraid of sounding like they're having fun with the Texan contingent's welcome tongue-twisting witticisms, it's an unlikely but rewarding experiment."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Damaged Good$
2.
Ferris Bueller
3.
Love Of My Night
4.
Are We Friends
5.
My Stereo
6.
Trak's Promise
7.
Salt Shaker
8.
Party In My Pants
9.
Thunderkats
10.
Follow The Leader
11.
Some Ole
12.
Dirty South
13.
Cheese
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12/02/2009
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