Just Robert

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  • Gabriel’s Oboe/Nella Fantasia

    Gabriel’s Oboe/Nella Fantasia

    I first heard this song on a CD in bought in Malaysia last year. It went into my successive MP3 players for months before disappearing back into the massive library I have. This song (Gabriel’s Oboe) popped out again when I began watching Beethoven Virus. It was used as a (successful) piece in the first…

  • Capital Punishment? What’s that?

    This movie (Buta ga ita kyôshitsu) is Japanese children’s take on capital punishment, although it is on a pig they raise. An extract from IMDB: The most special scenes are the 5-minute and 15-minute real-time, documentary-like and thought-provoking classroom debates in which students spontaneously discuss if they should eat the pig. While shooting the two…

  • Marital Rape

    Men, Women Divided Over Sex Bill By Nikia Deveaux Tongues are wagging over a proposed amendment to the controversial Sexual Offences Act, which has men and women all over The Bahamas sounding off. The bill, which is designed to outlaw marital rape, was tabled in the House of Assembly last month. However, many Bahamian men,…