Obscure recommendations semi-meme

I'm not sure if this counts as a meme or not. If you're the sort of person who never does memes, then think of it as not a meme.

What you have to do is this:

Think of a book or film or television series or musician or band or play or poem or game or whatever that you really like, you think others on your or my friends list would like and which you think many of them will not have experienced because it is, at least reasonably, obscure. Write as much about this thing as you like.

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Ah-haaaaa!

One of the more mediocre hotels I have to stay at when moving around the country for work is the Watford Hilton:




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Talking heads list programmes

I watched the end of one these tonight. You know the sort of thing - get a bunch of B- and C-listers to reminisce on telly. A cheap way for Channel 4 or 5 (or in this case Sky One) to fill an evening's prgramming. Tonight's was something along the line of 'Best TV endings' or something.

I figured it would be interesting enough, and was interested to see what would be second - could it perhaps be Blake's 7? Obviously MASH would be first by a mile.

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