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Bose��� around-ear headphones, for personal and portable listening
$139.95
I received these as a gift for my iPod. I specifically had been asking for around the ear as I hate those ear bud things. These are AWESOME! Comfortable, high sound quality, durable. I wear them at the gym and feel I am at a concert. Sometimes, it is SOOO worth it to spend the extra money for high-quality.

Betseyville Dottin' Around Large Satchel,Pink,one size
$128.00

Around the Bend
$2.99
Four generations of fathers and sons without any wife, mother or daughter (vaguely one in the far distance at the end of the film). When the oldest one of these four musketeers, the great grandfather, decides to die he prepares, under the vigilant eye of his great grand son, the rite, ritual and mourning ceremony he wants for after his death. And there is a big chunk of money behind it if it is respected, though it is far from being known from the very start. The real objective is to bring his son, the grand father, to confessing what he did to his son, the father, which he will eventually do just before dying in his turn on the way to the rock where he "knew" his wife, his son's mother, where a new ritual will take place but only with the last two generations of the tribe, the father and the son. The point here is that the film is never emotional. It is funny most of the time and each desire appears as a whim, a caprice, and they probably are, at least up to the moment when some deep motivation comes to the surface, like the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. Some of the scenery is beautiful in California, Arizona and New Mexico. It is true I would have liked a slightly more emotional treatment, even more physical, because there is such a level of reserve and shyness that some elements are nothing but a vague whisper behind a loud music and we hardly get it. The film is also funny for the systematic re-visitation of the music of the 60s, of the hippy times.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
$0.99