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Bisociality Bisociality (adj bisocial) in sociology describes social relations (or preference for such relations) with the both the same and opposite sex of a (putatively) nonsexual nature. The opposite would be monosociality.
Bisoctrizole Bisoctrizole (USAN, trade name Tinosorb® M, INCI Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol) is a chemical which is added to sunscreens to absorb UV rays. It is a broad spectrum UV absorber, absorbing UVB as well as UVA rays.
Bison Bison is a taxonomic genus containing six species of large even-toed ungulates within the subfamily Bovinae. Only two of these species still exist: the American Bison, which is commonly referred to as "buffalo" in American Western culture, and the European Bison, or wisent.
Bison Dele Bison Dele (April 6, 1969 – Disappeared July 7, 2002), formerly known as Brian Carson Williams, was an American professional basketball player who finished his career as a center for the NBA's Detroit Pistons. He is believed to have been murdered at sea by his older brother in 2002.
Bispectral analysis Bispectral analysis is describes observations made at two wavelengths. It is often used by NASA scientists to analyze elemental make up of atmosphere by analyzing the amount of light reflected and received through various color filters.
Bispectral index A Bispectral index (BIS) monitor is a modern neurophysiological monitoring device which continually analyses a patient's electroencephalograms during general anaesthesia to assess the level of consciousness during anaesthesia. The "depth of anaesthesia" is commonly used as a surrogate for "the likelihood of forming experiences or memory".
Bispevegen The Bispevegen ("Bishop's Road") passes between Valle in Setesdal on the western side of the mountains and Fyresdal on the eastern side. the Bispevegen is a medieval east-west track over the high plateau that priests and bishops used to get between the counties of Agder and Telemark.
Bispherical coordinates Bispherical coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system that results from rotating the two-dimensional bipolar coordinate system about the axis that connects the two foci. Thus, the two foci F_{1} and F_{2} in bipolar coordinates remain points (on the z-axis, the axis of rotation) in the bispherical coordinate system.
Bisphosphonate In pharmacology, bisphosphonates (also called: diphosphonates) is a class of drugs that inhibits the resorption of bone. Its uses include the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, osteitis deformans ("Paget's disease of bone"), bone metastasis (with or without hypercalcemia), multiple myeloma and other conditions that feature bone fragility.
Bisque (pottery) Bisque, also biscuit, is a fired piece of unglazed ceramic. Depending on the technique and materials used, it is either the final article, such as dolls' heads, or an intermediary stage before the article has a coating of glaze applied and is then fired again.
Bisquick Bisquick is a pre-mixed baking product made by General Mills consisting of flour, sugar, vegetable shortening, salt and leavening soda. According to General Mills, Bisquick was born when one of their sales exectutives met a train dining car chef in 1930 who mixed lard and the dry ingredients for biscuits ahead of time.
Bissandugu Bissandugu, a city in what is now southwestern Guinea, was the native city of Dyula conqueror Samori Ture. Named the capital of Samori's new Wassoulou Empire in 1878, the city was burned by the forces of French Colonel Archinard on April 9, 1891.
Bissell, Wisconsin Bissell is located at the intersection of Kenosha County Highways C (Wilmot Road) and MB in the southeastern Wisconsin town of Bristol, just south of the village of Woodworth. A feed, flour and coal business was a part of community life in 19th-Century Bissell, especially after a U.
Bist du bei mir Bist du bei mir, If you are with me in English, (BWV 508) is an aria by the German composer Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. The piece is often mistakenly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach due to its inclusion in the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
Bistatic angle The bistatic angle is the angle subtended between the transmitter, target and receiver in a bistatic radar. When it is exactly zero the radar is a monostatic radar, when it is close to zero the radar is pseudo-monostatic, and when it is close to 180 degrees the radar is a forward scatter radar.
Bistatic Doppler shift Bistatic Doppler shift is a specific example of the Doppler effect that is observed by a radar or sonar system with a separated transmitter and receiver. The Doppler shift is due to the component of motion of the object in the direction of the transmitter, plus the component of motion of the object in the direction of the receiver.
Bistatic imaging Bistatic imaging is a technique for using two radar instruments to map a surface, with one emitting and one receiving. The result is a more detailed image than would have been rendered with just one radar instrument.
Bistatic radar Bistatic radar is the name given to a radar system which comprises a transmitter and receiver which are separated by a distance that is comparable to the expected target distance. Conversely, a radar in which the transmitter and receiver are collocated is called a monostatic radar.
Bistatic range Bistatic range refers to the basic measurement of range made by a radar or sonar system with separated transmitter and receiver. The receiver measures the time difference of arrival of the signal from the transmitter directly, and via reflection from the target.
Bistek Bistek is a Philippine dish typically made with strips of sirloin beef slowly cooked in soy sauce, and calamansi juice. It is best prepared by marinating the meat first in the mixture of soy sauce or calamansi juice.
Bistriţa River (Transylvania) The Bistriţa (Hungarian: Beszterce) is a river in the Romanian region of Transylvania, county Bistriţa-Năsăud. Near the city of Bistriţa it flows into the Şieu River, which is a tributary to the river Someşul Mare.
Bistro A bistro is a familiar name for a type of small restaurant serving moderately priced simple meals in an unpretentious setting, especially in Paris, France. A bistro may not offer professional service or printed menus, and it will usually specialize in simple classic dishes such as steak au poivre, French onion soup, and coq au vin.
Bistro (programming language) The Bistro programming language is object oriented, dynamically typed, and reflective. It is intended to integrate features of Smalltalk and Java, running as a variant of Smalltalk that runs atop any Java virtual machine conforming to Sun Microsystems' Java specification.
Biswajit Chatterjee Biswajit (Hindi: बिस्वजित चत्तेर्जि, Urdu: بِسوجِت چتّیرجِ, full name Biswajit ChatterjeeBengali: বিশ্বজিৎ চ্যাটার্জী) is an Indian film actor. He was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, but later went over to Bombay to do some memorable Hindi films.
Biswamoy Biswas Biswamoy Biswas (June 2, 1923 - August 10, 1994) was an Indian ornithologist who was born in Calcutta, the son of a professor of Geology. In 1947, he was awarded a three year fellowship by Sunderlal Hora, then director of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI).
Bit (horse) A bit used in equestrian activities is a piece of metal or similar synthetic material that is placed in the mouth of a horse and allows a rider to control the animal. It is held on a horse's head by means of a bridle and has reins attached for use by the rider.
Bit bucket The bit bucket is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in:
Bit By Bats Bit By Bats are an Australian three piece originally hailing from Adelaide, now living in Melbourne. Forming in 2003, the band had existed just a matter of weeks when they laid down their first demo (later released as their first ep).
Bit Cloud Bit Cloud is a character from Zoids: New Century Zero, an anime based on TOMY's Zoids model franchise. Voiced by Richard Ian Cox in the english dub of the series, he is the protagonist of the story, and a member of the Blitz team.
Bit Corporation Bit Corporation was an Asian developer and publisher of computer and video games in the 1980s and 1990s. The company also manufactured the Bit 60 and Bit 90 computers, an Atari 2600 clone called the Amigo, and the Gamate handheld system.
Bit error Bit error indicates the number of bits of a data stream over a communication channel that have been altered by noise. Commonly notated as bit error ratio (BER), the ratio of the number of failed bits to the total number of bits sent over the channel.
Bit error ratio In telecommunication, an error ratio is the ratio of the number of bits, elements, characters, or blocks incorrectly received to the total number of bits, elements, characters, or blocks sent during a specified time interval. The error ratio is usually expressed in scientific notation; for example, 2.
Bit guard A bit guard is a piece of equipment used on a horse to protect the animal's lips from chaffing or pinching by the bit. It is usually made of rubber, and is placed between the side of the horse's face and the bit ring.
Bit manipulation Bit manipulation is the act of algorithmically manipulating bits or other pieces of data shorter than a byte. Programming tasks that require bit manipulation include low-level device control, error detection and correction algorithms, encryption algorithms, and optimization.
Bit mouthpiece The mouthpiece is the part of a horse's bit that goes into the mouth of a horse, resting on the bars of the mouth in the sensitive interdental space where there are no teeth. The mouthpiece is possibly the most important determinant in the severity and action of the bit.
Bit rot Bit Rot, or Bit Decay is a colloquial computing term used either to describe gradual decay of storage media or to facetiously describe the spontaneous degradation of a software program over time. The latter use of the term implies that software can literally wear out or rust like a physical tool.
Bit stuffing In data transmission and telecommunication, bit stuffing (also known -- uncommonly -- as positive justification) is the insertion of noninformation bits into data. Stuffed bits should not be confused with overhead bits.
Bit synchronous operation Bit synchronous operation is a type of digital communication in which the data circuit terminating equipment (DCE), data terminal equipment (DTE), and transmitting circuits are all operated in bit synchronism with a clock signal.
Bit-banging Bit-banging is a technique in embedded systems for example to use serial communications without the use of dedicated hardware such as a UART or shift register, instead using software to emulate their behavior. A software routine handles the UART transmit function by alternating a pin on the microcontroller by given time intervals.
Bit-beast A bit-beast is a fictional entity from the Beyblade anime series. Bit-beasts resemble real or mythical creatures, and have special powers based around one element (ie fire, earth, wind, etc), which are usually used to the advantage of their user or the disadvantage of their opponent in a Beybattle.
Bit-flipping attack A bit-flipping attack is an attack on a cryptographic cipher in which the attacker can change the ciphertext in such a way as to result in a predictable change of the plaintext, although the attacker is not able to learn the plaintext itself. Note that this type of attack is not -- directly -- against the cipher itself (as cryptanalysis of it would be), but against a particular message or series of messages.
Bit-oriented protocol Bit-oriented protocol is a communications protocol that sees the transmitted data as an opaque stream of bits with no semantics, or meaning. Control codes are defined in terms of bit sequences instead of characters.
Bit-O-Honey Bit-O-Honey first appeared in 1924 and was made by the Schutter-Johnson Company of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Bit-O-Honey was a new kind of candy bar consisting of six pieces of candy wrapped in wax paper and then packaged in a wrapper.
Bit-plane A bit-plane of a digital medium (such as image or sound) is a set of bits having the same position in the respective binary numbers. For example, for 16-bit data representation there are 16 bit-planes: the first bit-plane contains the set of the most significant bits and the 16th contains the least significant bits.
Bitag Bitag (Trap in Filipino) is an investigative program hosted by Ben Tulfo that originally aired on television network Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 14, 2002 before moving the following year to its present TV network Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC). During its launch, Ben described it as an investigative show like no other that strays away from the "packaged" aggressive image that the Tulfo clan is known for by adopting a more cut-throat, in-your-face approach.
Bitap algorithm The bitap algorithm (also known as the shift-or, shift-and or Baeza-Yates-Gonnet algorithm) is a fuzzy string searching algorithm developed by Udi Manber and Sun Wu in 1991 based on work done by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Gaston Gonnet. The algorithm tells whether a given text contains a substring which is "approximately equal" to a given pattern, where approximate equality is defined in terms of Levenshtein distance — if the substring and pattern are within a given distance k of each other, then the algorithm considers them equal.
Bitaqat Khub Bitaqat Khub (Arabic: بطاقة حب, English translation: "Love Message", also transliterated Bitaqat Hub, Bitaqat Hob and in many other manners) was the Moroccan entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, performed in Arabic by Samira. This was Morocco's first (and, to date, only) appearance at the Contest.
Bitard Bitards is a brotherhood of inveterate revellers of the order of bitards (L'ordre des Bitards) (LST: Rented is devise)" who maintain their headquarters in Poitiers, (France) and keep alive certain traditions, e.g.
Bitburg High School Bitburg High School is part of the Kaiserslautern School District and has a student population of approximately 300 with a faculty of thirty-five. Although Bitburg High School is located in Bitburg Air Base, some of the students that attend this school live in Spangdahlem Air Base or villages in the surrounding areas.
Bitburg-Land Bitburg-Land is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Bitburg-PrĂĽm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated around the town Bitburg, which is the seat of the municipality, but not a part of it.
Bitburg-PrĂĽm The Eifelkreis Bitburg-PrĂĽm is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) Luxembourg, Belgium and the districts of Euskirchen, Daun, Bernkastel-Wittlich and Trier-Saarburg.
BitBoys Oy Bitboys Oy is a hardware development and licensing company based in Finland, founded in 1991 and acquired by ATI Technologies for up to USD$44M on May 2, 2006. Until the acquisition, Bitboys had focused on mobile phone gaming, and had developed a large vector graphics-related portfolio.
BitC BitC is a programming language currently being developed by researchersat the Johns Hopkins University], as part of the [[Coyotos project. One of the objectives of BitC is to support formal program verification of low-level systems programs, such as kernels/microkernels.
BitComet BitComet is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for Microsoft Windows. It has been translated into 43 different languages, with active forum support in English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and French, with plans to extend forums into more languages.
BitDefender BitDefender is a Romanian-made anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam and anti-Spyware program that has enjoyed great success around the world, with users in more than 100 countries, and it is among the most popular products of its category in countries such as France and Germany. According to the official site, BitDefender is used by a total 41 million home and corporate users.
Bite Me: Narrative Structures and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Bite Me: Narrative Structures and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is an Australian academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel. The book is designed for Year 12 teachers/students teaching/studying Media Unit 3 (in the Australian education system).
Bite the Bullet Bite the Bullet is a 1975 western directed by Richard Brooks starring Gene Hackman, James Coburn and Candice Bergen. It concerns a grueling 700 mile cross-country horse race taking place in the early twentieth century and the way it affects the lives of the various participants.
Bite TV BITE TV is a Canadian category 2 digital cable television channel. BITE TV broadcasts Canadian and international short form film, videography, animation, games, and professional and amateur production that mainly target men ages 18 - 25.
Bitemporal hemianopia Bitemporal hemianopia is a specific type of visual disturbance in which sight in the outer half of the visual field of each eye is lost. As a result, the patient retains central vision but loses sight at the edges of his or her vision.
Bitesize Bitesize is a free online study support resource for UK school students provided by the BBC. The BBC offers revision help for many different levels of education, but only the Key Stage 3 and GCSE services are titled Bitesize.
Bitext word alignment Bitext word alignment or simply word alignment is the natural language processing task of identifying translation relationships among the words (or more rarely multiword units) in a bitext, resulting in a bipartite graph between the two sides of the bitext, with an arc between two words if and only they are translations of one another. Word alignment is typically done after sentence alignment has already identified pairs of sentences that are translations of one another.
Bithiah Bithiah, in Hebrew Batya (בִּתְיָה, literally daughter of God), is the name given to a character in the account of the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt in Rabbinic Midrash, as she is not named in the text. She was the foster mother of Moses, having drawn him from the Nile.
Bithyni The Bithyni were a Thracian tribe who, along with the Thyni, migrated to Bithynia in Anatolia - a region which they gave their name to. Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo all assert that the Bithyni and Thyni settled together in what would be known as Bithynia and Thynia.
Bitch (magazine) Bitch is a nonprofit, independent, quarterly magazine published in Oakland, California that bills itself as a "Feminist response to pop culture". Articles offer a feminist perspective on current political events; reviews of television shows, movies, books, and art from a feminist perspective; and interviews with all people from all walks of life.
Bitch and Animal Bitch and Animal, a duo consisting of two female musicians, Bitch and Animal, were a queercore band that performed from 1995 to 2004. Bitch and Animal have kept their "birth-names" out of publication for both political and artistic reasons.
Bitch Magnet Bitch Magnet was a math rock band during the late 1980s and early 1990s who formed at Oberlin College in Ohio and later moved to North Carolina. They released their first record in 1988 and all of the band's full-length albums were released on Communion Records.
Bitch Wars The Bitch Wars or Suka Wars occurred within the Soviet prison system between 1945 and around the death of Joseph Stalin. The Russian word suka (literally, "bitch") has a general negative connotation, somewhat different from the meaning in the English language.
Bitchface Bitchface is an electronica record label based in London, England, owned and run by Jake Innes (known as mönky). As of August 2006, there are 12 available releases and are all distributed on Soulseek, including BITCH10 mönky - Innes EP which is also available on a limited 12".
Bitchfield Bitchfield is a small village in Lincolnshire, England, consisting of two groups of buildings connected by Dark Lane, known as Bitchfield and Lower Bitchfield, collectively called Bitchfield. It lies on the B1176, running east and parallel to the A1 road, and south east of Grantham.
BitlBee BitlBee is an IRC instant messaging gateway licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It communicates with the end user via the IRC protocol whilst interacting with popular chat networks such as AIM and ICQ (both via OSCAR), MSN, Yahoo!
BitLocker Drive Encryption BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature integrated into Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system that provides encryption for the entire OS volume. BitLocker is included in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista.
Bitmap textures Bitmap textures are digital images representing a surface, a material, a pattern or even a picture, generated by an artist or designer using a bitmap editor software such as Adobe Photoshop or Gimp or simply by scanning an image and, if necessary, retouching it on a personal computer.
Bitnet Relay Chat Bitnet Relay or officially The Interchat Relay Network or simply Relay was a precursor to today's Internet Relay Chat and various online chat systems. It was developed by Jeff Kell, JEFF@UTCVM (now jeff-kell@utc.
Bitola inscription The Bitola inscription is an inscription made by order of Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Vladislav in 1015 or 1016 in connection with the fortification of the Bitola fortress. The inscription was found in 1956 in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia and is stored at the Bitola Historical Museum.
Bitou Local Municipality Bitou Local Municipality (formely known as Plettenberg Bay Municipality) is a municipality part of Eden District Municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. As of 2001, its population is 29,149.
Bitpop Bitpop is a type of electronic music, where at least part of the music is made using old 8-bit computers, game consoles and little toy instruments. Popular choices are the Commodore 64, Game Boy, Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System
Bitrate In telecommunications and computing, bitrate (sometimes written bit rate, data rate or as a variable Rbit) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. Bit rate is often used as synonym to the terms connection speed, transfer rate, channel capacity, maximum throughput and digital bandwidth capacity of a communication system.
Bitruncated 24-cell In geometry, the bitruncated 24-cell is a 4-dimensional uniform polytope (or uniform polychoron) derived from the 24-cell. It can be constructed by truncating the 24-cell at the point halfway to the depth which would yield the dual 24-cell.
Bitruncated 5-cell In geometry, the bitruncated 5-cell is a 4-dimensional polytope, or polychoron, composed of 10 cells in the shape of truncated tetrahedra. Each hexagonal face of the truncated tetrahedra is joined in complementary orientation to the neighboring truncated tetrahedron.
Bits and Bytes Bits and Bytes was the name for two Canadian television series, starring Billy Van, who teaches people the basics of how to use a computer. The first series debuted in 1983 and the second series, called Bits and Bytes 2, in 1991.
Bitsa Park Bitsevsky Park () is one of the largest natural parks (forests) in Moscow, Russia. The park, traversed by the Bitsa River, sprawls for some 10 km from north to south and covers the area of 18 square kilometres.
Bitstream format A bitstream format is the format of the data found in some stream of bits used in a digital communication or storage application. The term typically refers to the format of the output of an encoder or the format of the input to a decoder when using data compression.
Bitsy Grant Bryan Morel "Bitsy" Grant, Jr (December 25, 1909 Atlanta, Georgia - June 5, 1986) was an American professional Tennis champion. At 5 feet 4 inches (162 cm) and 120 lbs (54 kg), Grant was the smallest American man to win a championship on the international tennis circuit.
Bitter Cars Bitter was produced in Germany and later Austria. The founder Erich Bitter, a former race car driver turned automobile tuner, importer and ultimately designer began crafting his own vehicles after business ventures with Italian manufacture Intermeccanica soured.
Bitter electromagnet A Bitter electromagnet or Bitter solenoid is a type of electromagnet made of metal plates and insulating spacers stacked in a helical configuration, rather than coils of wire. This design was created and built in 1933 by Francis Bitter.
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located a few miles northeast of Roswell, New Mexico in the United States on the Pecos River. It was established in 1937 to provide habitat for migratory birds, but it is also notable for rare native fish and for the over 90 species of dragonflies and damselflies that inhabit the refuge.
Bitter Lake, Seattle, Washington Bitter Lake is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA, named after its most notable feature, Bitter Lake. It was a mostly natural forest of Douglas-fir and Western Redcedar, inhabited by Native Americans, until the late 19th century.
Bitter melon Momordica charantia is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown for edible fruit, which is among the most bitter of all vegetables. English names for the plant and its fruit include bitter melon or bitter gourd (), karaila (from Urdu) & Hindi, parikkai (from Tamil), hanzal (from Arabic), ampalaya (from Tagalog).
Bitter Sweet Symphony "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is a song by the rock band The Verve, and is the lead track on their third album Urban Hymns. It was released 16 June 1997 as the first single from the album, charting at #2 in the UK Singles Chart, having been beaten to the #1 spot by "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans.
Bitter tea backwards vocals The Fiery Furnaces album titled Bitter Tea (Rough Trade Records UK April 2006 and Fat Possum Records, US April 2006) contains various Backmasking throughout. The tracklist below summarizes what the lyrics are when played backwards in each song.
Bitter vetch The Bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia) is an ancient grain legume crop of the Mediterranean region. Besides the English name, other common names include: kersannah (Arabic), yero (Spanish), rovi (Greek), and burcak (Turkish).
Bitter:sweet Bitter:Sweet is an electronic/trip-hop duo with jazz-like qualities from Los Angeles. The band is comprised of Shana Halligan, who provides vocals and lyrics and composes the songs, and Kiran Shahani, who produces and composes the songs.
Bitterballen Bitterballen are a savoury Dutch meat-based snack, typically containing a mixture of beef (minced or chopped), beef broth, flour and butter for thickening, parsley, salt and pepper. Some recipes also include nutmeg and/or curry powder.
Bittereinder Bittereinders refers to those Boers, the whites in South Africa of mostly Dutch descent, who refused to concede defeat to the victorious British Empire during and after the Second Boer War (1899-1901) and wished to conitinue the war against the British by any means possible.
Bitterfeld (district) Bitterfeld is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the city of Dessau, the district of Wittenberg, Delitzsch (Saxony) and the districts of Saalkreis and Köthen.
Bitterroot River The Bitterroot River is a tributary of the Clark Fork River in southwestern Montana, USA. It runs for about 75 miles south-to-north through the Bitterroot Valley, from the confluence of its West and East forks near Conner to the Clark Fork near Missoula.
Bitterroot Salish (tribe) The Bitterroot Salish are one of three tribes of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation in Montana. The Flathead Reservation is home to the Kootenai and Pend d'Oreilles tribes also.
Bitters A bitters is a preparation of herbs and citrus dissolved in alcohol or glycerine with a bitter or bittersweet flavor. The various brands of bitters, once numerous, were formerly manufactured as patent medicines, often serving as digestifs.
Bittersweet Bundle of Misery "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery" is a song by Graham Coxon and was released as the second single from his fifth solo album Happiness in Magazines in 2004 (see 2004 in British music). It's very similar to "Coffee & TV", a song written and sung by Coxon from Blur's album 13.
Bittersweet Motel Bittersweet Motel (2000) is a musical documentary exploring what it's really like to be in the band Phish. Directed by Todd Phillips, before he started making feature films like Road Trip and Old School, the documentary covers the band's summer and fall 1997 tours, plus footage from their 1998 spring tour of Europe.

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