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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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