Rhys Ifans
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The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
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Serena Williams
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Oh, I am not thinking about that yet.
Louis Theroux
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The Weird Weekends theme music: Mini Skirt by Esquivel.
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Highwayman by the Highwaymen.
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