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Man Bites Dog

4th Oct 06
Format: DVD
Mood: Smarts

Man Bites Dog (1993) is a Belgian black-comedy with the dubious honour of having the greatest number of international bannings for a film permitted in the US.

The film features a trio of documentary makers who trail a poetry-reciting, chamber music-composing serial-killer as he goes about his day-to-day business of murderous rampage.

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Books at 100 Smith and The Painted Word

4th Oct 06
Product: Books
Anatomy: Brain

There’s an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer has this idea to make acoffee table book about coffee tables. Everything is going well untilhe spills burning-hot coffee all over Kathie Lee Gifford and…Hold on,what was I talking about again? Oh yeah, Books at 100 Smith and ThePainted Word have enough great coffee-table books to make even the mostuncultured of granny flats look like the sleek bachelor pads of theaesthetically conscious.

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Cheap Monday Skyscrapers

4th Oct 06
Product: Clothing
Theft: Theft is a risk

Everyone is getting a bit sick of low-rider jeans. Girls are tired of jeans that you need a bikini wax to wear around children and guys are sick of getting an eye-full of ass-crack every time you drop your phone. Basically, low has gotta go.

We’re not sure whether Cheap Mondays’ new skyscraper cut is a backlash against this crack epidemic or a private tribute to September 11, but we do know that they are really, really awesome.

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Black

4th Oct 06
Format: Magazine
Motivation: Pimp your coffee table

Black is the creative offspring of Grant Fell and ex-Pavement-fashion-editor, Rachael Churchward. Now, Pavement is a great magazine and everything, but that re-occurring chestnut of wisdom rings true once again – once you’ve had Black you never go back.

The colours edition of Black is the 2nd edition and, like the launch, has a number of super sophisticated shoots that combine that dark NZ vibe thing that they have going on with more than a touch of class.

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