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'My Colombian Death'
Lets get one thing straight. Matt Thompson has big cojones. Not because he travelled solo to Colombia and did everything the guidebook says you shouldn't and made it back. But because he left everything he knew and a few things he probably shouldn't have behind. Wife, newborn child, secure employment and the cosy comfort of Australian society are no match for Thompson's insatiable appetite to be thrown in with the sharks.
Harry Allen Roller Stop
The bookshelf is a prized pantry of carefully selected manuscripts, fine films, musical specimens, exotic publications and zine-like hooha. Keeping all this in check is the bookstop (also known as the ‘book end'), a variable specimen available in many homemade forms: a brick, globe, old boot, mug.
Novel Badges
Keeping up with a dirty hipster's required reading can be dispiriting. You've gotta know your Lethem from your Eggers, classic novels from graphic novels. And while everyone's raving about the hilariously ironic promotional campaign for Chuck Palahniuk's latest effort, the last book you read was Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell.
Submarine
"One of the ways I can tell that I am unhappy is if I get squeamish about looking up internet photos of STDs, footballers' broken legs, napalm babies."
In Submarine, Joe Dunthorne's teenage narrator, Oliver Tate, is drawn with the kind of off-kilter charm that makes you want to both be him and get with him, even though you might be ten years his senior.
Title
Not long ago we somehow found ourselves reading a transcribed PDF file of the new Harry Potter book on a laptop, in a public bathroom, and decided enough was enough, and made a pact to never, pirate, rape, or pillage again.
To atone for our sins, we now just shop at TITLE.
Following the success of its flagship Sydney store, and a 2007 retail interior design award under its belt, TITLE has now opened up shop in Melbourne.
Twenty Dollars Only - Studio Pip & Co affordable poster show
Fancy-ass posters are a dime a dozen these days. Wallpaper companies are totally shaking in their glue-proof shoes. You can even buyfancy-ass sticking-stuff-to-the-wall products. Where will it all end? What happened to cheap posters? Where is the TV Week lift-out equivalent that we can contact onto our work folders? Studio Pip & Co are attempting to correct this imbalance in their Twenty Dollars Only exhibition at IMP.
No One Belongs Here More Than You, by Miranda July
Anger management classes are a funny thing really. But we suppose you can't argue with a "Restraining Order" - whatever that is. One thing we did learn however, apart from how to get high off your own toenail clippings, is that keeping your expectations as low as possible can be the key to happiness and fulfillment.
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