The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Ever since Blood Simple back in 1984, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced a steady stream of unrelentingly oddball features that totter on the border...

Iggy and Bowie went there. Nick Cave and RSH went there. Even HTRK and The Devastations went there. Now you can see what all the fuss was about with Rainer...

When Sir Mix-a-lot told us about the boy with low cash flow (the one who ain't down to throw and shakes their girl-like body on the floor that makes the...

Like you, I also danced with joy down Swanston Street when we got UNESCO City of Literature status. (I was the one with the cape made from copies of...

If you avoid heading down to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art because of the amount of times the exterior is used to sell naff cars, then...

Regrettably there is supposed to be a cute little dash kind of thing on top of the 'o' in Sigur Ros. We can't find it on the keyboard, but to describe...

A 90210 joke here, a Boyz II Men comment there, some RIP Kurt Cobain street art for good measure, and hey presto: it's 1994! Welcome to director...

Online shopping: for or against? I, personally, am for. Insert this into your vocabulary: “Ooooh”, “Aahhh”, then “Add to...

Cynicism, when perfectly executed, can become strangely positive. Imbued with both honesty and relevance, this sort of cynicism is more about statement...

The five boroughs are used to describe the distinct areas of New York City to avoid confusing it as one large whole of geographical space. It is also...

It took a few unhappy Frenchman to build the Eiffel Tower. It took a few stoners to figure out that weed causes laziness. And it took a few years of sitting...

The house in The Royal Tenenbaums is a model of Wes Anderson’s films: obsessively packed with minutia, showing the internal worlds of his characters...

Rarely a meal is served so perfectly prepared, daringly executed, and exactly proportioned that you simply can't remove it from your thoughts. This dish...

Japanese dude: Oh hello, can I please have a DVD of locally produced soft porn?
Japanese porn purveyor: There it is man. Over there next to Astro...

A five-dollar Jaegerbomb at Click Click is all well and good (Ed: well, sometimes) but one day, you discover the joys of wine and cheese. When this happens...

There must be something powerful in the air around Windsor, even stronger than the scent of scorched skin wafting out of Tantrum solarium. For the past...

You may remember Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner either because Ingrid likes heckling bands or because they won the 2006 L’Oreal Melbourne...

A good compilation is hard to find these days. As a contemporary audience we seem to take our cues from the over-thinking John Cusack in High-Fidelity...

In his short story, The Destructors, Graham Greene writes that "After all, destruction is a form of creation", only that it happens in reverse...

Like a gay lion, the sticky date pudding was once a humble beast. Content to sit on its own, quietly appearing on the menus of certain pubs and upper-middle-class...