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READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in ThreeThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
Weekly zine review #7 - 'GUTTERSLUG'
Leave your own headspace for a while and read about Emily (that smelly kid)'s life on the streets of Brisbane. This zine has been around for a while now but this girl's writing about life as a displaced teen is not the kind of thing that dates. She chronicles life in an adult government shelter as a 17 year old, surviving in a world of abuse and abusers as well as fragments of her earlier life in a long term accommodation shelter for young people.
Weekly zine review #6 - 'Adventure Time'
The same-old same-old not doing it for you anymore? Find yourself wanting MORE? Bored with yourself, even? Maybe it's time to read about Maddy, the Zinester Girl Who Could. Dissatisfied with everyday, predictable life she starts up an 'Adventure Time! Fun Club' with other uni nerds and they go visiting the observatory (they really do).
Weekly zine review #5 - Word Attack
You may think that hardcore music is only for cool-looking cocksure punk guys from broken homes, and you would probably be right. But what about the zines of these elusive nocturnal angry young men? Well there are a lot of punk fanzines around at the moment, but one of the best is Word Attack (if it doesn't have some connotation of violence
in the title, it's just not hc).
The Humble Vintage: Melbourne for Visitors and Casual Cyclists, issue #1
As of today we face a world in which people will tool about the place with flat screen TVs in their pockets. A grand and terrible future whence the ability to draw devil eyebrows on Vladimir Putin and scrunch the TV Guide up in a fit of rage will be relinquished for multiple touch screen Tetris.
One man is swimming against this ghastly tide, and that man is Matt Hurst of The Humble Vintage Bike Hire Co.
The Sheets Are Immaculate
I like this blog for a few reasons. First, one of its creators is Cry Bloxsome who is amazing. Secondly, while they encourage contributions, they're not afraid to be picky, which keeps things tight, and they draw the line at poetry, which keeps things enjoyable. Thirdly, they have a manifesto that reads like they wrote it when they were drunk and angry and overwhelmed with ego, then tidied it up a bit the next morning.
The Internetwork
It's true, producing a city guide has a lot of perks. Complimentary tickets, free CDs, drugs, R.S.I., drugs for R.S.I.. But undeniably the best perk of the job is the amazing people we get to meet. People who don't view the world in terms of ‘life' or ‘work' but simply continue to create because they love what they do.
Haunt
My best friend Neil and I went to see Spawn at Greater Union when I was a kid. He took LSD. I couldn't understand a word he said. I'm not sure what happened to Neil but one thing's for certain, that movie was a big deal for Todd McFarlane and that Mexican actor who played Luigi in the Super Mario Brothers movie.
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