Five Dials
Issue 11 of Five Dials begins with a note on lists, and how useful they can be as effective slices of biography, hinting at what’s going on in a... read more...
Simon Goddard, 'Mozipedia'
I used to despise Morrissey. I don’t know what it was but he really got under my skin. Perhaps it was chin, I don’t know, but I couldn’t... read more...
Zine review, '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... read more...
Voiceworks #79 Classic
Here’s an open secret: most under-25s can’t write for shit. Yes, it’s a rare thing indeed when you can judge the work of a writer in... read more...
Lisa Dempster + Bob and Roberta Smith, 'Neon Pilgrim' + 'Hijack Reality'
This year, there’s a couple of books that summarize the whole Format thing:Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster:This year I asked Lisa Dempster to run our... read more...
Wendy Mullin, 'Built By Wendy Dresses'
Everyone comes up with weird ways to save money. Ok, not everyone. Poor people. Like yours truly. Anyway, my favourite method is thus: when I see an item... read more...
Tiny Vices Books
We live in tiny apartments on tiny budgets. We can’t afford giant works of art selling for giant sums of money. What we can afford are small,... read more...
Zine Review, 'You'
Nobody writes letters anymore. Except Luke You. This week I picked up the latest issue, sat down with a tea and read for the first time about how he’s... read more...
'Torpedo' on Kindle and iPhone
Providing clean air, shelter, shade, fruit, flowers, and sometimes even cashews; trees are pretty damn stupid. Take a look at your average tree and tell... read more...
The New Order magazine issue 03
The first two issues of NZ based street culture magazine The New Order were wildly ambitious affairs, squeezing every hip name imaginable in between the... read more...
Astrid Desbordes and Pauline Martin, 'Reflections Of A Solitary Hamster'
For me, some French picture books form the "Triumvirate of Utilité". They are charming, fable-like, ostensibly for kids (a niece perhaps)... read more...
Zine review # 1 - 'Astrobabble: the zine for astrology nerds'
Zines are awesome. They’re just small photocopied lo-fi mags and often targeted at a niche group of somebodies. Robot nerds. Nerf nerds. Motorhead... read more...
Malcolm Gladwell, 'What The Dog Saw'
Journalism is essentially a simple game. Curiosity is the basic precursor to discovery, so it all comes down to a willingness to question. A staff writer... read more...
The Lifted Brow issue #6
Ronnie Scott has been manning the guns at bi-annual attack journal The Lifted Brow for a few years now and he’s launching issue #6 this Friday. We... read more...
Iron Curtain Issue #1
You’re crouched behind the signal box. You watch the 11.47 roll in through the neck of your t-shirt that you’ve pulled up like a balaclava.... read more...
The Thousands Shop, 'Here and There Volume 9 - Her Life'
If you think you are going to understand Here and There magazine in the next 180-200 words, think again. Here and There appears rather than gets published.... read more...
Granta Publications, 'Issue 108: Chicago'
San Francisco and New York are the touchstone cities of American literature, leaving somewhere less fashionable like Chicago out in the wind and rain,... read more...
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... read more...
Summer reading
Nothing divides sentient humanity like a summer reading list, so I want to clarify that the following books have been chosen according to a unique set... read more...
Jonathan Zawada, 'Fashematical'
Jonathan Zawada is a man of many forms. He is one of the artists behind Glory Holes, he is the designer of What I Think About When Dancing, he is Petit... read more...
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... read more...
Robert Kirkman and Todd McFarlane, '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... read more...
Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, 'Exact Change Rarities'
The fiery breeze of psych-noise pleasers Galaxie 500 brought me to Exact Change Rarities: Classics of Experimental Literature, an independent publishing... read more...
Andy J Miller and co, 'The Indie Rock Colouring Book'
Can you hear the distant rustling of the leaves? Well, let me tell you, they’re not leaves at all, but birds that are trying to escape from Devendra... read more...