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Confessions of a Misspent Weekend - Splendour in the Grass - 2004

wonderful, yes

This review was written in spurts over the period of a week, if it doesn't flow well, that is why.

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Over the Plain Canvas; Ideas Tattoo, Tattoo Flash and Tattoo Savage

Hazed in plastic and pages baring all amounts of inked skin, a review of three tattoo magazines. A review that, much like the subject at hand, comes to the fore in a wave of bad recollection and cloudy thoughts. Made worse by the fact that sheer caution and sense was thrown to the side with the notes and thoughts written in an indecipherable clue of squiggles and malformed letters. Left now are faint images blurred to samples taken many months ago.

First off was Ideas Tattoo from Trentini. This one sticks out due to the odd shape of the magazine itself. Instead of the usual ratio given to the A and B document series, this publication came in about half the width of a average-sized magazine and towers well over the top. Pretty much like a menu in some restaurant that doesn't have a drive-thru. All 74 black and white pages of nothing but designs and artwork. Like entree and dessert are separated, so too are the designs, lined up in sections according to some overarching theme, such as tribal armbands or dragon motifs. A comment "arse on arse" is legible enough from the pad, but that makes no real sense to the scheme of things. Laid out nicely with room to breathe, the designs are clean, bold and feature not one inch or drum of skinned flesh. Nor a single ad. There is nothing here for the casual reader not seeking some sort of inspiration for a tattoo.

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Video Smash Hits - Sat 26th April - Oh the HORROR!

Correct me if I am wrong but I thought that music was somehow connected with passion and sincerity.

After watching Video Smash Hits last Saturday I am horrified by the sheer banality of the current top 40. I mean I know it is the mainstream but why god, why does the mainstream have to be such a talent desert? Sure the top 40 is dictated by the buying habits of 12 year old girls and raving homosexuals but dammit there is just so much good music out there! Why can't gays and 12 year olds have better taste?

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