Archive for October, 2003

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Thursday, October 30th, 2003

Bent Hop: Degeneration X

Report by Symon Brando

Photography by Michael Shaw
Sleepy Brain lifts the lid on a sick new musical youth cult: “Bent Hop”. Originating in the suburb of Bentleigh, it has spread like cancer throughout the neighbouring southeastern municipalities…and beyond. It could be coming to a suburb near you.
The cult centres around a horrifying designer drug, “Senility”, used […]

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5 Comments » - Posted in Features, Melbourne, Sound, Interviews by Symon Brando
Monday, October 20th, 2003

Mitomi Tokoto: Japanese Cyber-Kid

There’s a unique sense of overload for the first-time visitor to Tokyo. Intricate layers-upon-layers of ever-shifting urban culture crush the hapless tourist, who’s invariably pressed up against the very bottom layer like a stuffed pheasant under glass.
If this is you, get on the web and check out “Cyberjapan”. Online since 1995, it’s designed and edited […]

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6 Comments » - Posted in Japan, Interviews by Simon Sellars
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003

Speaking of the Supernatural, Parts 11, 12 & 13

by Sarah Endacott

image by Greg Serafin
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A Little Girl
music
(noises)
a priest
the family car
(under the house)
a funny smell
(thousands of years)
physically impossible
restless

(a dream)
delicate instruments
World War Two
(the original owners)
the sudden appearance of
her brother
damp spots
(children)
telephone calls
(the answers)
a normal life again
vanished
Contact
the lake
(chandeliers)
crash site
(laughing)
the government department
a letter
(this very room)
their birthplace
all three
(time)
changed the course
of HUMAN history
messages
(a cover-up)
bruises
exactly the same spot
electricity
the bible
The Expert
identical twins
(an uncanny
resemblance)
a […]

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1 Comment » - Posted in Poetry, Cosmology by Sarah Endacott